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Public involvement policies in health: exploring their conceptual basis.
No full textDespite its obvious appeal, the concept of public involvement is poorly defined and its rationale and objectives are rarely specified when applied to current health policy contexts. This paper explores some of the underlying concepts, definitions, and issues underpinning public involvement policies and proposes a set of criteria and questions that need to be addressed to allow for the evaluation of public involvement strategies and their impact on the health policy process. It aims to further our understanding of the role that public involvement may play in contributing to health systems that are responsive to the needs and priorities of the public, and, ultimately, providing better health and health care services to the community at large
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait…
No full textThornton (2017), writing on the website Leading in Context, explains that the well-known quote used as the title of this blog may be attributed to British author Violet Fane (Mary M. Singleton) in 1892. As she contends, good things may indeed come to those who wait, “but only after certain important conditions have been met”
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait…
No full textThornton (2017), writing on the website Leading in Context, explains that the well-known quote used as the title of this blog may be attributed to British author Violet Fane (Mary M. Singleton) in 1892. As she contends, good things may indeed come to those who wait, “but only after certain important conditions have been met”
Wait
No full textThe article discusses the digital artwork "Wait" by Julie Andreyev and Simon Overstall. "Wait" features an interactive video installation on human and canine communication methods. It is part of the series "Animal Lover" which addresses human-companion interaction and interspecies collaboration. Also presented is information about the artists' careers.Peer reviewedarticlePublishe
Excessive Wait Times Within a Dental Practice
No full textThe purpose of this study was how to strategically manage wait times in a children's dental practice. The wait time is the time from when a patient signs into the office to the time the patient is actually seen by a professional. Many patients and family members of patients who enter the dental practice have complained or expressed dissatisfaction about the excessive wait times that patients have to endure during a dental visit. This study was based on a content analysis of the literature pertaining to wait times. The purpose of this study is to apply quality assurance deliveries to dental practices and to develop strategic plans for service
Feeling Numbers: KP Brehmer and the Supermarket
No full textA publication that documents the presentation of To refuse/To wait/To sleep and M&A beginning on January 12, 2017, and continuing until complete. Jamie Hilder contributes an essay about KP Brehmer.final article publishe
Towards the eradication of hepatitis B in Taiwan
No full textViral hepatitides are important public health problems in humans. The etiologic agents were not identified until 1965, when Baruch S. Blumberg found the relationship of Australia antigen to serum hepatitis. The antigen was found to be the surface antigen of the hepatitis B virus (HBV). This observation launched a new era in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of hepatitis B. Over 15-20 years, the natural history of HBV infection was elucidated, and more importantly, an effective vaccine became available. The routes of transmission were also made clear, rendering effective interruption of the transmission possible. The vaccine together with effective interruption of the transmission contributed greatly to the control of HBV infection. However, these measures do very little for those who have already been chronically infected. Fortunately, specific therapies against chronic hepatitis B started to appear about 10-15 years before, and the treatments have improved substantially in the last few years. Although far from perfect, effective means to treat those who are chronically infected now exist. In Taiwan, acute and chronic liver diseases were rampant as early as the beginning of the last century. Studies around 1975, showed an extremely high prevalence of chronic hepatitis B infection in the general population (15-20%), and 80-90% of the chronic liver diseases and hepatocellular carcinoma were caused by chronic infection with the HBV. This important health problem caught the attention of the government in the late 1970s, and a government-sponsored control program was finalized in 1981. Accordingly, a mass vaccination program against hepatitis B, primarily aiming at immunizing newborn infants, was launched on July 1, 1984. Twenty years after implementation of the program, the hepatitis B carrier rate in children covered by the program decreased by 85%, from similar to 15% to <1%. Most importantly, the deadly sequela of hepatocellular carcinoma in the vaccinees was also found to decrease in parallel. This is the first time that a human cancer was prevented by vaccination. Despite the success, there are still some who were born after implementation of the program but were not prevented from developing chronic hepatitis B infection and hepatocellular carcinoma. Non-compliance to the vaccination schedule, breakthrough infection and intrauterine infection are the causes of the failure. At present, we have effective measures for immunizing susceptible individuals, interrupting the routes of transmission and treating the chronically infected. The time for considering the elimination or even the eradication of HBV infection has come. This is especially true for countries where hepatitis B infection is not endemic. Nevertheless, with the admirable results achieved in the past, Taiwan should also think about elimination/eradication of hepatitis B, even though it will certainly be much more difficult than in the non-endemic countries. In exploring the possibility of eliminating/eradicating hepatitis B in Taiwan, we reviewed the epidemiology of hepatitis B, and analyzed the problems that remain to be tackled in Taiwan. We hope that Taiwan can take further steps towards the elimination or eradication of hepatitis B. Copyright (C) 2011, Elsevier Taiwan LLC. All rights reserved
Social Housing Wait Lists and the One-Person Household in Ontario
No full textSocial housing wait lists are indicative of the need for affordable housing in communities across Ontario. Growing wait lists also suggest that existing social housing supply and programs are not a solution to immediate or foreseeable housing problems for most low-income households. As a result, many households turn to shelters or make do with what they are able to find in the private market, often spending more than 30% of their income on rent. The focus of this study is one-person households under the age of 65 who make up approximately 40% of the applicants on Ontario social housing wait lists. This cohort has the longest wait times. What are the housing experiences of this demographic while they wait? How do municipalities respond and what do community advocates say about this response? This study addresses these questions through key informant interviews conducted with single non-senior social housing applicants, community advocates and policy-makers, doing so comparatively for two CMAs: Guelph and Kingston. Examining homelessness through a critical lens of neoliberalism, this study concludes with policy recommendations to address urban housing issues for low-income singles
A production analysis of Frederick Knott's Wait until dark
No full textWait Until Dark was a Summer Repertory Theatre Production performed seven times, beginning 5 June 1977. This thesis is an analysis of that production. The first chapter includes biographical information concerning the author and a summary of the social background of the setting in New York City. Parallels are drawn between the violation of the privacy of an individual whether that individual resides in a large, metropolitan area or a smaller city. Also included in the first chapter is a plot synopsis and character description and analysis; setting description, and justification for having chosen the script. The second chapter is the prompt book with all character blockings. The third chapter is a further analysis of the production and includes the author's opinion of his interpretation of the script and the various characters success in portraying their role. The audiences' reactions are also discussed in this chapter
Wait-times Benchmarks for risk-based prioritization in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: a simulation study.
No full textDemand for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has increased in the last decade, resulting in prolonged wait-times and undesirable health outcomes in many health systems. Risk-based prioritization and wait-times benchmarks can improve equitable access to patients. We used simulation models to follow-up a synthetic population of 50,000 individuals from referral to completion of TAVI. Based on their risk of adverse events, patients could be classified as "low-", "medium-" and "high-risk", and shorter wait-times were assigned for the higher risk groups. We assessed the impacts of the size and wait-times for each risk group on waitlist mortality, hospitalization and urgent TAVIs. All scenarios had the same resource constraints, allowing us to explore the trade-offs between faster access for prioritized patients and deferred access for non-prioritized groups. Increasing the proportion of patients categorized as high-risk, and providing more rapid access to the higher-risk groups achieved the greatest reductions in mortality, hospitalizations and urgent TAVIs (relative reductions of up to 29%, 23% and 38%, respectively). However, this occurs at the expense of excessive wait-times in the non-prioritized low-risk group (up to 25 weeks). We propose wait-times of up to 3 weeks for high-risk patients and 7 weeks for medium-risk patients. Prioritizing higher-risk patients with faster access leads to better health outcomes, however this also results in unacceptably long wait-times for the non-prioritized groups in settings with limited capacity. Decision-makers must be aware of these implications when developing and implementing waitlist prioritization strategies. [Abstract copyright: © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology.
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