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Author : Gary William Shannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007056101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Health Care Delivery written by Gary William Shannon and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary W. Shannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780070564107
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Health Care Delivery written by Gary W. Shannon and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary William Shannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Health Care Delivery: Spatial Perspectives written by Gary William Shannon and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alun E Joseph
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780063182769
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Accessibility and Utilization written by Alun E Joseph and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1984-02-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines a wide-ranging theoretical view of accessibility and utilization with empirical experience from a variety of comparable health-care delivery systems - those of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The authors focus on primary health-care provision, but also consider secondary and tertiary facilities. Where previous medical geography texts have dealt with disease ecology, this book provides a comprehensive review of recent geographical research into the health service system and its utilization. The book is clearly structured and well written, enabling students to grasp the essentials of the subject. The skilful use of references will permit more advanced students to follow up the topics in greater detail.
Author : Dana R. Todsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Spatial Perspectives of Infant Health Care written by Dana R. Todsen and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gavin J. Andrews
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030641791
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Place and Professional Practice written by Gavin J. Andrews and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first single comprehensive analysis of the scope of geographical realities and relevance in health care work. Conceptually, the book conveys how space, place and geographical ideas matter to clinical practice, from the historical beginnings of professional roles and responsibilities in medicine to the present day. In 8 chapters, the book covers healthcare work across a range of job types (including physician, nurse, and multiple technical and therapeutic roles in multiple specialties), and across a range of scales (focusing on global issues and trends, national and regional particularities, urban and rural issues, institutional environments and various community settings). This book is intended for students, teachers, and researchers in geography, social science and various health sciences. Chapter 1 examines how geographical ideas have been central to practitioners' thinking and practice over time. Chapter 2 reviews the scope of contemporary geographical study of health care work. Chapter 3 presents an empirical case study of the geographies in hospital-based ward work. Chapter 4 presents an empirical case study of the geographies in ambulance/rapid response work. Chapter 5 presents a case study of the geographies associated with a high profile case of criminality and neglect in practice. Chapter 6 considers concepts and the geographies in person-centred care. Chapter 7 considers concepts and the geographies in skills attainment.
Author : Prestige Tatenda Makanga
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303063471X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Practicing Health Geography written by Prestige Tatenda Makanga and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume uniquely presents case studies on health geography in Africa, and analyzes health practices in different African regions to illustrate a unified perspective to the geographies of health. The book describes various contemporary and traditional themes that have characterized the discipline of health geography, and uses its 13 case studies across 14 chapters to challenge the perceived dichotomy between health geography and medical geography among health researchers and practitioners. In 3 sections, the book provides readers with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to understanding health geography in Africa. The first chapter introduces the major theories and perspectives in health geography, and how these characteristics apply to health geography practices in Africa. Section 1 discusses the different uses of space-based analyses in health geography, including geo-data infrastructures, geographies of disease burden, spatial epidemiology, spatially precise public health, and spatial access to health. Section 2 discusses the different uses of place-based analyses in health geography, including health representation, healthcare access, food allergies, and health determinants. Section 3 addresses how geography is incorporated into decision processes in Africa, and how policy planning shapes health-related interventions at the population and individual level. The case studies here discuss geo-enabling health records, health policy, public health planning, and mobile health geographies.
Author : Amy J. Blatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131797753X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Perspectives in Medical Geography written by Amy J. Blatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical geography is a fascinating area of rapidly evolving study that aims to analyse and improve worldwide health issues based on the geographical factors which have an impact on them. Perspectives in Medical Geography will appeal to both novice and seasoned researchers looking to be informed on the latest theories and applications in the field. Chapters represent a wide range of industries, ranging from private/public universities to private companies to non-profit foundations. Contributors describe ways in which map and geography librarians can engage in public health research – creating data standards, archiving map collections and providing mapping/GIS services. In addition to compiling current theories and practices related to medical geography, this volume also features commentaries from two pre-eminent geography librarians, sharing their perspectives on this emerging field and how map and geographic information librarians can engage in health-related research through their profession. This book was originally published as two special issues of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries.
Author : Peter Jay Mallow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Access to Health Care Services and the Effect on Health Outcomes in a Region written by Peter Jay Mallow and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, national healthcare expenditures reached $2.5 trillion in 2010. Federal, State, and local governments accounted for forty-three percent ($1 trillion) of these expenditures. The question arises as to whether the allocation of health care services in a region or sub-region can be optimized to reduce health care spending and improve health outcomes. A region that has a poor distribution of health care services may find that health outcomes are worse than a region with a good distribution of health care services. However, little research has been conducted to ascertain the effects of these decisions on health outcomes. This study explored how the allocation and amount of health care services affects the health outcome within the region. By better understanding the impact of the amount and distribution of health care services, policy makers will be in a position to better allocate funding for the location and distribution of health care services. This study used a spatial econometric approach coupled with a recently developed measurement, mortality amenable to health care, to answer the research question for the state of Florida. Data was obtained from a number of sources, primarily the Florida Department of Health and the Area Resource File. A gravity model was constructed to measure acute care, hospitals and rural clinics, as the level of spatial accessibility. This gravity model controlled for supply and demand interactions and allowed people to travel large distances to receive care. A travel impendence factor controlled for people being less likely to travel past numerous facilities when seeking care. Models were constructed for the entire state, urban areas, and rural areas to determine how the results varied. Age-adjusted overall mortality analyses and sensitivity analyses of gravity model measures were performed. In the overall state analyses, the concentration of primary care physicians and physician assistants were found to be statistically significantly associated with the age-adjusted overall mortality rate for the county. For both explanatory variables an increase in the health care service spatial accessibility was associated with a corresponding decrease in the age-adjusted overall mortality rate for the county. The urban county analyses revealed a positive association for the following health care service explanatory variables: primary care, nurse practitioner, and physician assistants. In the rural models, no explanatory variables were significant. These results suggest that spatial accessibility of health care services in the rural counties of Florida do not have an effect on the mortality amenable to health care rate or age-adjusted overall mortality rate. This study found that health care resources do not meaningfully influence health outcomes as measured by mortality amenable to health care. Similar to other studies, these results suggest that establishing the link between quantity and distribution of health care services to health outcomes (quality) is difficult. Based on these findings, programs aimed at improving spatial accessibility in Florida should be reviewed critically.
Author : Christine Milligan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351744240
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Geographies of Care written by Christine Milligan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. As care services in Britain have moved from institutional to community-based environments, there has been a simultaneous shift in those agencies concerned with the provision of such care and support. this new environment of care is a complex one, involving numerous different actors and agencies that operate across various different spatial and organizational levels of the policy process. The implementation and success of care policies depend in part on the inter-relationships between these various players. This book examines these inter-relationships, illustrated by an in-depth empirical study of policy makers and informal care providers concerned with the frail elderly in Scotland. Taking the voluntary sector as a lens through which these inter-relationships are explored, it analyzes how voluntary support is affected by differing local contexts of care and what this means in terms of locally based care outcomes.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309113695
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-09-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting assessed some of the rapidly occurring changes in health care related to new diagnostic and treatment tools, emerging genetic insights, the developments in information technology, and healthcare costs, and discussed the need for a stronger focus on evidence to ensure that the promise of scientific discovery and technological innovation is efficiently captured to provide the right care for the right patient at the right time. As new discoveries continue to expand the universe of medical interventions, treatments, and methods of care, the need for a more systematic approach to evidence development and application becomes increasingly critical. Without better information about the effectiveness of different treatment options, the resulting uncertainty can lead to the delivery of services that may be unnecessary, unproven, or even harmful. Improving the evidence-base for medicine holds great potential to increase the quality and efficiency of medical care. The Annual Meeting, held on October 8, 2007, brought together many of the nation's leading authorities on various aspects of the issues - both challenges and opportunities - to present their perspectives and engage in discussion with the IOM membership.
Author : Professor Sarah Curtis
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409488640
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Space, Place and Mental Health written by Professor Sarah Curtis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a strong case today for a specific focus on mental public health and its relation to social and physical environments. From a public health perspective, we now appreciate the enormous significance of mental distress and illness as causes of disability and impairment. Stress and anxiety, and other mental illnesses are linked to risks in the environment. This book questions how and why the social and physical environment matters for mental health and psychological wellbeing in human populations. While putting forward a number of different points of view, there is a particular emphasis on ideas and research from health geography, which conceptualises space and place in ways that provide a distinctive focus on the interactions between people and their social and physical environment. The book begins with an overview of a rich body of theory and research from sociology, psychology, social epidemiology, social psychiatry and neuroscience, considering arguments concerning 'mind-body dualism', and presenting a conceptual framework for studying how attributes of 'space' and 'place' are associated with human mental wellbeing. It goes on to look in detail at how our mental health is associated with material, or physical, aspects of our environment (such as 'natural' and built landscapes), with social environments (involving social relationships in communities), and with symbolic and imagined spaces (representing the personal, cultural and spiritual meanings of places). These relationships are shown to be complex, with potential to be beneficial or hazardous for mental health. The final chapters of the book consider spaces of care and the implications of space and place for public mental health policy, offering a broader view of how mental health might be improved at the population level. With boxed case studies of specific research ideas and methods, chapter summaries and suggestions for introductory reading, this book offers a comprehensive introduction which will be valuable for students of health geography, public health, sociology and anthropology of health and illness. It also provides an interdisciplinary review of the literature, by the author and by other writers, to frame a discussion of issues that challenge more advanced researchers in these fields.
Author : Gideon Mazinga
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783845411736
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Geospatial Perspectives on Satisfaction with Health Services in Malawi written by Gideon Mazinga and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the spatial pattern of user satisfaction with health services at district level in Malawi and factors, including policies that potentially explain the variation. The analysis is based on Nationwide Core Social Welfare Indicators Survey and the National Health Services Statistics data obtained from National Statistics Office of Malawi. The National Health Facilities were geo-coded to display the distribution of health care facilities in the country. Spatial autocorrelation, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Spatial Lag regression modeling techniques were applied to investigate factors contributing to spatial variation of user satisfaction with health services. The book demonstrates the importance of including spatial effect in regression analysis when using geographic based data in social and public health research. In addition, policy implication on quality and equity of health services delivery system has been discussed. The book further illustrates the need to incorporate principles of social justice and distributive justice in order to provide a more equitable health care delivery system.
Author : Esra Ozdenerol
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498701515
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Spatial Health Inequalities written by Esra Ozdenerol and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neighborhoods and the biophysical, political, and cultural environments all play a key role in affecting health outcomes of individuals. Unequal spatial distribution of resources such as clinics, hospitals, public transportation, fresh food markets, and schools could make some communities as a whole more vulnerable and less resilient to adverse health effects. This somber reality suggests that it is rather the question of "who you are depends upon where you are" and the fact that health inequality is both a people and a place concern. That is why health inequality needs to be investigated in a spatial setting to deepen our understanding of why and how some geographical areas experience poorer health than others. This book introduces how spatial context shapes health inequalities. Spatial Health Inequalities: Adapting GIS Tools and Data Analysis demonstrates the spatial health inequalities in six most important topics in environmental and public health, including food insecurity, birth health outcomes, infectious diseases, children’s lead poisoning, chronic diseases, and health care access. These are the topics that the author has done extensive research on and provides a detailed description of the topic from a global perspective. Each chapter identifies relevant data and data sources, discusses key literature on appropriate techniques, and then illustrates with real data with mapping and GIS techniques. This is a unique book for students, geographers, clinicians, health and research professionals and community members interested in applying GIS and spatial analysis to the study of health inequalities.
Author : Sarah Curtis
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761968238
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Health and Inequality written by Sarah Curtis and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By relating theoretical arguments to specific landscapes Sarah Curtis develops the basis for a geographical analysis of health problems and proposes a range of strategies for reducing disadvantage and societal inequalities.
Author : Michael Emch
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462520065
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Health and Medical Geography, Fourth Edition written by Michael Emch and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are rainfall, carcinogens, and primary care physicians distributed unevenly over space? The fourth edition of the leading text in the field has been updated and reorganized to cover the latest developments in disease ecology and health promotion across the globe. The book accessibly introduces the core questions and perspectives of health and medical geography and presents cutting-edge techniques of mapping and spatial analysis. It explores the intersecting genetic, ecological, behavioral, cultural, and socioeconomic processes that underlie patterns of health and disease in particular places, including how new diseases and epidemics emerge. Geographic dimensions of health care access and service provision are addressed. More than 100 figures include 16 color plates; most are available as PowerPoint slides at the companion website. New to This Edition: *Chapters on the political ecology of health; emerging infectious diseases and landscape genetics; food, diet, and nutrition; and urban health. *Coverage of Middle East respiratory syndrome, Ebola, and Zika; impacts on health of global climate chan≥ contaminated water crises in economically developed countries, including in Flint, Michigan; China's rapid industrial growth; and other timely topics. *Updated throughout with current data and concepts plus advances in GIS. Pedagogical Features: *End-of-chapter review questions and suggestions for further reading. *Section Introductions that describe each chapter. *"Quick Reviews"--within-chapter recaps of key concepts. *Bold-faced key terms and an end-of-book glossary.
Author : Valorie A. Crooks
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754672470
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Primary Health Care written by Valorie A. Crooks and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus on changes in practices, technologies, and the changing nature of societies and populations. With arguments well-supported by empirical research, this book will appeal not only to scholars across a range of social and health sciences, but also to professionals involved in health services.
