This is a challenging time in the field of public mental health. State and federal funding for public behavioral healthcare is declining in a time when the demand for services is increasing. Philosophical changes in mental healthcare service delivery, underscored by the tenets from the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, are creating additional challenges for practitioners. The...

INTRODUCTION The appropriate application of genomic technologies in healthcare is surrounded by many concerns. In particular, there is a lack of evidence on what constitutes an optimal genetic service delivery model, which depends on the type of genetic test and healthcare context considered. The present project aims to identify, classify, and evaluate delivery models for the provision of predi...

Good medical ethics should aim at ensuring that all human beings enjoy the highest attainable standard of health. With the development of medical technology and health services, it became necessary to expand the four basic principles of medical ethics and link them to human rights. Despite the claim of the universality of those ethical principles, their perception and application in healthcare ...

INTRODUCTION Police services within England and Wales are required under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to ensure appropriate healthcare to those detained in police custody (forensic medical services). Traditionally doctors have been used by police services to provide an appropriate level of care. Changes within the Act allowed other healthcare professionals (nurses and paramedics an...

Brute health information delivery to various devices can be easily achieved these days, making health information instantly available whenever it is needed and nearly anywhere. However, brute health information delivery risks overloading users with unnecessary information that does not answer their actual needs, and might even act as noise, masking any other useful and relevant information deli...

BACKGROUND Maternal and child healthcare services are very important for the health outcomes of the mother and that of the child and in ensuring that both maternal and child deaths are prevented. Studying these services is necessary in developing countries where infrastructure (which is meant to deal with these health services) is minimal or lacking. The objective of the study is to examine the...

The issue of access is an essential concern for any health care policy formulation and reform, especially in emerging nations such as India. It has been recognized that all people deserve access to similar levels and quality of health care services. Penchansky and Thomas (1981) recognized five dimensions of access to health services as affordability, acceptability, accommodation, availability a...

Disruptive behaviors continue to play a disturbing role in today's healthcare environment, negatively affecting care relationships that can adversely impact outcomes of patient care. Many organizations have implemented a number of different strategies in an effort to address this important issue with varying degrees of success. New complexities and changing roles, responsibilities and accountab...

PURPOSE There are significant disparities in access to health care amongst Aboriginal Canadians. The purpose of this study was to determine whether tele-ophthalmology services, provided to Aboriginal Canadians in a culturally-sensitive community-based clinic, could overcome social and cultural barriers in ways that would be difficult in the traditional hospital-based setting. METHODS The Abor...

In healthcare, a promising direction for innovation lies in harnessing the innovation potential of patients. Web-based platforms have created a new and powerful route to open innovation in healthcare. In a sector where knowledge resources within organizational boundaries are limited, this study is focused on understanding how online innovation intermediaries (OIIs) in healthcare help to transfe...