The main asset of farmers is their labour and the utilization of healthcare services will help to improve their health and thus productivity. Some of the problems inhibiting proper utilization of healthcare services in Nigeria include non-availability, inaccessibility and high cost of medical care. The aim of this paper is to examine the determinants of the Utilization of Healthcare Services am...

BACKGROUND Norwegian government white papers have stated that the Sami population is reluctant to seek help from healthcare services and has traditions of self-help and the use of local networks. OBJECTIVE In this article we explore healthcare professionals' discursive constructions of Sami persons with dementia and their families' reluctance to seek and accept help from healthcare services. ...

Fragmented technological and organizational environment has compromised flexibility and efficiency of Finnish healthcare system. Managers have promoted process orientation as a solution for organizational problems while technologists have been praising service orientation for technological issues. As a result process perspective and service orientation are included in national development effor...

Background Facilitation of service user participation in the co-production of mental healthcare planning and service delivery is an integral component of contemporary mental health policy and clinical guidelines. However, many service users continue to experience exclusion from the planning of their care. This review synthesizes qualitative research about participation in mental healthcare and ...

This paper disseminates findings from a Lean healthcare project in a UK National Health Service (NHS) Single Point of Access; a new healthcare case study setting. Action research was applied and Lean tools used to establish current state processes, customer values and develop improvement opportunities. It was found that interface issues between primary and secondary healthcare organisations wer...

in this paper an attempt has been made to show how information technology (it) is used as a strategic tool to meet competitive advantages and how it is rapidly becoming a necessary ingredient for achieving quality within the service industry. an in-depth review of information requirements for service sectors has been made and the possible relationships between it and typology of service organiz...

This paper proposed the Ubiquitous Healthcare System using context information for the personalized healthcare services in a home network environment. The context information is generated by location, health and home environment information collected from sensors/devices equipped in home. This system is designed on the Distributed Object Group Framework (DOGF) supporting the interfaces for invo...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify the effects of community-based home healthcare projects that influence service performances with regard to Korean national long-term care insurance services in older adults. METHODS The project's applicants were 18 operational agencies in national long-term care institutions in Korea, and participants were care recipients (n = 2263) registered ...

BACKGROUND The phenomenon of inequitable healthcare utilization in rural China interests policymakers and researchers; however, the inequity has not been actually measured to present the magnitude and trend using nationally representative data. METHODS Based on the National Health Service Survey (NHSS) in 1993, 1998, 2003, and 2008, the Probit model with the probability of outpatient visit an...

OBJECTIVES Korea has one of the most advanced information technology (IT) infrastructures in the world, and the application of IT in health systems is rapidly progressing from computerization to information systems, ubiquitous systems, and smart systems. This study aims to analyze Korean environments in regards to the development of their u-Health industry and propose directions for u-Healthcar...