Download or read book Patient Satisfaction with Primary Health Care Services in Saudi Arabia written by Rashid Saad Albaz and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Patient Satisfaction with Medical Care Services in Yanbu Al Sinaiyah Saudi Arabia written by Abdulrahman Mohammed Bukhait Al-Juhani and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study attempts to provide reliable scientific data that will enable the health services department of the Royal Commission of Yanbu Al Sinaiyah, Saudi Arabia to improve the quality of health care services provided in their facilities. Patient satisfaction and dissatisfaction were investigated along seven dimensions: General satisfaction scale, Communication, Technical quality, Art of care, Continuity of care, Time spent with the doctor, and Access/Convenience/ and availability. Patient satisfaction parameters were compared for Saudi vs. non-Saudi, males vs. females, and for patients seen in the hospital vs. those seen in Al-nawa and Radwa primary care centers. The information was obtained by using a self-administered questionnaire. The results indicate that patients seen in Al-nawa primary care center were more satisfied with care than patients seen in the hospital who in turn were more satisfied than those seen in Radwa primary care center. The non-Saudi patients were more satisfied than the Saudi patients across all three facilities and satisfaction scales. The female patients were more satisfied than the male patients across all three facilities and satisfaction scales.
Download or read book Determinants of Patient General Satisfaction with Primary Health Care Services in Riyadh Saudi Arabia written by Abdulaziz Abdulrahman Al-Shamekh and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that warrant particular notice from evaluators and decision makers. Since that time, attention to telehealth has continued to grow in both the public and private sectors. Peer-reviewed journals and professional societies are devoted to telehealth, the federal government provides grant funding to promote the use of telehealth, and the private technology industry continues to develop new applications for telehealth. However, barriers remain to the use of telehealth modalities, including issues related to reimbursement, licensure, workforce, and costs. Also, some areas of telehealth have developed a stronger evidence base than others. The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) sponsored the IOM in holding a workshop in Washington, DC, on August 8-9 2012, to examine how the use of telehealth technology can fit into the U.S. health care system. HRSA asked the IOM to focus on the potential for telehealth to serve geographically isolated individuals and extend the reach of scarce resources while also emphasizing the quality and value in the delivery of health care services. This workshop summary discusses the evolution of telehealth since 1996, including the increasing role of the private sector, policies that have promoted or delayed the use of telehealth, and consumer acceptance of telehealth. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary discusses the current evidence base for telehealth, including available data and gaps in data; discuss how technological developments, including mobile telehealth, electronic intensive care units, remote monitoring, social networking, and wearable devices, in conjunction with the push for electronic health records, is changing the delivery of health care in rural and urban environments. This report also summarizes actions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can undertake to further the use of telehealth to improve health care outcomes while controlling costs in the current health care environment.
Download or read book Health Care Quality written by A. F. Al-Assaf and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication discusses both theoretical and practical approaches to health care quality. It considers the process of health care quality from the conception of an idea to its introduction and implementation, as well as in terms of planning, setting standards and monitoring areas for quality improvement. It includes case studies from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Download or read book Crossing the Global Quality Chasm written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.
Download or read book The Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire Short form PSQ 18 written by Grant N. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article reports on the development and psychometric properties of a short-form version of the 50-item Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire III (PSQ-III). The short-form instrument, the PSQ-18, contains 18 items tapping each of the seven dimensions of satisfaction with medical care measured by the PSQ-III: general satisfaction, technical quality, interpersonal manner, communication, financial aspects, time spent with doctor, and accessibility and convenience. PSQ-18 subscale scores are substantially correlated with their full-scale counterparts and possess generally adequate internal consistency reliability. Moreover, both the magnitude of the correlation coefficients and the overall pattern of correlations among PSQ-18 subscales are highly similar to those observed for the PSQ-III. These preliminary analyses support the use of the PSQ-18 in situations where the need for brevity precludes administration of the full-length PSQ-III.
Download or read book The Fourth Industrial Revolution written by Klaus Schwab and published by Currency. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frameworks that advance progress.
Download or read book Healthcare Development Strategies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia written by Mohammed H. Mufti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with the current health policy environment, organization and delivery of health services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It discusses present financing means, and future financing methods such as a proposed national health insurance program and user-changes as well as important strategic issues. It is for healthcare directors, planners and strategists and will be of interest to experts and international investors in health system reorganization.
Download or read book Emergencies in Primary Care written by Chantal Simon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a practical, accessible guide to all emergencies encountered in primary care from the immediately life threatening to the small but urgent problems that can arise.
Download or read book Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases 2014 written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This global status report on prevention and control of NCDs (2014), is framed around the nine voluntary global targets. The report provides data on the current situation, identifying bottlenecks as well as opportunities and priority actions for attaining the targets. The 2010 baseline estimates on NCD mortality and risk factors are provided so that countries can report on progress, starting in 2015. In addition, the report also provides the latest available estimates on NCD mortality (2012) and risk factors, 2010-2012. All ministries of health need to set national NCD targets and lead the development and implementation of policies and interventions to attain them. There is no single pathway to attain NCD targets that fits all countries, as they are at different points in their progress in the prevention and control of NCDs and at different levels of socioeconomic development. However all countries can benefit from the comprehensive response to attaining the voluntary global targets presented in this report.--Publisher description.
Download or read book Quality of Primary Care from the Patient Perspective in Saudi Arabia written by Khalid Awad Alahmary and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objectives: To assess primary care performance for measures of patients' experience in Community-based Primary Care (CPC) and Employer-based Primary Care (EPC) systems in Saudi Arabia, to examine variations in performance across the two systems, and to explore factors at both the individual-level and the organizational-level that explain variations in primary care performance. Design and Methods: This is an observational and cross-sectional study, using comparative design and survey research methods. The newly revised and re-translated Arabic version of the Primary Care Assessment Survey (PCAS) was used to measure patients' experience of primary care. PCAS operationalizes the IOM definition of primary care, which identified core domains of primary care as accessibility of care, continuity of care, comprehensiveness of care, coordination of care, interpersonal treatment, communication, and community orientation. A two-stage cluster, matched sampling was employed to select 16 primary care centers (eight CPC and eight EPC centers) in Riyadh, the capital and largest city (population > 5.5 million) in Saudi Arabia. A systematic random sampling was employed to collect primary survey data from 612 adult patients visiting the selected primary care centers. Results: After adjusting for differences in the patient-mix and taking into account the multi-level structure of data by means of multi-level modeling, EPC performed statistically significantly better than CPC in interpersonal care (Mean EPC = 68.3, 95% CI [± 6.3] vs. Mean CPC = 59.5, 95% CI [± 5.9], p = 0.024, Effect Size (d) = 0.36) and communication (Mean EPC = 69.8, 95% CI [± 4.9] vs. Mean CPC = 64.4, 95% CI [± 5.5], p = 0.035, d =0.22), in addition to the total quality score (Total PCAS EPC = 60.4, 95% CI [± 2.9 ] vs. Total PCAS CPC = 56.1, 95% [± 3.3], p = 0.009, d =0.31). CPC performed statistically significantly better than EPC in community orientation (Mean CPC = 47.8, 95% [± 5.7] vs. Mean EPC = 35.5, 95% [± 6.2], p = 0.003, d =0.50) and accessibility of care (Mean CPC = 67.4, 95% [± 5.7] vs. Mean EPC = 63.5, 95% [± 4.5], p = 0.025, d=0.23). There were no significant differences between CPC and EPC in coordination of care (p= 0.098), comprehensiveness of care (p = 0.208), and visit-based continuity of care (p = 0.354). Patient-level (compositional) variables explained a significant proportion (R2 = 0.14) of the observed level-one (within-centers) variations in measures of patients' experience. Those variables include gender, self-perceived health status, and patient-reported co-morbidity. Female patients, reporting poor health, and reporting chronic conditions are each statistically significantly associated with lower ratings of patients' experience of care. Organizational-level (contextual) variables explained a significant proportion (R2 = 0.78) of the observed level-two (between-centers) variations in measures of patients' experience. Those organizational variables include practice type and proportions of family physicians in a center. EPC centers and those centers with higher proportions of family physicians are each statistically significantly associated with better patients' experience. Finally, aspects of care that were statistically significantly associated with better patients' experience include knowing the name of the physician and being with the same physician for longer durations. Conclusion: Enhancing continuity and quality of patient-physician relationships may improve the overall patients' experience of care. Healthcare systems in Saudi Arabia might embrace the Bio-Psycho-Social model to foster a culture of health and caring. Effective, community-oriented primary care systems have the potential to re-orient health systems' from a sole focus on sickness and disease, to include additional approaches for prevention and wellness at the societal level. Positive indicators of health, at both the individual and community levels, are needed to better align existing healthcare systems with this goal, mission and vision to improve population health.
Download or read book A Study of Patient Satisfaction with the Medical Care Services Provided by the Royal Commissions s Hospital in Al Jubail Al Sinaiyah Saudi Arabia written by Sultan Ahmed Mahdi Arishi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Patient Satisfaction with the Medical Care Services Provided by the Royal Commission s Hospital in Al Jubail Al Sinaiyah Saudi Arabia written by Sultan Ahmed Mahdi Arishi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Framework for a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Framework for a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC framework) document is intended to be used by practitioners of public health; health policy makers; and authorities and agencies responsible for managing emergencies, incidents, or events where the health of populations is at risk. This document provides high-level methodical guidance for designing, developing, and strengthening of public health emergency operations centers. This interim document outlines the key concepts and essential requirements for developing and managing a public health EOC (PHEOC). The overall approach is generic and based on widely acknowledged elements of all-hazards emergency management. It provides an outline for developing and managing a PHEOC to achieve a goal-oriented response to public health emergencies and unity of effort among response agencies. The document will be revised as necessary. Practical guidance on specific aspects of the PHEOC framework will be developed and published separately. A public health emergency is here defined as an occurrence, or imminent threat, of an illness or health condition that poses a substantial risk of a significant number of human fatalities, injuries or permanent or long-term disability. Public health emergencies can result from a wide range of hazards and complex emergencies. Experience has shown that timely implementation of an EOC provides an essential platform for the effective management of public health emergencies. Public health emergencies involve increased incidence of illness, injury and/or death and require special measures to address increased morbidity, mortality and interruption of essential health services. For such emergencies, a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional response is often required, working with the national disaster management organization. When normal resources and capacities are exceeded, support from outside the affected areas will also be required. External assistance could include national, cross-border, regional or international resources.
Download or read book Saudi Arabia a primary health care case study in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic written by Noha A. DASHASH and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study examines country-level primary health care (PHC) systems in Saudi Arabia in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and December 2020. The case study is part of a collection of case studies providing critical insights into key PHC strengths, challenges and lessons learned using the Astana PHC framework, which considers integrated health services, multisectoral policy and action, and people and communities. Led by in-country research teams, the case studies update and extend the Primary Health Care Systems (PRIMASYS) case studies commissioned by the Alliance in 2015.
Download or read book Tuberculosis Control as an Integral Part of Primary Health Care written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
