Top Research Papers on Health Care

This review outlines the most promising healthcare technologies and devices, their strengths, drawbacks, and scopes for clinical adoption, and highlights the 3D printers being investigated for the concept of personalised medicine.

Emerging digital technologies continues to evolve posing unprecedented opportunities in health systems globally to improve healthcare services delivery. There has been significant progress in healthcare. However, the lack of emotive recognition coupled with a dearth of personalized and pervasive health applications and emotive smart devices calls for the integration of intelligent sensors health systems through emerging technologies. Although there has been significant progress in smart and connected health care, more research innovation, dissemination and technologies are needed to unbundle n...

The effects on staff is detailed, some of the organisational, team and individual considerations for supporting staff (pragmatically) during this pandemic are addressed and leaders at all levels of health care organisations will find this resource valuable.

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory, empirical evidence, and public policy. The ninth edition offers updated material throughout, including two new chapters: Disparities in Health and Health Care (Chapter 7) examines issues of race, ethnicity, income, gender, and geography with respect to health care access, health inputs, and health outcomes; Pandemic Economics (Chapter 9) introduces a new and simplified economic treatment of epidemics and pandemics within...

All the medical IoT devices experimented with in this work are interconnected using a potential 5G network for optimal data transmission and would not only facilitate but also educate medical professionals to handle unseen and typical cases in the future confidently.

The effects of mobile technologies versus usual care for supporting communication and consultations between healthcare providers on healthcare providers' performance, acceptability and satisfaction, healthcare use, patient health outcomes, acceptability and satisfaction, costs, and technical difficulties are assessed.

The results indicate that chronic conditions are strongly associated with food insecurity and higher health care spending, and efforts to alleviate food insecurity should consider the dual burden of chronic conditions.

This paper proposes creating a service-oriented middleware framework to offers the common services to the applications developers and facilitate the integration of different services to build applications under the Health 4.0 umbrella.

This work discusses major empirical findings and theoretical implications of health care utilization, barriers to care, health behaviors, and health outcomes, which demonstrate how SGMs continue to experience structural- and interactional-level inequalities across health and medicine.

A synopsis of racial disparities across a broad scope of clinical pathology interests addressed in emergency departments is provided, and through a race-conscious analysis, EM practice recommendations for advancing a culture of equity with the potential for measurable impact on healthcare quality and health outcomes are developed.

The research found that triggers of mental health problems among frontline health workers in private care homes and domiciliary care agencies are fear of infection and infecting others, lack of recognition/disparity between National Health Service (NHS) and social care, Lack of guidance, unsafe hospital discharge, death and loss of professionals and residents, unreliable testing and delayed results and shortage of staff.

The biology, epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of CO VID-19 are the main focus of these reports, and it will become increasingly important to study and address the health care needs of clinicians and other health care workers responding to the unprecedented demands of caring for patients with COVID-19.

A toolkit of illustrations and scientific information that healthcare professionals can use for knowledge translation, educating patients about the importance of identifying and treating low muscle mass and malnutrition, and the emerging evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction in the context of aging and disease are provided.

Adverse events were identified in nearly one in four admissions, and approximately one fourth of the events were preventable, underscore the importance of patient safety and the need for continuing improvement.

It is observed that the institutional support strategy generated and strengthened socio-technical networks articulated in function of the National Policy of Primary Health Care, however, the necessity of implementation of priority programs demands it to be better considered in the design of this management strategy.

It is discussed that collaborations between health systems and social services are needed to improve health and well-being in this population of homeless people.

There are multiple ways that international support and national commitment could help safeguard healthcare workers in Africa, essential for limiting the pandemic’s potentially devastating heath, socio-economic and security impacts on the continent.

A commentary on challenges and dilemmas identified in the response to COVID-19 for care homes and their residents, highlighting the low sensitivity of PCR testing and the difficulties this poses for blanket screening and isolation of residents.

The readers will find a wealth of knowledge and new insight concerning sharing concepts, and implications of health promotion particularly in health care, and an updated summary of significant salutogenic notions that serve as resources for well-being and health enhancement in this book.

Six vital directions to improve the care and quality of life for all older Americans are identified as part of the National Academy of Medicine's Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities for 2021 initiative.