Health and Productivity Management has been promoted in Japan since 2014. Certification criteria for Health and Productivity Management include the improvement of employee health literacy. This report provides an overview of the "Eat, Sleep, Walk" health literacy development project using ICT+incentives+nudges developed for companies, and describes its preliminary evaluation and challenges.
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Health Serv Insights
December 2024
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
One of the main challenges in breast cancer management is health system literacy to provide optimal and timely diagnosis and treatments within complex and multidisciplinary health system environments. Digitalised patient navigation programs have been developed and found to be helpful in high- and low-resource settings, but gaps remain in finding cost-effective navigation in the public sector in Malaysia, where resources are scarce and unstable. Hence, we set out to develop a virtual patient navigation application for breast cancer patients to enhance knowledge about cancer diagnosis and treatments and provide a tracking mechanism to ensure quality care.
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December 2024
Changi General Hospital, Singhealth, Singapore.
This study documents the experience of implementing an adaptation of the Hospital-at-Home (HaH) model to alleviate the constraints in available hospital beds and manpower amid a surge in infection rates in Singapore during the Omicron and XBB COVID waves, addressing challenges and proposing insights for scalable implementation. HaH substitutes inpatient hospitalizations by leveraging existing community healthcare services and remote healthcare technologies. This HaH adaptation was designed to be activated in during surges and deactivated when bed and manpower demands stabilize, making it less intensive on hospital resources.
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December 2024
Family Medicine, Albarzah Primary Health Care Center, Makkah Health Cluster, Ministry of Health, Makkah, SAU.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has undergone many reforms in light of Vision 2030, and the health sector is no exception. Vision 2030 highlights the importance of utilization and increased quality in primary care. Patient-centered care (PCC) and shared decision-making (SDM) are two methods used to increase healthcare quality globally.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Alzheimer's Disease and Related dementias (ADRD) are disproportionately underdiagnosed, misdiagnosed, and undertreated in Latino/a/e/x populations living in the U.S. Latino/a/e/x families also experience low access to ADRD caregiver support services and high levels of depression.
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December 2024
Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef, Netherlands.
BACKGROUND Patient monitoring systems (PMSs) are essential for monitoring and managing the condition of critically ill patients. In low-resource settings, limited access to technology, low-level digital literacy, and power outage challenges are usability concerns. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the usability of the IMPALA (Innovative Monitoring in Paediatrics in Low-resource settings: an Aid to save lives) PMS optimized for use in low-resource settings by assessing the opinions and experiences of 24 healthcare professionals.
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