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Digital healthcare public health
2020Abstract New digital technologies are having important impacts on the practice of public health and the organization and delivery of healthcare. Developments in information technology ensure that public health information is now available in more timely and accessible formats; data linkage has enriched public health information by making
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Public health and healthcare-associated infections in the Netherlands
Journal of Hospital Infection, 2007Public health can be defined as the science and practice of protecting and improving the health of populations which share a common environment and interact. When healthcare-associated infections are concerned, the healthcare setting is the common environment.
de Boer, Annette S., Coutinho, Roel A.
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Public health and healthcare surveillance and response
IIE Transactions, 2014The objective of public health surveillance is to systematically collect, analyze, and interpret public health data (chronic or infectious diseases) in order to understand trends, detect changes in...
Wei Jiang, Lianjie Shu, Kwok-leung Tsui
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Migrant healthcare: public health versus politics
BMJ, 2012What can doctors do about the sorry state of migrants’ access to UK healthcare? As an excellent new book makes clear, migrants are a force for good.1 This is just as well: all of us are descended from the migrants who left Africa 50 000 to 60 000 years ago. But there’s a downside. If migration is nearly as old as humanity itself, so is the hostility
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Health, healthcare, and public health as objects of (human) rights
2022Proponents of health rights hold that there are rights to health, healthcare, or public health. Yet health rights raise familiar philosophical challenges, including those concerning the scope, content, relative strength, and justification of the purported rights and their correlative duties, and practical challenges, including those concerning how to ...
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Is Public Health Ready to Participate in the Transformation of the Healthcare System?
HealthcarePapers, 2013The healthcare system in Canada is undergoing significant transformation in response to three major interrelated pressures: the overall burden of illness is rising, patients are getting poor quality of care and healthcare costs are inexorably rising. One idea to guide this change is to transform the primary care system into a community-based primary ...
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Point-of-Care Devices in Healthcare: A Public Health Perspective
2023Point-of-Care (POC) devices enable medical interventions, such as testing, to be performed near the patient and often by the patient. It has been suggested that the use of POC devices will change medicine from a symptom/diagnosis/treatment endeavor to a monitoring/prediction/prevention exercise.
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Integrating healthcare and public health
Public Health, 2013F, Sim, P, Mackie
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Healthcare public health in disasters and emergencies
2020Abstract Public health and health systems must prepare a plan for the emergencies and disasters that will inevitably occur sooner or later. Such plans are needed at global, national, and local levels. A basic framework for emergency preparedness will include a cycle of plan–prepare–respond–recover–report.
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