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Standards for Hospital Falls Prevention and Management: An International Comparative Analysis
Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Hospital falls and associated injuries are a global issue associated with harm and significant costs to individuals and society, especially for older adults. Hospital standards specify the minimum level of care required to optimise patient safety, quality and outcomes. Standards are often used during hospital accreditation.
Jonathan P. McKercher +6 more
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Rol del sector Salud ante el cambio climático
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2016 This article compiles the conclusions and results of several studies conducted by global and intergovernmental organizations involved in the research and promotion of policies and strategies for a successful and efficient management of the negative effects of climate change in public health.
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Redefining Nursing Leadership: A Multilevel Competency Framework for Future Healthcare Challenges
Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To examine the conceptual ambiguity of nursing leadership, particularly in relation to management roles, and to propose a multilevel competency framework that redefines leadership as a core dimension of nursing practice. The paper introduces an innovative hybrid Iceberg–Alles model that integrates observable competencies with deeper ...
Aleix Fontanals‐Jimenez +3 more
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Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how US immigration policies shape family and work decision‐making among immigrant women employed in professional occupations who hold lawful immigration status. Background Research documents the family‐related consequences of immigration policies for undocumented, mixed‐status, and separated immigrant families ...
Kelsi L. Caywood
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La Reforma del Sector Salud: antecedentes, contexto y algunas implicaciones
Economía y Sociedad, 1996 Casi todos los países latinoamericanos, con situaciones socioculturales diferentes, adelantan un proceso de reforma en salud, que en muchos casos - con el argumento de atender integralmente a los usuarios, incrementar la macroeficiencia y la ...
Luis Bernardo Villalobos Solano
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Home sweet harm: Confinement and tranquilidad in post‐asylum Peru
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how Peru's Community Mental Health (CMH) model contributes to the exclusion and home confinement of mentally ill individuals. Based on the experience of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia and her mother, I show how CMH's emphasis on community‐based care often fails in practice, as neighbors respond to people with mental
Julio Villa‐Palomino
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Conocimiento del médico acerca del tratado de libre comercio en el sector salud costarricense
Acta Médica Costarricense, 2007 Justificación: Al ser la salud un derecho en sí misma y tener relación recíproca con el crecimiento económico de un país, adquiere relevancia el análisis de las repercusiones del Tratado de Libre Comercio con EEUU (TLC) en el sector salud costarricense ...
Nancy Mesén-Arce +8 more
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Planeamiento estratégico del sector salud
, 2019 El planeamiento estratégico propuesto tiene como objetivo analizar y comprender el funcionamiento actual de la salud y su ecosistema en el Perú, evaluando los principales factores que impactan sobre la salud en la población y proponiendo estrategias que permitan posicionar la salud en el país como un referente internacional de acuerdo a la visión ...
Azula Wong, Danitza Tatyuska +3 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
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