Causes of Staff Abuse in Health Care Facilities

Staff Burnout in Long-term Care Facilities

Background: A rapidly changing health and long-term care environment characterized by efficiency and cost-containment is resulting in changing roles and responsibilities among all levels of staff who work with seniors in long-term care facilities. More is being asked of all, and there are reports of health-care providers who are overworked, stressed-out and suffering from burnout. Little is kno...

Evaluation of Success and Failure Factors of the Health Information System (SIB) in Health Care Facilities

Objective: Information systems have been used in healthcare organizations for more than three decades, but successful cases of these systems are usually low; This is especially important in healthcare centers, where human health is at stake. This study aims to determine the success and failure factors of the SIB health system in Torbat Heydariyeh health care centers from the perspective of user...

health‐caRe staff PeRsPectiVe

intRoduction Neither dramatic footage nor horrifying statistics from the most recent Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak come close to reflecting the true impact of the EBOV disease (EVD) on affected countries, communities, patients, health-care workers, or their friends and families.[1,2] With focus squarely on containing the outbreak and dealing with the immensity of the task at hand, many fail to no...

Allied Health Student Clinical Placements in Residential Aged Care Facilities: Staff Opinions, Attitudes, and Support Needs

Abuse and discrimination towards indigenous people in public health care facilities: experiences from rural Guatemala

BACKGROUND Health inequalities disproportionally affect indigenous people in Guatemala. Previous studies have noted that the disadvantageous situation of indigenous people is the result of complex and structural elements such as social exclusion, racism and discrimination. These elements need to be addressed in order to tackle the social determinants of health. This research was part of a large...