Health equity monitoring for healthcare quality assurance
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Monitoring equity in health and healthcare: a conceptual framework.
This paper aims at articulating a conceptual framework for monitoring equity in health and healthcare. The focus is on four main questions: What is health equity? What is monitoring? What are the essential components of a system for monitoring health equity? and Why monitor health equity? Monitoring equity in health and healthcare requires comparing indicators of health and its social determina...
متن کاملChallenges in Data Quality Assurance in Pervasive Health Monitoring Systems
Wearable, portable, and implantable medical sensors have ushered in a new paradigm for healthcare in which patients can take greater responsibility and caregivers can make well-informed, timely decisions. Health-monitoring systems built on such sensors have huge potential benefit to the quality of healthcare and quality of life for many people, such as patients with chronic medical conditions (...
متن کاملQuality Assurance Based Healthcare Information System Design
Despite decades of research, health information systems have been characterised by cost over-runs, poor specifications and lack of user uptake. We propose an alternative approach to their design. By viewing health care as a process and quality as continuously seeking iterative improvements to processes, an objectoriented analysis reveals a class model, which supports quality assurance (QA). At ...
متن کاملHealthcare Data Warehousing and Quality Assurance
Healthcare Data Warehousing and Quality Assurance T he US allocates nearly a trillion dollars annually to healthcare expenditures—more than any other nation. However, this tremendous expenditure has not secured the US a rank among the healthiest nations. Instead, prolonged public debates on healthcare policy in the US have focused on insurance coverage and medical care financing programs, avoid...
متن کاملEquity in health: From concept to application in healthcare system
Equity is the prime virtue of social institutions, and its role is as truth is for human thought system [1]. Equity has been studied in various areas such as economics, politics, and judicial system. One of the areas of social equity that has recently been considered by experts is health. Health is defined as complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Health refers not only to the physi...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.01.004