Many public funded social welfare schemes in India suffer from implementation problems. Most of these problems can be traced to missing or broken information flows and accountability loops. First, beneficiaries are often not aware about the schemes and the rules and regulations governing the schemes and the policymakers does not have any direct medium to obtain feedback on the schemes from the ...

Cancer screening is widely practiced and participation is promoted by various social, technical, and commercial drivers, but there are growing concerns about the emerging harms, risks, and costs of cancer screening. Deliberative democracy methods engage citizens in dialogue on substantial and complex problems: especially when evidence and values are important and people need time to understand ...

BACKGROUND Advance care planning (ACP) is a process of reflection on and communication of a person's future health-care preferences. Evidence suggests visible minorities engage less in ACP. The South Asian ethnic group is the largest visible minority group in Canada, and information is needed to understand how ACP is perceived and how best to approach ACP within this diverse community. OBJECT...

BACKGROUND Clinical guidelines provide systematically developed recommendations for deciding on appropriate health care options for specific conditions and clinical circumstances. Up until recently, patients and caregivers have rarely been included in the process of developing care guidelines. OBJECTIVE This project will develop and test a new online method for including patients and their ca...

BACKGROUND Rising rates of smartphone ownership highlight opportunities for improved mobile application usage in clinical trials. While current methods call for device provisioning, the "bring your own device" (BYOD) model permits participants to use personal phones allowing for improved patient engagement and lowered operational costs. However, more evidence is needed to demonstrate the BYOD m...

OBJECTIVES Patient engagement (PE) improves patient, organisation and health system outcomes, but most research is based on primary care. The primary purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of published empirical research that evaluated PE in hospital health service improvement. DESIGN Scoping review. METHODS Five databases were searched from 2006 to September 2016. Englis...

BACKGROUND As in other countries, the traditional doctor-patient relationship in the Japanese healthcare system has often been characterised as being of a paternalistic nature. However, in recent years there has been a gradual shift towards a more participatory-patient model in Japan. With advances in technology, the possibility to use digital technologies to improve patient interactions is gro...

background and aim: approaches to professional health care have changed along with changes in health measures and progression of chronic diseases. patient participation is an international golden standard in new nursing paradigm. despite the importance of patient participation and its routine usage in professional care, this concept is not clear, especially in social and cultural context of ira...