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Delfina Soares - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ICEGOV - Towards Health Sector Web Presence Assessment: Defining Criteria and Indicators
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 2018Co-Authors: Demetrios Sarantis, Delfina SoaresAbstract:A key element in the evolution of hospital services through the Internet is the development of websites that better serve the patients' needs. It imposes a high challenge on Health Sector organisations to have objective methods to evaluate their web presence. Health Sector website assessment is built on identifying relative evaluation dimensions and conceived measurements of Health Sector websites services. In this paper, which is part of a research study to implement a Health Sector web presence assessment instrument, the instrument is conceptualized based on a multiple-level scale assessment for detecting significant Health Sector websites features. Criteria, indicators and sub-indicators of the instrument are analysed.
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From a Literature Review to a Conceptual Framework for Health Sector Websites’ Assessment
2017Co-Authors: Demetrios Sarantis, Delfina SoaresAbstract:Health Sector institutions’ websites need to act as effective web resources of information and interactive communication mediums to address the versatile demands of their multiple stakeholders. Academic and practitioner interest in Health Sector website assessment has considerably risen in recent years. This can be seen by the number of papers published in journals. The purpose of this paper is twofold to further establish the field. First, it offers a literature re-view on hospitals’ websites assessment. Second, it offers a conceptual framework to address the website assessment issue in Health Sector. The proposed assessment framework focuses on four main criteria: content, technology, services, and participation being evaluated by the use of several indicators. Academics, hospital practitioners, public officials and users will find the review and the framework useful, as they outline major lines of research in the field and a method to assess Health institution websites.
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Literature on Website Evaluation in Health Sector
2017Co-Authors: Demetrios Sarantis, Delfina SoaresAbstract:A critical element in the evolution of Health Sector services provided through the internet is the development of appropriate websites that adequately serve the patients' needs. Hospitals, in order to deliver superior online services must first understand and then satisfy users expectations. Health Sector website assessment is built on identifying underlying dimensions, and conceptualizing relative metrics. Research and practitioner interest in Health Sector website assessment has considerably risen in recent years. In this article aspects of relative academic studies in Health Sector website assessment are reviewed and a holistic Health Sector websites assessment framework is proposed, defining criteria and their relative indicators.
Haradhan Kumar Mohajan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Improvement of Health Sector in Kenya
American Journal of Public Health Research, 2014Co-Authors: Haradhan Kumar MohajanAbstract:Kenya faces major socio-economic and Health challenges since the independent 1963. Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Kenya. The Government of Kenya has been trying to build a Health system which can effectively provide quality Health services to the population of the country. In Kenya, Health services are provided through a network of over 5,000 Health facilities countrywide. The country spends 5.1% of its GDP on Health Sector. As a result both mortality and morbidity rates are decreasing in Kenya. Infant and under-5 mortality rates are high in the country compare to the some other developing countries. Despite many attempts are taken by the Government yet the Health Sector of Kenya is far to reach the Millennium Development Goals. The paper discusses aspects of Health of Kenya to make a Healthy nation in the world.
Demetrios Sarantis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ICEGOV - Towards Health Sector Web Presence Assessment: Defining Criteria and Indicators
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 2018Co-Authors: Demetrios Sarantis, Delfina SoaresAbstract:A key element in the evolution of hospital services through the Internet is the development of websites that better serve the patients' needs. It imposes a high challenge on Health Sector organisations to have objective methods to evaluate their web presence. Health Sector website assessment is built on identifying relative evaluation dimensions and conceived measurements of Health Sector websites services. In this paper, which is part of a research study to implement a Health Sector web presence assessment instrument, the instrument is conceptualized based on a multiple-level scale assessment for detecting significant Health Sector websites features. Criteria, indicators and sub-indicators of the instrument are analysed.
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From a Literature Review to a Conceptual Framework for Health Sector Websites’ Assessment
2017Co-Authors: Demetrios Sarantis, Delfina SoaresAbstract:Health Sector institutions’ websites need to act as effective web resources of information and interactive communication mediums to address the versatile demands of their multiple stakeholders. Academic and practitioner interest in Health Sector website assessment has considerably risen in recent years. This can be seen by the number of papers published in journals. The purpose of this paper is twofold to further establish the field. First, it offers a literature re-view on hospitals’ websites assessment. Second, it offers a conceptual framework to address the website assessment issue in Health Sector. The proposed assessment framework focuses on four main criteria: content, technology, services, and participation being evaluated by the use of several indicators. Academics, hospital practitioners, public officials and users will find the review and the framework useful, as they outline major lines of research in the field and a method to assess Health institution websites.
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Literature on Website Evaluation in Health Sector
2017Co-Authors: Demetrios Sarantis, Delfina SoaresAbstract:A critical element in the evolution of Health Sector services provided through the internet is the development of appropriate websites that adequately serve the patients' needs. Hospitals, in order to deliver superior online services must first understand and then satisfy users expectations. Health Sector website assessment is built on identifying underlying dimensions, and conceptualizing relative metrics. Research and practitioner interest in Health Sector website assessment has considerably risen in recent years. In this article aspects of relative academic studies in Health Sector website assessment are reviewed and a holistic Health Sector websites assessment framework is proposed, defining criteria and their relative indicators.
Jean-jacques Frere - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Health and Nutrition in Urban Bangladesh: Social Determinants and Health Sector Governance - Health and nutrition in urban Bangladesh : social determinants and Health Sector governance
2017Co-Authors: Ramesh Govindaraj, Dhushyanth Raju, Federica Secci, Sadia Afroze Chowdhury, Jean-jacques FrereAbstract:Urbanization is occurring at a rapid pace in Bangladesh, accompanied by the proliferation of slum settlements, whose residents have special Health needs given the adverse social, economic, and public environmental conditions they face. Over the past 45 years, the country’s Health and nutrition policies and programs have focused largely on rural Health services. Consequently, equitable access of urban populations—particularly the urban poor—to quality Health and nutrition services has emerged as a major development issue. However, the knowledge base on urban Health and nutrition in Bangladesh remains weak. To address the knowledge gap, Health and Nutrition in Urban Bangladesh: Social Determinants and Health Sector Governance examines the Health and nutrition challenges in urban Bangladesh—looking at socioeconomic determinants in general and at Health Sector governance in particular. Using a mixed methods approach, the study identifies critical areas such as financing, regulation, service delivery, and public environmental Health, among others that require policy attention. The study also proposes specific actions within and outside the Health Sector to address the issues, providing guidance on their sequencing and the specific responsibilities of government agencies and other actors. This study should be useful to policy makers and practitioners working on urban Health and nutrition issues in Bangladesh and in other low- and middle-income countries.
Zulfiqar A Bhutta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Indirect Health Sector actions and supportive strategies to prevent malnutrition.
Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care, 2020Co-Authors: Emily C Keats, Reena P Jain, Zulfiqar A BhuttaAbstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW Malnutrition is a pervasive problem that causes negative acute, long-term, and intergenerational consequences. As we have begun to move from efficacy to effectiveness trials of nutrition interventions, and further still to more holistic case study approaches to understanding how and why nutrition outcomes change over time, it has become clear that more emphasis on the 'nutrition-sensitive' interventions is required. RECENT FINDINGS In this article, we propose recategorizing the nutrition-specific and sensitive terminology into a new framework that includes direct and indirect Health Sector actions and supportive strategies that exist outside the Health Sector; an adjustment that will improve Sector-specific planning and accountability. We outline indirect Health Sector nutrition interventions, with a focus on family planning and the evidence to support its positive link with nutrition outcomes. In addition, we discuss supportive strategies for nutrition, with emphasis on agriculture and food security, water, sanitation, and hygiene, and poverty alleviation and highlight some of the recent evidence that has contributed to these fields. SUMMARY Indirect Health Sector nutrition interventions and supportive strategies for nutrition will be critical, alongside direct Health Sector nutrition interventions, to reach global targets. Investments should be made both inside and outside the Health Sector.
