Health promotion

China: Telehealth services to be introduced in Tibetan hospitals

Submitted by dfabbri on Tue, 08/20/2019 - 09:44

Xinhua (16.08.2019) The General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (PLAGH) said Friday that it will set up 45 stations of remote medical services in public hospitals in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region in five years. PLAGH and the regional government reached a framework agreement on health and poverty alleviation in Lhasa, capital of Tibet on Friday. PLAGH will provide free telemedicine services for Tibetan hospitals, according to the agreement.

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Le champignon microscopique “Candida auris”, une menace grandissante pour la santé publique

Submitted by gfilhon on Mon, 04/15/2019 - 18:38

Une mystérieuse infection due à un champignon résistant aux traitements se développe dans le monde, et ce dans un climat de secret

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[Opinion] Doctor’s Tip: Health care in Cuba — maybe we can learn something

Submitted by dfabbri on Mon, 04/08/2019 - 10:38

PostIndependent.com (07.04.2019) Understandably, a growing number of Americans are dissatisfied with our expensive, dysfunctional health care system. We spend far more money on health care than any other country, yet rank far down the list of most measures of health outcomes. Complications of our health care system (errors, missed diagnoses, hospital-acquired infections, etc.) are the third cause of death, following heart disease and cancer.

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High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution

Submitted by delziniy on Fri, 03/29/2019 - 14:37

Although health outcomes have improved in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the past several decades, a new reality is at hand. Changing health needs, growing public expectations, and ambitious new health goals are raising the bar for health systems to produce better health outcomes and greater social value. But staying on current trajectory will not suffice to meet these demands.

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Delivering quality health services: a global imperative for universal health coverage

Submitted by delziniy on Fri, 03/29/2019 - 14:12

This document – Delivering quality health services: a global imperative for universal health coverage – describes the essential role of quality in the delivery of health care services. As nations commit to achieving universal health coverage by 2030, there is a growing acknowledgement that optimal health care cannot be delivered by simply ensuring coexistence of infrastructure, medical supplies and health care providers.

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2019 Global health care outlook

Submitted by delziniy on Fri, 03/29/2019 - 12:20

deloitte (March 2019) This 2019 outlook reviews the current state of the global health care sector and explores trends and issues impacting health care providers, governments, payers, patients, and other stakeholders. It also outlines suggestions for them as they seek to redefine the health care ecosystem and looks at examples from the market.

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Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Submitted by delziniy on Fri, 03/29/2019 - 10:33

“Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” is based on more data than ever before and includes 622 new data sources, for a total of 8,259 data sources. The 2017 study produced and used a new set of population estimates, which has led to substantial changes in mortality estimates in many countries. The analysis has been extended in time by two decades to start in 1950, and the statistical methods have been improved.

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L’assurance autonomie: Une innovation essentielle pour répondre aux défi s du vieillissement

Submitted by delziniy on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 16:10

The aging population and the epidemic of chronic diseases requires an accompanying fi nance reform of long-term care
that will become increasingly dominant. Many countries have faced this situation and have set up a separate public
funding for such care on the basis of a universal insurance covering both home care and institutions. Canada and Quebec
must adopt such autonomy insurance and create a separate fund fi nanced partly by a more judicious use of current

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GRANDEURS ET MISÈRES DE L'ALLOCATION PERSONNALISÉE D'AUTONOMIE EN FRANCE

Submitted by delziniy on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 16:07

Le vieillissement de la population et la pandémie de maladies chroniques
qui l’accompagne obligent à prioriser le financement des soins à long terme
qui deviendront de plus en plus importants. De nombreux pays ayant fait
face à cette situation ont mis sur pied un financement public distinct via une
assurance universelle couvrant les soins à domicile et en institution comme
c’est le cas en France avec l’Allocation personnalisée d’autonomie (APA).
À la lumière des comparaisons internationales, nous identifions certaines

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