International Journal of Health Economics and Policy最新文献

{"title":"Review on Food in Security Status and Its Major Coping Strategies in Rural Ethiopia","authors":"Abdukerim Ahmed Mumed, Amanuel Berhanu Bonso, Abdi Hassen Habib","doi":"10.11648/j.hep.20230801.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.hep.20230801.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213187,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Policy","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127261094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Health Management Challenges: The Case of Hospital from Behind-os-Montes and Alto Douro and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust","authors":"António Ferreira, Sara Andre","doi":"10.11648/j.hep.20230801.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.hep.20230801.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213187,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Policy","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115398811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Causal Effect of Free Health Insurance Policy on the Well-Being and Health Care Utilisation of Jordanian Children","authors":"Ayse Yaylali","doi":"10.11648/j.hep.20220704.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.hep.20220704.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213187,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Policy","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116938507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Implementing TeamSTEPPS in a Shanghai COVID-19 Quarantine Center for Medical Observation to Enhance Interprofessional Attitude and Skills Regarding Teamwork","authors":"Tang Baoxin, Y. Haiping, Gu Yanfen, Sun Xiaoliang, Kang Baoli, Zhou Jian, W. Jiling, Y. Hung, Chen Chi","doi":"10.11648/J.HEP.20210603.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.HEP.20210603.12","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To improve the cooperation efficiency of an anti-epidemic team and achieve infection control and safety management in an observation site by implementing the TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies &Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety Course) program. Methods: There were 41 staff members from hospitals, the district government, a health supervision institute, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, public security, and hotels who participated in this program. The course was taught by a master trainer certified by The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The project was evaluated by the Kirkpatrick Model which Including Level 1-reaction assessment (participants satisfaction), Level 2-learning assessment (team work attitude and cognition level), Level 3-behavior assessment (TeamSTEPPS tools and strategies using in workplace) and Level 4- results assessment (infection rate of isolation personnel and staff, incidence of safe adverse events, satisfaction of TeamSTEPPS practice in work). Results: After training and implementation of the TeamSTEPPS program, participants’ attitudes, perception, knowledge, and skills regarding teamwork, team structure, leadership, situation monitoring, mutual support, and communication had significantly increased (P < 0.01). Participants' satisfaction with the course was 99.02% and the application of TeamSTEPPS tools was effective. The actual application satisfaction of staff was 100%. Until now, the infection rate and the incidence of safety adverse events in this observation site were 0%. Conclusion: The TeamSTEPPS program is an effective strategy to improve interprofessional teamwork at the observation site, which contributes to safe COVID-19 management.","PeriodicalId":213187,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Policy","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116209030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cost Benefit Analysis of Four and Eight Antenatal Care Visits in Bamenda Health District, Cameroon","authors":"E. Tumasang, R. Mbu, W. Mbacham","doi":"10.11648/J.HEP.20210603.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.HEP.20210603.11","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) published new antenatal care guidelines recommending an increase from four visits during pregnancy to eight contacts with skilled personnel, among other recommendations. Currently there are ongoing discussions in respect to the cost implications and potential outcomes countries can anticipate, if they make this move. Cameroon has adopted the new recommendation without analysis of the cost implication. Notwithstanding, it is imperative to investigate if pregnant women are willing to make this change, the cost implications of such changes, and if pregnant women will be willing to pay the extra cost. This study sets out to find out women’s preferred number of antenatal visits, their willingness to pay for antenatal visits and to perform a cost- benefit analysis of 4 and 8 visits in Bamenda Health District (BHD). Method: An exit interview was conducted using a semi structured interviewer administered questionnaire with women attending antenatal clinic in some 14 health facilities in BHD. The health facilities were chosen purposively. A total of 396 women were interviewed. Results: Our results revealed that 177 (44.7%) of the women preferred 4 antenatal care visits while 174 (43.9%) preferred 8 antenatal care visits and 45 (11.4%) preferred more than 8 antenatal visits. The extra cost for 4 and 8 visits was 10,390FCFA. The average willingness -to –pay (WTP) for 4 extra visits was calculated to be 2,209FCFA. Conclusion: Although women preferred a model of antenatal care (ANC) with 8 or more ANC contacts, they were not willing to pay for the contacts, thus it is recommended that the 4 visits model be implemented in the Bamenda Health District.","PeriodicalId":213187,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Policy","volume":" 61","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132012517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Incidence of Economic Freedom and Foreign Direct Investment in Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia","authors":"Kaddachi Hayet, Ben Zina Naceur","doi":"10.11648/J.HEP.20210601.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.HEP.20210601.13","url":null,"abstract":"Economic freedom is one of the most important factors in increasing economic growth. Thus, it affects the spillover effects of FDI through the improvement of the absorption capacity in the host countries. In this context, this thesis aims to study the macroeconomic impact of economic freedom on foreign direct investment inflows by basing empirical evidence for data from Tunisia over a period from 1980 to 2017. Using the famous economic method of generalized moments (GMM), the results of the estimates show that FDI positively affects economic growth and requires a high level of economic freedom, and makes it possible to increase the absorption capacity in host countries and '' attract more investors. Economic freedom increases FDI inflows to 0.098 units. More precisely, Tunisia also refers to the positive impact of economic freedom on FDI.","PeriodicalId":213187,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133990419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designs of Interactive Sound Systems for the Visually Impaired to Enjoy Digital Art by Recognition of Hand Gestures","authors":"Chao-Ming Wang, Hao Weng Pang","doi":"10.11648/J.HEP.20200504.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.HEP.20200504.12","url":null,"abstract":"Somatosensory interaction is a kind of man-machine interfacing technique for information acquisition through human postures, which are widely used in digital art nowadays. To create opportunities for the visually impaired to enjoy digital art, two sound art systems named Dynamic Sound and Concrete Sound, which are based on somatosensory technology, were designed in this study for the visually impaired to appreciate with pleasure. The former system emphasizes resonances between humans and sound, allowing the visually impaired user to trigger different sounds by hand gestures which promote the user’s physio-pleasure and ideo-pleasure. The latter system, also being controlled by hand gestures, combines sounds with three-state physical phenomena as feedbacks which are explained orally by an accompanying person to the visually impaired user, creating an inter-person communication that promotes the user’s socio-pleasure. By public exhibitions, users’ feedbacks were acquired via interviews, and evaluated to prove the effectiveness of the proposed systems with the following findings: 1) interactions by hand gestures offers the visually impaired with opportunities to enjoy digital art; 2) sound art provided by the systems allows the visually impaired to gain pleasure via man-machine interactions; 3) the systems innovatively integrate dynamic visual performances with auditory feedbacks in the interaction process; and 4) through the development of gesture operations, more performance techniques can be devised for sound art, allowing gesture motions to replace control interfaces in future designs.","PeriodicalId":213187,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Policy","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126528887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Propensity of Church Leaders on Political Participation in South-western Ethiopia: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study","authors":"Daniel Geleta, G. Mulugeta","doi":"10.11648/J.HEP.20200504.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.HEP.20200504.11","url":null,"abstract":"Leadership moves and changes the world, including the state politics & the church. Leadership ensures democratization and modernization under political participation of all citizens whereas the status of church leaders’ participation in politics was not well known in many countries, including Ethiopia. Therefore, the current study aimed to determine the propensity of church leaders on political participation in Ethiopia. A descriptive study with quantitative data analysis of 376 study subjects was conducted from August 1-15, 2020. A semi-structured, validated and pretested questionnaire was served to collect the data by trained data collectors. The quantitative data were coded, entered into Epinfo computer software and transported to SPSS version 23.0 for analysis. During the process of data management, frequencies & percentages were calculated and described the data in tables & figures. The study has included participants of calculated mean age of 32.9 (SD±8.3) years. More than 62% of the participants have indicated the importance of political participation with the conventional form of political participation being the most practiced followed by unconventional form as reported by 64.9% & 27.4% of participants respectively. The current study has determined that the propensity of church leaders toward political participation was dissimilar and generally frail across the studied churches because of believed different source of power in church and state politics.","PeriodicalId":213187,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Policy","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116623133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Community-Based Health Insurance Enrollment and Determinants in Addis Ababa: Insights from Behavioral Economics and Discrete Choice Experiments","authors":"Abel Eshetu, Abrham Seyoum","doi":"10.11648/J.HEP.20190404.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.HEP.20190404.16","url":null,"abstract":"Community-based health insurance target those employed in the rural and informal sector in urban by pooling risks and protect households from out-of-pocket expenditures when receiving health facility services. However, Ethiopian community-based health insurance is schemes characterized by low enrollment. The aim of this study is to analyze the determinants of community-based health insurance enrollment in Addis Ababa from behavioral economics and discrete choice experiment insights. A total of 222 households from ten pilot woredas were selected for the study using a simple random sampling technique. A simple social experiment is used to examine the significance of behavioral biases. A discrete choice experiment conducted across three attributes and conditional logit model used to determine the relative importance of the selected attributes and willingness-to-pay for those attributes. In addition, the binary logit regression model is used to estimate the probability of households enrollment in community-based health insurance. The study result indicates that households have the highest willingness to pay for only private health service providers (Birr 1849.6/year) compared to status-quo level. Non-member households’ willingness to pay for comprehensive health service package Birr 2271.7/year. Moreover, this study revealed loss-aversion bias, over-optimistic bias, and herding bias had significantly affected the household decision on community-based health insurance enrollment. The study suggests that behavioral biases affect Community-based health insurance enrollment. The study finding also reveals that respondent households are willingness to pay more for comprehensive health service package and for health insurance scheme that includes private health service providers. In addition, the study concludes eligible household enrollment decision varied based on their socio-demographic and household characteristic. This study recommends the need to consider mandatory community-based health insurance schemes and apply targeting intervention (coverage) to the particular group.","PeriodicalId":213187,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Policy","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124241867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Study About the Management of Medical Waste and Non Medical Waste in Kwaingga Public Hospital, District Keerom, Jayapura","authors":"Hesty Tumangke","doi":"10.11648/J.HEP.20190404.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.HEP.20190404.15","url":null,"abstract":"Kwaingga Public Hospital is categorized as type C hospital because there are several aspects need to be improved for management and quality in order to fill the standard from Ministry of Health. Especially for a medical waste management, hospital staffs said that an incinerator has potential to explode due to bad structure because its pillar consists wood. This study aimed to observe the management of medical waste and general waste in Kwaingga Public Hospital. This study is qualitative study where the population is all staffs that work in Kwaingga Public Hospital, and the study sample is six Hospital staffs including hospital director, planning division, treasurer, and sanitarians. They have been deep interviewed and recorded. Study took visual documentations. There are 20 trashes distributed in hospital for daily waste and it is end in a small landfill in hospital backyard. This managed by 10 cleaning services and the staffs said that that number is still inadequate. Sanitarian staffs are six and they all have background sanitation diploma, but they still have overload tasks and they don’t get any training for development yet, the last training was in 2012. There are incinerator, wastewater treatment plant, septic tank, filtration for wastewater, and an old incinerator; there is no machine for destroyed needles. Unfortunately, the incinerator was rarely to use since its structure is bad and has potential to explode; also diesel fuel cost is expensive, so the medical waste burned manually including needles. Similarly, wastewater treatment plant is rarely used due to electricity cost, so it only runs if the wastewater is full. Wastewater treatment plant had bought from Local government Revenue costing 4.5 billion rupiah. Salary for contact staffs and cleaning services are also from local government revenue. Therefore, local government revenue must be increased its allocation for hospital waste management.","PeriodicalId":213187,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Policy","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129176180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}