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The outbreak of global health issues due to rapid urbanization,
industrialization, and changing climatic conditions are severely
impacting health and lifestyle. Yet, healthcare and medical
services continue to increase in cost in developed nations. This
can result in medical tourism, wherein patients travel across
countries in order to benefit from medical treatment that might not
be accessible in the traveler's nation of origin. Developing
countries are prepared to capitalize on this growing industry by
offering multi-specialty healthcare hospitals, cost-effective
treatments, and the promotion of online medical consultancy. Global
Developments in Healthcare and Medical Tourism provides innovative
insights into issues impacting healthcare services, healthcare
service providers, government policies, and initiatives for health
reforms and explores low-cost medical tourism destinations and
practices. The book additionally seeks to deliver high-quality,
cost-efficient smart healthcare applications. The content within
this publication examines global health, wellness tourism, and
global business and is designed for students, researchers,
academicians, policymakers, government officials, medical
practitioners, and industry professionals.
This lucid and comprehensive book explores the ways in which the
State, the market and the citizen can collaborate to satisfy
people's health care needs. It argues that health care is not a
commodity like any other. It asks if its unique properties mean
that there is a role for social regulation and political
management. Apples and oranges can be left to the buyers and the
sellers. Health care may require an input from the consensus, the
experts, the insurers, the politicians and the bureaucrats as well.
David Reisman makes a fresh contribution to the debate. He argues
that the three policy issues that are of primary importance are
choice, equality and cost. He explores the balance between the
patient, the practitioner and public opinion; the disparities in
outcome indicators and access to medical care; and the escalation
in prices and quantities at the expense of other areas of social
life. Reisman concludes that, despite its significance for the
individual and the nation, there is no single definition of health
or health care. The maximand is a mix. Yet decisions have to be
made. This thought-provoking and insightful book will be of use to
students and scholars of public policy, social policy and health
economics. It will also be of interest to medical practitioners who
want to situate hard choices about health and illness in a broad
multidisciplinary context.
The world of medical technologies is undergoing a sea of change in
the domain of consumer culture. Having a grasp on what appeals to
consumers and how consumers are making purchasing decisions is
essential to the success of any organization that thrives by
offering a product or service. As such, it is vital to examine the
consumer-centered aspects of medical technological developments
that have a patient-centered focus and allow patients to take part
in their own personal health and wellness. Consumer-Driven
Technologies in Healthcare: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
is a critical source of academic knowledge on the use of
smartphones and other technological devices for cancer therapy,
fitness and wellness, chronic disease monitoring, and other areas.
The tracking of these items using technology has allowed consumers
to take control of their own healthcare. Highlighting a range of
pertinent topics such as clinical decision support systems, patient
engagement, and electronic health records, this publication is an
ideal reference source for doctors, nurse practitioners, hospital
administrators, medical professionals, IT professionals,
academicians, and researchers interested in advancing medical
practice through technology.
Despite the development of environmental initiatives, healthcare,
and cultural assimilation in today's global market, significant
problems in these areas remain throughout various regions of the
world. As countries continue to transition into the modern age,
areas across Asia and Africa have begun implementing modern
solutions in order to benefit their individual societies and keep
pace with the surrounding world. Significant research is needed in
order to understand current issues that persist across the globe
and what is being done to solve them. Global Issues and Innovative
Solutions in Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment is an
essential reference source that discusses worldwide conflicts
within healthcare and environmental development as well as modern
resolutions that are being implemented. Featuring research on
topics such as health insurance reform, sanitation development, and
cultural freedom, this book is ideally designed for researchers,
policymakers, physicians, government officials, sociologists,
environmentalists, anthropologists, academicians, practitioners,
and students seeking coverage on global societal challenges in the
modern age.
The healthcare sector has never been under as much pressure as it
is today. This pressure has motivated organizations to reinvent
themselves, forcing management and marketing to take a more active
role. Due to this reinvention, organizations must incorporate a
stronger culture of management and marketing orientation that
allows companies to define their course, optimize their resources,
communicate with their stakeholders more efficiently, and encourage
customers to become more involved with the company. This need is
particularly urgent in the healthcare sector, as its weight in the
economy has grown recently and it must prepare for economic
recovery. Management and Marketing for Improved Competitiveness and
Performance in the Healthcare Sector provides knowledge and skills
to apply management and marketing on strategic, tactical, and
operational aspects with an emphasis on the healthcare industry.
Various aspects of management and marketing, such as operations
management, quality management, human resources, brand management,
and digital marketing, are discussed. The book is ideal for
management and marketing academics, their students
(undergraduate/graduate programs), researchers, managers,
advertisers, healthcare organizations, hospital boards,
pharmaceutical representatives, and marketers who need to optimize
the potential of management marketing applied in the healthcare
industry.
Tele-audiology, a blanket term for digital health solutions in
audiology and auditory rehabilitation, including education and
training, has recently been gaining pace, partly driven by
commercial developments in remote otoscopy, remote audiometry, and
hearing aids that can be adjusted by a remote professional. Due to
these advances, clinicians have the potential to expand their
practices and better serve patients in rural areas. However,
audiologists are reluctant to use tele-audiology. Tele-Audiology
and the Optimization of Hearing Healthcare Delivery is a collection
of innovative research on the methods and applications of
technologies that advance audiology and auditory rehabilitation,
and allows healthcare providers to offer hearing healthcare at a
distance and in a manner that provides appropriate outcomes and
reduces delivery costs. This publication examines research findings
from real-world experience of tele-audiology and covers topics
including eHealth, security management, and internet interventions.
It is ideally designed for audiologists, speech pathologists, care
providers, medical professionals, academicians, and researchers.
In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this
powerful memoir recounts Barbara Lipska's deadly brain cancer and
explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind.
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic
melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and
was treated, she experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms
connected to a range of mental disorders, including dementia and
her professional specialty, schizophrenia. Lipska's family and
associates were alarmed by the changes in her behavior, which she
failed to acknowledge herself. Gradually, after a course of
immunotherapy, Lipska returned to normal functioning, amazingly
recalled her experience, and through her knowledge of neuroscience
identified the ways in which her brain changed during treatment.
Lipska admits her condition was unusual; after recovery she was
able to return to her research and resume her athletic training and
compete in a triathalon. Most patients with similar brain cancers
rarely survive to describe their ordeal. Lipska's memoir,
coauthored with journalist Elaine McArdle, shows that strength and
courage but also an encouraging support network are vital to
recovery.
Digital health has faced obstacles from poor IT systems
implementation to lack of consumer acceptance. Very little is known
about the management, development, and design of digital health
projects, the level of IT adoption, and the role of digital
leadership that is needed to successfully drive health projects.
Digital health, if successfully implemented, offers tremendous
opportunities in health data analytics for consumers of health
services and service providers that include health information
portability, personalization of health information by consumers,
easy access and usefulness of health information, and better
management of electronic data records by health institutions and
the government. Research suggests that despite assurances provided
to consumers, digital information security and digital health
innovation have been a challenge and are only slowly being
accepted. Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Healthcare
Innovation is an innovative research publication that identifies
digital health innovation opportunities and obstacles and proposes
frameworks and conceptual models for digital health innovation that
empowers consumers of digital health to use the information to make
informed decisions and choices. Highlighting topics such as data
analytics, health regulations, and telehealth, this book is ideal
for IT consultants, medical software developers, data scientists,
hospital administrators, medical practitioners, policymakers,
academicians, researchers, and students.
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