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Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and
improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good
clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt
the most appropriate measures for the prevention of
assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using
tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of
safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it
should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in
the first years of professional practice, in order to have the
maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors
tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this
must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human
factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations,
and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental
for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book
offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient
safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and
technological innovations, and creating effective,
patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in
order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the
new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for
residents and young professionals in different clinical
specialties.
This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health
worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world
solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field,
from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic
conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on
cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions.
Chapters demonstrate bedrock skills essential to developing best
practices, including flexible thinking for entrenched problems,
conducting health impact assessments, and working with
decision-makers. From these current findings come long-term
practice and policy goals for preventing disease, promoting health,
and improving quality of life, both locally and globally. A
sampling of the topics covered: * Health trends of communicable
diseases. * Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention. *
Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and
outdoor air pollution. * Public health gerontology and active
aging. * Migrant and ethnic minority health. * Public health
genomics. A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health offers
graduate students in the discipline a firm grasp on the field as it
presently stands, and a clear set of directions for its potential
future.
This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health
worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world
solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field,
from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic
conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on
cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions.
Chapters demonstrate bedrock skills essential to developing best
practices, including flexible thinking for entrenched problems,
conducting health impact assessments, and working with
decision-makers. From these current findings come long-term
practice and policy goals for preventing disease, promoting health,
and improving quality of life, both locally and globally. A
sampling of the topics covered: * Health trends of communicable
diseases. * Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention. *
Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and
outdoor air pollution. * Public health gerontology and active
aging. * Migrant and ethnic minority health. * Public health
genomics. A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health offers
graduate students in the discipline a firm grasp on the field as it
presently stands, and a clear set of directions for its potential
future.
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