Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309477891 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 399
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In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.
Author: Kıymet Tunca Çalıyurt Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9811514240 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 266
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This book grapples with the numerous risks organizations face in order to succeed. These include economic risks, disaster risks, supply-chain risks, regulatory risks, and technology risks, all of which affect organizations in different ways and in varying degrees. Referencing Mahatma Gandhi’s seven unethical behaviors in the business world—wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, religion without sacrifice, and politics without principle—the authors analyze the healthcare sector. As competition in the health sector increases, there has also been a rise in unethical behavior. Corruption in the health sector results in severe consequences as it could affect the health of millions. This volume explores fraud schemes and cases, legislation to avoid cheating, lack of law, transparency, ethical issues, corporate governance and transparency in the health and pharmaceutical sector bringing together the perspectives of practitioners, professionals, as well as academic authors.
Author: Misja Mikkers Publisher: ISBN: 9789462366855 Category : Europe Languages : en Pages : 0
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The lack of well-documented, factual information on fraud, waste and corruption in the healthcare sector is an important ally for those who would seek to abuse healthcare systems for their own profit. Our lack of knowledge of the incidence, nature and extent of fraud, waste and corruption in healthcare is a threat to the establishment of effective counter-fraud strategies. It prevents those who finance healthcare provision from understanding in clear and quantifiable terms the need to invest resources into counter-fraud activities. As a consequence, fraud remains a matter of moral hazard and healthcare systems continue to suffer considerable financial damage, as well as all the associated consequences for the quality of care that patients receive. It was for these reasons that the 'European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network' (EHFCN) and the 'Dutch Healthcare Authority' (NZa, member of EHFCN) decided to collaborate to publish this book... --
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781938218279 Category : Languages : en Pages : 206
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Profiteering, corruption and fraud are emblematic of our profit-driven, corporatized marketplace and so-called health care system. The three bleed into each other in an entangled way, and they are even increasing. We have to ask and answer: who is the health care system for- profits for health care corporations, their shareholders, and Wall Street traders and investors? for the corrupt and fraudulent scammers? or for patients, their families, and taxpayers? The urgent need for health care reform is at an all-time high as the U. S. struggles to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and the recession certain to follow. We are far behind other advanced nations with one or another system of universal coverage. Incremental attempts to reform U. S. health care have failed for many years. Our broken system is no longer affordable for patients, families, and taxpayers. This book updates where we are with the untenable status quo and compares three major alternatives for reform-building on the ACA, the public option, and Medicare for All.
Author: Taryn Vian Publisher: ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 172
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* Brief, readable field guide also suitable for classes in public health and development * Compelling case studies with best practices examples from Africa, Central Europe and South America Corruption is a serious problem for both rich and poor countries, threatening international development and eroding confidence in governments. In the health sector, corruption is literally a matter of life and death: facilities crumble when repair funds are embezzled; fake drugs flood the market with corrupt regulators managing supply, and doctors extorting under-the-table payments from patients fail to provide needed care. Most major development organizations have rewritten their anticorruption strategies in the last five years, hinting that reform is within reach. But these strategies pay little attention to incentives and capacity at the sector level. Those preparing to fight corruption in the health sector have very few resources to guide them until now. Anticorruption in the Health Sector brings practical experience to bear on anticorruption approaches tailored specifically to health. The contributors, all skilled practitioners, address the consequences of different types of corruption and show how agencies can more effectively address these challenges as an integral part of their development work. Both practitioner and classroom-friendly, this book finally addresses a neglected issue that has so much bearing on global health and governance.
Author: Kıymet Tunca Çalıyurt Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9819955025 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 256
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This book continues the discussion from Volume I on the risks organizations face in order to succeed with a special focus on the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 virus crisis. Taking on an interdisciplinary focus, the book brings together research from academics and practitioners from all over the world. Topics considered range from corruption in the health sector and COVID-19, eHealth efforts of countries during the pandemic, and fiscal policies and transparency in data sharing for effective management of the pandemic to a path forward to achieve health for all.
Author: Samiran Nundy Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199095779 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 692
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For every story of optimism about the growth of medical tourism to India, there are multiple others about medical neglect. Scratch the surface and you find a thick layer of corruption in this life-sustaining sector. This hard-hitting volume shows a mirror to society and, more specifically, to those associated with the health sector—on how healers, in many cases, are shifting shape to becoming predators. In the essays by contributors from within and outside the medical fraternity, we see the many faces, the many facets of corruption—from exorbitant billing by corporate hospitals to the non-merit-based selection in medical colleges to questionable motives playing strong in the area of organ transplantation. But Healers or Predators? is not only about the illness affecting the sector. It also offers solutions, and some stories of hope. The Foreword by Amartya Sen is an added bonus. ‘This splendid, if depressing, book will do a lot to remedy [the] momentous neglect [of healthcare]. We have excellent reasons to be grateful to the authors and editors of this important collection of investigative studies.’—Amartya Sen
Author: Gail Hallas Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781456470258 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this high-suspense race against time, three unlikely heroes try to stop Vincent Fossari, MD from disfiguring anymore patients at Parkwest Pediatric Hospital.Marilyn Pelletier, RN is hell-bent on preventing future tragedies on her unit. Allied with Michael Sutherland, a dying lawyer and Ross Manchester, an out-cast surgeon, the three of them set out to stop Fossari before he strikes again. But first Marilyn must face the deadliest enemy ever: the one inside herself.And there's no time to lose, because Fossari is already en route to trap his next victims deep within a deadly blizzard during high-stakes human hibernation research.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1Long Island, New YorkAugust 1968The last time Vincent Fossari saw his father alive was the moment before the explosion, when the older man's eyes froze in the space between his surgical cap and mask. Julian Fossari's life ended in a green flash from the lights that hung above the four-year-old boy who lay draped and unconscious on the operating table. From the observatory's first row seat, Vincent Fossari felt his body jar in the deafening blast. He saw that the force had severed the wires glued to the child's small chest, disconnecting them from the cardiac monitor chirping in erratic fits near the outlying wall. The cauterizer whipped its narrow rubber body like a snake trying to shake loose from a trap. The instrument's heated end glowed in the now-dim room. Then it cooled off and went out.Above, Vincent Fossari could hear the steady hissing of gas as it escaped from the detached facemask that had been held over the child's nose and mouth a moment before.Fossari ran for the telephone next to the teaching theater's exit door and impatiently waited for the operator's voice. "Dr. Fossari here," he screamed. "Get the crash team. Stat! Explosion in OR 12."Almost before he finished, he heard the overhead speakers spring to life. "Code Blue and Code Red. OR 12. Code Blue and Code Red. OR 12."In a panic, Vincent Fossari stood by the door, the telephone still in his hand. He watched the crash cart push into the operating room, followed by three nurses and a doctor. One of the nurses took the fire extinguisher off the wall and sprayed the flames that licked at the child's surgical drape. Another woman ran to turn off the switch controlling the anesthetic gas filling the room.The doctor kneeled on the floor next to Julian Fossari, and leaned his ear on the surgeon's chest. Vincent saw the blackened face of his father roll to one side and then stop. From where he stood, Vincent Fossari knew his father was dead - along with the child, the scrub nurse, and the anesthesiologist. Two others, the circulating nurse, and an operating room technician sat dazed in opposite corners of the room. Stretchers arrived and the two survivors were wheeled away.Vincent Fossari didn't hear the conversation below, but he saw the doctor cover four people with clean white sheets in the soot-laden room.
Author: Peter Gotzsche Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1908911123 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 251
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PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behaviour, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm. He convincingly draws close co
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