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Wyzwania i bariery, jakie napotykają w Unii Europejskiej usługi zdrowotne oraz pracownicy szeroko rozumianej służby zdrowia – w tym pierwszym przypadku skatalizowane wskutek odkładania przez Komisję Europejską (KE) przedstawienia projektu dyrektywy o usługach zdrowotnych (jego analizie konferencja miała zostać poświęcona zgodnie z pierwotnym zamysłem), która to konieczność pojawiła się wskutek ich...
Wyzwania i bariery, jakie napotykają w Unii Europejskiej usługi zdrowotne oraz pracownicy szeroko rozumianej służby zdrowia – w tym pierwszym przypadku skatalizowane wskutek odkładania przez Komisję Europejską (KE) przedstawienia projektu dyrektywy o usługach zdrowotnych (jego analizie konferencja miała zostać poświęcona zgodnie z pierwotnym zamysłem), która to konieczność pojawiła się wskutek ich...
Each year 1.2 million people die and 20–50 million people become disabled as a result of road traffic accidents (RTA) [5]. Every day hundreds of people around us, wherever we are – in Poland, China, Venezuela or United States, are dying preliminarily and suddenly – just going to work or vacations, crossing the road or on their way to an amorous appointment. They are drivers and pedestrians, mothers...
W dniach 30 czerwca–11 lipca 2008 roku odbyła się III Międzynarodowa Konferencja pt. „European Summer University on Medical Law” zorganizowana przez Polskie Towarzystwo Prawa Medycznego przy współpracy Francuskiego Stowarzyszenia Badań i Edukacji w dziedzinie Prawa Medycznego, Wydziału Nauk o Zdrowiu, Uniwersytet Jagielloński Collegium Medicum oraz Uniwersytetu im. Paula Sabatiera w Tuluzie. Inicjatywa...
Instytut Zdrowia Publicznego po raz drugi był gospodarzem modułu integracyjnego dla studentów Europejskich Studiów Zdrowia Publicznego Europubhealth realizowanych w ramach programu Erasmus Mundus. Zajęcia odbyły się w terminie 23 czerwca–18 lipca 2008 roku i były poświęcone tematyce zdrowia publicznego w perspektywie globalnej.
Identification difficulties and costs of hospital acquired infectionsThe aim of this work is to analyze epidemiological data collected in the active HI programme between 2002 and 2004 in forty Polish hospitals and to assess some of the economic consequences of hospital infections. The average cumulative incidence, incidence density and mortality of nosocomial pneumoniae (PNEU), bloodstream infections...
Ukazał się 7. numer miesięcznika „Polityka Społeczna” w całości poświęcony problematyce zatrudnienia i wynagrodzenia oraz dialogowi społecznemu w sektorze ochrony zdrowia.Problematyka zatrudnienia w ochronie zdrowia zwykle poddawana jest jedynie powierzchownej analizie przez polityków czy media przy okazji kolejnych pojawiających się protestów personelu medycznego, nowych postulatów płacowych, czy...
Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme (JSIS) for officials and other servants of the European UnionOfficials and other servants of the European Union are covered by a separate, Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme (JSIS). The fact that its own law applicable to public functionaries exists at the UE level, being a result of application of solutions transferred from the national level as well as constituting a...
India is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic country located in Southeast Asia. It is the 2nd largest populated country which has the 7th position in the geographical area. Since 1990 India has emerged as one of the wealthiest economies in the developing world. Recently it is the second fastest growing major economy in the world. Despite the fact that economical development in India has been...
India is the only country in the globe with officially recognized multiple systems of medicine, namely Allopathy; Ayurveda; Yoga and Naturopathy; Unani; Siddha; and Homoeopathy. The traditional medicine came into the limelight because of the politicization of the traditional medicine agenda. India adopted a parallel model within the national health care system through the Indian Medicine Central Council...
New public management in the health care in Poland?The purpose of this paper is to present few factors influencing an effective implementation of the New Public Management (NPM) procedures and tools in the health care sector in Poland. A concise analysis of privatization in the Polish health care system, followed by two case studies dealing with downsizing and debt securitization in regional hospitals...
Health human resources planning – Canadian experience The article is based on the document „Health Human Resources Modelling; Challenging the Past, Creating the Future” published by Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. The article describes three separate but related projects, which are undertaken to link population health needs to health care staff planning, to present the value and challenges...
The current Indian national drug policy has its roots in two documents originated in the 70-ties and the 80-ties of the XX. century. Although the first National Drug Policy was declared in 1978, it has been revised thrice since then, in 1986, 1994 and 2002. Also, in 1986 another document on the Indian drug policy, titled “Measures for Rationalisation, Quality Control and Growth of Drugs and Pharmaceutical...
The state of finances in health careThe state of finances in health care stirs a lot of interest among both politicians as well as experts. Unfortunately, despite improvements made in recent years, there is still a lack of thorough knowledge in this field. For this reason the Ministry of Health has commissioned a report called “Green Book II” on the financial situation in the health sector. The...
India is struggling not only against communicable diseases but also carries a large burden of non-communicable diseases. India is one of the 10 countries hosting 75% of the children who had not received vaccines for vaccine preventable diseases, like diphtheria, pertusis and tetanus. The diseases caused by Haemophilus, Pneumococcus and Rotaviruses, which are causing 2.1 million deaths in all age groups...
Legal bases of the cells, tissues and organs transplantationsTransplantation is an operation consisting in treatment through the exchange of tissue or an organ. Transplantation became a revolution in medicine and forced the introduction of new legal regulations. The development of medicine means that transplantation of tissues and cells as an intervention saving health and life the patient has become...
The legal rules of implementing the health care services to advantage of the persons having voluntary health insurances by the public health care unitsBecause of the difficult financial standing of the public payer, independent public health care facilities (SP ZOZ), specially hospitals, are searching the new sources of income. Patients, waiting for admission to hospitals for months, are much more...
Participation of the local government units in financing of the heath care’s activitiesBeginning from administrative reform conducted in 1999 three levels of local government function in Poland. Municipalities, counties and provinces, among many other tasks, are responsible for broad range of activities in the field of health care. They are founders of majority of the public health care units, are...
Evaluation of the quality of 52 health-related websites, created with wiki technologyThe emergence of Web 2.0 philosophy of using Internet as a platform generated by all Internet users could have many implications for the future of healthcare. While application of the Web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, blogs, podcast and social networks to medicine and healthcare has definitely many benefits (e.g. to develop...
Health policy and HTASet of procedures referred to as Health Technology Assessment (HTA) becomes more and more popular among health policy makers in many. There are two factors contributing to this process. Firstly, it is universal access to health services and their guaranteed financing from public esources.Secondly, a pressure exerted by manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment who...
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