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Social Networks Analysis in Health Services Research
Social networks research has gained popularity in health services research in recent years. Social networks are one way to conceptualise and examine the role of social context in sha** phenomena. The connect...
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Compassionate Spiritual Care
Compassion and Spiritual Care are interconnected. The role of Compassionate Spiritual Care (CSC) is crucial both in delivering high-quality care and in preventing HCPs burnout. There is a huge room for improve...
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Development of Interventions in Health Care
Interventions in health services research cover a variety of goal-orientated activities, including treatments of patients, healthcare delivery models and health system reforms. The development of interventions...
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Outcomes Evaluation in Health Services Research
This chapter focuses on the evaluation of the outcomes of interventions in health services research. The study designs for outcomes evaluation can be globally classified as experimental or observational. Exper...
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Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions
Systematic reviews of interventions aim at synthesising evidence from studies on interventions to provide guidance for decision-making and further research. Systematic reviews use prespecified methods, mapped ...
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Community Pharmacies as Healthcare Providers: New Developments in Medication Management and the Role of Information Technology
Community pharmacies make a major contribution to patient care, yet they have been underrepresented in health services research. They provide an example of nonphysician providers with expanding roles. With new...
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Mental Health Reform, Ecological Translation and the Future of Public Mental Healthcare
In recent three decades, mental health has evolved towards a predominance of community-based care, guided by ideas on how context influences individual health and well-being. This development is a specific exa...
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Access to, Continuity and Coordination of Healthcare for Refugees: Emerging Challenges and Topics for Health Services Research
In light of rising numbers of refugees worldwide, refugee health has gained growing scientific attention. Health research in this field has mainly focused on disease prevalence, social conditions and related h...
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Rehabilitation After a Disease: What Is “Normality” After an Invalidating Disease?
Listening to the words of the patients involved in the treatment process represents a valuable tool for the rehabilitators because it allows them to learn about the way the patients are organizing themselves i...
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Compassionate Care and Evidence-Based Medicine
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is all too often erroneously equated with “cookbook medicine”, in which overly standardised care is offered to patients and is simply based both on a hierarchy of evidence and on ...
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The Relationship Between the Doctor and the Patient: The Ancient Conceptions of Philosophy as Medicine
Some philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds referred to medicine to define the nature of their exercises for self-care. This essay reflects upon some implications of the medical analogy (philosophy...
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Fields of Health Services Research
Health services research focuses on a broad spectrum of problems and challenges in healthcare. These topics can be categorised in four fields: (a) patients’ perspectives, (b) healthcare providers, (c) organisa...
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Climate Change as a Topic for Health Services Research
Climate change is one of the greatest health threats of our time. Hence, healthcare faces new challenges which require adaptation to manage and prevent health impacts of climate change. Healthcare should prepa...
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Human Complexity: A Symphony of Vital Rhythms
Discussing the “patient as a person” issue is a challenging proposal for a new work direction for the health care provider, closely connected to the fundamental but totally unsettled problem of the emergence o...
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Compassionate Care in Crisis
Crises in healthcare call for increased resources (longer hours and limited personnel), all while the influx of individuals in need of care rises exponentially without reprieve. More is expected of healthcare ...
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A Systemic Approach to Health and Disease: The Interaction of Individuals, Medicines, Cultures and Environments
Systemic approaches seek to comprehend a given phenomenon as the result of the dynamic and non-linear interaction between different levels of a system, without reducing one to the other. The relationship betwe...
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Scientific Integrity in Health Services Research
Scientific integrity or research integrity builds the backbone of good research practice. In health services research (HSR), there is no binding and shared set of rules for scientific integrity, but many princ...
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The Body of Descartes and Humanism in Medicine
The patient-centred new medicine perspective revokes the humanistic era, in which anthropocentrism was strengthened in all the human fields, from the socioeconomic one to the artistic and philosophic one too. ...
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Compassionate Care Within the Primary Health Care Setting: Before and During a Public Health Crisis
Primary health care (PHC) represents a key resource for patients presenting with a broad spectrum of symptoms, whilst comprehensively assisting families and individuals with chronic conditions. The focus on th...
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Between the Doctor and the Patient: The Role of the Unconscious in the Relationship
Effective communication between the doctor and the patient is considered the core element within the clinical care setting, as it can contribute to greater understanding of medical information, resulting in a...
