ELDER ABUSE IN THE HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN KENYA docx

... have special training in the areas of handling the elderly (geriatrics) instead of the current training where there is only limited coverage of this subject in the general training (Kenyatta National ... 5 2. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS 2.1 Objective The objective of the study was to gather empirical evidence of elder abuse within the healthcare system so as to use the in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... ethical decision-making in health care, how are we to reach even local consensus in the making of ethical decisions of the kind confronting the father at the beginning of this introduction? What seems ... see this is to perceive the importance for moral thinking of the other arm of the dilemma facing the father in the example above, that is, the value of the fam...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... thing they look for when seeking child care, a healthy and safe environment is at the top of the list. With this in mind, child care providers must include parents in their efforts to create healthy ... and healthy environment from which all the children in the child care setting can benefit. Child care providers must offer services in the most natural setting appro...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... lack of services and funding for health care provision in these areas. In these communities, the extended family plays a particularly important role in providing informal care for elderly ... areas. e elderly women and their caregivers identied several shortcomings in the current health care services oered to the senior Métis population in Bualo Narrows. Qu...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... patients in health care facilities remains a challenge. Enhancing Elderly Care Services in Asia and the Pacific Outcome Document of the Regional Forum on Elderly Care Services in Asia and the ... put in place to strengthen legal protection, with a view to eliminating all forms of discrimination, abuse and violence against older persons, including ageism,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... 48.Steering Committee of the Physicians Health Study Research Group. Final report on the aspirin component of the ongoing physicians health study. N Eng J Med 1989;321:129-135 49.Sivenius J, Riekkinen ... 13.Grundy SM, Cleeman JI, Rifkind BM, Kuller LH. Cholesterol lowering in the elderly population: Coordinating committee of the National Cholesterol Education Program. Ar...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... educa- tional institutions, health care providers and consumers, the media, health insurance companies, the health industries, and the WHO Re- gional Office for Europe. THE NEED TO TRAIN HEALTH CARE ... for them a teacher training pro- gramme*, which they are required to take. They should prepare their own implementation plan* to guide them and to facilitate change i...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:20

... household income, p C is the price of health care, and p F are the prices of other health- related inputs; the price of the composite good is normalized to one. The price of health care is comprised ... expensive types of care. Moreover, additional male infants in the household who are younger than the index child (the child whose health care was surveyed) re...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... London ICU intro- duced the QS 5.6 Clinical Information System (CIS) (GE Healthcare, Anapolis, MD, USA) to the ICU but not on the gen- eral wards. The new system was introduced following a pro- gram ... are given in Tables 2 and 3. Most of the errors were minor in outcome, although two non-inter- cepted errors with CPOE led to an increased length of stay or increased monitoring....

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... the clinical pharmacist, comprising 1,286 in the C-U and 1,224 in the PB-U. In the C-U, 44 MPEs occurred versus 331 in the PB-U (3.4% versus 27.0%, P < 0.001). Overall, the ICIS resulted in ... medication ordering. These results are shown in Table 3. In the C-U, the minor MPEs were mainly wrong pharmaceutical form errors and infusion rate errors. The interce...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39