Pursuit Of Health Care Research Articles

DATA COLLECTION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF RUNNING TRAINING SPORT USING DIFFERENT NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES

With the increasing engagement of human beings in the pursuit of healthcare, running as a sport has become a fashionable and healthcare first choice. This research uses artificial intelligence technology to carry out intelligent analysis when conducting running training. Artificial intelligence technology can accurately analyze and predict the application requirements of sports training postures. We proposed an analysis of sports posture and a prediction system, which uses running training data in the form of a heart rate, recorded on a GPS smart sports watch, as well as using the recurrent neural network (RNN), long and short-term memory (LSTM) and the gate recursive unit (GRU). These three types of neural network methods can predict which method is best suited for a road race and can confirm that it will be completed within the scheduled finish time; these models will also perform an intelligent analysis of physical fitness (heart rate, pace) and running technology (cadence, pace). The training and test data are collected from the running training records (running distance, time, heart rate, stride frequency, stride length, pace, calories, altitude and other characteristic values) as input parameters, to test and compare the running completion time trends of the RNN, LSTM and GRU neural network methods in the exercise table, so as to evaluate their predictive abilities. The results show that the GRU method has the best predictive accuracy, and the least accurate is the LSTM method. After the hidden layers are added to the three predictive methods, the RNN is slightly regressive, the LSTM indicates a trend of significant improvement and the GRU exhibits less obvious changes.

Health Inequalities amongst Refugees and Migrant Workers in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Report of Two Cases

Malaysia hosts a significant number of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrant workers. Healthcare access for these individuals has always proved a challenge: language barriers, financial constraints and mobility restrictions are some of the frequently cited hurdles. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these existing inequalities, with migrants and refugees bearing the brunt of chronic systemic injustices. Providing equitable healthcare access for all, regardless of their citizenship and social status remains an ethical challenge for healthcare providers, particularly within the framework of a resource-limited healthcare system. Inclusive healthcare and socio-economic policies are necessary to ensure every individual’s equal opportunity to attain good health. The collective experiences of refugees and migrants in the pursuit of healthcare, as highlighted by the two cases described, showcases the importance of equity in healthcare access and the detrimental implications of non-inclusive healthcare and socio-economic policies.

Challenges to Understanding and Compliance Among Surgical Patients in Low-Income Urban Teaching Hospitals.

Financial and educational barriers significantly impact low socioeconomic status racial and ethnic minority groups in their pursuit of health care, though less is known about the interplay of these factors in the pursuit of surgical care. This study was designed to uncover the challenges to patient understanding and compliance with pre- and postsurgical clinical advice in low-income urban environments. The data for this study were collected in spoken survey with eighty patients in 9 surgery clinics at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. Survey responses were coded into various groups until categories emerged. Relationships among categories were identified to generate themes and subthemes. Key facilitators of patient understanding and compliance were physician likeability and communication. Eighty (100%) patients reported that the physician always treated them with respect, which was important in their interpretation of their experience with the physician. Eighteen (23%) patients identified a language other than English as their primary language and 57 (71%) patients completed high school or less schooling, which likely influenced their communication with the physician. Eighty (100%) patients expressed that the physician always explained things in a way they could understand, focusing on clarity and thoroughness. Challenges to patient understanding and compliance were finances and social resources. Patients noted difficulty paying for medical care and a lack of support at home. Agency could facilitate use of surgical care while a lack thereof could challenge motivation. Ultimately, these themes showed how patients in this environment interact with surgical care.

COVID-19, racism, and the pursuit of health care and research worthy of trust.

COVID-19, racism, and the pursuit of health care and research worthy of trust.

Perceived Health Status, Psychological Well-Being and Health Promotion Behavior of College Students

Background/Objectives: This study is descriptive research aimed at determining the association with perceived health status and psychological well-being affecting health promotion behavior and at providing basic data that could help develop programs for health care and healthy lifestyle of college students in early adulthood.Method/Statistical Analysis: The data were collected from 194 students at colleges in B City from March 5 to 22, 2019. The collected data were analyzed through t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation analysis using an SPSS/WIN 23.0 program.Findings: The respondents scored an average of 2.38 out of 5 for perceived health status. They scored an average of 2.27 out of 5 for psychological well-being and 2.57 out of 5 for health promotion behavior. Perceived health status was significantly positively correlated with psychological well-being (r=.617, p<.001) and health promotion behavior (r=.516, p<.001). Psychological well-being was significantly positively correlated with health promotion behavior (r=.667, p<.001). Perceived grade, household financial status and smoking and alcohol intake status made significant differences and psychological well-being differed significantly by religion, grade, major satisfaction and residence type. Health promotion behavior differed significantly by major, gender, household financial status and academic achievement.Improvements/Applications: It is necessary to develop customized programs that can help college students feel and improve psychological well-being with the objective of promoting health promotion behavior in pursuit of health care and healthy lifestyle.

Development of traditional Chinese medicine:New Era and new strategy

As China's social development enters the New Era and the pursuit of healthcare is on the rise,people put forward the new requirements to traditional Chinese medicine( TCM) service capability. It is a great mission entrusted to practitioners to give full play to the unique characteristics and strengths of TCM. The development of TCM is currently confronted with important chances and challenges,and has entered a period of adjustment. In order to promote the healthy and sustainable development of TCM and enlarge people's sense of gaining in particular,it is vital to improve the contribution of TCM in China's medical and health services. My suggestions are as follows: ①The development of TCM should stay true to the vision of people's health-oriented development,accelerate shift of " three work emphasis",and scientifically construct five " should do" and five " should do even more" development path suited to features of TCM. ②The development of TCM should focus on the study of its " new four natures"( safety,effectiveness,controllability,accessibility) further,and pursue innovation-driven high quality development of TCM.

The gap between entitlement and access to healthcare: An analysis of “candidacy” in the help-seeking trajectories of asylum seekers in Montreal

In 2012 the Canadian government made significant cuts to its historically strong federal refugee health coverage plan. While this policy had negligible effects on the level of coverage provided to asylum seekers in Quebec, there is evidence that this group nonetheless experienced reduced healthcare access during the period of polarized national debate that ensued. This study engaged the “candidacy” model of healthcare access to illuminate factors contributing to the observed gap between entitlement and access. Twenty-five semi-structured interviews were conducted with asylum seekers in Montreal to elicit narrative accounts of difficulties encountered in the pursuit of healthcare. Thematic content analysis in conjunction with a holistic examination of help-seeking trajectories revealed several important barriers to obtaining care, including widespread confusion and misinformation about refugee health coverage, cumbersome administrative procedures specific to asylum seekers, and long wait times. Feelings of marginalization and insecurity associated with precarious migratory status appeared to amplify the effects of these barriers to care such that even a minor access difficulty could have dramatic effects on future help-seeking and access outcomes. Demonstrating awareness of public discourses interrogating their deservingness of health coverage, participants often interpreted access difficulties as evidence of health professionals' unwillingness to serve them. Such interpretations conspired with fears associated with the asylum claim process to suppress self-advocacy, further help-seeking, and at times even information-seeking. This finding is particularly significant in that it suggests a mechanism through which hostile public representations of forced migrants–increasingly prevalent in Western host countries–can themselves endanger the physical, psychological, and social health of highly disadvantaged populations, even in the presence of strong entitlement policies. We close with reflections on how theoretical models of healthcare access might be adjusted to better accommodate the unique experiences of precarious status migrants.

The pursuit of health care for all Brazilians

The pursuit of health care for all Brazilians

International medical travel and the politics of therapeutic place-making in Malaysia

Goal and objectives of the dissertationGoalThis dissertation's examination of international medical travel (IMT) - where people cross national borders in the pursuit of healthcare - builds on an intersection of feminist and postcolonial scholarship that seeks to challenge embedded assumptions about the sources, directions and political value of care. In so doing, it contributes to contemporary social science debates on the role of mobility in questions of care, responsibility and interdependence. With many of the countries currently being promoted as IMT destinations holding 'developing' status, IMT poses a significant challenge to popular assumptions about who provides and receives care since it inverses and diversifies presumed directionalities of care. Taking as a point of departure the notion that the boundaries to the terrains and subjects engaged in the provision and receipt of care are constantly in flux, the dissertation examines the discursive and material positioning of Malaysia as one of the world's most prominent IMT destinations at a moment when the status of the nation-state is undergoing profound transformation.ObjectivesThe dissertation seeks to demonstrate how 'Malaysia' gets positioned as a hospitable destination within a range of imagined geographies of care. The extension of care - through the harnessing of IMT - can serve as a place-making technology to re-imagine the state as a provider and protector within a globalising marketplace in which care, increasingly commoditised, is tied to the production of new political, social, cultural and economic geographies. This signals a fundamental reterritorialisation of care aligned with the pursuit of greater 'global' economic, political, social and cultural integration and legitimacy that reconfigures the relevance of the nation-state.In order to trace broader changes between countries, groups and individuals as they negotiate their positions within increasingly commodified relationships of care, I explore how IMT flows and their selective harnessing by the state and the private sector become part of a new postcolonial nation-building project in Malaysia by asking the following questions:* What does the 'extension of caring' through the provision of private healthcare to noncitizens in Malaysia accomplish, and what sorts of power relations does this expedite?* What 'Malaysia' is put 'on the map' to qualify for 'world-class' IMT destination status?* Which characteristics are promoted as national credentials for expert care-giving and which are suppressed, ignored or rendered obsolete?MethodologyFrom late 2007 to early 2008, 49 single in-depth, semi-structured interviews, lasting between 40 minutes and three hours each, were held with respondents in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Malacca to better grasp how they conceptualise IMT flows and responses and act to influence the course of the industry's development within Malaysia:* Top-level executives and administratives (e.g., CEOs, directors, senior managers, board members and advisors) for governmental, private and not-for-profit bodies;* Research, business development, marketing, policy, public relations and customer service executives and officers;* Medical travel facilitators and medical professionals.An interview guide covering the general development of the IMT industry in Malaysia, changes in the pursuit and provision of medical care and the overall customer base was loosely employed with all interviewees as a point of departure to prompt open-ended responses and discussion.Discourse analysis of the interview transcripts and the secondary (e.g., international and domestic media coverage, private-sector and governmental documents and statistics) data gathered during the fieldwork period was then undertaken in order to interpret claims made to specific forms of care expertise, the construction of such expertise and the manners in which select others are invited to draw upon it. …

The ‘Brilliant, Persistent’ Pursuit Of Health Care As A Complex Social SystemTracking Medicine: A Researcher’s Quest to Understand Health Care By Wennberg John E. New York (NY) : Oxford University Press , 2010 319 pp., $29.95

The ‘Brilliant, Persistent’ Pursuit Of Health Care As A Complex Social SystemTracking Medicine: A Researcher’s Quest to Understand Health Care By Wennberg John E. New York (NY) : Oxford University Press , 2010 319 pp., $29.95

The Pursuit of Healthcare

In the United States, all people are constitutionally awarded the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In the past few years, our political leaders have assailed these rights in the name of a “War Against Terrorism,” and they have done little to establish the public’s assumed right to have even basic healthcare. This right should be undeniable, even if it is not promulgated in the Constitution of the United States of America or in the United Nations Charter. Most countries and the United Nations are redolent with healthcare agencies, but self-centered political agendas, poor funding, and pitiless protectionism too often thwart their good intentions and plans.

And the Pursuit of Healthcare: Considering Challenges with Dr. Eugene Stead

And the Pursuit of Healthcare: Considering Challenges with Dr. Eugene Stead

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Health Care: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Sustaining Health in Later Life

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Health Care: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Sustaining Health in Later Life