Editorial: Understanding of health economics among healthcare professionals

Fatoye, Francis

doi:10.1111/jocn.12454

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“…Therefore, it is advisable to integrate health economics topics into undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, in accordance with what has been done in other countries (Sweeney and Watts, 2009; Gray and Lorgelly, 2010; Jain, 2016). Despite the added value of health economics for healthcare personnel (Kernick, 2003; Bonča and Tajnikar, 2008; Weinberger, 2011; Walter, 2012; Fatoye, 2013; Da'ar and Al Shehri, 2015; Beecroft, 2016; Jain, 2016), in Portugal, economics is yet a deprioritized discipline in medical and nurses'training curricula. Nowadays, from the 10 existing medical universities in the country, only three (Coimbra, Lisbon, and the autonomous region of Madeira) offer the discipline of health economics, but only as an optional course.…”

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How to fairly allocate scarce medical resources? Controversial preferences of healthcare professionals with different personal characteristics

Pinho

Araújo

2021

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The scarcity of medical resources is widely recognized, and therefore priority setting is inevitable. This study examines whether Portuguese healthcare professionals (physicians vs nurses): (i) share the moral guidance proposed by ethicists and (ii) attitudes toward prioritization criteria vary among individual and professional characteristics. A sample of 254 healthcare professionals were confronted with hypothetical prioritization scenarios involving two patients distinguished by personal or health characteristics. Descriptive statistics and parametric analyses were performed to evaluate and compare the adherence of both groups of healthcare professionals regarding 10 rationing criteria: waiting time, treatment prognosis measured in life expectancy and quality of life, severity of health conditions measured in pain and immediate risk of dying, age discrimination measured in favoring the young over older and favoring the youngest over the young, merit evaluated positively or negatively, and parenthood. The findings show a slight adherence to the criteria. Waiting time and patient pain were the conditions considered fairer by respondents in contrast with the ethicists normative. Preferences for distributive justice vary by professional group and among participants with different political orientations, rationing experience, years of experience, and level of satisfaction with the NHS. Decision-makers should consider the opinion of ethicists, but also those of healthcare professionals to legitimize explicit guidelines.

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How to fairly allocate scarce medical resources? Controversial preferences of healthcare professionals with different personal characteristics

Pinho

Araújo

2021

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“…The UK King's Fund (2015) predict that an additional £8 billion of NHS funding per annum will be required by 2020. Considering the mandated £20 billion efficiency savings that the NHS was required to make between 2010-2015 (Fatoye, 2013), it is not surprising that the consequences were felt on the 'frontline' of healthcare. There has been some discussion surrounding the ethics of such austerity in the literature.…”

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Constraint Induced Movement Therapy in hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy: a national survey of its use by physiotherapists in the UK

2017

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“…Health policy including healthcare management and health economics are considered essential components of the training curricula for all categories of healthcare professional students [ 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ]. It has been highlighted by many studies and reports that health professionals should have a sound knowledge of all aspects of the fields, as mentioned earlier [ 25 , 26 , 27 ]. Mou et al [ 28 ] greatly emphasized that: “In order to provide comprehensive care for patients and effectively participate in health care reform, the medical community must be literate in health policy.…”

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Medical Students’ Perception Regarding Health Policy Teaching and Their Participation in Health Policy Roles: A Survey at a Public University in Malaysia

Haque

Rahman

Rahman³

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Background: Health policy is a set of comprehensive principles and legislations that guide how healthcare should be effectively delivered in the community. Medical schools should prepare students to undertake managerial responsibilities by incorporating health policy into the curriculum to deal with the intricacies of healthcare systems and their clinical roles in their future professional careers. Objective: To examine medical students’ perception at a Public University in Malaysia regarding teaching health policy and their participation in health policy roles. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study using universal sampling was carried out among the medical students using a paper-based questionnaire to collect the data. Results: Most respondents opined their willingness to learn health policy (80.9%) and that teaching health policy (83.6%) should be compulsory for medical students. The respondents thought health policy should be introduced earlier in Year 1 or 2. The student scores on their knowledge regarding health policy and year of study were significantly associated with their involvement in the health policy roles in both the simple and multiple logistic regression. Both statistical tests reported higher participation in health policy roles with the higher year of study, though only Year 4 and 5 were significant in the simple logistic regression and only Year 5 in the multiple logistic regression compared to Year 1. On the other hand, age and type of admission show significant results only in the simple logistic regression, while the race was only significant at the multivariate level. Conclusions: This study demonstrated that most respondents showed their willingness to learn health policy, participate in the health policy programs, and recommend that health policy be considered an essential topic in the medical curriculum, which should be taught right from the first year of medical school. We recommend encouraging students’ participation in health policy activities.

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Editorial: Understanding of health economics among healthcare professionals

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

How to fairly allocate scarce medical resources? Controversial preferences of healthcare professionals with different personal characteristics

How to fairly allocate scarce medical resources? Controversial preferences of healthcare professionals with different personal characteristics

Constraint Induced Movement Therapy in hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy: a national survey of its use by physiotherapists in the UK

Medical Students’ Perception Regarding Health Policy Teaching and Their Participation in Health Policy Roles: A Survey at a Public University in Malaysia

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