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The Correlation Between The Right To Medical Secrecy And The Employer's Right To Receive Information On The Employee's Health State

  • Yuryk, Olha;Stashkevich, Anatoly;Chornyi, Ruslan;Chorna, Zhanna;Kronivets, Tеtiana;Valakh, Viktoriia
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.103-107
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    • 2021
  • The article analyzes the theoretical aspects of the relationship between the right to medical secrecy and the employer's right to receive information on the employee's state of health, resulting in a more complete description of the implementation of the right to medical secrecy and the employer's right to information on the employee's health state and the possibilities of protecting violated rights. The limits of permissible restrictions on the right to secrecy of health in terms of ensuring the person's performance of their job function have been clarified.

Status of Medical Library Resources and Services in Teaching Hospitals in Enugu State, Nigeria: implications for quality health care services

  • Okeke, Oluchi C.;Eze, Samuel Godwin N;Eze, Jacintha U.;Asogwa, George E.
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.21-40
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    • 2017
  • Considering the need for quality health information and resultant health care services in any society, this study was carried out to look into the status of library and information resources and services provided by medical libraries in Enugu State, Nigeria. The main objective of the study was to find out the information resources and services available for medical library users towards quality health care provision. Five (5) medical libraries of major teaching hospitals were used for the study with 980 registered users as the study population from where 245 users were sampled. Observation checklist was used to collect data on resources while questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents on the services provided. The Medical Library Association Standard guided the analysis of data from observation while frequency counts and mean scores were used to analyze data from the questionnaire. Major findings showed that even though some of the required resources and services are available and provided the medical libraries, most of the required resources and services are not adequately provided by these libraries.

Digital Health in Southeast Asia: Startups and Digital Technology Applications

  • Hoe, Siu Loon
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.183-201
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this article is to provide preliminary findings on the state of digital technology applications of startups in Southeast Asia and to discuss issues related to digital health adoption in the region. This exploratory study is based on an empirical analysis of startups and digital technology applications information from various publicly available website databases. Public and private organizations would benefit from a better understanding of the current state of digital technology applications provided by startups and the challenges faced in digital health adoption. This article contributes to the existing literature by offering an overview of startups and digital technology applications in the digital health space in the fast-growing region of Southeast Asia. It offers advice to organizations intending to pursue healthtech initiatives on the types of health services provided by startups and issues that need to be addressed to increase the adoption rate.

Employee Perceptions of Their Organization's Level of Emergency Preparedness Following a Brief Workplace Emergency Planning Educational Presentation

  • Renschler, Lauren A.;Terrigino, Elizabeth A.;Azim, Sabiya;Snider, Elsa;Rhodes, Darson L.;Cox, Carol C.
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.166-170
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    • 2016
  • A brief emergency planning educational presentation was taught during work hours to a convenience sample of employees of various workplaces in Northern Missouri, USA. Participants were familiarized with details about how an emergency plan is prepared by management and implemented by management-employee crisis management teams - focusing on both employee and management roles. They then applied the presentation information to assess their own organization's emergency preparedness level. Participants possessed significantly (p < 0.05) higher perceptions of their organization's level of emergency preparedness than non-participants. It is recommended that an assessment of organizational preparedness level supplement emergency planning educational presentations in order to immediately apply the material covered and encourage employees to become more involved in their organization's emergency planning and response. Educational strategies that involve management-employee collaboration in activities tailored to each workplace's operations and risk level for emergencies should be implemented.

A diagnostic approach for concrete dam deformation monitoring

  • Hao Gu;Zihan Jiang;Meng Yang;Li Shi;Xi Lu;Wenhan Cao;Kun Zhou;Lei Tang
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.49 no.6
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    • pp.701-711
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    • 2023
  • In order to fully reflect variation characteristics of composite concrete dam health state, the monitoring data is applied to diagnose composite concrete dam health state. Composite concrete dam lesion development to wreckage is a precursor, and its health status can be judged. The monitoring data are generally non-linear and unsteady time series, which contain chaotic information that cannot be characterized. Thus, it could generate huge influence for the construction of monitoring models and the formulation of corresponding health diagnostic indicators. This multi-scale diagnosis process is from point to whole. Chaotic characteristics are often contained in the monitoring data. If chaotic characteristics could be extracted for reflecting concrete dam health state and the corresponding diagnostic indicators will be formulated, the theory and method of diagnosing concrete dam health state can be huge improved. Therefore, the chaotic characteristics of monitoring data are considered. And, the extracting method of the chaotic components is studied from monitoring data based on fuzzy dynamic cross-correlation factor method. Finally, a method is proposed for formulating composite concrete dam health state indicators. This method can effectively distinguish chaotic systems from deterministic systems and reflect the health state of concrete dam in service.

A STUDY ON IMPLEMENTATION OF OUTWARD AGING AND HEALTH-STATE MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON IMAGE PROCESSING (영상처리에 기반한 노인 대상 외양적 노화 및 건강 상태 모니터링 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Kun-Su;Kil, Se-Kee;Shen, Dong-Fan;Min, Hong-Ki;Lee, Eung-Hyuk;Hong, Seung-Hong
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.881-882
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    • 2006
  • According as society looks graying trend gradually, more shaped system that can achieve measuring health-state of old people more harmoniously construction required in field of old people's welfare and medical treatment. Health-state is measured by two methods of contact and non-contact. The first, for example measurement of blood pressure or electrocardiogram, requires that measuring equipments are attached on human body but the second, for example X-Ray or MRI, is not. But both of methods are have some of defect, for example attaching equipments, needing of the special equipments or the necessary time, etc. Therefore desirable method of monitoring system must have minimum interrupt about daily life. This study suggest the system that can monitor the user, especially old people's outward aging and health-state by use the PAN TILTER and CCD camera.

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A study on Self-esteem and Subjective Evaluations to Work among Elderly Persons (노인의 일에 대한 주관적인 평가와 자아존중감 간의 관계)

  • 이신숙
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.45-56
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study was to look into correlations between subjective evaluation on the work and self-esteem of the elderly so as to provide information for finding out ways of developing their self-esteem. The subjects of this study were 318 elderly persons in Chonnam and Kwangju city. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency percentage mean standard deviation reliability stepwise and multiple regression analysis through the SAS package program. the major findings of this study can be summarized as follows; 1) The self-esteem of elderly persons was 25,9 which was above the median 24. 2) According to the results related to subjective evaluations on the work among the elderly the positive correlation was by education level family situation economic state social activity level and health state while the negative correlation was by sex, age, and spouse. 3) According to the results related to subjective evaluations on the work among the elderly the positive correl tion was by worker identity job satisfaction quality of work time. 4) In model 1. variable affecting their self-esteem were health sate education level economic state health state age social activity level and sex. In Model 2, variables affecting their self-esteem were worker identity education level economic state age health state social activity level job satisfaction and sex. Especially self-estee of elderly was highly correlated with subjective evaluations on the work among the elderly persons.

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U-Health System Development that use USN and Video Control (USN과 영상관제 시스템을 이용한 U-Health 시스템 개발)

  • Kwon, Oh-Young;Lim, Yong-Muk;Kwark, Woo-Young;Kim, Woo-Sung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.828-832
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    • 2009
  • In this paper we suggest the technique to improve the reliability of U-Health system. The idea is that a video recoding start at only the emergency data of patients. This technique reduces the reliability of U-Health system. In the suggested U-Health system based on video control technique, bio sensors are used to send the state information of patients to a server. The server analyzes the health state of patients from base nodes and start video recoding and sends the video information about the patients in the emergent state to the nearest hospital.

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Exploring Cognitive, Affective, and Physical Aspects of Early Adolescents' Health Information Seeking Behaviors

  • Na, Kyoungsik;Jeong, Yongsun;Yang, Changwoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.55 no.2
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    • pp.289-324
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    • 2021
  • This study reports on early adolescents' health information seeking behaviors that investigated cognitive, affective, and physical aspects of behaviors as they experienced to find information on their needs of health information seeking. In spite of the current widespread internet health information use by adolescents, little research exists to illuminate how they are engaged in cognitive, affective, and physical information behaviors in information search process. Qualitative data were collected through individual interviews informed by Kuhlthau's information search process. Forty adolescents from S city in South Korea participated in the project. Findings report thoughts, feelings, and actions aspects of information search process. This study expects to extend our knowledge of the adolescents' health information seeking behaviors of Kuhlthau's information search process.

The Effect of Preparatory Information on the State Anxiety Depending on Coping Styles of Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization (예비감각정보가 심도자 검사환자의 대응양상에 따라 상태불안에 미치는 영향)

  • 김조자;김기연
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.648-659
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study was to study what effect providing the patient with preparatory concrete information had on the state anxiety depending on coping styles of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. State Anxiety scores for 32 patients who had cardiac catheterization were examined after information was provided about the test using an audio tape. The state anxiety of patients who had a high trait anxiety level was compared to that of those who had a low trait anxiety level. The state anxiety of those who had a monitor type were compared to those of patients who had blunter type. The Trait and State Anxiety Scale of Spielberger, Miller's Behavioral Style Scale, and Krantz's Health Opinion Survey and Visual Analog Scale (Ⅰ, Ⅱ) were used. Findings were as follows : 1. Among the demographic characteristics, gender difference of the patients was significantly different for the trait anxiety level. Female patients had higher trait anxiety level than male patients. 2. Analysis of state anxiety scores indicated that the mean score of the state anxiety prior to the test was higher than the mean score of the state anxiety examined after the test. The difference was statistically significant. 3. Among the patients, 14 patients (43. 7%) used monitor type, while 18 patients (56. 3%) used blunter type. The means of preference for information measured on the Krantz' subscale was 2. 45. 4. The study results indicate that the state anxiety level of those who had a low trait anxiety level was lower than that of those who had a high trait anxiety level. 5. State anxiety levels depending upon the kind of coping style which patients used during the test were not significantly different. This study did not identify the influence of preparatory concrete information on the state anxiety depending on coping styles, and there fore a quasi-experimental study using a large sample according to different types of information, and the amount of information, coping styles is recommended.

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