Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Situation of integrated eldercare services with medical care in China

By: Wang, Zheng.
Contributor(s): Li, Hua.
Publisher: Mumbai Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Science 2021Edition: Vol.83(1), Jan-Feb.Description: 140-152p.Subject(s): PHARMACEUTICSOnline resources: Click here In: Indian journal of pharmaceutical sciencesSummary: There are clinics around nursing homes in foreign countries or family doctors for every elderly. When a disease occurs, doctors can provide door to door service to help patients. Since the epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019, the elderly have been a high risk group of people infected with coronavirus disease 2019. In both the United States and Canada, the first recorded coronavirus disease 2019 deaths and outbreaks occurred in nursing homes with case fatality rates in these settings reported to be as high as 33.7 %. Due to the lack of adequate medical facilities and adequate medical staff to provide services, the elderly are more likely to be infected with the virus as a result of social interaction. All these show that foreign models can no longer meet the medical needs of the elderly. Therefore, we should take a different perspective and combine pension services with medical care. At present, China is exploring the mode of combination of medical and nursing services. In this study, we investigated the current situation of integrated medical and nursing services in China, exploring the transformation of primary medical institutions into medical and nursing service providers. The integrated eldercare services with medical care is that we make use of the existing medical resources to provide care services, which can meet the health needs of the elderly and reduce the infection rate of the elderly. Using a self-administered or interview questionnaire survey, we conducted t-test and one-way analysis of variance. It was found that the elderly are most satisfied with the geographical location (90.84 %) and medical services (90.82 %), and the most dissatisfied with consultation (87.66 %) and institutional fees (87.23 %). The elderly with the older age, the higher the monthly income of more than 3000 yuan, marriage and chronic diseases, are highly satisfied with their community health service institutions (p<0.05). Through one-way analysis of variance, there were significant differences in medical and health service demand among the groups with different monthly income (f=5.289 and 5.312, p<0.05), different occupation (f=5.574 and 2.325, p<0.05), and different ideal mode of providing for the aged (f=5.237, p=0.002<0.05). By independent sample t test, it was found that there were significant differences in basic medical service demand and health guidance service demand between people with chronic diseases and those without chronic diseases (p<0.05), and those who were willing and unwilling to use information technology for disease management (p<0.05). Through regression analysis, we can see that age (t=4.411, p<0.05) and income (t=2.061, p<0.05) have significant influence on basic medical service among the three variables of age, education and monthly income, and the coefficient is positive. Age (t=2.508, p<0.05) and income (t=3.143, p<0.05) had significant influence on rehabilitation guidance service, and the coefficient was positive. In summary, age, income, occupation, whether suffering from chronic diseases, whether they are willing to use information technology to detect and manage diseases and other factors, all affect the demand of the elderly for basic medical services and rehabilitation guidance services in medical service institutions. Through the research on the current situation of the integrated medical and nursing services in China, this study enriches the relevant evidence of the integrated medical and nursing services, and has a certain reference value for the relevant management departments to formulate policiesis.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
    average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Item type Current location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Articles Abstract Database Articles Abstract Database School of Pharmacy
Archieval Section
Not for loan 2021-2022637
Total holds: 0

There are clinics around nursing homes in foreign countries or family doctors for every elderly. When a
disease occurs, doctors can provide door to door service to help patients. Since the epidemic of coronavirus
disease 2019, the elderly have been a high risk group of people infected with coronavirus disease 2019.
In both the United States and Canada, the first recorded coronavirus disease 2019 deaths and outbreaks
occurred in nursing homes with case fatality rates in these settings reported to be as high as 33.7 %. Due
to the lack of adequate medical facilities and adequate medical staff to provide services, the elderly are
more likely to be infected with the virus as a result of social interaction. All these show that foreign models
can no longer meet the medical needs of the elderly. Therefore, we should take a different perspective and
combine pension services with medical care. At present, China is exploring the mode of combination of
medical and nursing services. In this study, we investigated the current situation of integrated medical
and nursing services in China, exploring the transformation of primary medical institutions into medical
and nursing service providers. The integrated eldercare services with medical care is that we make use of
the existing medical resources to provide care services, which can meet the health needs of the elderly and
reduce the infection rate of the elderly. Using a self-administered or interview questionnaire survey, we
conducted t-test and one-way analysis of variance. It was found that the elderly are most satisfied with the
geographical location (90.84 %) and medical services (90.82 %), and the most dissatisfied with consultation
(87.66 %) and institutional fees (87.23 %). The elderly with the older age, the higher the monthly income
of more than 3000 yuan, marriage and chronic diseases, are highly satisfied with their community health
service institutions (p<0.05). Through one-way analysis of variance, there were significant differences in
medical and health service demand among the groups with different monthly income (f=5.289 and 5.312,
p<0.05), different occupation (f=5.574 and 2.325, p<0.05), and different ideal mode of providing for the aged
(f=5.237, p=0.002<0.05). By independent sample t test, it was found that there were significant differences
in basic medical service demand and health guidance service demand between people with chronic diseases
and those without chronic diseases (p<0.05), and those who were willing and unwilling to use information
technology for disease management (p<0.05). Through regression analysis, we can see that age (t=4.411,
p<0.05) and income (t=2.061, p<0.05) have significant influence on basic medical service among the three
variables of age, education and monthly income, and the coefficient is positive. Age (t=2.508, p<0.05) and
income (t=3.143, p<0.05) had significant influence on rehabilitation guidance service, and the coefficient
was positive. In summary, age, income, occupation, whether suffering from chronic diseases, whether they
are willing to use information technology to detect and manage diseases and other factors, all affect the
demand of the elderly for basic medical services and rehabilitation guidance services in medical service
institutions. Through the research on the current situation of the integrated medical and nursing services
in China, this study enriches the relevant evidence of the integrated medical and nursing services, and has
a certain reference value for the relevant management departments to formulate policiesis.

There are no comments for this item.

Log in to your account to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer

Unique Visitors hit counter Total Page Views free counter
Implemented and Maintained by AIKTC-KRRC (Central Library).
For any Suggestions/Query Contact to library or Email: librarian@aiktc.ac.in | Ph:+91 22 27481247
Website/OPAC best viewed in Mozilla Browser in 1366X768 Resolution.

Powered by Koha