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The transgender community is poorly served by our current healthcare system. Findings a national survey of transgender adults in the U.S. revealed that one in three people had a negative experience with their healthcare provider related to their gender—verbal harassment, refusal of treatment, or having to teach the provider about what it means to be transgender. Nearly one in four transgender patients avoided seeing a doctor due to fear of mistreatment.
Read MoreNurses walk an average of 3.7 miles per shift in the hospital and stand in static positions for many hours, leading to a rise in musculoskeletal disorders, particularly in the foot and ankle region.
Read MoreBased on the 2021 census, approximately 0.33% of the total Canadian population aged 15 and over, or 1 in 300 people, identify as transgender or non-binary. This is likely an underestimate due to a variety of reasons, with the most obvious being that each household completes one survey, and depending on who is responding to the questions, they may not be aware of each person’s gender identity, especially if someone in the household has not come out as transgender yet.
Read MoreHealthcare practitioners and researchers working with older adults with Parkinson disease should develop an understanding of their lived experiences beyond their medical diagnosis. Their lived experiences ties into their overall health and well-being. From a nutrition perspective, a person’s ability to independently perform food-related activities (i.e., planning, preparing, and shopping for meals) may influence their diet quality that, in turn, may influence their symptom severity and disease progression. It’s commonly said that “not one Parkinson’s patient is like another,” which further emphasizes the importance of understanding the internal and external complexities that influences their day-to-day activities, such as with food-related activities.
Read MoreTelehealth is the delivery of healthcare services by healthcare professionals through information and communication technologies, where distance separates between the participants. During the last years, with the impressive development of the Internet and communication infrastructure, telehealth has become a convenient and safe method for patients to obtain reliable information and medical consultation.
There are many benefits in using telehealth, especially in routine care and in cases where a direct patient-healthcare provider interaction is not mandatory.
Since December 2019, the world has been facing an epidemic threat to global health, caused by a novel coronavirus, “SARS-CoV-2".
Read MoreAdvances in healthcare service research emphasize a value-driven approach in healthcare by pressing the need to acknowledge what matters to the patient against the conventional approach of what should be provisioned in the service. This research study adopts a consumer-centric perspective of value creation, and explores consumer value preferences in healthcare services, using netnography of online consumer reviews of cancer patients.
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