The gap in equity for women in leadership roles continues to be disparate from the representation of women in the workforce and even greater for women in healthcare. Equity in leadership in healthcare is driven by policies, procedures, and programs to intentionally promote and h…
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Leadership is a sacred stewardship. Women leaders bring collaboration to this stewardship, and African American women leaders bring a certain savoir faire to their hallowed leadership responsibilities. However, research is needed to appreciate the unique stresses that female Afr…
This research creates a model for designing a health clinic that acknowledges how PTSD affects the mind and body and creates a safe place for people to seek treatment. The main goal is to create a broad framework that acknowledges culture, history, and medical anthropology to cr…
Many veterans experience challenges as they reintegrate back into society following their military service. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers health and other services to veterans, but these are often male-centered. The purpose of this study was to explore the reint…
This research aims to improve our understanding about the association between precarious employment and healthcare access. Using the framework of neoliberalism and the history of welfare reform in the United States, this thesis investigates the relationship between precarious la…
Inequity in healthcare has long been understood to be caused by individual and structural racism in the health system. Little progress has been made in diminishing the disparities that exist between Black and African American minoritized populations and the White majority. Cultu…
The widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHR) has generated large amounts of data which created new opportunities for advancing healthcare. Deep learning, a subfield of machine learning, has seen a dramatic resurgence in recent years, and holds high potential to sup…
A visit to the dentist may induce fear or anxiety related to a previous bad dental experience, anticipated pain, or negative experiences with previous providers. Individuals who are survivors of complex trauma experiences may also experience additional concerns and more pervasiv…
With a history of recurring occupations and dictatorships, the development of the Dominican national infrastructure has been heavily interrupted by continuous transfers of power. As a result, the lack of a lean government structure is evident when studying the national healthcar…
The purpose of this study was to explore the pregnancy related experiences of Bangladeshi immigrant women living in a major American metropolitan area: New York City. The study was conducted using an in-depth interview based qualitative research design in which data were collect…
There have been a number of researches that investigated ICT adoption in Malaysian healthcare. With the small number of hospitals that adopt ICT in their daily clinical and administrative operations, the possibility to enable data exchange across 131 public hospitals in Malaysia…
The proliferation and ubiquity of SemanticWeb technologies have transformed the way computer society reshapes its technology through knowledge integration, knowledge reuse and knowledge sharing. Ontology, one of the Semantic Web components, is a way to represent domain knowledge…
Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of healthcare acquired infections (HAIs) are reported each year. HAIs are infections that occur whilst in hospital or as a result of hospital admittance, contamination of hospitals is a source of, and allows dissemination of HAIs. In healthcare s…
Healthcare as a system has been and will always be a vital public provision to support human existence. The onus rests with every nation's healthcare system to provide health services; and individuals to consciously embrace healthy living. The health status of people in rural ar…
Unexplained variations in organisational performance in healthcare are a continued focus of research, political, and public interest. Regulatory agencies are always seeking new ways to reduce variation and improve performance, and the use of approaches to develop improvement cap…
Today, in 21st century healthcare at least 10% of hospitalised patients are subjected to some degree of unintended harm as a result of the treatment they receive. Despite the growing patient safety agenda there is little empirical evidence to demonstrate that patient safety is i…
Since its inauguration in 1948, the National Health Service (NHS) has been providing “free at the point of delivery” healthcare to all UK citizens. However, lately, there has been unprecedented concern over the capability of most NHS hospitals to demonstrate best value in provid…
When even seemingly benign and routine processes fail in healthcare, people sometimes die. The profound effect on the patient’s families and the healthcare staff involved is clear (Vincent and Coulter, 2002), while further consequences are felt by the institution involved, both …