Editorial Essay: Introduction to a Special Issue on Work and Employment Relations in Health Care

[Excerpt] This special issue of the ILR Review is designed to showcase the central role that work organization and employment relations play in shaping important outcomes such as the quality of care and organizational performance. Each of the articles included in this special issue makes an important contribution to our understanding of the large and rapidly changing health care sector. Specifically, these articles provide novel empirical evidence about the relationship between organizations, institutions, and work practices and a wide array of central outcomes across different levels of analysis. This breadth is especially important because the health care literature has largely neglected employment-related factors in explaining organizational and worker outcomes in this industry. Individually, these articles shed new light on the role that health information technologies play in affecting patient care and productivity (see Hitt and Tambe; Meyerhoefer et al.); the relationship between work practices and organizational reliability (Vogus and Iacobucci); staffing practices, processes, and outcomes (Kramer and son; Hockenberry and Becker; Kossek et al.); health care unions’ effects on the quality of patient care (Arindrajit, Kaplan, and Thompson); and the relationship between the quality of jobs and the quality of care (Burns, Hyde, and Killet). Below, we position the articles in this special issue against the backdrop of the pressures and challenges facing the industry and the organizations operating within it. We highlight the implications that organizational responses to industry pressures have had for organizations, the patients they care for, and the employees who deliver this care

Prospects for flourishing in contemporary health care

This special issue of Health Care Analysis originated in an conference, held in Birmingham in 2014, and organised by the group Think about Health. We introduce the issue by briefly reviewing the understandings of the concept of ‘flourishing’, and introducing the contributory papers, before offering some reflections on the remaining issues that reflection on flourishing poses for health care provision

The Long View: Has Anything Really Improved for Children and Families Involved with Child Welfare over 3 Decades?

The overall poor health status and outcomes of children and youth in foster care have been documented in multiple studies over the last 3 decades. During this time, knowledge about brain development, positive parenting, resilience, traumatic stress, and epigenetics has exploded, resulting in demands for child welfare to become trauma-informed, child-centered, and developmentally focused. This special issue affords us the opportunity to reflect on: what’s better or not after 30 years; whether legislation and financing are aligned with child welfare’s goals of safety, permanency and well-being; and what remains to be done to improve the outcomes of children and youth in foster care or otherwise involved with child welfare

Editorial of Special issue “Industrial Organisation of the Health Sector and Public Policy”

This special issue includes a selection of papers presented at the 16th European Health Economics Workshop held in Toulouse on the 28-29 May 2015. The special issue focuses on microeconomic theoretical models in health economics, with a strong emphasis on applications of industrial organization, contract theory and public economics. The common aim is to address and answer key policy questions through rigorous and formal analyses. The papers address specific issues and interventions in relation to nutritional policies, regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, long-term care and the role of incentive schemes in stimulating healthcare provision. Both normative and positive approaches are employed

Children with special health care needs: impact on familiar daily routine

Objective: To describe through the scientific literature, the impact that children with special health care needs cause on their families. Method: Integrative review, performed in MEDLINE, BDENF, LILACS e IBECS database. There were 67 articles published between 2003 and 2013 selected, which constituted the study sample. Results: This issue has been investigated with priority in international studies and the impact occurs in the transmission of the diagnosis and results in financial repercussions, on health and everyday social life of family members. Conclusion: Nursing should be facilitate and mediate the family for children's care with special health needs

Call for Submissions Special Issue - July 2020: Patient & Family Experience in Behavioral Health

Patient Experience Journal (PXJ) is excited to announce the call for submissions for its July 2020 special issue on the topic of patient & family experience in behavioral health. With a continued focus on the critical role of behavioral health in society today and a growing recognition of the importance of experience for those in behavioral health settings, a conversation on the practices in place and the identification of evidence of efforts leading to positive outcomes will be essential expanding the experience conversation in this setting. This special issue is open to all authors conducting cutting-edge research, implementing innovative practices or with powerful experiences to share around efforts to address the patient and family experience in behavioral health settings. The issue will look for pieces that address evidence-based efforts at improvement, practices that have impact on outcomes or stories that reflect the opportunities for elevating the human experience in behavioral health. In looking across care settings and across behavioral health issues, this special issue of PXJ looks to build a foundational collection of knowledge and information that will continue to push the conversation on experience forward. It will provide an opportunity to highlight accomplishments, reveal new findings and contribute to the literature aimed at improving results for all looking to ensure excellence in behavioral health settings. The deadline for submissions for this issue is April 1, 2020. Articles should be identified as intended for the special issue during the submission process

Children on the Move: The Health of Refugee, Immigrant and Displaced Children

This Special Issue of Children will focus on the migration arc of children from their country of origin through the experience in refugee camps and, finally, to their arrival in in a new home. It will examine the impact experiencing migration as refugees, immigrants or those internally displaced due to war and conflict has on children’s health. Explored topics include adverse health conditions, trauma and mental health, best practice and care coordination. It explores specific populations, such as children with disabilities, unaccompanied minors and child separation at international borders. This Special Issue also includes an examination of new clinical guidelines, the development of new care systems and advocacy for new policies. It also provides a summary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’s specific mandate to provide for the most vulnerable children in need

Introduction to the covid-19 special issue

A special issue exploring innovations and experiences in practice-based learning during the pandemic will be published over the next two editions of the International Journal of Practice-based Learning in Health and Social Care. Focusing on practice-oriented educational activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the special issue will include research-based, evaluative and reflective articles that capture creativity, development of practice and the experiences of learners and teachers internationally

Editorial: Young people’s involvement in policymaking: Perceiving young people as part of the solution and not part of the problem

This special issue is focused on young people’s involvement in shaping health and social care policy leading to improvements in health and wellbeing impact/outcomes for young people, especially in response to mitigating the effects of COVID-19. The transition from childhood to adulthood is an important, fascinating period of life. Young people between the ages of 10 and 25 need support and special services, especially those who may be marginalised. They have different patterns of need from younger children and older adults. This special issue showcases research that has helped to improve health outcomes for young people, including developing policy initiatives that focus more specifically on 10 to 25 year olds, implementing age-appropriate health promotion and early interventions, commissioning services that meet the unique needs of young people, particularly during transition, and taking specific actions to reduce health inequalities by addressing the social determinants of health in this age group. Good health for young people is central to their wellbeing, and it forms the bedrock for good health in later life. We wanted to learn about projects and approaches in which young people have helped to ensure health and social care policy is informed, influenced and shaped by the views and lived experiences of young people