Conceptual Framework for Attracting Foreign Patients to Health Care Services

Behmane, Daiga; Rutitis, Didzis; Batraga, Anda

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77438-7_16

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“…In addition, it should be taken into account that not all residents are involved in the waste collection system, so there is a lack of data on how much waste is generated by this part of the population (Central Statistics Bureau of Republic of Latvia IRS010; VIG040). Pollution aspects are on investigations and conclusions by academic researchers [16][17][18][19][20] for better solutions in different fields.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainable consumption and waste management

Bormane

Sloka

Šķiltere

2023

22nd International Scientific Conference Engineering for Rural Development Proceedings

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The Just Transition Mechanism, the European Green Deal Investment Plan (EGDIP) and the European industrial strategy highlight the main priorities and lines of action that will affect the course towards sustainable development, its adaptation to the transformation of EU into a new, more sustainable economy – a climate neutral, competitive environment through developing the circular economy. The goal of the study is to assess the public opinion based on an analysis of data on the views of inhabitants of Latvia on pollution, grime or other environmental problems based on the European Union statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC). The research methods used to achieve the goal were the analysis of scientific publications and previous research and analysis of views of inhabitants of Latvia on pollution, grime or other environmental problems. For evaluation analysis, time-series analysis and cross-tabulations of evaluation by regions, by territories and by household size were used. For testing the differences of inhabitant evaluations, the chi-square test was used. The results of the analysis show that there are not significant differences in views on pollution, grime or other environmental problems in Latvia’s regions, in territories and by the household size. The results of the study could be useful to industries and situations and can serve as the basis for decision-making for pollution reduction and other researchers’ empirical efforts in this field.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable consumption and waste management

Bormane

Sloka

Šķiltere

2023

22nd International Scientific Conference Engineering for Rural Development Proceedings

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“…Islam and Muhamad (2021) have extended the concept of healthcare service quality by incorporating patient-centred communication. Additionally, recent studies (Behmane et al, 2021;Carter et al, 2021;Jeon et al, 2010;Lin et al, 2021;Makubalo et al, 2020;Skog€ o Nyvang et al, 2019) argue that patient-centred care is needed to address current problems of poor user satisfaction, limited understanding of patient needs, lack of patient autonomy/engagement/proactivity in care and clinical services/solutions, and the dehumanization of medical care (Miles and Mezzich, 2011;Ornstein and Kay, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

A scale for measuring healthcare service quality incorporating patient-centred care and using a psychometric analytics framework

Rave

Figueroa²,

Echavarría³

2022

JHOM

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PurposeRecent developments in healthcare contexts increasingly emphasize patient-centred approaches to service quality measures; however, few studies consider this dimension explicitly. The present study develops and psychometrically validates a scale of healthcare service quality explicitly incorporating a patient-centred care dimension from a communicational perspective. The paper also enriches the traditional content of service quality by including equity items and presents the underlying structure of service quality in an emerging country.Design/methodology/approachThe final sample consisted of 869 healthcare users (complete cases in the service quality items derived from 917 surveys received) from Colombia. The authors used a psychometric analytics framework comprising seven processes incorporating exploratory factor analysis, structural equation modelling, and machine learning methods to examine construct plausibility, reliability, construct validity, equity, and criterion/predictive validity (e.g. explaining/predicting subjective well-being and behavioural intentions).FindingsThe final scale consists of 17 items and satisfies all psychometric properties. Its validation allows for the discovery and psychometrical confirmation of two essential dimensions: patient-centred communication (eight items) and process quality (nine items).Practical implicationsThe authors illustrate three practical uses of the scale: the possibility for diagnoses; hypothesis contrast based on confidence intervals; and estimation of the capacity of the service to satisfy specifications.Originality/valueBoth dimensions reveal users' relevant needs and complement previous studies that have focused on process aspects of healthcare service quality.

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“…Actual are issues on energy prices (Hussain et al, 2022) which influence innovations. For information on innovations, marketing aspects are also important (Cacciolatti & Fearne, 2013;Braslina et al, 2020;Braslina et al, 2021;Behmane et al, 2021) getting more and more recognition and practical application by entrepreneurs. Analysis of several business models (Silva et al, 2020) and communication with different social levels (Seimuskane et al, 2017) has led to practical and research based recommendations where digital solutions (Sergejeva et al, 2022;Sloka et al, 2017), technological aspects (Bikse et al, 2022) and approaches (Kitsios & Kamariotou, 2019) as well as financial aspects (Romanova et al, 2018;Roundy, 2018) are of great importance for practical innovations creation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information sources on innovations and innovative activities for entrepreneurship development – views of entrepreneurs in Kurzeme region

Stefenberga,

Sloka,

Rivza

2023

Research for Rural Development

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Innovations are very important condition and tool for competitive entrepreneurship. To obtain more effective approaches, researchers are devoting deepened analysis for many factors influencing innovations and innovative activities indicating that there is an important influence on different sources of information on innovations – own company, co-operation with universities and business incubators, with research organisations. Empirical research results were based on survey results of entrepreneurs and on analysis of obtained survey results by use of descriptive statistics indicators confirmed that entrepreneurs in Kurzeme region biggest inspiration get in their own company as well as from suppliers of equipment, programs and materials but they have less influence on information about innovations from universities and other higher education institutions as well as private organisations, also research organisations.

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Conceptual Framework for Attracting Foreign Patients to Health Care Services

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

Sustainable consumption and waste management

Sustainable consumption and waste management

A scale for measuring healthcare service quality incorporating patient-centred care and using a psychometric analytics framework

Information sources on innovations and innovative activities for entrepreneurship development – views of entrepreneurs in Kurzeme region

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