Exam 23th of May - Health and Welfare Services
Discrimination in any form can raise the risk of emotional or physical problems, such as depression, hypertension, breast cancer, and early mortality.
TRUE
Due to the ethical issues that are emerging with the application of digital health technology, policy initiatives are needed, which specifically address those concerns.
TRUE
Even when people and services are co-located, lots of barriers to interprofessional collaboration might still exist
TRUE
Evidence suggests that patients can be involved and contribute to healthcare in ways such as helping to reach an accurate diagnosis, choosing an appropriate treatment and identifying adverse events and side effects.
TRUE
Factors such as gender, age, culture and level of education can directly impact the perceived level of collaboration.
TRUE
Given that the quality of relationships is critical in recovery-oriented practice, greater focus on human support in Internet-based interventions is needed in future research and practice.
TRUE
Health information systems, telemedicine systems, and home hospital systems raise corresponding challenges with regard to confidentiality and privacy.
TRUE
Healthcare providers have recognized that interdisciplinary collaboration is essential in the healthcare system to achieve quality care of individuals and groups in communities.
TRUE
In contexts where integration is rare or absent, fragmentation of health and social services can be observed.
TRUE
In healthcare teams who fail to collaborate, patients have increased mortality and failure-to -rescue.
TRUE
In order to make people capable to actually use the opportunities offered to them if they wish, truthful information about the benefits and risks of engaging in digital health methods has to be provided to the individual users.
TRUE
Inaccessibility to digital services can exclude a person from society, also causing a digital divide, and make them second-class citizens in a digitalised society.
TRUE
Internet-based interventions have potential to enhance mental health services, for example by supporting self-management and recovery among people experiencing severe mental illness.
TRUE
It is through interdisciplinary collaboration and patient communication that goals for client's health outcomes are developed and implemented.
TRUE
Motivational barriers to sharing data include those that prevent individuals or organizations from readily sharing data. Specifically, these barriers include the lack of incentives, opportunity costs, fear of criticisms and disagreement on data use and access.
TRUE
One's socioeconomic status has a significant effect on health and, in turn, health affects one's ability to improve status.
TRUE
Organisations may lack clarity about what the issues are regarding involving patients and their family members, they can be unsure who to involve and the goals of involvement.
TRUE
Poor health in any population group affects everyone, leading to higher crime rates, negative economic impacts, decreased residential home values, increased healthcare costs, and other devastating consequences.
TRUE
Power imbalance never manifest in who is getting involved in committees or projects.
FALSE
Robots can (and will) replace the human factor.
FALSE
Sharing health systems data seldom strengthen coordination and collaboration between the public and private sectors toward achieving common public health goals and outcomes.
FALSE
Technological advances are not providing increasing ability to monitor health outcomes and health-related behaviours.
FALSE
Technology for tracking, disease monitoring, as well as technology for distance treatment do not raise basic challenges with surveillance, autonomy, confidentiality, and privacy.
FALSE
Technology mediated care does not pose new challenges or generate novel ethical implications.
FALSE
The World Health Organization (WHO) pronounces that 'digital health interventions are a substitute for functioning health systems, and that there are no significant limitations to what digital health is able to address'.
FALSE
The consequences of narrow patient and public involvement selection processes is that those with most to gain (such as minority ethnic groups) are most included in healthcare decision-making.
FALSE
The domain of child development support work is an area without need for improved interprofessional collaboration.
FALSE
The following quote is according to the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health (EXPH) one out of five dimensions of healthcare quality: Efficient, and equitable, and lead to low value for the money spent and to unequal access to available care for equal need, utilisation and quality of care for all.
FALSE
The main purpose of involvement of patients and service users in decision-making is to reduce the service providers' professional responsibility for health and social care outcomes.
FALSE
The majority of children in the child welfare system are from hi-income families.
FALSE
The world health organization (WHO) states that Interprofessional Education occurs when "students from one profession learn about effective collaboration and improve health outcomes".
FALSE
There are no economic, legal, and political barriers that make sharing health-related data difficult.
FALSE
mHealth cannot be seen as a way for patients to take back control over their health from institutional medicine, saving time and effort by reducing unnecessary contact with medical professionals.
FALSE
Positive outcomes for patients are always obtained when care/service providers' goals are attained.
FALSE
Poverty is not a social determinant of poor health.
FALSE
Collaborative health care principles and the goal of enhancing quality in health care are not congruent with what information communication technologies (ICTs) offer.
FALSE
Developing stronger patient and public involvement in the organisation and delivery of healthcare is not central to health reforms across Western countries.
FALSE
Empowering users and supporting frontline staff to feel confident in sharing power and accepting user expertise is irrelevant in developing more shared and collaborative ways of working.
FALSE
Few issues have to be considered in the development and implementation of digital solutions in healthcare
FALSE
Health justice does not require that all persons have the same chance to be free from hazards that jeopardize health, fully participate in society, and access opportunity.
FALSE
Implementation of welfare technology is seldom met by different kinds of resistance.
FALSE
In Norway, as elsewhere, collaboration between healthcare actors is not hampered by organisational borders, financial structures, a lack of guidelines, disagreement on responsibility, poor communication patterns and little support for collaboration.
FALSE
Interprofessional Education is irrelevant to building a collaborative practice environment.
FALSE
Interprofessional collaboration can be viewed as "two or more healthcare professionals who lack specific roles, perform interdependent tasks and share different goals".
FALSE
Issues to do with inequality, discrimination and social exclusion do not play a role in preventing individuals participating in the involvement process.
FALSE
Patient representatives are often drawn from black and minority ethnic groups.
FALSE
Patient's informed preferences is not important in preventing misdiagnosis and unwanted interventions.
FALSE
An advantage of AI in healthcare, is that sensors can detect events or changes in its environment and send the information to other electronics such as a computer processor.
TRUE
An example of a successful application of E- and m-health technologies is their assistance to combat substance abuse.
TRUE
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare brings a number of benefits, including automating tasks and analysing big patient data sets to deliver better healthcare faster, and at a lower cost.
TRUE
As solutions to meet demands of municipal healthcare services, telecare and assistive technologies have been introduced, including digital medicine dispensers with remote follow-up.
TRUE
Central goals of involvement should focus on issues of representation, equalities, non-discrimination and empowerment.
TRUE
Classification of data can be put into four broad archetypes (1) patient data, (2) health systems data, (3) routine public health data, and (4) health research data.
TRUE
Connectivity of medical devices may have its advantages, it can also have negative implications for patient's privacy and safety
TRUE
Data relevant to medicine and public health are being generated from a range of sources, including individuals (i.e., through social media and internet-connected devices), public and private health systems, and health researchers.
TRUE
Data sharing platforms for clinical data remain in the nascent phase.
TRUE
Digital health tools should only be applied when the dignity of the patient can be preserved.
TRUE
Digitalisation and remote healthcare can inhibit the development of trusting relationships because they alter the style of communication between patients and healthcare professionals.
TRUE
Professional capital can be defined as the aggregated value of mandated educational qualifications, social 'distinction' based in a territory of social practice, and economic worth marked by the artefacts of professional status, occupational closure and protection of title.
TRUE
Professional identity, as one form of social identity, concerns group interactions in the workplace and relates to how people compare and differentiate themselves from other professional groups.
TRUE
Providing young children with a healthy environment in which to grow and learn is not only good for their development, it is critical to their longterm health
TRUE
Resistance to the implementation of welfare technology can be categorized as the following: Organizational resistance, Cultural resistance, Technological resistance and Ethical resistance.
TRUE
Service user involvement aims to improve the health and service experience for service users and their families, as well as for the wider public.
TRUE
Social technologies are the information communication technologies (ICTs) tools that augment the ability of people to communicate and collaborate despite obstacles of geography and time.
TRUE
Social work has a historical tradition of regarding any threats to health and well-being as being much more than disease and social workers can work in primary care to attack the links between health and social inequalities.
TRUE
Social work traverses the impact of social, cultural, and economic conditions on health; the impact of illness on personal and family coping; the need for social support; and the importance of multi-professional collaboration on individual and community health problems.
TRUE
Social workers provide an integral role in health care, including seeking effective care and well-being for patients and families.
TRUE
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has defined the quality of health care as 'the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge'.
TRUE
The WHO defines eHealth as the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health.
TRUE
The fundamentals of person-centred care include values such as respect for the individual, the individual's right to self-determination, mutual respect and understanding.
TRUE
The purposes and utilizations of digital health are to monitor, prevent, screen, diagnose and treat health-related issues on the healthcare and public health level.
TRUE
The use of Health information technology (HIT) such as electronic health records (EHRs), personal health records (PHRs), and telemedicine systems are suggested as a means to connect various service providers in the care of chronic health issue.
TRUE
The use of health information technologies (HIT) is frequently suggested as a means of strengthening communication and the exchange of information, which, in turn, will enhance collaboration between healthcare providers, the quality of care and the efficiency of service.
TRUE
There are various barriers to the use of digital health care and social welfare services in prisons, and prisoners often do not have direct access to these digital services during their imprisonment.
TRUE
There can be positive outcomes for patients and providers when collaboration takes place and goals are attained.
TRUE
These factors are known as barriers to collaboration: Patriarchal relationships, time, gender, culture and lack of role clarification.
TRUE
Using the web and smartphone/tablet applications for health services and information, people with diabetes, for example, can better control self-care activities supporting health behaviour change.
TRUE
Welfare technology (WT) can free resources, provide help to those who are in need, reduce costs, and be an area of research, development, and innovation.
TRUE
mHealth has the potential to facilitate two functions: 1). It may allow us to monitor our bodily processes, 2). It may facilitate monitoring of behaviours that affect our health.
TRUE
mHealth includes applications on mobile phones as well as more direct monitoring of patient health indicators such as wearable monitors and at home testing kits whose results can be transmitted by patients to medical professionals.
TRUE