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