Health and Social Care Systems of the Future: Demographic Changes, Digital Age and Human Factors
Proceedings of the Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety, HEPS, 3-5 July, 2019 Lisbon, Portugal
Editors: Cotrim, T.P., Serranheira, F., Sousa, P., Hignett, S., Albolino, S., Tartaglia, R. (Eds.)
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This book discusses how digital technology and demographic changes are transforming the patient experience, services, provision, and planning of health and social care. It presents innovative ergonomics research and human factors approaches to improving safety, working conditions and quality of life for both patients and healthcare workers. Personalized medicine, mobile and wearable technologies, and the greater availability of health data are discussed, together with challenges and evidence-based practice. Based on the Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety conference, HEPS2019, held on July 3-5, 2019, in Lisbon, Portugal, this book offers a timely resource for graduate students and researchers, as well as for healthcare professionals managing service provision, planners and designers for healthcare buildings and environments, and international healthcare organizations.
- Table of contents (43 chapters)
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Taking Forward Human Factors and Ergonomics Integration in NHS Scotland: Progress and Challenges
Pages 3-15
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Beyond the Five Senses: A Synaesthetic-Design Approach to Humanize Healthcare Environments
Pages 16-22
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Human Centric Lighting, a New Reality in Healthcare Environments
Pages 23-26
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Ergonomic Study of Nursing Tasks in Surgical Hospital Services
Pages 29-36
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An Efficiency Evaluation of Different Hoisting Devices to Complete Three Frequent Patient Transfers
Pages 37-45
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Table of contents (43 chapters)
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Health and Social Care Systems of the Future: Demographic Changes, Digital Age and Human Factors
- Book Subtitle
- Proceedings of the Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety, HEPS, 3-5 July, 2019 Lisbon, Portugal
- Editors
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- Teresa Patrone Cotrim
- Florentino Serranheira
- Paulo Sousa
- Sue Hignett
- Sara Albolino
- Riccardo Tartaglia
- Series Title
- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
- Series Volume
- 1012
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-24067-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-24067-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-24066-0
- Series ISSN
- 2194-5357
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 389
- Number of Illustrations
- 11 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
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