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East and South-East Asia
The economic growth of East and South-East Asia in the context of the global financial crisis has strengthened the view that this region is emerging in the 21st century as the most economically vibrant region in the world. With some of the largest economies, and generally high economic growth rates compared to the rest of the world, it is unsurprising that East and South-East Asia has become the subject of global interest. East Asia’s rise inevitably focuses attention on the issue of China’s emergence as a regional and global power. Such a prospect challenges the current status quo, in which the region is dominated by the USA and its regional allies, and issues in Sino-US strategic relations have raised global awareness of the need to understand this pivotal region better. In addition, the Taiwan issue continues to evoke nationalist sentiments in China, and North Korea continues to threaten regional stability. Non-traditional (or alternative) security issues are also of major importance in the region, including natural disasters and epidemics, as well as challenges relating to human rights and governance, transnational crime, demographic issues, economics and trade and regionalism. This Handbook aims to offer an insight into these issues. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first, International Relations and Security Perspectives, will focus on the international relations of the region, paying special attention to the key state players. The chapter contributions will examine the security perspectives, and foreign and defence policies of these states, as well as key bilateral relationships. The second section will examine key Regional Non-traditional Security Issues, including globalization, transnational health challenges, population growth and the environment.
Singapore's Health Care System
Author: K. E. T. Al SATKU
language: en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date: 2015-11-13
"How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but its standards of health care, not only in curative medicine but also in prevention, are exemplary. Fifty years ago, the infant mortality rate (IMR) was 26 per thousand live births; today the IMR is 2. Life expectancy was 64 years then; today, it is 83. The Singapore Medicine brand is trusted internationally, and patients are drawn to Singapore from all over the world. And while many countries struggle to finance their health care, Singapore has developed a health care financing framework that makes health care affordable for its people and gives sustainability to the health care system. Reliability is provided by a professional workforce that seeks to continually learn, improve and become ever more proficient with cutting edge technology while emphasizing the relational aspects of health care by nurturing compassion and maintaining high standards of integrity. Convenience and safety are enhanced by a unifying IT system that enables the portability of medical records across health care institutions. All these have been achieved not by chance but by careful planning, strong leadership and dedicated people who are prepared to learn from Singapore's own experience while adapting best practices from around the world. But the system is not without challenges -- not least those of an aging population, and an increasing market influence. This book provides a fascinating insight into the development of Singapore's health care system from the early days of fighting infections and providing nutrition supplementation for school children, to today's management of lifestyle diseases and high-end tertiary care. It also discusses how the system must adapt to help Singaporeans continue to "live well, live long, and with peace of mind."--
Innovations in Teaching and Learning for Health Professions Educators
The health professions continue to evolve and change rapidly as more opportunities and challenges emerge. Hence, health professions educators are required to be adaptive and nimble in their creation and adoption of teaching and learning innovations. These innovations have included teaching with technologies like virtual reality, gamification, online applications, and artificial intelligence. Innovations also include “know-how” such as emotional intelligence and ways of approaching the learning process through student-centered learning experiences grounded in the cognitive science of learning. Scholarship related to identification of the best uses of different innovations is difficult. The same innovations have proven to be engaging in some contexts and burdensome in others. Additionally, simulation-based education continues to incorporate innovations in how health professions educators are taught with more focus on effectiveness of the simulation educator including applications with distance simulation. Training and development for health professions and simulation educators is becoming more formalized, yet gaps on effectiveness of training and development efforts persist. Faculty effectiveness, especially as it relates to educational innovation adoption, is difficult to measure; and demonstration of related competencies is in its infancy. The goal of this Research Topic is to bring together state-of-the-art examples of scholarship in health professions education related to the awareness and appropriate adoption of innovation, which is broadly defined as an idea, practice, technology, and know-how. Evidence about the current state of emerging innovations, effectiveness of innovations and evidence about the competencies needed for teaching in our evolving environments are all areas of interest for this collection. All types of scholarship can support this focus, including analyses based on primary quantitative and qualitative data collection, secondary data analyses, literature reviews, and methodological infrastructure/tool development. Additionally, scholarship investigating how these innovations have influenced health professions educators, including their training and development, is part of the goal of the collection. The scope of this collection covers any innovations that are applicable to professional development and implementation for health professions educators. More specifically, we invite scholarship related to how educators prepare themselves for meeting the needs of their students, given the changing roles and innovations available to both faculty and students across learning environments worldwide. Examples of topics of interest include: • Analyses of innovation related to the evolving roles of health professions educators; • Reviews of educational innovation adoption by health professions education faculty, especially related to artificial intelligence-linked applications; • Exploring factors associated with professional development, training, and effective educational innovation adoption by faculty. • Simulation-based educational innovation applications for faculty development; • Faculty innovation in resource-constrained environments in low- and middle-income countries. • Methodological challenges associated with studying educational innovations by faculty in health professions education and critical research needs associated with generating and evaluating educational innovations; • Methodological considerations associated with health professions education faculty competencies. Theoretically-focused analyses are welcome as long as they are linked to applications.