Jornal Internacional de Saúde Pública e Segurança

Patient-centered care is a transformative approach to healthcare that places the individual at the forefront of decision-making and care delivery. It shifts the focus from a traditional provider-centered model to one that recognizes and responds to the unique needs, preferences, values, and goals of each patient. This article explores the concept of patient-centered care, its key principles, and the impact it has on healthcare outcomes and patient satisfaction.

In today's healthcare landscape, the importance of patient-centered care cannot be overstated. Patient-centered care is an approach to healthcare that prioritizes the needs and preferences of patients, while also considering their cultural, social, and emotional needs. This approach recognizes that patients are unique individuals with their own values, beliefs, and preferences, and that healthcare should be tailored to meet their specific needs. There are several reasons why patient-centered care is essential in today's healthcare landscape. First and foremost, patient-centered care leads to better health outcomes. When patients are actively involved in their healthcare, they are more likely to comply with treatment plans, take their medications as prescribed, and adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors. This can lead to better health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs.

Healthcare policy is a complex and constantly evolving field, particularly when it comes to regulatory reform. Healthcare regulations are put in place to ensure that patients receive safe, effective, and affordable care, and to protect the rights of healthcare providers and organizations. However, navigating these regulations can be challenging, particularly given the rapidly changing landscape of healthcare policy. One of the key challenges of regulatory reform is balancing the need for regulation with the need for innovation and flexibility. Regulations are put in place to ensure that healthcare providers and organizations are held to certain standards, but they can also stifle innovation and impede progress. As such, it is important to strike a balance between the need for regulation and the need for flexibility and adaptability.

Public health is a field of study that focuses on promoting and protecting the health and well-being of populations, rather than individuals. It encompasses a wide range of activities, including disease prevention and control, health promotion, and environmental health. Public health professionals work to identify and address the underlying determinants of health, such as social, economic, and environmental factors, in order to improve the health of entire communities. In this abstract, we will discuss the key concepts of public health, its goals and objectives, and the challenges and opportunities facing the field today. We will also highlight the importance of public health in addressing current and emerging health issues, such as infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and environmental threats, and the role of public health in promoting health equity and social justice. Finally, we will explore some of the key strategies and approaches used in public health practice, such as epidemiology, health promotion, and policy and advocacy, and the importance of collaboration and partnerships in achieving public health goals.

Improving traffic safety requires a better knowledge of cognitive science, especially of the cognitive ergonomics of road infrastructure and the vehicle human interface. Driving is a complex task that involves different cognitive modules that have to coordinate simultaneously. Perception, language, memory and mental representation, learning, emotion and motivation, attention, executive functions, thinking and reasoning or motor programing should be better understood in order to adapt traffic infrastructure and interfaces to the human information processing. In this work, we review the importance of these cognitive modes in traffic safety. A holistic exam of all cognitive processes related to driving and road safety is recommended be taken by all governments and in all countries. In this sense, systematic research in driver’s evaluation and its link to automobile accidents should be implemented. Driver assistance systems can assist to drivers but they cannot substitute the human processing.

Patient safety is a critical component of healthcare delivery, and it is the responsibility of healthcare providers to ensure that patients receive safe and effective care. Nurses play a significant role in patient safety, as they are often the first point of contact for patients and are responsible for providing direct care. This paper aims to explore the opinions of nurses about the patient safety climate in healthcare organizations.