英文摘要 |
Taiwan is facing the impacts of an aging and aged society; this affects the social structure and the economic development change. Effectively dealing with the chronic diseases, a collateral burden of aging society has already become a global problem. Especially, the diabetes has been the fourth significant on top of the ten major death-causing factors in Taiwan. The government has spent one eighth of the total health expenditure on the improvement of the diabetic conditions; and 75% of this spending had been used to cover the cost of diabetic related complications. Therefore, the government health administrations and the hospitals should work together closely and focus more on the diabetic related health promotion including prevention, treatments, and the related health improvement educations. The Taiwan health administration annually conducts the official evaluations against the hospitals in many aspects to ensure the medical care quality. Among the assessment items of the evaluation, it is clearly stated that the hospitals have the responsibility mandatorily to comply with and to facilitate the execution of the health policies from the administration, and proactively to participate and to initiate the health improvement in communities. For this, the paper collected and analyzed the information of health promotion and diabetic related from the websites of distinguished health institutions including the medical centers and the veteran hospitals. This paper discloses the devotion and the focuses of health promotion of these institutions and implies the strategy and the direction of hospital business development. With the tangible approaches suggested by this paper, the medical institutes can be beneficial from the innovative health promotion practices under Taiwan health insurance system, and build a humaneccentric health care service network which is providing a way that the patients and their families can conveniently facilitate the self-managed healthcare activities, consequently strengthens the current disease prevention mechanism. |