Zafar Ahmed
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3927966 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Zafar Ahmed |
| NOMBRES | Zafar |
| APELLIDO | Ahmed |
| FIRMA | AHMED Z |
| AFILIACIONES | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6609-7314 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Perceptions of older South Asian and Chinese people of social activities to address loneliness
Loneliness is a public health issue. This study examines loneliness among older South Asian and Chinese adults, focussing on cultural barriers and shared risk factors. It explores perceptions of these population who face distinctive challenges exacerbated by health inequalities. The intervention incorporated social activities delivered by a third sector organisation to mitigate loneliness among these distinct groups with different religions, migr…
Perceptions of a UK Bangladeshi community on accessing dementia health and care services within the context of the English National Dementia Strategy
Bangladeshi communities experience poor health outcomes and have higher risk factors for vascular dementia. This article explores the perceptions of people living with dementia, as well as the perceptions of their family members and caregivers, and gathers their views on current dementia support services in order to make recommendations to improve the provision of dementia support services in a UK Bangladeshi community. A total of 25 semi-structu…
Anxiety, Insecurity, and Redistribution in the UK ‘Red Wall’
Anxiety is often seen as a driver of far-right politics in British political culture that is strategically irrational insofar as the consequences of the policies pursued by such parties contribute to an increase in poverty and inequality, which are drivers of anxiety. This article shows that anxiety can also drive voter support for strategically rational, progressive policies, which hold out a real prospect for addressing the threats that voters …
Inpatient Case-mix Cost Vs Average Cost for Health Care Services in King Fahd Central Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Health care systems aim to deliver high-quality medical care while considering efficient resource usage and cost-effective forms of interventions. Such purposes require scientific tools or mechanisms which aid in cost assessment before the efforts of cost reduction are considered. Diagnosis-related groups based costing methodology (Case-mix) is considered one of the preferred costing approaches in the health care sector. King Fahd Central hospita…
Two-Year Changes in Neighborhood Juvenile Arrests After Implementation of a Park-Based Afterschool Mental Health Promotion Program in Miami–Dade County, Florida, 2015–2017
Objectives. To examine the association of Fit2Lead, an afterschool park-based youth mental health promotion program, and neighborhood juvenile arrests (2015–2017) in Miami–Dade County, Florida. Methods. We tracked juvenile (ages 12–17 years) arrest rates over 2 years of program implementation across zip codes matched by (1) park and (2) baseline sociodemographics and youth arrests. Fit2Lead mental and physical health, meditation, resilience, and …
Natural experiment examining the longitudinal association between change in residential segregation and youth cardiovascular health across race/ethnicity and gender in the USA
BACKGROUND: Identifying how racial/ethnic residential segregation and mobility may impact health can guide innovative strategies for reducing youth disparities. METHODS: This natural experiment examined the association between change in residential segregation and cardiovascular health outcomes across race/ethnicity and gender for youth (n=2250, mean age 9.1 years, 54% male; 51% Hispanic, 49% non-Hispanic black (NHB); 49% high area poverty) atten…
Impact of change in neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation on cardiovascular health in minority youth attending a park-based afterschool program
Development of UNU-Casemix Grouper standard integration tool kit for hospital information system (HIS) in selected hospitals in Malaysia and Indonesia
Background UNU-Casemix Grouper is software used for grouping inpatient and outpatient cases into Case Base Group (CBG). UNU-Casemix can be used to enhance quality and efficiency of healthcare services. Hospital Information System (HIS) is used to collect all the patient-level data in a hospital that can be used to improve performance of a hospital. HIS also captures all of the patient’s demographic and clinical data required by the UNU-Casemix Gr…
Web based application for Casemix Grouper (Online Casemix Grouper)
Background Casemix Grouper software is a tool to improve efficiency and quality of care in hospitals and medical centres. The utilisation of Casemix Grouper among hospitals is very limited and depends on their existing local machine and hardware. While Casemix Grouper provides a crucial output in the form of Casemix groups, the hardware machine should not be a limiting factor to hospital. Thus, the objective of this development was to provide the…
Level of patients' satisfaction toward National Health Insurance in Istanbul City-Turkey
Turkey to determine the level of patients ’ satisfaction and factors influencing satisfaction toward newly reformed national health insurance. A total of 345 heads of houshold have been selected by using simple random sampling selection method. Data was collected via household’s structured questionnaire and Patients ' Satisfaction Questionnaire version II. The response rate was (89%) and data was analyzed by using SPSS version 16.0. Age of respon…
Anxiety, Insecurity, and Redistribution in the UK ‘Red Wall’
Anxiety is often seen as a driver of far-right politics in British political culture that is strategically irrational insofar as the consequences of the policies pursued by such parties contribute to an increase in poverty and inequality, which are drivers of anxiety. This article shows that anxiety can also drive voter support for strategically rational, progressive policies, which hold out a real prospect for addressing the threats that voters …
Impact of change in neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation on cardiovascular health in minority youth attending a park-based afterschool program
Two-Year Changes in Neighborhood Juvenile Arrests After Implementation of a Park-Based Afterschool Mental Health Promotion Program in Miami–Dade County, Florida, 2015–2017
Objectives. To examine the association of Fit2Lead, an afterschool park-based youth mental health promotion program, and neighborhood juvenile arrests (2015–2017) in Miami–Dade County, Florida. Methods. We tracked juvenile (ages 12–17 years) arrest rates over 2 years of program implementation across zip codes matched by (1) park and (2) baseline sociodemographics and youth arrests. Fit2Lead mental and physical health, meditation, resilience, and …
Natural experiment examining the longitudinal association between change in residential segregation and youth cardiovascular health across race/ethnicity and gender in the USA
BACKGROUND: Identifying how racial/ethnic residential segregation and mobility may impact health can guide innovative strategies for reducing youth disparities. METHODS: This natural experiment examined the association between change in residential segregation and cardiovascular health outcomes across race/ethnicity and gender for youth (n=2250, mean age 9.1 years, 54% male; 51% Hispanic, 49% non-Hispanic black (NHB); 49% high area poverty) atten…
Level of patients' satisfaction toward National Health Insurance in Istanbul City-Turkey
Turkey to determine the level of patients ’ satisfaction and factors influencing satisfaction toward newly reformed national health insurance. A total of 345 heads of houshold have been selected by using simple random sampling selection method. Data was collected via household’s structured questionnaire and Patients ' Satisfaction Questionnaire version II. The response rate was (89%) and data was analyzed by using SPSS version 16.0. Age of respon…
Development of UNU-Casemix Grouper standard integration tool kit for hospital information system (HIS) in selected hospitals in Malaysia and Indonesia
Background UNU-Casemix Grouper is software used for grouping inpatient and outpatient cases into Case Base Group (CBG). UNU-Casemix can be used to enhance quality and efficiency of healthcare services. Hospital Information System (HIS) is used to collect all the patient-level data in a hospital that can be used to improve performance of a hospital. HIS also captures all of the patient’s demographic and clinical data required by the UNU-Casemix Gr…
Web based application for Casemix Grouper (Online Casemix Grouper)
Background Casemix Grouper software is a tool to improve efficiency and quality of care in hospitals and medical centres. The utilisation of Casemix Grouper among hospitals is very limited and depends on their existing local machine and hardware. While Casemix Grouper provides a crucial output in the form of Casemix groups, the hardware machine should not be a limiting factor to hospital. Thus, the objective of this development was to provide the…
Natural experiment examining the longitudinal association between change in residential segregation and youth cardiovascular health across race/ethnicity and gender in the USA
BACKGROUND: Identifying how racial/ethnic residential segregation and mobility may impact health can guide innovative strategies for reducing youth disparities. METHODS: This natural experiment examined the association between change in residential segregation and cardiovascular health outcomes across race/ethnicity and gender for youth (n=2250, mean age 9.1 years, 54% male; 51% Hispanic, 49% non-Hispanic black (NHB); 49% high area poverty) atten…
Impact of change in neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation on cardiovascular health in minority youth attending a park-based afterschool program
Two-Year Changes in Neighborhood Juvenile Arrests After Implementation of a Park-Based Afterschool Mental Health Promotion Program in Miami–Dade County, Florida, 2015–2017
Objectives. To examine the association of Fit2Lead, an afterschool park-based youth mental health promotion program, and neighborhood juvenile arrests (2015–2017) in Miami–Dade County, Florida. Methods. We tracked juvenile (ages 12–17 years) arrest rates over 2 years of program implementation across zip codes matched by (1) park and (2) baseline sociodemographics and youth arrests. Fit2Lead mental and physical health, meditation, resilience, and …
Inpatient Case-mix Cost Vs Average Cost for Health Care Services in King Fahd Central Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Health care systems aim to deliver high-quality medical care while considering efficient resource usage and cost-effective forms of interventions. Such purposes require scientific tools or mechanisms which aid in cost assessment before the efforts of cost reduction are considered. Diagnosis-related groups based costing methodology (Case-mix) is considered one of the preferred costing approaches in the health care sector. King Fahd Central hospita…
Perceptions of a UK Bangladeshi community on accessing dementia health and care services within the context of the English National Dementia Strategy
Bangladeshi communities experience poor health outcomes and have higher risk factors for vascular dementia. This article explores the perceptions of people living with dementia, as well as the perceptions of their family members and caregivers, and gathers their views on current dementia support services in order to make recommendations to improve the provision of dementia support services in a UK Bangladeshi community. A total of 25 semi-structu…
Anxiety, Insecurity, and Redistribution in the UK ‘Red Wall’
Anxiety is often seen as a driver of far-right politics in British political culture that is strategically irrational insofar as the consequences of the policies pursued by such parties contribute to an increase in poverty and inequality, which are drivers of anxiety. This article shows that anxiety can also drive voter support for strategically rational, progressive policies, which hold out a real prospect for addressing the threats that voters …
Perceptions of older South Asian and Chinese people of social activities to address loneliness
Loneliness is a public health issue. This study examines loneliness among older South Asian and Chinese adults, focussing on cultural barriers and shared risk factors. It explores perceptions of these population who face distinctive challenges exacerbated by health inequalities. The intervention incorporated social activities delivered by a third sector organisation to mitigate loneliness among these distinct groups with different religions, migr…
Medicine (8 obras) · Public health (5 obras) · Health care (4 obras) · Demography (3 obras) · Ethnic group (3 obras) · Gerontology (3 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (3 obras) · Nursing (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (2 obras)