Research on the Construction of the Community of Red Doctor’s Spirit Education from the Perspective of Synergy Theory / 中国医学伦理学

The red doctor’s spirit education community is a group of individuals or organizations that pay attention to and study the red doctor’s spirit education, and committed to red doctor’s spirit education. Based on shared values, theoretical basis, and practical goals, an organic unity consisting of educators, educational objects, educational mechanisms, educational platforms and other elements is formed through collaborative cooperation. In view of the theoretical and practical consistency between the idea of education community and the synergy theory, medical colleges and universities should find out the problems faced in the construction of the red doctor’s spirit education community from the perspective of synergy theory, and strive to optimize the main body of red doctor’s spirit education by strengthening the awareness of educational community; integrate the educational resources of the community and improve the content of red doctor’s spirit education; improve the education mechanism of the community and create a high-quality education community; build a community education platform, realize the co-construction and sharing of red doctor’s resources, constantly improve the effect of red doctor’s spirit education, and serve the growth and success of medical students.

Reconsideration and definition on the concept “Public Private Partnership” in the field of international health / 国際保健医療

Objectives  Recently, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) has drawn attention as an efficient strategy to response toward increasing different needs for health in low-income and middle-income countries under tremendously growing private sectors and restricted public finance. Neveretheless, in the society of international health development, there is no commonly acceptable definition of PPP. To make the targets and purpose of the PPP clear, the study attempted to define the PPP, reconsidering the relationship among five concepts, which have been recently used to solve social issues, such as BOP business, social business, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and Creating Shared Values (CSV) as well as PPP.Methods  We conducted scrutiny of definitions of PPP in other literatures using bibliographic retrieval and associated PPP with the other four concepts in order to attempt to define PPP.Results and conclusion  We analysed the contents and relationship of the five concepts. Thus, the PPP can be defined as a process in which public and private sectors collaborate to aim to solve a social issue, not only to reply to societal expectation but also to achieve company growth.

Metodología de planificación estratégica para instituciones de salud a partir de valores compartidos / Strategic planning methodology for health institutions on the basis of shared values

La sociedad cubana trabaja en el fortalecimiento de la educación en valores lo que implica cambios organizacionales que dependen del cambio del comportamiento de los miembros de la organización y este de sus valores. Para contribuir al logro de lo planteado, se elaboró una metodología para la realización de planes estratégicos a partir de los valores compartidos por los trabajadores de las instituciones de salud. Se obtuvo información sobre metodologías existentes para la elaboración de planes estratégicos generales. Dentro de las encontradas se seleccionó una como patrón por considerarse la más adecuada. Se diseñaron y aplicaron instrumentos para el diagnóstico de los valores actuales y técnicas para la determinación de los valores deseados. La metodología se estructuró en tres etapas: la primera se denominó Análisis Situacional, que se corresponde con el estado presente de la institución, aquí se evalúan los valores actuales compartidos. En la segunda etapa, denominada Prospectiva, se valora el futuro institucional y por tanto tiene en cuenta la determinación de los valores deseados, la tercera etapa se denominó Operacional o de conexión del presente con el futuro, en ella se elaboran los valores instrumentales. Mediante la aplicación de esta metodología los directivos planifican el cambio organizacional a partir de la intención de cambiar el comportamiento moral de los miembros de la organización. Ha sido validada por criterio de expertos y por su empleo en la conformación de 141 planes estratégicos de departamentos, servicios e instituciones de salud de la provincia de Guantánamo, con buenos resultados.

The Cuban society is working in the strengthening of ethical values education, which leads to organizational changes depending on the change of the organization members´s behaviors and values. For achieving the above-mentioned, a methodology was drawn up to carry out strategic plans based on the values that the health institution workers share. Data on already existing methodologies to work out general strategic plans were collected. One methodology was selected as pattern because it was considered the most appropriate. Some diagnostic instruments to identify current values and some techniques to ascertain desired values were designed and applied. The methodology structure involves three phases: the first phase called Situation Analysis covers the present state of the institution and evaluates the current shared values. The second phase called Prospective assesses the institutional future and hence determines the desired values whereas the third phase called Operational or Linking, which relates the present and the future, works out the instrumental values. Through the implementation of this methodology, the managers are able to plan the organizational change on the basis of the intention of changing the moral behavior of the members. This methodology has been validated by expert criteria and use in the drafting of 141 strategic plans at department, service and health institution levels in Guantanamo province, with good results.