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During an influenza pandemic, the majority of people who develop symptoms will stay at home, where informal lay care will most often be provided by relatives.
Decentralisation of services, task shifting to lay care providers, longer drug refill periods for stable patients, as well as provision of transport vouchers for those in need are some of the strategies that could address this issue.
This practice however, blurs the boundary between professional and lay care, and transfers authority from the professional health worker to the TBA, thus giving legitimacy to the work and the role of TBAs, both within and outside the health care facility.
Employing such formal methods ensures that the device design process considers appropriately the environment in which the device is to be used, the work patterns of users and the specific individual needs of the user, which could be any individual involved in the use of the device including health professionals, patients, and lay care givers [ 2].
Our in-depth analysis of the IOGA concept underscores the lack of pertinent data for really understanding the nature of such a complex approach, the organisational and practice changes required, and the outcomes that may realistically be anticipated for older patients with cancer, as well as for professional and lay care providers.
Care of family and friends is increasingly referred to as "lay care".
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However, such policies cannot eliminate disadvantages due to quasi-economic factors and disease triggers that include living environments and parents' or lay care-takers' behaviours.
Evidence from Janson [ 36] and Ralston and Roohi [ 37] indicates that counselling and information sharing sessions when children are hospitalised can exert positive influences on parents' and lay care-takers' subsequent behaviours.
To avoid some types of hospitalisations for children under the age of 18, Flores et al. [ 3] noted that physicians make important contributions via inpatient lay care-taker education and quality outpatient care.
For instance, the government can launch assistance programs to encourage parents or other lay care-takers in poor families with children to bring their children to obtain well-child care and necessary medical care for illness.
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