Irvin, Katherine; Fahim, Farhan; Alshehri, Saeed; Kitsantas, Panagiota(Journal of Child Health Care, 2018)
This study assessed children’s unmet health-care needs within different family types (two-parent biological/adoptive, two-parent stepfamily, and single-mother family type) using data from the 2011/2012 National Survey of ...
Jacobsen, Kathryn H.; Hasumi, Takahiro(Pan African Medical Journal, 2014-06-22)
Introduction
The 1998 and 2003 Demographic and Health Surveys suggested increasing rates of dissatisfaction with health services in South Africa. The goal of this analysis was to examine national healthcare satisfaction ...
Frankenfeld, Cara L.; Leslie, Timothy F.; Makara, Matthew A.(BioMed Central, 2015-05-14)
Background
Social and spatial factors are an important part of individual and community health. The objectives were to identify food establishment sub-types and evaluate prevalence of diabetes, obesity, and recommended ...
Background.
The large number of uninsured individuals in the United States creates negative consequences for those who are uninsured and for those who are covered by health insurance plans. Young adults between the ages ...
Horneffer, Michael A.; Yang, Y. Tony(Scientific Research, 2013-06)
US Congress passed the CARE Act in 1990 in response to a dramatically growing need for resources to combat the AIDS epidemic. One of the programs contained in the Act was the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), a ...
Yang, Y. Tony; Horneffer, Michael; DiLisio, Nicole(PAGEPress, 2013-05-31)
Web-based social media is increasingly being used across different
settings in the health care industry. The increased frequency in the
use of the Internet via computer or mobile devices provides an opportunity
for ...
Purpose: To identify the existence for a causal relationship of both expressive and receptive language communications for a cochlear implant pediatric population.
Purpose: Heterosexual adult patients attending STD clinics are at higher risk of contracting Hepatitis B, however this patient population has a low rate of HBV vaccination acceptance. In order to understand and increase ...
Purpose: Long gone are the days of inpatient pre-operative admissions. Outpatient elective surgeries have increased in number and the focus has shifted to prepare the patient on an outpatient basis. Internal medicine ...
Withholding prognosis information was associated with anxiety and difficulty with patient and family communication. Singapore, Chinese and Japanese patients prefer to be informed of cancer diagnosis and disease progression. ...
Purpose: Heart Failure (HF) is a chronic disease associated with substantial morbidity, mortality and healthcare expenditure. According to a study done by Their et al. (2008), the two main reasons that lead to less than ...
Clinical Scenario: According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2012), more than 350 million persons worldwide suffer from depression. Depression is a treatable condition; however, nearly 50% of patients prematurely ...
So, Mary June C.(George Mason University, 2013-02-17)
Purpose: To assess the impact of a TeleHealth Insulin Program (TIP) on reducing Hemoglobin A1c (HgbA1c) levels in individuals with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Purpose: To determine which method of noninvasive carbon dioxide (Co2) monitoring - transcutaneous or end-tidal Co2 - more accurately reflects arterial Co2 levels facilitating identification of hypoventilation as evidenced ...
Racial/ethnic disparities in infant mortality constitute a critical public health problem. North Carolina (NC) ranks 45th in teh US, with 8.5 infant deaths per 1,000 life births compared to the current US rate of 6.6 per ...