Health Education

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Participant satisfaction in an adult telehealth education program using interactive compressed video delivery methods in rural Arkansas.

CONTEXT: Rural Americans have less access than their urban counterparts to health promotion information. PURPOSE: To assess differences in program satisfaction associated with age, gender, ethnicity, community size, and education among participants in an ...
Ann B Bynum, Charles O Cranford, Cathy A Irwin, George S Denny (J Rural Health, 2003SUMMER)
participant-satisfaction-adult-telehealth-education-program.asp

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Online consumer health education in dermatology.

Comprehensive and accurate health information for the consumer has the potential to improve patient care and health outcomes. NZDermNet, the web site of the New Zealand Dermatological Society, was established in 1996. Its consumer health information ...
Amanda Oakley, Marius Rademaker, Mark Duffill (Telemed J E Health, 2003SUMMER)
online-consumer-health-education-dermatology.asp

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Hospitals offer unconventional services in hopes of attracting future patients.

Faced with shrinking patient rolls and reduced federal support, hospitals across the country are offering a wide variety of new and--for them--unconventional services to bolster their finances. Although the services themselves arent always profitable, ...
Laralyn Sasaki (Hosp Q, 2003SPRING)
hospitals-offer-unconventional-services-hopes-attracting-future.asp

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Patient and practitioner literacy and womens health: a global view from the closing decade 1990-2000.

The health status of women is partly attributable to literacy. This paper presents an overview of 106 articles that include discussion of the relative impact of literacy on womens health worldwide. This synthesis reflects ways in which health status of ...
Louise M Tomlinson (Ethn Dis, 2003SPRING)
patient-practitioner-literacy-women-s-health-global-view-closing.asp

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Promoting pneumococcal immunizations among rural Medicare beneficiaries using multiple strategies.

CONTEXT: Vaccine-preventable diseases among adults are major contributing causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. However, adult immunizations continue to be underutilized in both urban and rural areas. PURPOSE: To evaluate the ...
Elizabeth A Johnson, Todd S Harwell, Peg M Donahue, Mliss A Weisner, Michael J McInerney, Greg S Holzman, Steven D Helgerson (J Rural Health, 2003FALL)
promoting-pneumococcal-immunizations-rural-medicare-beneficiaries.asp

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Quality of internet access: barrier behind internet use statistics.

The rapid growth of the Internet is increasingly international with young people being the early adopters in most countries. However, the quality of Internet access looms as a major barrier hidden behind Internet use statistics. The goal of this study ...
Harvey Skinner, Sherry Biscope, Blake Poland (Soc Sci Med, 200309)
quality-internet-access-barrier-behind-internet-statistics.asp

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Assessment of a structured in-hospital educational intervention addressing breastfeeding: a prospective randomised open trial.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a single one-to-one in-hospital education session could increase the rate of breastfeeding at 17 weeks. DESIGN: A prospective, randomised, parallel group, open trial. SETTING: A level two maternity hospital in France. ...
Jose Labarere, Valerie Bellin, Magali Fourny, Jean-Claude Gagnaire, Patrice Francois, Jean-Claude Pons (BJOG, 200309)
assessment-structured-hospital-educational-intervention-addressing.asp

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How to inject consumerism into your existing health plans.

Consumerism seeks to create a behavior change on the part of consumers so that they become accountable, knowledgeable and actively engaged in managing their health. It can be used in any existing health plan through targeted plan design changes and ...
Linda J Havlin, Michael F McAllister, David H Slavney (Empl Benefits J, 200309)
inject-consumerism-your-existing-health-plans.asp

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A survey of the health needs of hospital staff: implications for health care managers.

Developing strategies to address the health needs of the National Health Services (NHS) workforce are of concern to many health care managers. Focal to the development of such strategies are of being in receipt of baseline information about employees ...
Annette M Jinks, Valerie Lawson, Ruth Daniels (J Nurs Manag, 200309)
survey-health-needs-hospital-staff-implications-health-care-managers.asp

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Introducing touchscreens to black and ethnic minority groups--a report of processes and issues in the Three Cities project.

There is a need for people to have access to health information but this may not be readily available for some black and ethnic minority groups living in England. This study aims to improve access to health information for ethnic minority groups by ...
Margot Jackson, Jean Peters (Health Info Libr J, 200309)
introducing-touchscreens-black-ethnic-minority-groups-report.asp