Health Education

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A survey of the emergency department population and their interest in preventive health education.

OBJECTIVE: To determine which preventive health information the emergency department (ED) population (patients and visitors) would be most interested in having available to them while they spend time in the waiting area. METHODS: This was a prospective ...
Ingrid Llovera, Mary F Ward, James G Ryan, Thalia LaTouche, Andrew Sama (Acad Emerg Med, 200302)
survey-emergency-department-population-interest-preventive-health.asp

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Effectiveness of psychoeducational intervention for rural Chinese families experiencing schizophrenia--a randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to explore the characteristics and efficacy of psychoeducational family intervention for persons with schizophrenia in rural China. METHODS: A cluster randomised controlled trial of psychoeducational family ...
Mao-Sheng Ran, Meng-Ze Xiang, Cecilia Lai-Wan Chan, Julian Leff, Peggy Simpson, Ming-Sheng Huang, You-He Shan, Si-Gan Li (Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 200302)
effectiveness-psychoeducational-intervention-rural-chinese-families.asp

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The risk of smoking in relation to engagement with a school-based smoking intervention.

Health promotion interventions cannot work if people do not engage with them. The aim of this study was to examine whether disengagement from an adolescent smoking prevention and cessation intervention was an independent risk factor for regular smoking 1 ...
Paul Aveyard, Wolfgang A Markham, Joanne Almond, Emma Lancashire, K K Cheng (Soc Sci Med, 200302)
risk-smoking-relation-engagement-school-based-smoking-intervention.asp

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A global approach to tobacco policy.

The battle to control lung cancer has been an outcome of policies established over the years, largely since the 1960s. Early policies focussed on abolition of tobacco promotion, help in cessation of smoking, health warnings and labeling with tar and ...
Nigel Gray (Lung Cancer, 200302)
global-approach-tobacco-policy.asp

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The impact of CyberHealthcare on the physician-patient relationship.

It is estimated that 70 million Americans have used the Internet to acquire health-related information. Multiple factors provide the driving force behind this demand for online health information. Information technology is beginning to change the ...
James G Anderson, Michelle R Rainey, Gunther Eysenbach (J Med Syst, 200302)
impact-cyberhealthcare-physician-patient-relationship.asp

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The effort to increase breast-feeding. Do obstetricians, in the forefront, need help?

OBJECTIVE: To assess the knowledge, training and attitudes of obstetricians concerning management of breast-feeding. STUDY DESIGN: A survey was sent to 1,200 fellows of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; 397 practicing obstetricians ...
Michael L Power, Elaine Locke, Janet Chapin, Luella Klein, Jay Schulkin (J Reprod Med, 200302)
effort-increase-breast-feeding-obstetricians-forefront-need-help.asp

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Dallas group builds a black MSM community.

For an AIDS organization to succeed in attracting at-risk populations, it must demonstrate that it cares about the clients and accepts them as they are, says a long-time HIV/AIDS activist who has succeeded where others have failed. Renaissance III is a ...
(Aids Alert, 200302)
dallas-group-builds-black-msm-community.asp

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Delivering consumer health information digitally: a comparison between the web and touchscreen kiosk.

Employing survey and web log data the study presented here compares the use and users of two digital health information platforms geared toward consumers-web-sites and touchscreen information kiosks. The kiosks featured are those supplied by InTouch With ...
David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Peter Williams (J Med Syst, 200302)
delivering-consumer-health-information-digitally-comparison-web.asp

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Capturing parents understanding about the health behaviors they practice with their preschool-aged children.

This qualitative, descriptive study first explored parents concept of health and then examined the health practices they undertook for their preschool-aged children. The purposive sample of 11 parent couples and 3 single parents (14 parent sets in total) ...
Janet Roden (Issues Compr Pediatr Nurs, 200301-03)
capturing-parents-understanding-health-behaviors-practice-preschool.asp

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Educating adolescents about puberty: what are we missing?

Adolescents undergo significant physical and cognitive changes during their pubertal development. These changes contribute to and impact their future development. Educating adolescents at an early age about their expected development decreases the ...
Hatim Omar, Darby McElderry, Rana Zakharia (Int J Adolesc Med Health, 200301-03)
educating-adolescents-puberty-missing.asp