Editors’ Introduction: Health Humanities: The Future of Pre-Health Education is Here

Is Patient Choice the Future of Health Care Systems?

Patient and user choice are at the forefront of the debate on the future direction of health and public services provision in many industrialized countries in Europe and elsewhere. It is used both, as a means to achieve desired policy goals in public health care systems such as greater efficiency and improved quality of care, and as a good with its own intrinsic value. However, the evidence sug...

analysis of reading comprehension needs of the students of paramedical studies: the case of the students of health information management (him)

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Editors' Introduction, Ehealth and Health Promotion

Communication is the central social process used to deliver health care and promote public health. Ehealth applications, the use of new information technologies in health care and health promotion, have developed as new tools for communicating with diverse audiences of health care consumers and providers. The growth of ehealth tools has spurred an information revolution within the modern health...

The humanities in medical education--what is the future?

The 'medical humanities' in health sciences education in South Africa.

A new masters-level course, 'Medicine and the Arts" will be offered in 2014 at the University of Cape Town, setting a precedent for interdisciplinary education in the field of medical humanities in South Africa. The humanities and social sciences have always been an implicit part of undergraduate and postgraduate education in the health sciences, but increasingly they are becoming an explicit a...