Evaluation of PHS program providing family planning services for American Indians.

[Family planning services under the Family Health Program in Brazil].

This evaluative study was performed in eight counties in Ceará State, Brazil, from July to September 2003. Data were collected through interviews with 29 nurses and 50 users of the Family Health Program (FHP), besides observations at health units. The aim was to identify the nature of family planning services and verify the existence of barriers to services and provision of contraceptives with ...

Ethics in family planning/reproductive health services

A Diabetes Self-Management Program Designed for Urban American Indians

BACKGROUND Although the American Indian population has a disproportionately high rate of type 2 diabetes, little has been written about culturally sensitive self-management programs in this population. CONTEXT Community and clinic partners worked together to identify barriers to diabetes self-management and to provide activities and services as part of a holistic approach to diabetes self-man...

Cherokee Choices: A Diabetes Prevention Program for American Indians

In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health 2010 (REACH 2010) funds to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to develop a community-based intervention to improve the health of this rural, mountainous community in North Carolina. During the first year of the Cherokee Choices program, team members conducted formative resea...

Providing colonoscopy services for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 19 March 2007 186 6 280-281 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2007 www.mja.com.au Colorectal Cancer — Editorial results. Follow-up and management will be deliv “usual care”, without any program-specific funding. affect the health care system? The crux of the problem is that the Australian program — initially, the offer of an FOBT to Australia or 6...