Five Ways to Wellbeing: holistic narratives of public health programme participants

Restoring Health to Health Reform: Integrating Medicine and Public Health to Advance the Population's Wellbeing

INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 1778 I. THE CONCEPTUAL AND FUNCTIONAL IMPORTANCE OF AN INTEGRATED HEALTH SYSTEM ........................................... 1783 A. Historical Interconnections .................................................. 1784 B. The Rationale for Integration .............................................. 178...

Five ways to improve access to care.

One of the fundamental tenets of health care is access. In politics, access is defined as having health insurance, even though access to insurance does not guarantee access to care. HEDIS defines access as getting in to see your doctor at least once per year. A better measure is to ask the patient, “How easy is it for you to get medical care when you need it?” Only about 50 percent of people re...

Sexual health promotion programme: Participants’ perspectives on capacity building

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate a Health Service Executive (HSE) Foundation Programme in Sexual Health Promotion (FPSHP) with a specific emphasis on capacity building. Design: A mixed-method design using both quantitative and qualitative methods was used to collect the data. Setting: The FPSHP was delivered to staff working in health, education and community settings and was d...

Five Ways to Simplify Cloud Integration

Understanding Australian rural women's ways of achieving health and wellbeing - a metasynthesis of the literature.

INTRODUCTION Although Australian rural women appear to be coping well despite a lack of services, harsh environmental conditions and overall rural health disadvantage, there is little research into the factors which promote good health among them. The aim of this article is to document and analyse current understandings about how rural Australian women maintain health and wellbeing, by conducti...