Health Information is Not Health Teaching

health communication what it is and what is not

Policy Capacity Is Necessary but Not Sufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

Health Information Websites: Is the Health Consumer Being Well-Served?

Increasingly health consumers are looking to the Internet for health and medical information. In response to this government and government agencies are establishing websites to provide consumers with better access to health information. Health consumers however, face numerous problems searching health information websites including poor quality information, difficulty in finding relevant infor...

On Teaching International Courses on Health Information Systems

BACKGROUND Health information systems (HIS) are one of the most important areas for biomedical and health informatics. In order to professionally deal with HIS well-educated informaticians are needed. Because of these reasons, in 2001 an international course has been established: The Frank - van Swieten Lectures on Strategic Information Management of Health Information Systems. OBJECTIVES Rep...

Canadian health care is not universal.

Melanie Slavitch, Ottawa C anadian health care was front and centre in the minds of the American media this month. Unfortunately, it was not because the new Democratic Party government of Barack Obama was going to adopt some of the ideas and principles behind our so-called uniform and unified medical coverage. Rather, we were in the spotlight for the management of surgical trauma. The actress N...