Health, lifestyle and health care utilization among health professionals

Healthy lifestyle among primary health care professionals.

OBJECTIVE To assess 4 main determinants of healthy lifestyle (smoking, diet, physical activity, and body mass index) among primary health care professionals. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out between December 2012 and February 2013 where participants were selected using a stratified-random sampling method from 4 primary care centers in King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard...

Health care utilization among older Mexicans: health and socioeconomic inequalities.

OBJECTIVE To examine the determinants of the utilization of health care services among the population of older adults in Mexico. Three types of health care services are analyzed: preventive care, visits to the doctor, and hospitalizations. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data was used from the 2001 Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS/ENASEM) and estimates were made using multivariate probit regression ...

Crossover of Burnout among Health Care Professionals

Poverty, Children’s Health, and Health Care Utilization

Children in higher income families are less likely than poor children to be without a regular source of health care. However, insurance coverage makes a real difference for poor children in terms of access to health care. Among all poor children under six years of age, 21 percent of those without health insurance had no usual source of care, compared with 4 percent of poor children covered by i...

Cautioning Health-Care Professionals

Science and practice seem deeply stuck in the so-called stage theory of grief. Health-care professionals continue to "prescribe" stages. Basically, this perspective endorses the idea that bereaved people go through a set pattern of specific reactions over time following the death of a loved one. It has frequently been interpreted prescriptively, as a progression that bereaved persons must follo...