Local Health Departments as Essential Community Providers for Health Benefits Exchange Plans

Essential Oil Education for Health Care Providers.

CONTEXT Patients' use of complementary and integrative health practices has been increasing in the United States for a variety of reasons. The use of essential oils is one complementary and integrative health modality that continues to increase in popularity. Many providers are not knowledgeable about and are not comfortable discussing the topic with their patients. OBJECTIVE The research tea...

Local Health Departments' Partners and Challenges in Electronic Exchange of Health Information

BACKGROUND Unprecedented amounts of data are produced by the health care and other sectors, presenting opportunities for local health departments (LHDs) to access these data. LHDs will need to participate in health information exchange (HIE) with a number of partners in order to benefit from these data resources. LHDs' participation in HIEs with specific partners has not been studied. OBJECTI...

Needling toward essential health benefits.

Community assessment for identification and prioritization of problems to establish health promotion operational plans

  Community assessment is a process in which the active participation of community members develops strategies and programs to address the strengths and weaknesses of the community and prioritize and solve them. This study is aimed to assess society and determine its health priorities in order to establish operational plan to solve its problems with population participation . This research is b...

The community pharmacists and their practice as health care providers.

The community pharmacists and their practice as health care providers Sr. Director: The pharmacists are probably the health professionals who are closest and most accessible to the patients and the general population 1. Their opinions related to health education have an important impact on the health of the population 2. The pharmacist may play the role of an active health educator by implement...