Medical care research and health services systems

Public health services and systems research.

Environmental public health systems and services research.

Edi tor ’s Note : NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will hig...

Health care services and information systems

Health care service delivery could be described as an information intensive industry. In contrast the banking industry is transaction intensive. Both are able to benefit greatly from the use of computing, information and communications technology. Yet the banking industry is much further advanced in this regard. A transaction based system relies predominantly on data. These are observations or ...

Health Services Research Fund – Health Care and Promotion Fund

Sau Po Centre on Ageing, The University of Hong Kong YH Cheng, KL Chou, I Chi Department of Community Medicine and Unit for Behavioural Sciences, The University of Hong Kong YH Cheng Department of Politics and Sociology, Lingnan University KL Chou Institute of Human Performance, The University of Hong Kong DJ MacFarlane School of Social Work and School of Gerontology, University of Southern Cal...

Health Services Research Fund – Health Care and Promotion Fund

Principal applicant and corresponding author: Dr LW Chu Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China Tel: ( 52) 2 55 3315 Fax: ( 52) 2 16 21 7 E-mail: [email protected] Falls and fall-related injuries in community-dwelling elderly persons in Hong Kong: a study on risk factors, functional decline, and health services utilisa...