Triggers of symptoms and health care

Triggers of symptoms and health care.

This article studies triggers of physical symptoms and health care on a daily basis. The data used are health diaries kept for 6 weeks by 589 adults in metropolitan Detroit. The results show that bad moods consistently trigger physical problems and health actions (medical drug use, medical care, lay consultation, restricted activity) for men and women of all ages. Negative events have small eff...

Patient-centered care: antecedents, triggers, and mediators.

Functional medicine is essentially patient centered, rather than disease centered. A structure is presented for uniting a patient-centered approach to diagnosis and treatment with the fruits of modern clinical science (which evolved primarily to serve the prevailing model of disease-centered care). The core scientific concepts of disease pathogenesis are antecedents, triggers, and mediators. An...

Prodromal symptoms, health care seeking in response to symptoms and associated factors in eclamptic patients

BACKGROUND Eclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal death worldwide. Maternal catastrophe is made worse in developing countries by the high incidence coupled with delayed presentation of patients and health facility constraints in effective management of eclampsia and its complications. METHODS A prospective study of all 93 eclamptic women admitted to a general hospital in Somali re...

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Quality analysis and management of health-care Waste-Products

Introduction: One of the most important environmental issues is solid waste produced in health-care centers with hazardous agents. The aim of this survey is quality analysis and management of Health-care waste in Bandar Abbas, Iran. Methods: In this cross sectional study, 29 medical offices, 29 dentistry offices, 19 clinics and 8 health centers were selected. Overall 340 samples (four fro...