The delivery of prevention services to children and adolescents through traditional healthcare settings is challenging for a variety of reasons. Parent- and community-focused services are typically not reimbursable in traditional medical settings, and personal healthcare services are often designed for acute and chronic medical treatment rather than prevention. To provide preventive services in...

Primary Care and Primary Health Care are very similar terms which are often employed interchangeably, but which are also used to denote quite different concepts. Much time and energy is spent discussing which term is the appropriate one for a particular application. There is a growing recognition internationally that the two terms describe two quite distinct entities. Recent Canadian uses of th...

Clear definitions and measurement of preventive health behaviors, as well as the relevant demographic and socioeconomic variables, is important to understanding what factors explain inequalities in health and in the use of health care services. This commentary addresses issues related to the measurement of preventive health behaviors and suggests a distinction between personal life style behavi...

Telemonitoring provides a potentially useful tool for disease and case management of those patients who are likely to benefit from frequent and regular monitoring by health care providers. Since 2008, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) has implemented a telemonitoring program that specifically targets those members with heart failure. This study assesses the impact of this telemonitoring program by ex...

BACKGROUND The Charlotte-Mecklenburg region has one of the fastest growing Hispanic communities in the country. This population has experienced disparities in health outcomes and diminished ability to access healthcare services. This city is home to an established practice-based research network (PBRN) that includes community representatives, health services researchers, and primary care provid...

Estimates from multilevel regression of 1768 women living in the Paris metropolitan area showed that women who reported concentrating their daily activities in their perceived neighbourhood of residence had a statistically greater likelihood of not having undergone cervical screening during the previous 2 years. Furthermore, the characteristics of the administrative neighbourhood of residence (...

Corresponding Author Dr. Nishat Shahi Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, M.M. College of Dental Sciences and Research, Mullana, Ambala. Contact : 08968140058 Email: [email protected]

OBJECTIVE To determine the importance of parents' global adaptive functioning as a predictor of participation rate and subsequent child social competence outcome in 3 program components of an evidence-based, multifaceted, preventive intervention for at-risk children. METHOD Families of program children (n = 124, mean age 6.6 years at recruitment) were offered 3 program components that continu...

This article reviews the experiences of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Tennessee before and after Medicaid managed care demonstrations began. Adapting to managed care proved challenging, but all FQHCs survived. Overall, FQHCs performed better financially than anticipated, partly because demonstrations expanded coverage to previously uninsured individuals...

A fundamental puzzle about human behavior is the low level of household investment in preventive health inputs. We conducted a field experiment testing advertising devices designed to increase demand for a life-saving health technology characterized by low uptake. Our results reveal highly elastic demand with respect to factors that lie outside of standard consumer demand models of health behav...