BACKGROUND Effective health communication is important for informed decision-making, yet little is known about the range of information sources used by persons with multiple sclerosis (MS), the perceived trust in those information sources, or how this might vary according to patient characteristics. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the sources of health information used by persons with MS, t...

PURPOSE The purpose of this investigation was to describe and assess the disparities, if any, in parental perceived cost barriers to oral health care among developmentally disabled children using a national data set. METHODS Data from the 1997 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were analyzed using a SUDAAN statistical package. RESULTS After adjusting for age and sex, parental perceptio...

The development of a prophylactic vaccine to prevent infection with oncogenic subtypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) is an important step in reducing cervical cancer incidence and mortality. However, national data indicate that only 37% of 13- to 17-year-old females have initiated the vaccine series. Prior studies have examined demographic, medical history, and psychosocial variables associated...

BACKGROUND Older adults are the most frequent and heaviest users of health services in the United States; however, previous research on older adults' use of health information technology (HIT) has not examined the possible association of HIT use among older adults with their use of health services. OBJECTIVE This study examined the relationship between US older adults' use of health services ...

conclusions our findings show that, at provincial levels, a complex set of known/unknown influencing factors affect individuals’ assessments of their own health quality. understanding these patterns of srh and ls could be useful for better health policy and more targeted studies in this field. background self-rated health (srh) and life satisfaction (ls) are of increasing interest to medical re...

background: an obvious gradient in health outcomes has been implicated in many evidences relating to social and economic factors. proper data are requested to convince policy-makers calling for intersectoral action for health. recently, i.r. of iran has come up with 52 health equity indicators to monitor health equity through the country. conducting regular surveys on 14 out of 52 national heal...

Eight major federal data systems, including the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), National Survey of Children's Health, National Longitudinal Mortality Study, and American Community Survey, were used to examine health differentials between immigrants and the US-born across the life course. Survival and logistic regression, prevalence, and age-adju...