Home health care covers a wide range of activities for example, house calls, emergency medical assistance and medical home care. Although in Slovenia the number of house calls compared with visits in a clinic is constantly declining, we find that IT can best help doctors performing fieldwork, dealing with serious chronic illnesses, or helping the elderly, disabled or dying patients because they...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether disaster-related variables, in addition to known work-related risk factors, influence burnout and its subscales (exhaustion, cynicism, and lack of professional efficacy) among public servants who experienced a major disaster. METHODS Cross-sectional studies were conducted among public servants of Miyagi prefecture at 2 and 16 months after the Great East Japan Ear...

PURPOSE This study was designed to examine the effect of asthma management education program applied to allergic asthma patients receiving immunotherapy due to house dust mite on their stress and compliance with health care regimens. METHODS A quasi experimental design with non-equivalent control group and non-synchronized design was used. The subjects of this study were 61 patients who were ...

Children are required by law to attend school in the United States; many parents voluntarily send their children to preschool or child care centers. Environmental health threats in child care centers and in prekindergarten to 12th grade (PK–12) schools compromise children’s health and learning; yet there is no federal, state, or local agency that is authorized, funded, and staffed to protect ch...

Author Affiliations: Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (Hwang, Turner, Kruszewski, Alexander); Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (Hwang, Turner, Alexander); Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (K...

This case study examines the opposing forces of innovation and legitimacy that play on new entrants into a market. New entrants in any market aim to provide an innovative product or solution in order to attract buyers. However, there are many situations where innovation may not be as valued as the new entrant expects due to various reasons, including a perceived lack of legitimacy. A case study...

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