One goal of health insurance is ensuring people have timely access to primary and preventive care. This issue brief finds wide differences in primary and preventive care access among adults under age 65--across states and within states by income--before the Affordable Care Act's major insurance expansions took effect. When comparing experiences of adults with insurance, the analysis finds that ...

The article reviews the importance and what strategies are effective in improving immunization rates in children and adults. How can we help improve immunization rates in the U.S. and in LMICs? Do strategies to improve childhood vaccination rates work? [1,2] reported the importance of immunizations as an important childhood preventive health maintenance program towards improving childhood survi...

During the past twenty years, rapid strides have been made in the advancement of preventive medicine and community health work. With this development has come an increasing recognition of the value of bringing public health work close to the people. Several state and local health departments, in cooperation with medical societies and non-official health and welfare agencies, are giving serious ...

BACKGROUND Dental caries is the most prevalent oral disease in children and this is preventable. Paediatricians are the first professionals whom children visit and are in good position to begin the process of prevention of dental caries if they recognize and encourage good preventive habits. OBJECTIVE To determine the knowledge, practice and opinion of pediatricians in prevention of dental ca...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the association between intermittent lack of health insurance coverage and use of preventive health services. METHODS Analyses focused on longitudinal data on insurance status and preventive service use among a national sample of US adults who participated in the Health and Retirement Study. RESULTS Findings showed that, among individuals who obtain insurance ...

OBJECTIVES We determined whether physical education (PE) taught by specialists contributed to academic development and prevention of obesity in elementary school children. METHODS Our 2-year longitudinal study involved 620 boys and girls initially in grade 3 in Australia, all receiving 150 minutes per week of PE. One group (specialist-taught PE; n = 312) included 90 minutes per week of PE fro...

Education is a strong predictor of health and longevity: the higher a person’s level of education, the greater the likelihood of a long and healthy life. This is true in the U.S. as well as in other parts of the world. The association is stronger in some countries than in others— for example, in the U.S. than in most Western European countries, perhaps because of greater economic returns to sch...

(1) Background: The aim of this paper is to show that e-health tools like smart homes allow the personalization of the surveillance and preventive education of chronic patients, such as obese persons, in order to maintain a comfortable and preventive lifestyle at home. (2) Technologies and methods: Several types of sensors allow coaching the patient at home, e.g., the sensors recording the acti...