The paper describes applied research efforts, requested by the Swaziland Ministry of Health and funded by U.S. AID, aimed at providing an information base for new government policies regarding traditional healers in Swaziland. Information reported relates to: health care manpower in the traditional sector; treatment seeking behavior in a pluralistic medical setting; traditional health beliefs a...

BACKGROUND The Internet is viewed as an important source for health information and a medium for patient empowerment. However, little is known about how seniors use the Internet in relation to other sources for health information. OBJECTIVE The aim was to determine which information resources seniors who use the Internet use and trust for health information, which sources are preferred, and w...

As part of an effort to look at “what differences make a difference” for bioethicists interested in clinical decisionmaking, Erik Parens, the editor of this special section, asked us to look at social class. When we began our research for this paper, we were surprised to find that although bioethicists have written much on social class and such macrolevel issues as access to healthcare and the ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the evolution of indicators after the implementation of 21 Oral Healthcare Teams in the Family Health Strategy. METHODS We used data from outpatient services of Oral Healthcare Teams to evaluate efficiency, access, percentage of absences and emergencies of oral healthcare professionals who worked in the partnership between the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira H...

Environmental health information resources lack exposure data required to translate molecular insights, elucidate environmental contributions to diseases, and assess human health and ecological risks. We report development of an Exposure Ontology, ExO, designed to address this information gap by facilitating centralization and integration of exposure data. Major concepts were defined and the on...

PURPOSE The Navy Nurse Corps is part of a team of professionals that provides high quality, economical health care to approximately 700,000 active duty Navy and Marine Corps members, as well as 2.6 million retired and family members. Navy Nurse Corps manpower management efficiency is critical to providing this care. This paper aims to focus on manpower planning in the Navy Nurse Corps. DESIGN...

AIM To assess the feasibility of primary care nurses reviewing patients with 'stable' epilepsy. Sample Practice nurses, health visitors, and district nurses drawn from all GP practices in Cheshire West Primary Care Trust. METHOD Questionnaires were distributed to nursing staff about the management of patients considered to be stable but who require an annual review. RESULTS Regarding their ...

Caroline Artoisenet Socio-Economie de la Santé Ecole de la Santé Publique UCL Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 30/41 B-1200 Bruxelles Tel.: 32-2-7643098 Mail: [email protected] The regulation of human resources is a controversial subject. In Belgium, after some years of political disputes, student strikes, and procrastination, quotas have been applied to new graduates in medicine (sin...

Massachusetts is home to approximately 380,000 of the nation's more than 21 million veterans, but there has been little research on the resources available to this population at the state level. There are numerous resources available to veterans and other military-affiliated groups in Massachusetts, but there are still pockets of unmet need in the areas of education, employment, health care, ho...

Simulation is rapidly penetrating the terrain of health care education and has gained growing acceptance as an educational method and patient safety tool. Despite this, the state of simulation in health care education has not yet been evaluated on a global scale. In this project, we studied the global status of simulation in health care education by determining the degree of financial support, ...