BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a debilitating disorder that often requires the affected individual to receive part- or full-time care from a caregiver. AIMS The purpose of this study was to examine the humanistic and economic burden of caring for an individual with Schizophrenia with regard to the measures of quality of life (QoL), work productivity, healthcare resource use and estimated economi...

THE CONCEPT OF MEANINGFUL recognition in the form of feedback has been an integral part of our workplaces since the turn of the century when psychologists began ex ploring the impact motivation had on productivity (Schultz & Schultz, 2008). Recognition feedback has ranged from the traditional behaviorist stimulus res ponse approach to a humanistic perspective that in cluded the perceptions one ...

tawfigh al-hakim is a contemporary egyptian playwright who is known as the father of arabic playwriting. he felt the need to search about the human character and its dimensions, so, this issue, has been the major them in his plays. through benefiting from humanistic theories in some western literary and philosophical schools, he has combined them with religious issues and eastern mythology to i...

BACKGROUND In Canada, demand for multidisciplinary bariatric (obesity) care far outstrips capacity. Consequently, prolonged wait times exist and contribute to substantial health impairments.A supportive, educational intervention (with in-person and web-based versions) designed to enhance the self-management skills of patients wait-listed for multidisciplinary bariatric medical and surgical care...

198 © 2013 Joel D. Howell et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use of work provided the original work is properly cited. Medicine is not fundamentally based on molecules, neither are patients nor their physicians merely collections of organs. To truly care for their patients, physicians need to e...

PURPOSE The design elements of the Improving Health of At-Risk Rural Patients (IHARP) care model are described. SUMMARY The IHARP project evaluated the clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes associated with the collaborative care model relative to usual care in the community. The care model was initiated in 22 level 3- certified patient-centered medical homes. The primary outcomes are th...