Despite the popularity of online health services (OHSs) among patients in recent years, academic research on this phenomenon is limited. Drawing valence framework, authors proposed a model to explore both most important facilitators OHS use intention from perceived value perspective and inhibitors risk perspective. Data were collected 407 users through an survey. Results showed that include pri...

Socioeconomic position (SEP) can be an important determinant for health. It can be assessed by different measures that look at factors such as occupation, education, income, living standards or area of residence—none of which capture the full picture. Our lead article compares the performance of five measures in predicting health outcomes, concluding that NZiDep (an individual-level index of so...

Psychological interventions for adult cancer patients have primarily focused on reducing stress and enhancing quality of life. However, there has been expanded focus on biobehavioral outcomes--health behaviors, compliance, biologic responses, and disease outcomes--consistent with the Biobehavioral Model of cancer stress and disease course. The author reviewed this expanded focus in quasiexperim...

To address the complex nature of cancer occurrence and outcomes, approaches have been developed to simultaneously assess the role of two or more etiologic agents within hierarchical levels including the: (i) macroenvironment level (e.g., health care policy, neighborhood, or family structure); (ii) individual level (e.g., behaviors, carcinogenic exposures, socioeconomic factors, and psychologic ...