OBJECTIVE To describe the content of anticipatory guidance provided to parents of infants and toddlers and to identify primary areas of unmet need as reported by both parents and pediatricians. METHODS Parent data were obtained from the National Survey of Early Childhood Health, a nationally representative sample of parents of 2068 US children aged 4 to 35 months. Pediatrician data were obtai...

the present study aims at exploring the relation between long term memory and two teaching methods: research-centered teaching and customary lecturing. the promotion of exploratory thinking which is provoked in the research-centered teaching method is considered to lead to hypothetical research and analytical thinking among students. two separate courses in neurophysiology at tehran university ...

background and purpose: nutrition plays a key role in maintaining and promoting health and preventing diseases. in most medical schools, nutrition education is not sufficient and only 26% of college students have proper nutritional education programs. physicians should use their knowledge through education and counseling with patients and healthy people to increase people’s level of health. poo...

In this paper, we apply text mining and topic modelling to understand public mental health. We focus on identifying common mental health topics across two anonymous social media platforms: Reddit and a mobile journalling/mood-tracking app. Furthermore, we analyze journals from the app to uncover relationships between topics, journal visibility (private vs. visible to other users of the app), an...

Frailty is an important outcome predictor in older patients. We randomly sampled 12,000 veterans with heart failure diagnosed in 2010. The topic modeling method was applied to identify frailty-related topics from the clinical notes in the electronic medical records. The frailty topics were classified into five deficit areas including physical functioning (PF), role-physical (RP), general health...

In this second article, we continue the review of current health care economics as it relates to radiologists, specifically framed by topics defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the evaluation of neuroradiology fellows. The discussion in this article is focused on topics pertaining to levels 4 and 5, which are the more advanced levels of competency defined by t...

In this paper we state that health economics is now amongst the leaders in a «paradigm shift» in economics that needs to spread as quickly as possible into the rest of the subject. This conclusion is obtained from considering that economics can be applied to topics that do not appear superficially to be economic topics such as what is the best treatment for a national health service to offer to...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to identify the health topics students received information about, how students obtained health-related information, and perceived believability of those sources. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Students (N = 1202) were surveyed using the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) of the American College Health Association. RESULTS Nearly half (46%) of the sa...