Abstract The prolongation of life expectancy has considerably increased the prevalence chronic diseases and therefore concomitant presence these, this usually predicts a more reserved prognosis for both conditions can lead to greater complications, complex treatments (4,5) expensive with considerable delays in recovery.(6) comorbidity physical mental illnesses is common, as are often interrelat...

BACKGROUND Data stored in personally controlled health records (PCHRs) may hold value for clinicians and public health entities, if patients and their families will share them. We sought to characterize consumer willingness and unwillingness (reticence) to share PCHR data across health topics, and with different stakeholders, to advance understanding of this issue. METHODS Cross-sectional 200...

The search of new health management formulas focused to give wide services is one of the priorities of our present health policies. Those formulas examine the optimization of the links between the main actors involved in public health, ie, users, professionals, local socio-political and corporate agents. This paper is aimed to introduce the Social Network Analysis as a method for analyzing, mea...

BACKGROUND Online health information-seeking behaviors have been reported to be more common at the beginning of the workweek. This behavior pattern has been interpreted as a kind of "healthy new start" or "fresh start" due to regrets or attempts to compensate for unhealthy behavior or poor choices made during the weekend. However, the observations regarding the most common health information-se...

this article is intended to be a survey on some combinatorial topics in group theory. the bibliography at the end is neither claimed to be exhaustive, nor is it necessarily connected with a reference in the text. i include it as i see it revolves around the concepts which are discussed in the text.