The rational approach to health service organization In the field of medical care, particularly that area concerned with personal health services, E. Richard Weinerman was both a prodigious worker and a provocative, farsighted conceptualist. We recall him as a man of method for approaching problems. We knew him equally well as the designer of a model for the rational dissemination of informatio...

background: non-communicable diseases (ncds) and psychological hazards are increasingly observed in industries, necessitating the need to strengthen industrial health systems to control the same. district level data on level of functioning of industrial health systems and services with special focus on systems available for mental health care is lacking in india. this information is vital to pl...

The practice of medicine implies life long learning, and the modern health service expects career grade doctors to engage in a programme of continuous professional development. Doctors are a highly motivated group, and so the expectation that they will participate seems well founded. For those in the training grades, professional development is supervised and made explicit within postgraduate m...

This paper presents the development of a web based telecardiology framework for the diagnosis of cardiac patients in rural areas. Rural health centers, a centralized server and expert cardiologists constitute the framework. Personal details, clinical information and ECG acquired from a patient at the rural center are sent to a centralized server. The server processes the ECG file to extract the...

metadata technology. CCR+ functions as a (data) surrogate of a person in an integrated distributed intelligence platform or the Health Avatar Platform (HAP). HAP is a run-time environment for distributed intelligence programming of health agents, which are expected to provide a variety of health services to CCR+ surrogates with privacy-controlled access to personal and private big data using op...

  This investigation was undertaken to evaluate the " effect of the student nurses" personal pain experience on assessment of pain intensity and selection of appropriate number of pain interventions. Participants in this research were 150 female student nurses who were studying in Razie Nursing and Midwifery college of Kerman university of medical sciences and health services. Data collection ...

OBJECTIVE Large-scale comparison and comprehensive estimate on the access to health care and preventive services between Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and Non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs) has not been available. This study examines the racial disparities in access to health care and preventive services between AAPIs and NHWs in the USA. METHODS Cross-sectional study of access to health ...