background: sexual health education is one the fundamentals of health promotion. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of sexual health education on observing sexual health principles among women referred to health centers of hamedan.   methods : this study was a quasi- experimental one which was carried out on 225 women referred to health centers of hamedan as one pre-test post-te...

The medical sector is a large and growing part of the US economy, and expenditures on medical care are funded in large part by the government. As a result, understanding the effects of the policies which finance medical expenditures is of critical importance. In order to understand the effects of these policies, such as Medicare and the recently passed health care act, it is critical to underst...

Race is one of the most common variables in the social sciences, used to draw correlations between racial groups and numerous other important variables such as education, health care outcomes, aptitude tests, wealth, employment and so forth. But where concern with race once reflected the view that races were biologically real, many, if not most, contemporary social scientists have abandoned the...

The increasing adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) due to Meaningful Use is providing unprecedented opportunities to enable secondary use of EHR data. Significant emphasis is being given to the development of algorithms and methods for phenotype extraction from EHRs to facilitate population-based studies for clinical and translational research. While preliminary work has shown demonstr...

Attempts to reduce the problem of tuberculosis through organised efforts had their beginnings in India in the late thirties. With the introduction of chemotherapy, organised home treatment of tuberculosis from the TB clinics, situated mainly in cities and district headquarter towns, was started. The mass BCG campaign, started in 1951, gave the first indications that the problem of tuberculosis ...

BACKGROUND More than half a million new items of biomedical research are generated every year and added to Medline. How successful are we at applying this steady accumulation of scientific knowledge and so improving the practice of medicine in the USA? DISCUSSION The conventional wisdom is that the US healthcare system is plagued by serious cost, access, safety and quality weaknesses. A compr...

BACKGROUND Little has been written about physician stress that may be associated with electronic medical records (EMR). OBJECTIVE We assessed relationships between the number of EMR functions, primary care work conditions, and physician satisfaction, stress and burnout. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS 379 primary care physicians and 92 managers at 92 clinics from New York City and the upper Midwest...