The LifeMasters Supported SelfCare demonstration program provides disease management (DM) services to Florida Medicare beneficiaries who are also enrolled in Medicaid and have congestive heart failure (CHF), diabetes, or coronary artery disease (CAD). The population-based program provides primarily telephonic patient education and monitoring services. Findings from the randomized, intent-to-tre...

The paper by Reich et al. recently published in the IJIC compares healthcare expenditure of patients insured in a contracted capitated model, a contracted non-capitated model, and a telemedicine model [1]. Their evaluation showed that the telemedicine model was associated with an efficiency gain of 3.7% as opposed to 21.2% for the contracted capitated and 15.5% for the non-capitated model. The ...

The article documents the experiences of parenting an urban Indian Hindu middle-class couple at intersection virtual and physical spaces ideas. ideas documented in this paper have co-evolved as authors are their four-year-old daughter realised how participation a Facebook group is influencing them parents. relational perspective autoethnography used to examine mutual influences between partners...

The study examined the relationships among selfefficacy, learning strategies and academic performance. Specifically, it reports a study of students' academic and science self-efficacy, self-regulatory learning strategies and academic performance in first year science courses of undergraduate nursing programs. Students from several universities were surveyed by questionnaire and a sample of thes...

The unsafe uses of pesticides cause problems for human health in both developed and developing countries. Improperly used or stored of these chemical agents can harm humans. Cancer, birth defects, and damage to the nervous system, depression, respiratory symptoms, skin disease and the functioning of the endocrine system are key risks of pesticides (1-3). The current study was designed and done ...

Food allergy is often a life-long condition and has been shown to have a significant impact on the quality of life of the patient and parents due to the complexity of managing food allergy to avoid potentially life threatening reactions (Cummings et al., 2010). Parental confidence or selfefficacy in managing food allergy for their child has not been investigated in this population. This study a...