The aim of this review is to examine the relationship between trauma, physical health and somatisation. A search was made on the Procite Database at the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for research articles with the following key words: posttraumatic stress disorder, somatisation, trauma (the Procite Database holds more than 15,000 articles r...

There is growing recognition that operational research (OR) should be embedded into national disease control programmes. However, much of the current OR capacity building schemes are still predominantly driven by international agencies with limited integration into national disease control programmes. We demonstrated that it is possible to achieve a more sustainable capacity building effort acr...

Allied health services benefit the management of many chronic diseases. The effects of health insurance on the utilisation of allied health services has not yet been established despite health insurance frequently being identified as a factor promoting utilisation of medical and hospital services among people with chronic disease. The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to...

Decisions based on market segmentation, target market selection and product positioning are among the most critical strategic choices made within any organisation (Dover 2000). It is widely accepted that utilisation and management of knowledge that would underpin such decisions is that which will give organisations a competitive edge (Argote, 2000; Von Krogh, Nonaka & Nishiguchi, 2000). Widespr...

Utilisation of budgets provides important insights into the effectiveness individualised funding schemes. Significant under-utilisation by certain cohorts may indicate schemes are not working as intended. People with psychosocial disability have been identified one such cohort experiencing barriers to effective budget utilisation within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme. Our mixe...

OBJECTIVES To test the effects of body weight maintenance, gain, and loss on health care utilisation in terms of outpatient visits to different kinds of physicians in the general adult population. METHODS Self-reported utilisation data were collected within two population-based cohorts (baseline surveys: MONICA-S3 1994/95 and KORA-S4 1999/2001; follow-ups: KORA-F3 2004/05 and KORA-F4 2006/08)...

OBJECTIVE Several studies have shown that social relationships are associated with health care use. This study aims to test if and to which extent a proximal element of social relationships, particularly living together with a partner, influences the health care utilisation in the same way as a distal element such as group membership. METHODS On the basis of a representative random sample of ...