The protection of patient information is now more important as a national e-health system approaches reality in Australia. The major challenge for health care providers is to understand the importance information security whilst also incorporating effective protection into established workflow and daily activity. Why then, when it is difficult for IT and security professionals to navigate throu...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to report the findings of the National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs regarding parent perceptions of the extent to which children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have access to a medical home. METHODS Five criteria, selected to reflect the characteristics of a medical home as defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP...

The health of patients with chronic diseases is affected not only by factors such as eating and living habits, but also the neighborhood built environment, travel conditions. Using 18 blocks in main urban area Changshu, China, we performed structural equation modelling, to explore relationships between commuting patterns diseases, patient health. We first divided into four categories—walking/bi...

BACKGROUND The Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index (HAQ) is widely used to measure functional ability in persons with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). The instrument was developed with limited involvement from persons with RA, and their perception of the instrument has not been studied in depth. The aim of this study was to explore how persons with RA experience the use of the H...

Gerontology-public health indicators of functional ability of the elderly in institutional and non-institutional health care in Croatia were determined by use of expert methodology developed at Department of Gerontology, Dr. Andrija Stampar Institute of Public Health in Zagreb, with the aim to upgrade the Program of Health Care Measures and Procedures in Health Care of the Elderly. Comparison o...

BACKGROUND Individuals with stroke often have multiple cardiovascular risk factors that necessitate promoting engagement in multiple health behaviors. However, observational studies of individuals with stroke have typically focused on promoting a single health behavior. Thus, there is a poor understanding of linkages between healthy behaviors and the circumstances in which factors, such as stro...

Prior research on the association of mental health and behavior problems with academic achievement is limited because it does not consider multiple problems simultaneously, take co-occurring problems into account, and control for academic aptitude. We addressed these limitations using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 6,315). We estimated the associations of de...

T he American Heart Association (AHA) has defined a new metric of ideal cardiovascular health to accommodate both an expanded emphasis on prevention and greater understanding of the origins of cardiovascular disease as part of its 2020 Impact Goals. The explicit goal of the AHA statement is to improve cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20% by the year 2020 while reducing deaths resulting...

OBJECTIVES As health care systems face limited resources and workforce shortages to address the complex needs of older adult populations, innovative approaches utilizing information technology can support aging. Smart Home and Ambient Assisted Living (SHAAL) systems utilize advanced and ubiquitous technologies including sensors and other devices that are integrated in the residential infrastruc...