INTRODUCTION In 2005, representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention partnered with the National Business Group on Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to form a work group for developing A Purchaser's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Moving Science into Coverage. This guide, designed as a tool for employers, describes recommended clinical prevent...

OBJECTIVES To understand preventive healthcare use by males with multiple sclerosis (MS). STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey with secondary comparative data. METHODS Primary survey data were collected from male veterans with MS (n = 1142) and compared with national surveillance data for a general veteran population (n = 31,500) and a general population (n = 68,357). Analyses compared use b...

Introduction Singapore has made remarkable achievements in child and maternal healthcare through signifi cant reduction made in childhood and perinatal morality rates. A number of “new morbidities” however, present emerging child healthcare challenges.1,2 Indeed, the Child Development Programme (CDP) under the Ministry of Health has observed about a 2-fold increase of new referrals from 2004 to...

Like other employers, healthcare providers can be held liable for sexual harassment in the workplace. However, by implementing an effective sexual harassment policy, healthcare providers can avoid corporate liability for sexual harassment and create a more productive working environment as well.

Introduction / objectives Healthcare workers (HCWs) hands play a crucial role in the transmission of micro organisms. Therefore, hand hygiene is acknowledged as the single most effective measure to prevent healthcare-associated infection. However many factors are interplaying making this simple, most effective preventive action not easy to be achieved, some are related to tools and others are i...

Healthy carriers of severe Hemoglobinopathies are usually asymptomatic and only efficiently detected through screening campaigns. Based upon epidemiological data, screenings have been offered for decades to populations of endemic Southern Europe for primary prevention of Thalassemia Major, while for many populations of the highly endemic African and Asian countries prevention for Sickle Cell Di...

In response to a letter regarding toourpaperentitled “Predictors ofHepatitis BPreventiveBehavioral Intentions inHealthcare Workers” [1], we concluded that the risk perception in comparison with knowledge and cues to action is the most important predictor of behavioral intention in the prevention of hepatitis B. A meta-analysis conducted in 2007 suggests that risk perceptions are more important ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a 9-month preventive occupational therapy (OT) program in the Well-Elderly Study: a randomized trial in independent-living older adults that found significant health, function, and quality of life benefits attributable to preventive OT. DESIGN A randomized trial. SETTING Two government-subsidized apartment complexes. PARTICIPANTS One hundre...

Most of computerized cognitive behavioral therapy targeted restoration and few have targeted primary prevention. The purpose of this study is to obtain the knowledge for further development on preventive mental healthcare application. We developed a personal mental healthcare application which aimed to give users the chance to manage their mental health by self-monitoring and regulating their b...