background : despite an increased need, residents of rural communities have decreased access to healthcare and often present unique healthcare challenges associated with their rurality. ensuring medical students receive adequate exposure to these issues is complicated by the urban location of most medical schools. health fairs (fairs) conducted in rural communities can provide students exposure...

conclusions it seems that, the preventive instructions are not optimally respected by ers possibly due to the crowded wards, high work load and the need to work rapidly. results cleaning blood tainted skin before phlebotomy or iv line preparation and hand washing before donning latex gloves achieved the maximum (88/150) and minimum (0/150) scores. the most observed barriers of pm were frequent ...

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OBJECTIVES This study examined the association between intermittent lack of health insurance coverage and use of preventive health services. METHODS Analyses focused on longitudinal data on insurance status and preventive service use among a national sample of US adults who participated in the Health and Retirement Study. RESULTS Findings showed that, among individuals who obtain insurance ...

Internationally, civil commitment laws have gone through substantial reforms in the past 50 years. Discernible shifts from the medically paternalistic to the excessively legalistic may be giving way to a blending of legislative intent under the rubric of therapeutic jurisprudence. In the light of those international movements, Shao and Xie describe how China's new mental health law shows the im...

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The impact of participation in Head Start is investigated using a national sample of children. Comparisons are drawn between siblings to control for selection. Head Start is associated with large and significant gains in test scores among both whites and African-Americans. However, among African-Americans, these gains are quickly lost. Head Start significantly reduces the probability that a whi...

The long-awaited Wills Implementation Committee Report (CoA 2000), which was completed by November last year, has now been released. Wills’ earlier Report (CoA 1998) identified the need for the development of health services research capacity in Australia, and this new Report recommends how this should be done, through the establishment and support of several large multi-disciplinary centres. T...

Studies of doctors' health have emphasised psychological health, and limited data have been collected on their physical health status. Doctors often fail to follow current preventive health guidelines for their physical health. About half of doctors do not have an established relationship with an independent general practitioner. This would enhance their health and provide a means of ready acce...