Ex: Managing the Metric vs Managing the Patient: The Physician’s View of Pay for Performance, Inpatient Management Guidelines for People with Diabetes, Reducing Health Care Costs for Plan Members with Congestive Heart Failure...
Design of Clinical Trials for Treatment of Pain, Development of Clinical Trials, Selected Qualitative Methods, Within-Patient Studies: Cross-over Trials & n-of-1 Studies, Clinical Economics, etc.
Healthcare-now is a broad and diverse movement educating the U.S. people about the national healthcare crisis and challenging the current privatized system of for-profit insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Free Medical Books - Over the next few years, many important medical textbooks will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. FreeBooks4Doctors! is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet.
What are the odds of dying? The table below was prepared in response to frequent inquiries, especially from the media, asking questions such as, "What are the odds of being killed by lightning?" or "What are the chances of dying in a plane crash?"
Several readers noted that the limited pilot test of Google Health has ended, and Google is now offering the service to the public at large. Google Health allows patients to enter health information, such as conditions and prescriptions, find related medical information, and share information with their health care providers (at the patient's request). Information may be entered manually or imported from partnered health care providers. The service is offered free of charge, and Google won't be including advertising. The WSJ and the NYTimes provide details about Google's numerous health partners.
...and welcome to We Are What We do, a new movement inspiring people to use their everyday actions to change the world. We're not talking moving big mountains. More of a gentle nudge from the corner desk. A little prod from the sofa. A gentle push from the PE room.
So go on then! Track an action, share, connect.
In Africa, it is common to boil milk whenever it is harvested. This intense heating greatly changes the flavor of milk, which the people in Africa are accustomed to.
Cadernos de Saude Publica / Reports in Public Health (CSP) is a bimonthly journal published by the Brazilian National School of Public Health, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. CSP publishes original articles that contribute to public health in general.
This is an overview of the Transtheoretical Model of Change, a theoretical model of behavior change, which has been the basis for developing effective interventions to promote health behavior change.
Notice how the ads saying to wash the hands is done with a male model. Could you imagine a similar advertisment with a female image? It would start a revolution!
In a new book, ''Pathologies of Power'' (University of California), Dr. Farmer, who has worked and lived in Haiti for the past 20 years, criticizes human rights advocates and bioethicists for giving short shrift to the health problems of the poor.