Health education horizons and patient satisfactions.

Patient health education--an experiment.

Changes in life style, stimulated through planned education intervention by the professionals in health care system, can be obtained, do have an impact, and are absolutely essential (Simond, 1974). This has of course resulted in the various Health Education Programmes of the Ministry of Health Malaysia. The burden of bringing about this change should not only be the responsibility of the genera...

Health Education and Health Promotion

False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice

In response to a weight of evidence that patients are frequently harmed as a result of their care, there have been concerted efforts to make healthcare safer, with health systems across the globe investing significant resources in policies and programmes designed to reduce adverse events. Yet, despite extensive efforts, improvements in safety have proved difficult to sustain and spread, with st...

Disturbing the Doxa of Patient Safety; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

In a recent edition of this journal, Mannion and Braithwaite provide a succinct analysis of the emergence, and ultimately limited impact, of what they term the current ‘Safety I’ movement in healthcare. They describe the arc of this field from denial, through engagement via mechanisms and approaches imported from other industries, to the current situation where, despite ‘best efforts,’ error ra...

Evaluating a Sexual Health Patient Education Resource

This article shares the findings of an evaluation of a patient teaching resource for sexual health entitled Everything Nobody Tells You About Cancer Treatment and Your Sex Life: From A to Z, which was accomplished through systematic conceptualization, construction, and evaluation with women diagnosed with breast or gynecologic cancer. This resource, which has evolved from patient-focused resear...