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Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices regarding breast and cervical cancer screening in selected ethnocultural groups in Northwestern Ontario.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices regarding breast and cervical cancer screening in selected ethnocultural groups (i.e., Italian, Ukranian, Finnish, and the native population) in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. DESIGN Descriptive, exploratory. SETTING Rural and urban settings in Northwestern Ontario. SAMPLE 105 women aged 40 and older who were re...

"beliefs about Beliefs" without Probabilities

Clinical Telemedicine Utilization in Ontario over the Ontario Telemedicine Network

INTRODUCTION Northern Ontario is a region in Canada with approximately 775,000 people in communities scattered across 803,000 km(2). The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) facilitates access to medical care in areas that are often underserved. We assessed how OTN utilization differed throughout the province. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used OTN medical service utilization data collected through ...

Phantasies, neurotic-beliefs, and beliefs-proper.

This paper presents a philosophical analysis of three cognitive states familiar and important to psychoanalysts--phantasy, neurotic-belief, and belief-proper. It explores the differences among these three propositional attitudes and finds that the development of secondary process capacities of reality testing and truth directness out of earlier primary process operations (themselves prior to co...