The Health Interview

Current estimates from the health interview survey.

Provisional estimates of incidence of acute conditions, number of persons reporting limitation of activity, number of persons iniured, hospital discharges, persons with hospital episodes, disability days, and frequencyof dental and physician visits. Based on data collected in the Health Interview Survey during 1971. Under t)le legislation establishi~lg the National Health Survey, the Public Hea...

Changing health behaviors through the medical interview.

I am writing this editorial from three perspectives: as a primary care physician searching for an alternative to the fruitless admonishment of patients to abandon their destructive health behaviors; as a teacher trying to instill new attitudes and skills related to medical interviewing; and as an investigator looking for ways to understand how patient-physician interactions affect health outcom...

Use of Episodic Interview in Health Information Seeking Studies

Background and Aim: Due to recent attention to health promotion and self-care as one of the prerequisites of health services and intervention programs, health information seeking behavior research has gain increasing importance. Factors such as attention to user centered studies, context and self-care require using of methods and tools that help study people in their natural environment. Howeve...

European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), 2009

Health in focus Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity1. The highest possible level of physical and mental health is one of the fundamental human rights. It determines so the life and life quality of people as the income production capacity of a society. Thus, the existence and availability of information necessary...

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