Creating a Health Informatics Program: Is It Good For What Ails Us?

Curing What Ails Us: How the Lessons of Behavioral Economics Can Improve Health Care Markets

Pnm-11: The Role of Health informatics, Nurses and Midwives on Education in Reproductive Health and Prenatal Care

Background: Employing informatics in the health care systems can improve the quality of health care through the effective use of information systems. Health informatics is potentially a powerful and dynamic method for providing health education. Reproductive health is a necessary part of health for individuals, couples and families. It deals with different features of health care, such as: impr...

A Brief Philosophical Encounter with Science and Medicine

We show a lot of respect for science today. To back up our claims, we tend to appeal to scientific methods. It seems that we all agree that these methods are effective for gaining the truth. We can ask why science has its special status as a supplier of knowledge about our external world and our bodies. Of course, one should not always trust what scientists say. Nonetheless, epistemological jus...

Evaluation of an evaluation

Introduction. Evaluation is a systematic way to improve and make more effective actions that involves procedures which are useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate. Common questions in all evaluations are: do all part of program do well and effective? What is the good functioning? Why the program or its parts do not work well? What are the effects and consequences of the program? Is this progra...

Is managed care good for what ails you? Ruminations on race, age and class.