In 2003, the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) endorsed a network model as a means to accelerate the translation of evidence into practice, to improve care and outcomes for children, and to serve as the gold standard for the performance in practice component of Maintenance of Certification (MOC) for pediatricians. This model involves multisite practice-based clinical networks that allow teams ...

OBJECTIVE Stories can serve as powerful tools for health interventions. Story immersion refers to the experience of being absorbed in a story. This is among the first studies to analyze story immersion's role in health videogames among children by addressing two main questions: Will children be more immersed when the main characters are similar to them? Do increased levels of immersion relate t...

The purpose of this paper is to establish the importance of distinguishing unmitigated agency and unmitigated communion from agency and communion. First, we examine the empirical overlap and distinctions among the four constructs. Then, we demonstrate the differential association of unmitigated agency, unmitigated communion, agency, and communion to relationship and health outcomes. We conclude...

This article develops a theoretical model of the impact of workplace incivility on employees' occupational and psychological well-being. In Study 1, the authors tested the model on 1,158 employees, finding that satisfaction with work and supervisors, as well as mental health, partially mediated effects of personal incivility on turnover intentions and physical health; this process did not vary ...

The WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women is a research initiative that has produced data on intimate-partner violence comparable across the 10 countries in this report: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand, and the United Republic of Tanzania. Carried out in adherence to strict ethical, safety and qua...

Defining clinically meaningful outcomes for clinical trials provides a foundation for assessing and improving the value of cancer care by conducting multidisciplinary research in clinical trial design, comparative effectiveness, patient preferences, health outcomes, and economics captured through analysis of data generated in clinical trials and real-world clinical practice.

OBJECTIVE Review the limitations in cross-sectoral health outcomes research and suggest a future research agenda. DATA SOURCES, STUDY DESIGN, DATA COLLECTION: Literature review and workshop discussion. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The research evidence that would aid public and private policy makers in answering the question the title poses is quite limited. CONCLUSIONS Much more evidence from divers...

There is general agreement on the need to integrate human rights into health policies and programmes, although there is still reluctance to go beyond rhetorical acknowledgement of their assumed significance. To determine the actual value of human rights for the effectiveness of public health efforts requires clarity about what their incorporation looks like in practice and how to assess their c...