Colorectal cancer represents a major health problem and an important economic burden in Puerto Rico. In the 1990's, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico implemented a health care reform through the privatization of the public health system. The goal was to ensure access to health services, eliminate disparities for medically indigent citizens and provide special coverage for high-risk conditions suc...

Engaging social networks to encourage preventive health behavior offers a supplement to conventional mass media campaigns and yet we do not fully understand the conditions that facilitate or hamper such interpersonal diffusion. One set of factors that should affect the diffusion of health campaign information involves a person's community. Variables describing geographic communities should pred...

OBJECTIVES The personal child health record (PCHR) is a record of a child's growth, development, and uptake of preventive health services, designed to enhance communication between parents and health professionals. We examined its use throughout the United Kingdom with respect to recording children's weight and measures of social disadvantage and infant health. DESIGN Cross sectional survey w...

Caring for children in foster care, as for any child who has complex issues, is challenging and sometimes daunting. The pediatrician should become familiar with the intricacies of foster care agencies and the consent and confidentiality issues for children in dependent care. While maintaining communication with the social services agency, the physician should assume the responsibility for healt...

As Catholic-owned hospitals merge with or take over other facilities, they impose restrictions on reproductive health services, including abortion and contraceptive services. Our interviews with US obstetrician-gynecologists working in Catholic-owned hospitals revealed that they are also restricted in managing miscarriages. Catholic-owned hospital ethics committees denied approval of uterine ev...

OBJECTIVE To determine an appropriate, cost-effective and sustainable model of health services for prevention and control of hypertension in a primary care unit. STUDY DESIGN Operational research. MATERIAL AND METHOD The presented study was to develop a model that utilized health personnel, village health volunteers (VHVs) and family health leaders (FHLs) to improve health services to preve...

The study set out to investigate what influences the intentions of college students to get vaccinated against genital human papillomavirus (HPV). College men and women were surveyed to understand their intentions. Regression was used and supported that the constructs of the health belief model (HBM) as well as gender, norms, and information seeking contributed to predicting intent to receive th...

The Bonham-Carter Report on the Functions of the District General Hospital favoured the idea of locating a department or office of the local health authority at the district general hospital, in order to help in achieving functional integration of the hospital and community health services. This paper describes the establishment and development of such a department in a district general hospita...

The health of individuals occurs within the context of their environment and the other individuals they interact with in the communities they live in, work in and visit. Promoting the health of the public requires multiple strategies aimed at improving the environment, the health knowledge of groups and individuals, maintaining adequate food and water, and reducing the spread of disease. Many d...

objectives: a public health course has an important role in theundergraduate education of pharmacy and dentistry in termsof emphasizing preventive care. the purpose of this study is toevaluate the views of pharmacy and dentistry students on a publichealth course and preventive health care.methods: 173 students enrolled at ege university, facultiesof pharmacy and dentistry completed a swot (stre...