OBJECTIVE To compare the swallowing functions according to the lesion locations between brain tumor and stroke patients. METHODS Forty brain tumor patients and the same number of age-, lesion-, and functional status-matching stroke patients were enrolled in this study. Before beginning the swallowing therapy, swallowing function was evaluated in all subjects by videofluoroscopic swallowing st...

Abstract Background Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) are community health workers responsible for improving the status of people by facilitating their access to healthcare services. The life skills ASHA known be effective in negotiating behaviour change community; however, there has been a meagre focus towards them. Considering this gap, we adopted comprehensive training program, as Pe...

Aim: To determine the effectiveness of capacity building program on palliative care (PC) in enhancing primary health workers need assessment and symptom management cancer patients. Background: In India, less than one percent people living with have access to since most are from low- middle-income groups. Accre...

Each online interaction with an external service creates data about the user that is digitally recorded and stored. These services may be credit card transactions, medical consultations, census collection, voter registration, etc. Although ostensibly collected to provide citizens better services, privacy of individual inevitably put at risk. With growing reach Internet volume being generated, p...

PURPOSE In this tutorial, we review the tenets of information literacy (IL) that parallel and intersect with new American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) certification standards requiring clinicians to engage in evidence-based practice (EBP). METHOD A review of the literature on EBP in medical and allied health areas was conducted through an online database search. The Information ...

Chandramma R 1 ,Akshatha K Gowda 2 , Asha U 2 ,Jyothi B S 2 ,Meghana B Bapat 2 , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Bangalore-74 [email protected],[email protected],[email protected] [email protected],[email protected] Abstract: People with physical disability or subjected to other injuries who cannot walk wi...