OBJECTIVES This study examines the joint impact of psychological and structural factors on Mexican and Mexican American elders' sense of personal control over important aspects of their lives and health in Mexico and the United States. METHODS We employ the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) and the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (H-EPESE) to expl...

This paper challenges the argument that data protection legislation may harm research by unduly restricting the flow of personal health information. I unpack the assumption that privacy is an individual right that must give way to research as a social good, and explore how data protection laws facilitate the flow of information for research purposes. I conclude that researchers should embrace d...

UNLABELLED The Personal Health Scale is a concise instrument for comprehensive culture-informed and self-rated assessment of general health status and well-being. It is composed of 10 questions that appraise different health dimensions collated from the international literature, including aspects ranging from somatic and psychological domains to social functioning and insight. PURPOSE In this...

The electronic personal health record (PHR) has been championed as a mediator of patient-centered care, yet its usability and utility to patients, key predictors of success, have received little attention. Human-centered design (HCD) offers validated methods for studying systems effects on users and their cognitive tasks. In HCD, user-centered activities allow potential users to shape the desig...

the main purposes of this study were to investigate health problems and their associated risk factors among employees of iranian petrochemical industries. this cross-sectional study was carried out at 21 iranian petrochemical companies. study population consisted of 3580 workers (including 44.2% shift workers and 55.8% day workers). data on personal details, shift schedule and health problems w...

BACKGROUND Prior literature has shown that physicians with healthy personal habits are more likely to encourage patients to adopt similar habits. However, despite the possibility that promoting medical student health might therefore efficiently improve patient outcomes, no one has studied whether such promotion happens in medical school. We therefore wished to describe both typical and outstand...

OBJECTIVES To provide a survey over significant developments in the area of linking personal health informatics and clinical informatics, to give insights into critical advances and to discuss open problems and opportunities in this area. METHODS A scoping review over the literature published in scientific journals and relevant conference proceedings in the intersection between personal healt...

Background & Aims of the Study: Disregarding the health and use of polluted equipment in barbers lead to microbial infection expansion, skin diseases and particularly hematic diseases including AIDS and hepatitis. Hence, the aim of present study is determining the health condition of female barbers of Kangavar city, Iran, in order to improve the hea...

participation in clinical trials can be useful for the health of a person, in who it is conducted, but it does not have to be - it can even be harmful. therefore, primary motive to accept such risk is humanity and human wish to contribute to the progress of medicine; this is expressed by personal consent. the consent, however, can be an expression of personal humanity, and for this, it is not l...