BACKGROUND Patient-centered care has been one of the most frequently discussed principles in medical practice. However, there is a serious concern that the patient-centered attitudes of physicians diminish over the course of their medical education. This longitudinal study examined changes in resident physicians' patient-centered attitudes and their confidence in communicating with patients, an...

Starting at the Zagreb School of Public Health in 1927, the promotion of person-centered medicine and peoplecentered health care, based on the teachings and legacy of professor Andrija Štampar, has been occurring in Croatia for decades. Professor Andrija Štampar, one of the founders of the WHO and a representative at its first general meeting, considered by many as the father of public health, ...

BACKGROUND Disease management programs, especially those based on the Chronic Care Model (CCM), are increasingly common in The Netherlands. While disease management programs have been well-researched quantitatively and economically, less qualitative research has been done. The overall aim of the study is to explore how disease management programs are implemented within primary care settings in ...

Exploring the many approaches and issues involved in developing technologies for wellbeing---from including environmental concerns to building long-lasting, transdisciplinary partnerships both inside beyond academy.

the degree set of a graph is the set of its degrees. kapoor et al. [degree sets for graphs, fund. math. 95 (1977) 189-194] proved that for every set of positive integers, there exists a graph of diameter at most two and radius one with that degree set. furthermore, the minimum order of such a graph is determined. a graph is 2-self- centered if its radius and diameter are two. in this paper for ...

The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) High-Fidelity Simulator, called HYSIM, was recently upgraded to better meet the needs of FHWA’s Human Centered Systems research program. The HYSIM is a fully interactive driving simulator used for human factors research in highway safety and highway operations. It provides a platform to study driver performance in a broad spectrum of driving situation...

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A key question facing researchers of intimate partner violence is how the real-life contexts of victims' lives should affect state policy. The bulk of recently adopted and much touted criminal justice reforms have taken the form of relatively inflexible, one-size-fits-all mandatory responses focused on counseling, restraining, and punishing batterers. Even the protection order system relies far...