The demand for health care in the Republic of Korea has increased with continuing socioeconomic development, improvement of the living standards, and the introduction of a national health insurance system in 1989. To meet this rising demand a major concern is providing an adequate number of health care professionals. Nurses are very important to health care because they constitute the largest g...

Background. Taking into account the high prevalence of mental disorders and the multiple barriers to the use of mental health services, new forms of fostering patient information, involvement, and self-management are needed to complement existing mental health services. The study aimed at investigating acceptance regarding design and content of the e-mental health portal www.psychenet.de. Metho...

Disenfranchised ethnic minority communities in the urban United States experience a high burden of asthma. Conventional office-based patient education often is insufficient to promote proper asthma management and coping practices responsive to minority patients' environments. This paper explores existing and alternative asthma information and education sources in three urban minority communitie...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine, among the general public, the independent effect of race on women's use of health information resources. STUDY DESIGN A population-based random-digit dialing survey of adult women, aged 18 to 64 years, was conducted between October 1999 and January 2000. Subjects included 509 women (341 white women, 135 black women, and 33 women of other rac...