OBJECTIVE To provide an evidence-based review of plausible causal pathways that could best explain well-established associations between limited health literacy and health outcomes. METHODS Through analysis of current findings in medical and public health literature on health literacy we derived a conceptual causal model. RESULTS Health literacy should be viewed as both a patient and a syst...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A wide body of research suggests that the nature of communication between patients and physicians is strongly related to health outcomes. Interventions that involve teaching patients to communicate with physicians are important to assess in this context. METHODS We conducted a review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the outpatient setting from 1975 to 2000. ...

Objective To analyze the health needs of street market saleswomen of the Mercado Público (Public Market) of a municipality in Northeastern Brazil. Method Qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study, with fifteen saleswomen in a public market. Data production means included semi-structured interviews, April-May 2016. Results Data were analyzed using the analysis of technical content techn...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of home modifications on self-rated ability in everyday life from various aspects for people ageing with disabilities. METHODS The study sample was recruited from an agency providing home modification services in Sweden and comprised 73 subjects whose referrals had been approved and who were scheduled to receive home modifications (intervention group) and 41 su...

The purpose of this study was to investigate predictive factors of the self-care behaviors among Thai teenagers with primigravida. The samples of 206 primigravida teenagers attending ANC clinics of six hospitals in the North-Eastern region of Thailand were included. Data collection was done through self administered-questionnaire. Scales of the questionnaire had reliability coefficients ranging...

INTRODUCTION At a time when a great number of diseases can be prevented by changing one's habits and life style, investigations have focused on understanding what adults and children believe to be desirable health practices and uncovering the factors associated with successful adherence to such practices. For these, causal attributions for health and illness were investigated among 96 Brazilian...

BACKGROUND In this article we outline Burden of Treatment Theory, a new model of the relationship between sick people, their social networks, and healthcare services. Health services face the challenge of growing populations with long-term and life-limiting conditions, they have responded to this by delegating to sick people and their networks routine work aimed at managing symptoms, and at ret...

This review highlights the growing prominence of self-care and explores the contribution of community pharmacy. Firstly, background to self-care is discussed, followed by placing self-care in context with regard to the general public and accessing community pharmacy. From this perspective the contribution community pharmacy currently makes is assessed, paying particular attention to the factors...

Older people have been identified as being at risk of social exclusion. However, despite the fact that care is commonly required in later life and the majority of that care is provided by informal carers, a connection between social exclusion and informal care-receipt has rarely been considered. The aim of this study was to examine how informal care-receipt is related to social exclusion. A fac...

Need for community care There has been a great deal of talk about the necessity for "community care" of the mentally ill, and it is unhappily true that, because of pressure of work, professional people involved in looking after the mentally ill are unable to give that personal care and friendship which is so often a patient's real need. The problem is not entirely solved by creating after-care ...