In Britain, the nurse provided by the National Health Service to attend patients in their homes is always the "district nurse", despite other and later descriptions of her work as "home" or "community" nursing.' The popular usage not only betrays district nursing's philanthropic origins as a service organized on the district basis typical of Victorian visiting charities,2 but also testifies to ...

as an international legal instrument, the international health regulations (ihr) is internationally binding in 196 countries, especially in all the member states of the world health organization (who). the ihr aims to prevent, protect against, control, and respond to the international spread of disease and aims to cut out unnecessary interruptions to traffic and trade. to meet ihr requirements,...

BACKGROUND The local municipality, whose management style is largely inspired by the New Public Management (NPM) model, has administrative responsibilities for primary health care in Norway. Those responsible for health care at the local level often find themselves torn between their professional responsibilities and the municipality's market-oriented funding system. The introduction of the new...

Health promotion and disease prevention have always been essential to public health nursing. With the changing health care system and an increased emphasis on cost-containment, the role of the nurse is expanding even more into this arena. A challenge for public health nurses, then, is to motivate and facilitate health behavior change in working with individuals, families, and communities and de...

INTRODUCTION The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a home-visit program for young and first-time, socially and economically disadvantaged mothers. Evidence from three United States randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the effectiveness of this intervention at improving pregnancy outcomes, improving child health and development, and increasing maternal economic self-sufficiency is robust. Howe...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe how nurse case managers care for older women with breast cancer. DESIGN A randomized, prospective trial. SETTING Thirteen community hospitals and two public hospitals in southeastern Texas. SAMPLE 335 older women aged 60-89 years newly diagnosed with breast cancer and being cared for by 60 surgeons. Most participants were Caucasian. A total of 166 women were...

in the past two decades, the number of countries giving the permission of prescribing to nurses has increased. nowadays, in countries such as australia, south africa, ireland, finland, canada, norway, new zealand, sweden, britain, spain, and america, nurses have the legal right to prescribe medicine. nurse prescribing can enhance the quality of care, save patients’ time and money, promote occup...

there is a good literature confirming the effects of social capital on different health domains. the increase in different types of cancer has caused scientists to encounter a number of issues regarding the reasons of affliction by this disease. the aim of this empirical research was to study the causal aspects of social capital of iranian patients with cancer.the study was a causal-comparative...