The objective of this study was to identify leading practices to promote environmentally friendly and efficient efforts in the provision of surgical health care. Health care is the second leading contributor to waste in the United States. Despite widespread enthusiasm for "going green" in the US economy, little substantive information is available to the medical community, to our knowledge. We ...

OBJECTIVE To examine successful practices of health promotion in health, education, culture, welfare and sport, leisure, identifying the elements of success and challenges in the field. METHODS A qualitative study with data obtained from in-depth analysis that included participant observation, interviews with managers, coordinators, professionals and participants from 29 practices reported as...

This is the fourth in a series of collections under the general editorship of Roland Waast, on the history of western science beyond the West. While concentrating on medical practices and health, it is not simply another volume on "tropical" or "colonial" medicine but a more general survey of the spread of western medicine and its modification in non-western contexts, colonial and post-colonial...

BY Tacey Ann Boucher, A.B.D. Project Coordinator: Center for Addiction and Alternative Medicine Research; Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation Doctoral Candidate: University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology; Minneapolis, Minnesota Thomas J. Kiresuk, Ph.D. Chief Clinical Psychologist: Hennepin County Medical Center; Minneapolis, Minnesota Director: Program Evaluation Resource Center, Min...

S TO INFORM HOME HEALTH BEST PRACTICES These abstracts are current articles examining hot topics in home health care, with a focus on topics reported on Home Health Compare. The abstracts are intended to assist home health agencies to identify strategies supported by evidence that may improve outcomes for patients receiving home health services. This is not a comprehensive review of literature ...

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The need to access information across different levels of the health care system has prompted attention to standardising electronic patient record (EPR) systems. However, this has proven extremely difficult to achieve. One reason is that much structuring of the EPR content translates into the need to standardise related routines and practices. In this paper, we demonstrate that the Norwegian na...

Introduction In most healthcare models, the first interaction of a patient is with a general physician. The inspection of the oral cavity is a mandatory component of the general physical examination performed by a physician. This helps detect any oral pathology and make suitable referrals. Therefore, adequate oral health awareness is essential for physicians. Our study aimed at evaluating the o...

This descriptive study is planned to find frequency of traditional genital practices which affecting women's reproductive health. Research took place in İstanbul, a largest city located in the West of Turkey. A total of 178 women participated in the study. All of the subjects were asked about the use of frequency and reason for traditional genital practices. The findings of the study showed tha...

Acquisitions of medical practices by health care systems, particularly tax-exempt health care systems, appear to be on the rise currently. This is because health care systems throughout the country are continuing their strategic efforts to position themselves to be more competitive in the markets that they serve. Motivations for such acquisitive transactions vary from circumstance to circumstan...