BACKGROUND The Arizona Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation (WISEWOMAN) project used provider counseling, health education, and community health workers (CHWs) to target chronic disease risk factors in uninsured, primarily Hispanic women over age 50. METHODS Participants were recruited from two Tucson clinics participating in the National Breast and Cervical Ca...

We define social support as "an exchange of resources between two individuals perceived by the provider or the recipient to be intended to enhance the wellbeing of the recipient.'' We then discuss the assumptions and implications of this definition and address several gaps in the support literature. Specifically, we consider the costs and benefits of supportive exchanges for both participants, ...

The effects of support for women during labor and delivery provided by health professionals, lay women, and doulas on the maternal and neonatal outcomes have been evaluated through randomized clinical trials, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews. This article presents a review of these studies, focusing on the principal characteristics, support provider, simultaneous presence of the woman's sp...

background and objectives: responsiveness is one of the hallmarks of high performance health systems. maintaining the responsiveness of health organizations at high level, require constant assessment of its situation as perceived by the patients. the accumulation of data on patients’ perception of health organizations’ responsiveness can help policy-makers in developing effective relevant strat...

Despite the importance of interaction between industrialization and health, this subject has not been studied sufficiently in Iran. In this regard, the aim of this study is investigating the impact of industrialization on health in Iranian provinces during 2009-13. The used data has been collected from the Statistical Centre of Iran and the National Organization for Civil Registration. The intr...

Most extant research focused on the attractiveness of online games, but paid scant attention to the sources of customer dissatisfaction with online games. Thus, this study investigates the sources of customer dissatisfaction (dissatisfiers) with online games. From an online survey, this study identified five factors as the sources of customer dissatisfaction: (1) the deceptive behavior of other...

With the advancement of technology, many aspects of the face-to-face interpersonal dynamics in service encounters between sellers and customers have been replaced with technology-based Web interfaces. This paper develops and tests a model of customer satisfaction with technology mediated service encounters utilizing the suggestions of Meuter et al. [43] and the factors proposed by Jarvenpaa and...

The track entitled "Consumer Informatics Supporting Patients as Co-Producers of Quality" at the AMIA Spring 2000 Congress was devoted to examining the new field of consumer health informatics. This area is developing rapidly, as worldwide changes are occurring in the organization and delivery of health care and in the traditional roles of patient and provider. This paper describes the key theme...

This paper describes a plan to combine IT support for major tertiary hospitals through to independent GPs under a single application support provider. The objectives of the centre being to improve coordination between health providers, reduce GP IT support problems, provide access to Web skills to all players in order to support a thin client model for health IT