BACKGROUND Personalized medicine (PM) aims to offer tailored health care to individuals on the basis of their genetic profile. This paper explores the types of behaviors and practices that citizens are expected to adopt under PM, examines whether such expectations are realistic, and proposes strategies that could support citizens in the adoption of these behaviors. METHODS Recent reports from...

OBJECTIVES Every country wants a good health care system for all citizens with minimum expenditure. By comparing health care systems in Canada and Japan, both of which have a universal health care system for all citizens in its own country, an attempt was made to visualize or search for an optimal health care system. METHOD Data and information obtained were tabulated and compared from the st...

There has been an exponential increase in the utilization of health ICTs by both health professionals and individual citizens. Despite the many benefits these technologies offer, citizens’ health information privacy concerns are commonly cited as a barrier to their sustained growth. In order to address these concerns and ensure the continued success of health ICTs, the factors driving concern m...

OBJECTIVE To examine the introduction of citizens advice bureau sessions into general practice. DESIGN Prospective survey of 150 consecutive attenders. SETTING 10 Practices in south Birmingham that volunteered to participate. OUTCOME MEASURES The social characteristics of the population attending, the problems presented, the social security and other payments obtained, and the health prob...

Objective-To examine the introduction of citizens advice bureau sessions into general practice. Design-Prospective survey of 150 consecutive attenders. Setting-10 Practices in south Birmingham that volunteered to participate. Outcome measures-The social characteristics of the population attending, the problems presented, the social security and other payments obtained, and the health problems m...

Survey of citizens' attitudes in the process of strategic decision making is one of the most important methods for determining health care priorities. We describe the results of a survey carried out in December 2001, with an aim to collect and analyze the attitudes of the citizens and health care professionals toward the possibilities and strategies of construction of the University Hospital in...

OBJECTIVE To analyze variation in tonsillectomy procedure rates between health care system types around the world. STUDY DESIGN International database analysis. METHODS The 2015 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Statistics surgical procedures database was used to ascertain tonsillectomy procedure volumes for 31 countries. Each country's health system type ...