Self-monitoring activities are increasingly parts of people’s everyday lives. Some of these measurements are performed voluntary rather than being referred by a physician, and conducted because of either a preventive health interest, or to better understand the body and its functions (so-called ‘Quantified Self’). In this article, we explore socio-technical complexities that may occur when intr...

There has long been an increasing interest in knowing the future of arthroplasties, mainly of the hip and knee, as a basic element in the provision of healthcare services. This is true in both European countries with a public and universal National Health System (NHS) and in others, whose paradigm is the U.S.A., with much lower public spending and health policies based on private services. This...

BACKGROUND People who inject drugs (PWID) often have poor health and lack access to health care. The aim of this study was to examine whether PWID engage in self-treatment through nonmedical prescription opioid use (NMPOU). We describe the prevalence and features of self-reported physical pain and its association with NMPOU. METHODS PWID (N = 702) in San Francisco, California (age 18+) were r...

The component’s reliability is a function of component age during a system’s operating life. Component aging is strongly affected by maintenance activities performed on the system.Two categories of maintenance activities are considered in this work: Corrective maintenance (CM) and preventive maintenance (PM). We expound a new method to integrate the effect of CM while planning for the preventiv...

To evaluate the preventive activities offered to the public by private hospitals in Hong Kong, we obtained information from 11 of the 12 private hospitals about their screening programmes and evaluated them against the standards of the Canadian and United States task forces on preventive health care. We found that not all proven preventive activities are being offered, and many unproven or even...

A few preventive activities were recorded in Croatian family medicine (FM) from 1995 until 2003, and then in 2004, additional fee-for-service reimbursement for general check-ups for people aged 45 to 65 years was introduced. The aim of this study was to investigate the trends in preventive activities before and after the introduction of those measures by using the Croatian Health Service Yearbo...