background many of the problems pertaining to old age originate from unhealthy lifestyle and low social support. overcoming these problems requires precise and proper policy-making and planning. objectives the aim of the current research is to investigate the effect of health promoting interventions on healthy lifestyle and social support in elders. patients and methods this study was conducted...

BACKGROUND Data stored in personally controlled health records (PCHRs) may hold value for clinicians and public health entities, if patients and their families will share them. We sought to characterize consumer willingness and unwillingness (reticence) to share PCHR data across health topics, and with different stakeholders, to advance understanding of this issue. METHODS Cross-sectional 200...

OBJECTIVE To understand if patient-provider race-concordance is associated with improved health outcomes for minorities. DESIGN A comprehensive review of published research literature (1980-2008) using MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, and CINAHL databases were conducted. Studies were included if they had at least one research question examining the effect of patient-provider race-concordance on minority ...

To meet consumer needs for assistance with treatment and provider choices, as well as cost and budget management, consumer decision-support tools have evolved and proliferated in recent years. Interest in these decision aids has accelerated with the expectation that consumer participation in health care decision-making will promote self-care and information transparency. Consumer participation ...

This paper investigates the recovery capability in the distribution control of the multiple robots which may be broken through the simulation of space solar power satellite assembly with changing its scale. For this purpose, we conduct simulations with changing the failure rate of robots that employ our proposed deadlock avoidance method. Through the intensive simulations, we have revealed that...

The present study investigates the effectiveness of a computerbased intervention to support adults with severe speech and physical impairments (SSPI) in developing their phonological awareness, an essential contributory factor to literacy acquisition. Three participants with SSPI undertook seven intervention sessions during which they were asked to play a training game on an iPad. The game was ...

Individuals share experiences and build relationships through the medium of narrative. Lifelong personal narratives play a key role in developing social identity. Individuals with little or no functional speech due to severe speech and physical impairments (SSPI) find it difficult to share personal narrative as augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems do not support interactive ...

In the recent years, more and more people turned towards the Internet to find support, share their experience and feelings when they live difficult situation such as diseases. Considering this phenomenon, we are working with a community of caregivers of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease. We aim at providing them an online platform where they can share social support. Such a tool offer...

A central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. In tax-funded European health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...