In Germany, a biennial preventive health check-up has been available for individuals aged 35 and older since 1989. The check-up includes identification of cardiovascular disease risk factors and examinations for diabetes mellitus type 2 and kidney disease. Participation in preventive health check-ups among 19,351 women aged 35 to 74 in Germany in 2004 was investigated. Logistic regression was p...

BACKGROUND When H1N1 emerged in 2009, institutions of higher education were immediately faced with questions about how best to protect their community from the virus, yet limited information existed to help predict student preventive behaviors. METHODS The authors surveyed students at a large urban university in November 2009 to better understand how students perceived their susceptibility to...

BACKGROUND Traditional birth attendants retain an important role in reproductive and maternal health in Tanzania. The Tanzanian Government promotes TBAs in order to provide maternal and neonatal health counselling and initiating timely referral, however, their role officially does not include delivery attendance. Yet, experience illustrates that most TBAs still often handle complicated deliveri...

BACKGROUND Children of leprosy patients deserve social services such as free education, health care services including HIV/AIDS prevention like others. The extent to which these children benefit from such services is not clear. One expects that since they are exposed to health hazards in settlements that they would benefit immensely from preventive health care and other services. Study investig...

We, participants in the First International Congress of Person centered Medicine and the Board of the International College of Person-Centered Medicine, call for action to promote person-centered health for all through transfor-mative educational concepts, programs and actions. Person Centered Medicine seeks to place the whole person in context at the center and as the goal of clinical practice...

COURSE IN THE AREA OF HEALTH PROMOTION Mahrokh Kheshvari, Niko Yamani, Peyman Abidi, Hossein Shahnazi. Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Research Center in nursing and midwifery school in Isfahan University of medical sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Associate Professor, Medical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Professor of Medicine; Isfahan Uni...

BACKGROUND Limited attention has been paid to the issue of reproductive health as it affects women with intellectual disabilities, despite reproductive health being a vital issue in public health policy for women in the general population. This paper describes caregiver awareness of reproductive health issues relative to women with intellectual disabilities who are being cared for in welfare in...

* The Worm Health Organization International Influenza Center for the Americas and the Respiratory Virology Unit, Center for Disease Control, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Atlanta, Georgia 3o333. t Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Geo...