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The internet provides a major source of exchanging health information through online portals and new media. Internet users can access health sites and online forums to obtain health information. In turn, these information sources act as a catalyst for wellbeing and improving personal health care behaviors and routines. Competent health institutions encourage the development of these individual behaviors that enable individuals to increase health empowerment and to take responsibility for their own health needs, diagnosis and treatment.
Online Health Forums and Services: Benefits, Risks and Perspectives is an investigation of the use of online health forums and services. The author first introduces the reader to the theories that define online social behaviors in terms of health care services. The chapters following this introduction attempt to account for the variations in online health care portal use and to what extent does social networking induce variations in health b
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Pregnant patients in Colorado may be told about parenting and adoption, but not abortion. This is according to a new study led by Kate Coleman-Minahan of the University of Colorado College of Nursing published in the Access to abortion is a public health priority, said Coleman-Minahan, assistant professor at the CU College of Nursing and lead author of the study. Evidence-based and nonjudgmental counseling on all three pregnancy options (abortion, adoption and parenting) support individual autonomy and the health and well-being of pregnant patients and their families.
While pregnant women want to know all of their options, the study found only 48% of clinicians were willing and able to give them complete, accurate and unbiased information. The staff involved included nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants, not the doctors.
As the US population ages, more hospitals are implementing geriatric emergency department (GED) programs with specialized staff focused on transitional care for older adults aimed at reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and improving outcomes for this vulnerable patient population. A new study finds that providing specialized geriatric emergency care results in lower Medicare expenditures up to $3,200 per beneficiary.
Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
A painful tradeoff between a number of infected and negative economic impact must be considered before deciding on the lockdown strategy within a city. As national economies continue to crumble, citizens wonder whether their governments did a good job at regulating the lockdown measures.
Russian city of St. Petersburg is at the frontlines of this ongoing war with Covid-19. To combat this situation effectively, Russian government allocated significant funds for the research. Results followed. Scientists from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) modified the existing SIR class pandemic prediction model. Now it is better.
Black Americans are often skeptical about the nation s health care system, a result of systemic racism. A new survey finds that Black Americans have a high level of vaccine hesitancy and mistrust of COVID-19 vaccines, including among Black health care workers.