411 research outputs found
Making health care decisions. [Chapter 6]
22 pages (out of 210 pages)Studies the issues of informed consent regarding health care choices
Defining death: a report on the medical, legal and ethical issues in the determination of death
177 pagesStudies the criteria for defining "death", and recommends that a legal definition of "death" be established
Deciding to forego life-sustaining treatment. [Appendix ABCD]
132 pages (out of 570 pages).Discusses the considerations and issues involved in making the decision to prolong life or not. Table of Contents contains the front matter and Table of Contents. Part I contains Part I, "Making Treatment Decisions". Part II contains Part II, "Patient Groups Raising Special Concerns". Appendix ABCD contains Appendix A, B, C, and D. Appendix EFG contains Appendix E, F, and G. Appendix HI contains Appendix H and I. Index contains the index for the entire document
What Does It Take? California County Funding Requests for Recovery-Oriented Full Service Partnerships Under the Mental Health Services Act
The need to move mental health systems toward more recovery-oriented treatment modes is well established. Progress has been made to define needed changes but evidence is lacking about the resources required to implement them. The Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) in California was designed to implement more recovery-oriented treatment modes. We use data from county funding requests and annual updates to examine how counties budgeted for recovery-oriented programs targeted to different age groups under MHSA. Findings indicate that initial per-client budgeting for Full Services Partnerships under MHSA was maintained in future cycles and counties budgeted less per client for children. With this analysis, we begin to benchmark resource allocation for programs that are intended to be recovery-oriented, which should be evaluated against appropriate outcome measures in the future to determine the degree of recovery-orientation
āBut the moment they find out that you are MSMā¦ā: a qualitative investigation of HIV prevention experiences among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ghanaās health care system
Abstract: The prevalence of HIV in Ghana is 1.3%, compared to 17% among men who have sex with men (MSM). There is limited empirical data on the current health care climate and its impact on HIV prevention services for Ghanaian MSM. The purposes of this study were to investigate (1) MSMās experiences using HIV prevention resources, (2) what factors, including health care climate factors, influenced MSMās use of prevention resources and (3) MSM self-identified strategies for improving HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention among MSM in Ghanaian communities. Methods: We conducted 22 focus groups (n = 137) with peer social networks of MSM drawn from three geographic communities in Ghana (Accra, Kumasi, Manya Krobo). The data were examined using qualitative content analysis. Interviews with individual health care providers were also conducted to supplement the analysis of focus group findings to provide more nuanced illuminations of the experiences reported by MSM..
Chumnguh Thleum: Understanding Liver Illness and Hepatitis B Among Cambodian Immigrants
Cambodian immigrants are over 25 times more likely to have evidence of chronic hepatitis B infection than the general US population. Carriers of HBV are over 100 times more likely to develop liver cancer than non-carriers. Liver cancer incidence is the second leading cancer for Cambodian men and the sixth for Cambodian women. Despite this, this underserved population has received very little attention from health disparities researchers. Culturally and linguistically appropriate interventions are necessary to increase hepatitis B knowledge, serologic testing, and vaccination among Cambodian Americans. Eight group interviews were held with Cambodian American men (48) and women (49). Focus group discussion revealed unanticipated information about sociocultural influences on participantsā understanding about hepatitis B transmission, disease course, and prevention and treatment informed by humoral theories underlying Khmer medicine, by biomedicine, and by migration experiences. Our findings reveal the value of qualitative exploration to providing cultural context to biomedical informationāa formula for effective health promotion and practice
Guidelines for Disclosing Genetic Information to Family Members: from Development to Use
[Ć l'origine dans / Was originally part of : CRDP - Droit, biotechnologie et rapport au milieu
Litter, gender and brand: The anticipation of incivilities and perceptions of crime prevalence
This paper isolates litter as a physical incivility in a film-based experiment, demonstrating the impact of litter on participants' anticipation of a wide range of both physical and social incivilities, and on their perceptions of crime prevalence. Such relationships have not previously been examined, partly because litter has rarely been the focus of earlier studies on incivilities. This paper also tests for possible interaction effects in these relationships involving gender (finding no significant interaction), as well as examining whether there is a difference in the anticipation of incivilities and perceptions of crime prevalence between participants exposed to branded as opposed to unbranded litter (finding no difference between the two groups). Litter is often viewed as a tolerable nuisance and not always treated as a priority. This study suggests prioritising funds towards more targeted interventions to reduce litter might result in some āquick winsā ā most notably, reducing perceptions of crime prevalenc
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