Search Results - "Changing Consumers and Changing Technology in Health Care and Health Care Delivery"

Using social network principles to structure linkages between providers and patients by Chumbler, Neale R., Grimm, James W.

“…This paper uses social network principles to explain the sources of and variations in relationships among health care providers and patients. General…”
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The history of nursing home bed supply in Chicago: The effect of federal policy and urban settlement on utilization by Reed, Susan C.

“…In the past decade, national nursing home utilization rates for African Americans have risen above those of White elders suggesting improved access to care…”
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On being a proactive health care consumer: Making an “unresponsive” system work for you by Kahana, Eva, Kahana, Boaz

“…This chapter focuses on the proactive adaptations that patients can undertake to successfully navigate today's increasingly complex health care system. Our…”
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The extended self: Illness experiences of older married arthritis sufferers by Ballantyne, Peri J., Hawker, Gillian A., Radoeva, Detelina

“…A large epidemiological survey evaluating the extent of arthritis in the population aged 55+ uncovered a discrepancy between medically assessed need for and…”
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Using action research to improve collaboration between breast cancer patients and physicians: Creating the program for collaborative care by Aviv, Caryn, Sepucha, Karen, Belkora, Jeff, Esserman, Laura

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Computer tools and shared decision making: Patient perspectives of “knowledge coupling” in primary care by Weaver, Robert R.

“…Two parallel developments in health care have begun to converge: (1) the demand for greater patient participation in health care, and (2) the evolution of…”
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Consumer desire and medical practice by Hanson, Barbara

“…This paper presents the construct of “medicalism” — a widespread mind set for defining and dealing with troubles — as a theory of how health service provision…”
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Predictors of continued use of telemedicine by primary care professionals, medical specialists and patients by Alex McIntosh, William, Booher, John R., Alston, Letitia T., Sykes, Dianne, Segura, Clasina B., Wheeler, E. Jay, Hartman, Ted, McCaughan, William

“…Proponents of telemedicine believe this technology will resolve many of the problems associated with the lack of access to specialty care by isolated…”
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Managed care: The changing environment for consumers and health care providers by Furlong, Beth, Wilken, Marlene

“…“Managed care is the health law issue of 1999” (Leibold, 1999, p. 5). This chapter addresses changes in the health care system initiated by the managed care…”
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Hospital technology-environment interplay as determinants of mortality by Toney, Eleanor V.

“…This study examines healthcare from an environmental point of view using the ecology theory of organizations as the underlying framework. This research…”
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Managing mental illness: Trends in continuing mental health education for family doctors, 1977–1996 by Winnick, Terri A., Werum, Regina E., Pavalko, Eliza K.

“…Medical sociologists have documented psychiatry's tendency to define psychological and behavioral problems as mental disorders. But we know little about how…”
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Health determinants among persons with traumatic injuries: A comparative analysis using the sickness impact profile by Hall, Jeffrey, Yoels, William C.

“…The purposes of this study were to: (a) measure and compare the subjective health status of persons with spinal cord injuries (SCIs); traumatic brain injuries…”
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