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A Comparison of Organized and Traditional Health Care. Implications for Health Promotion and Prospective Medicine

PURPOSE: To compare organized and traditional health care delivery systems and their ability to meet several major challenges facing health care in the next 25 years. APPROACH: Analysis of traditional and organized health care systems based on a career spent in organized health care systems. CONCLUSIONS: The traditional health care system based on independent autonomous physicians is not able to meet the challenges of current healthcare...

Keywords: Organized health care, traditional health care, delivery systems, health promotion, medical care

01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer
Health Promotion in the Workplace The Merging of the Paradigms

PURPOSE: To synthesize the lessons from both occupational health and health promotion, to improve workplace health. APPROACH: This article briefly outlines the evolution in defining and understanding health promotion as well as current thinking in occupational health and safety...

Keywords: health promotion, occupational health, environmental health, health care

01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer
Health Promotion in Occupational Health

OBJECTIVES: To describe a Swedish approach to occupational health and its implications for health promotion. METHODS: We start business with a new customer by creating a health policy for the whole company...

Keywords: health promotion, new approaches, health improvement, positive attitude

01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer
Evaluating Personal Health Care and Health Promotion Web Sites

OBJECTIVE: An exemplary sample of web sites relevant to personal health care and health promotion was chosen and evaluated. METHODS: Both quantitative and qualitative data were converged to assess and rank the sites on nine attributes. RESULTS: The sites provided a definitive range of value and variety of presentations, health care and health promotion information, and services covering the virtual choices currently available to users of the Internet. CONCLUSION: Discussion focused on methodological approaches and issues of web site evaluation serving the public interest, health care, and health promotion.

Keywords: health care, health promotion, methods, web site evaluation

01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer
Video Conferencing-based Telehealth Its Implications for Health Promotion and Health Care

PURPOSE: To review the experience with a provincewide telehealth system in Canada, and its implications for health care and health promotion...

Keywords: Telemedicine, Canada, British Columbia, evaluation studies, health promotion

01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer
The Future Profile of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Japan: Based on the Study of Seniors over Age 75

OBJECTIVES: One of the serious challenges for Japanese healthcare is the aging population. Analysis of health evaluation data, especially of the elderly over 75 years, is considered very important...

Keywords: Aging of population, Healthy Japan 21, health promotion, new elder citizen, frailty

01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer