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, SchattauerPURPOSE: 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, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: 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, SchattauerOBJECTIVE: 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, SchattauerPURPOSE: 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, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: 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