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Electronic health information and long term conditions [PDF]

, 2012
This article discusses the increasing availability of health-related information, and the impact that this can have for people with long-term conditions’ expectations of healthcare providers.
Department of Health, Eysenbach G, Iverson SA, Kommalage M, O'Connor D   +4 more
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Reflections on health information sources in epidemics in synchrony with the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review [PDF]

Journal of Nursing Advances in Clinical Sciences
This study aims to scrutinize prevalent sources of health information utilized by individuals for informed decision-making regarding protective and preventive health behaviors amidst an infectious epidemic.
Masoomeh Imanipour, Mehraban Shahmari, Saeideh Azizi Mahkooyeh, Akram Ghobadi, Pouyan Sanjari   +4 more
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German and Italian Users of Web-Accessed Genetic Data: Attitudes on Personal Utility and Personal Sharing Preferences. Results of a Comparative Survey (n=192)

Frontiers in Genetics, 2020
Genetic information is increasingly provided outside of the traditional clinical setting, allowing users to access it directly via specialized online platforms. This development is possibly resulting in changing ethical and social challenges for users of
Sabine Wöhlke, Manuel Schaper, Serena Oliveri, Serena Oliveri, Ilaria Cutica, Ilaria Cutica, Francesca Spinella, Gabriella Pravettoni, Gabriella Pravettoni, Daniela Steinberger, Silke Schicktanz   +10 more
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Design of a FAIR digital data health infrastructure in Africa for COVID‐19 reporting and research

Advanced Genetics, 2021
The limited volume of COVID‐19 data from Africa raises concerns for global genome research, which requires a diversity of genotypes for accurate disease prediction, including on the provenance of the new SARS‐CoV‐2 mutations.
Mirjam vanReisen, Francisca Oladipo, Mia Stokmans, Mouhamed Mpezamihgo, Sakinat Folorunso, Erik Schultes, Mariam Basajja, Aliya Aktau, Samson Yohannes Amare, Getu Tadele Taye, Putu Hadi Purnama Jati, Kudakwashe Chindoza, Morgane Wirtz, Meriem Ghardallou, Gertjan vanStam, Wondimu Ayele, Reginald Nalugala, Ibrahim Abdullahi, Obinna Osigwe, John Graybeal, Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Abdullahi Abubakar Kawu, Fenghong Liu, Katy Wolstencroft, Erik Flikkenschild, Yi Lin, Joëlle Stocker, Mark A. Musen   +27 more
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Information for Health [PDF]

Health Expectations, 1999
The new NHS information strategy Information for Health was launched by the Secretary of State for Health on 24 September 1998. Information for patients and the public forms a key part of the strategy, which is set in the context of a new Information Age in which members of the public have electronic access to information and services 24 hours a day.
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Health-Information Seeking and Intention to Quit Smoking: Do Health Beliefs Have a Mediating Role? [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Smoking is a leading cause of preventable deaths. Smoking cessation can reduce the risk of smoking-associated disease and death. But smoking cessation involves behaviour change.
Gakh, Maxim, Loard, Justin, Upadhyay, Soumya   +2 more
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Editorial: Visualizing user experience and stories: From customer journeys to patient experience mapping

Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, 2020
Patient journey mapping represents a visual approach to documenting and analysing the experiences and stories of patients as they move through healthcare systems.
Andre W. Kushniruk, Avi Parush
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Essential evidence for guiding health system priorities and policies: anticipating epidemiological transition in Africa [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: Despite indications that infection-related mortality in sub-Saharan Africa may be decreasing and the burden of non-communicable diseases increasing, the overwhelming reality is that health information systems across most of sub-Saharan Africa
Peter Byass, Don de Savigny, Alan D. Lopez   +2 more
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Promoting access to COVID-19 Information by underserved communities through the development of a mHealth app

Cogent Public Health, 2022
Mobile health (mHealth) apps are transforming healthcare in rural and remote communities worldwide. Rural communities in Zimbabwe have limited access to information that affects their health, economic and social being due to structural and social ...
Vusumuzi Maphosa
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Health Libraries and Information Services in Tanzania: A Strategic Assessment

Annals of Global Health, 2017
An abstract of this project was presented as a poster at the 6th Annual CUGH Conference: Consortium of Universities for Global in 2015, Boston, MA.
Hussein Haruna, Majaliwa Mtoroki, Dan D. Gerendasy, Ellen G. Detlefsen, Ellen G. Detlefsen   +4 more
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