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Recovery from psychosis : physical health, antipsychotic medication and the daily dilemmas for mental health nurses [PDF]

, 2015
This paper considers some of the dilemmas experienced by Mental Health Nurses everyday when faced with the seemingly conflicting relationships that exist between recovery, antipsychotics and the physical health of people experiencing psychosis.
Bressington, D., Bressington, Daniel, White, J., White, Jacquie   +3 more
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The Northwest Public Health Information Exchange’s Accomplishments in Connecting a Health Information Exchange with Public Health

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2010
In 2007 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Request for Proposal for the "Situational Awareness through Health Information Exchange" project. The Situational Awareness project's goals are to connect public health with health information exchanges (HIEs) to improve public health's real-time understanding of communities ...
Dobbs, D, Trebatoski, M, Revere, D
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Unprotected Anal Intercourse among Male Intra-Venous Drug Users

Frontiers in Public Health, 2013
Purpose: To assess the prevalence and associated factors of unprotected anal intercourse among Iranian male heterosexual Intra-Venous Drug Users (IDUs).
Parvaneh eMirabi, Mosayeb eYarmohammadi Vasel, Babak eMoazen, Mahmoud eSehat, Majid eRezazadeh, Khodabakhsh eAhmadi   +5 more
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Diabetes self-management in online health communities: an information exchange perspective

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021
Background Online health communities (OHCs), with a wealth of multi-source information exchange, have provided a convenient way for people with diabetes to actively participate in their self-management and have been widely used.
Jing Min, Yan Chen, Li Wang, Ting He, Sha Tang   +4 more
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Substance use among Iranian drivers involved in fatal road accidents

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2014
Background: Although the problem of substance use among drivers is not limited to a special part of the world, most published epidemiological reports on this topic is from industrial world.Aim: To determine drug use among Iranian adults who were ...
Shervin eAssari, Masoumeh eDejman, Marzieh, Farnia eFarnia, Ramin eAlasvand, Khodabakhsh eAhmadi, Maryam eMoghani Lankarani, Maryam eMoghani Lankarani   +6 more
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Regional health information exchange outside of the centralized national services for public health care in Finland: A national survey

Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare, 2022
Health information exchange (HIE) is the mobilization of health care information electronically across organizations within a region, community, or hospital system.
Niina Keränen, Timo Tuovinen, Jari Haverinen, Ronja Ruotanen, Jarmo Reponen   +4 more
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The Impact of Health Information Exchange on Health Outcomes [PDF]

Applied Clinical Informatics, 2011
Summary Background and Objective: Healthcare professionals, industry and policy makers have identified Health Information Exchange (HIE) as a solution to improve patient safety and overall quality of care. The potential benefits of HIE on healthcare have fostered its implementation and adoption in the United States.
A, Hincapie, T, Warholak
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Perceived Risk Modifies the Effect of HIV Knowledge on Sexual Risk Behaviors

Frontiers in Public Health, 2013
BackgroundThere is a large controversy in the literature about the inter-relations between perceived risk, knowledge and risk behavior in different settings, and people at HIV risk are not an exception.Aim To assess additive and multiplicative effect of ...
Gholamhossein eNoroozinejad, Mosaieb eYarmohamadi, Fatemeh eBazrafkan, Mahmoud eSehat, Majid eRezazadeh, Khodabakhsh eAhmadi   +5 more
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Intersection of policy and Immunization Information Systems (IIS)

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Immunization information systems (IIS) are confidential, population-based computerized databases that record vaccination doses administered to persons residing within a given geopolitical area.
Lara A. Heersema, Luke Cunniff, Amanda L. Eiden, Isha Sharma, Jaya Mishra, Alexandra Bhatti   +5 more
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Understanding the introduction and use of a mobile device-supported health information system in Nigeria [PDF]

, 2014
Copyright @ 2014 The Authors.This paper presents an in-depth analysis of efforts to introduce a mobile health information system in Nigeria as part of a development initiative aimed at improving maternal and child health.
Asuzu M.C., Bowker G., Kimaro H.C., Law J., Monteiro E., Oates B., WHO, WHO, Yin R.K.   +8 more
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