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Sharing Knowledge for Health Care

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2017
The effective care of patients begins with accurate knowledge about the benefits, harms, and appropriate context of clinical interventions. But health care has been slow to move from traditional modes for generating, synthesizing, and sharing knowledge.
Hoffmann, Tammy, Straus, Sharon
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Health Behavior, Health Knowledge, and Schooling

Journal of Political Economy, 1991
The positive correlation between schooling and good health is well documented. One explanation is that schooling helps people choose healthier life-styles by improving their knowledge of the relationship between health behaviors and health outcomes. That is, schooling improves the household's allocative efficiency in producing health.
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Measuring Cardiac Health Knowledge

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 1987
ABSTRACT A Cardiac Knowledge Questionnaire has been developed for the purpose of measuring knowledge about (1) the cardiovascular system and the nature of coronary heart disease (the Basic Cardiac Knowledge Scale), (2) behavioural aspects of the causes and the consequences of a heart attack (the Cardiac Lifestyle Knowledge Scale), and (3) prognostical ...
J G, Maeland, O E, Havik
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Knowledge reasoning in health cloud

2011 International Conference on Cloud and Service Computing, 2011
Keeping healthy diet and lifestyle is the most effective way to prevent disease. But usually people only know some basic physical information like height, weight, heartbeat, and so on. They have no idea whether their food habit or lifestyle will affect their health.
Hanbing Deng, Xia Zhang, Jiren Liu
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Knowledge systems and public health

Knowledge, Technology and Policy, 1990
The knowledge and information systems (KIS) perspective arose from reflections on agricultural development. In the health sector, it is not quite as common to think in terms of KIS. Yet in this complex field, in which health education and promotion play increasingly important roles, the KIS perspective might be very useful. In this article, the authors
Koelen, M.A., Brouwers, T.
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Inconsistencies in health care knowledge

2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2014
In this paper we focus in health care knowledge, specified by hybrid formulas, representing flows of medical assistance in the care delivery process in a hospital. As in standard knowledgebases inconsistencies may arise. In fact, Medical Informatics is one field where the ability to reason with inconsistent information is crucial.
Diana Costa 0001, Manuel A. Martins 0001
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People's knowledge of health and disease

Journal of Public Health, 1990
A community survey based on the Cardiff electoral register was carried out in 1986. Seven hundred and ten adults were asked 10 open-ended questions about common serious illnesses in the United Kingdom and were given 18 statements about common diseases and asked to state whether they were true or false. This paper reports their responses.
S C, Farrow, M C, Charny, P A, Lewis
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Health Knowledge Effects

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2016
The Taiwanese government subsidizes healthcare providers offering preventive medicine to patients to help reduce the threats of chronic sickness and halt skyrocketing medical expenditures. Usually, nurses are the primary workers who perform community health promotion; however, because of the chronic shortage of working nurses, many Taiwan hospitals ...
I-Chiu, Chang, Chih-Yu, Lin, Hsiao-Ting, Tseng, Wen-Yu, Ho   +3 more
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Knowledge structures of a health ecosystem

Journal of Health Organization and Management, 2012
PurposeThis paper aims to hypothesize that modern health systems are transforming towards what has been called a health ecosystem in complexity‐based health care literature. It has been argued that complexity arises from the interconnectedness, which in this paper is equated with knowledge flows between actors.
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Inquiry in health knowledge management

Journal of Knowledge Management, 2008
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to reduce ambiguity in diverse approaches to health knowledge management by surfacing key issues, perspectives and philosophical assumptions.Design/methodology/approachKnowledge management research in health is critically reviewed.
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