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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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Translating Health Knowledge Into Health Beha Vior

Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 1981
The nursing literature and the school health literature is filled with theoretical and clinical articles about the “role” of the school nurse. Yet, how the school nurse can function in such a way as to help the student achieve his/her potential for participation and responsibility in personal health and illness behavior is not so obvious.
M, Gulbrandsen, P A, Lasky, M, Scoblic
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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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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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Health Professionals' Knowledge of Women's Health Care

The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 2000
ABSTRACT Until 1986, the only issues in women's health which received direct attention were those related to childbearing. At that time the National Institutes of Health made inclusion of women in research a criteria for funding. Since then, the knowledge base to guide disease prevention and treatment of women has grown dramatically ...
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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 Knowledge of Pharmacy Students

Psychological Reports, 1981
54 senior pharmacy students possessed greater health knowledge than did 52 freshman. The effects of gender were nonsignificant.
C, Fendley, M, Young, R K, Means
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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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Knowledge in health visiting practice<

Nurse Education Today, 1999
Health visiting is a practical discipline, hence knowledge in health visiting practice cannot be thought of as inert, that is merely as items of information merely; rather, it must be thought of in terms of a dynamic interplay among the individuality of the knower (the practitioner), the sources whereby knowledge may be acquired, and the contexts in ...
L, Goding, P, Cain
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