Are primary care physicians ill equipped to evaluate and treat childhood physical inactivity?

ABSTRACT

Objective

To investigate primary care physician clinical practice patterns, barriers, and education surrounding pediatric physical activity (PA), and to compare practice patterns by discipline.     

医药院校大学生媒介素养教育探究

在现代传媒背景下，媒介素养水平高低直接影响着医药专业人才的培养质量和未来我国医药卫生事业发展。本文探讨国内外媒介素养教育开展情况，分析医药院校大学生媒介素养教育的必要性，提出了在医药院校加强媒介素养教育的新思路。     

影响儿童语言和识字能力的研究进展

现代生活中 ,儿童的语言和识字受家庭认知环境的影响。近年来无论从流行病学的研究 ,还是干预或神经生物的研究 ,均证实儿童早期经验是日后语言和识字能力发展的基础。在早期经验中 ,最关键的是父母与孩子之间的语言交流。通过这样的交流 ,促进儿童早期的语言发育 ,也促进儿童学龄期的阅读理解。儿童保健医生处于独特的位置 ,即在常规保健中指导父母根据不同年龄儿童的发育水平 ,应用有关的技能技巧 ,促进儿童的语言和识字。     

Depression and mental health in neoliberal times: A critical analysis of policy and discourse

Depression has received increasing attention as a significant public health issue over the past ten years, both in Canada and elsewhere in the industrialized west. During the same period, many of the social and economic policies adopted by governments in these jurisdictions have reflected neoliberal goals and orientations. The purpose of this article is to explore the points of contact between these two features of contemporary social and political life in the industrialized west, using the Canadian province of British Columbia as an empirical site. My analysis draws on the Foucauldian literature on governmentality in presenting a close reading of provincial government documents concerned with depression and mental health literacy that have been produced since the election of the Liberal Party to office in British Columbia in 2001. This analysis identifies discourses of “responsibilization” circulating in these documents, within which individuals, families, communities and workplaces – rather than publicly-funded services – appear as key resources in responding to experiences of mental distress. It also points to a number of strategies visible in the documents that work to align the interests of individuals and their practitioners in pursuing particular approaches to treatment with a governing interest in reducing public spending on services and supports. The article concludes by identifying a number of resistive discourses and proposing further research in a range of empirical contexts within which they may be evident.     

Computer science education for medical informaticians

The core curriculum in the education of medical informaticians remains a topic of concern and discussion. This paper reports on a survey of medical informaticians with Master's level credentials that asked about computer science (CS) topics or skills that they need in their employment. All subjects were graduates or "near-graduates" of a single medical informatics Master's program that they entered with widely varying educational backgrounds. The survey instrument was validated for face and content validity prior to use. All survey items were rated as having some degree of importance in the work of these professionals, with retrieval and analysis of data from databases, database design and web technologies deemed most important. Least important were networking skills and object-oriented design and concepts. These results are consistent with other work done in the field and suggest that strong emphasis on technical skills, particularly databases, data analysis, web technologies, computer programming and general computer science are part of the core curriculum for medical informatics.     

2018年四川省贫困县区居民健康素养监测结果分析

目的掌握四川省贫困地区居民的健康素养现况及其影响因素,为贫困地区居民健康素养的提升及健康扶贫工作的落实提供科学依据。方法采用分层多阶段、PPS、方便抽样相结合的方法,2018年在四川省88个贫困县区抽取18个县,对非集体居住的15~69岁常住人口进行健康素养问卷调查。采用SPSS 20.0软件进行t检验和单因素ANOVA分析,校验水准α=0.05。结果共调查四川省贫困地区5 797名居民,经过加权调整后,2018年四川省贫困地区居民具备健康素养的比例是1.5%;健康素养得分为(21.76±9.66)分,不同性别(t=4.221,P<0.001)、民族(t=18.900,P<0.001)、年龄组(F=2.952,P=0.012)、文化程度(F=10.941,P<0.001)、职业(F=3.152,P=0.001)、家庭常住人口数(F=3.232,P=0.040)、家庭人均年收入(F=4.581,P=0.003)的居民健康素养得分的差异具有统计学意义;具备基本知识和理念、健康生活方式与行为、健康技能3个维度健康素养的比例分别是9.2%、13.7%和5.8%。结论 2018年四川省贫困地区居民健康素养水平较低,健康素养水平在不同人群特征的居民中表现出差异,应结合健康扶贫相关政策,加大健康教育工作力度,进一步提高贫困地区居民健康知识知晓率,健康技能掌握率和健康行为形成率,并针对健康知识、健康技能的掌握环节进行重点干预。     

Functional Health Literacy: Psychometric Properties of the Newest Vital Sign for Portuguese Adolescents (NVS-PTeen)

Self-management of health requires skills to obtain, process, understand, and use health-related information. Assessment of adolescents’ functional health literacy requires valid, reliable, and low-burden tools. The main objective of this study was to adapt and study the psychometric properties of the Newest Vital Sign for the Portuguese adolescents’ population (NVS-PTeen). Classic psychometric indicators of reliability and validity were combined with item response theory (IRT) analyses in a cross-sectional survey, complemented with a 3-month test-retest assessment. The NVS-PTeen was self-administered to students enrolled in grades 8 to 12 (12 to 17 years old) in a school setting. Overall, 386 students (191 girls) from 16 classes of the same school participated in the study (mean age = 14.5; SD = 1.5). Internal reliability of the NVS-PTeen was α = 0.60. The NVS-PTeen total score was positively and significantly correlated with Portuguese (r = 0.28) and mathematics scores (r = 0.31), school years (r = 0.31), and age (r = 0.19). Similar to the original scale (for the U.S.), the NVS-PTeen is composed of two dimensions, reading-related literacy and numeracy. Temporal reliability is adequate, though with a learning effect. IRT analyses revealed differences in difficulty and discriminative capacity among items, all with adequate outfit and infit values. Results showed that the NVS-PTeen is valid and reliable, sensible to inter-individual educational differences, and adequate for regular screening of functional health literacy in adolescents.