The working mechanisms of an environmentally tailored physical activity intervention for older adults: a randomized controlled trial

Background  

The aim of this study was to explore the working mechanisms of a computer tailored physical activity intervention for older adults with environmental information compared to a basic tailored intervention without environmental information.     

Smoking differences between university faculties in Tartu, Estonia, and Oulu, Finland, after the disruption of communism

Objectives  

To provide information on smoking differences between university faculties.     

Are the health messages in schoolbooks based on scientific evidence? A descriptive study

Background  

Most textbooks contains messages relating to health. This profuse information requires analysis with regards to the quality of such information. The objective was to identify the scientific evidence on which the health messages in textbooks are based.     

Association of Down's syndrome and water fluoride level: a systematic review of the evidence

Objective  

To explore whether there is a potential for greater use of research-based information in public health practice in a local setting. Secondly, if research-based information is relevant, to explore the extent to which this generates questioning behaviour.     

Beliefs regarding smoking in the workplace: results from the Global Workplace Smoking Survey

Objectives  

To collect global information on attitudes of employers and employees toward workplace smoking and cessation.     

Health care utilisation and problems in accessing health care of female undocumented immigrants in the Netherlands

Objective  

To obtain information about the actual use of health care facilities by undocumented women and to identify obstacles they experience in accessing health care facilities.     

Surfing the web during pandemic flu: availability of World Health Organization recommendations on prevention

Background  

People often search for information on influenza A(H1N1)v prevention on the web. The extent to which information found on the Internet is consistent with recommendations issued by the World Health Organization is unknown.     

Are U.S. cancer screening test patterns consistent with guideline recommendations with respect to the age of screening initiation?

Background  

U.S. cancer screening guidelines communicate important information regarding the ages for which screening tests are appropriate. Little attention has been given to whether breast, colorectal and prostate cancer screening test use is responsive to guideline age information regarding the age of screening initiation.     

Social determinants effects from the Italian risk factor surveillance system PASSI

Objectives  

To offer examples on how risk factor surveillance systems can help in providing useful information on social determinants effects and health inequalities.     

Monitoring symptoms at home: what methods would cancer patients be comfortable using?

Purpose  

This study aimed to determine which methods of remote symptom assessment cancer outpatients would be comfortable using, including those involving information technology, and whether this varied with age and gender.     

Knowledge of AIDS and HIV transmission among drug users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Background  

Proper knowledge of HIV transmission is not enough for people to adopt protective behaviors, but deficits in this information may increase HIV/AIDS vulnerability.     

Quality and availability of consumer information on heart failure in Australia

Background  

Provision of consumer information and patient education are considered an essential part of chronic disease management programmes developed for patients with heart failure. This study aimed to review the quality and availability of consumer information materials for people with heart failure in Australia.     

Medicines information provided by pharmaceutical representatives: a comparative study in Australia and Malaysia

Background  

Pharmaceutical representatives provide medicines information on their promoted products to doctors. However, studies have shown that the quality of this information is often low. No study has assessed the medicines information provided by pharmaceutical representatives to doctors in Malaysia and no recent evidence in Australia is present. We aimed to compare the provision of medicines information by pharmaceutical representatives to doctors in Australia and Malaysia.     

Effect of hourly concentration of particulate matter on peak expiratory flow in hospitalized children: A panel study

Background  

Little information is available on the possible association between hourly short-term air pollution and peak expiratory flow (PEF) in asthmatic children.     

Family physician views about primary care reform in Ontario: a postal questionnaire

Background  

Primary care reform initiatives in Ontario are proceeding with little information about the views of practicing family physicians.     

Information and feedback to improve occupational physicians’ reporting of occupational diseases: a randomised controlled trial

Purpose  

To assess the effectiveness of supplying occupational physicians (OPs) with targeted and stage-matched information or with feedback on reporting occupational diseases to the national registry in the Netherlands.     

Parental use of the Internet to seek health information and primary care utilisation for their child: a cross-sectional study

Background  

Using the Internet to seek health information is becoming more common. Its consequences on health care utilisation are hardly known in the general population, in particular among children whose parents seek health information on the Internet. Our objective was to investigate the relationship between parental use of the Internet to seek health information and primary care utilisation for their child.     

Essential health information available for India in the public domain on the internet

Background  

Health information and statistics are important for planning, monitoring and improvement of the health of populations. However, the availability of health information in developing countries is often inadequate. This paper reviews the essential health information available readily in the public domain on the internet for India in order to broadly assess its adequacy and inform further development.     

Impact of a multifaceted intervention to improve the clinical management of osteoporosis. The ESOSVAL-F study

Background  

A study to evaluate the impact of a combined intervention (in-class and on-line training courses, a practicum and economic incentives) to improve anti-osteoporosis treatment and to improve recordkeeping for specific information about osteoporosis.