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Pascale Lehoux, Stuart S. Blume • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law
(2000)
In a growing number of countries, health technology assessment (HTA) has come to be seen as a vital component in policy making. Even though the assessment of the social, political, and ethical aspects of health technology is listed as one o...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-25-6-1083
Deborah A. Lupton • Sociology Compass
(2014)
Abstract Discussions of digital health technologies in the popular media and the medical and public health academic literature frequently comment on how these technologies might offer new or improved ways of delivering health care, conducti...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12226
Pascale Lehoux • Routledge eBooks
(2014)
Health technology is a pivotal locus of change and controversy in health care systems, and The Problem of Health Technology offers a comprehensive and novel analysis of the topic. The book illuminates the scientific and policy arguments tha...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315810782
D. Cerqui • IGI Global eBooks
(2008)
The utilization of information and communication technologies in almost all spheres of modern society has changed the social picture in significant ways while simultaneously leading to tensions with regard to traditional ethical and legal p...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-780-5
Hernandez-Romieu, Alfonso C, Sullivan, Patrick S, Sanchez, Travis H, Kelley, Colleen F et al. • JMIR Research Protocols
(2014)
BackgroundRecruiting valid samples of men who have sex with men (MSM) is a key component of the US human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) surveillance and of research studies seeking to improve HIV prevention for MSM. Social media, such as Face...
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DOI: 10.2196/resprot.3342
Sanjeewa Kularatna, Ratilal Lalloo, Jeroen Kroon, Santosh K. K. Tadakamadla et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
(2020)
Abstract Background The oral health of Indigenous children in remote communities is much worse than other population groups in Australia. Providing and maintaining an oral health service is challenging due to the remoteness of communities, ...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12955-020-01300-8
Jieming Lu, Zhebin Yu, Xiaocong Zhang, Mengyin Wu et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
(2020)
Abstract Background Population aging is an inevitable trend and previous studies have showed the relationship between social health related factors and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in the elderly. The objective of this study is t...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12955-020-01358-4
Andy Wai Kan Yeung, Anela Tosevska, Elisabeth Klager, Fabian Eibensteiner et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research
(2022)
BackgroundSocial media has been extensively used for the communication of health-related information and consecutively for the potential spread of medical misinformation. Conventional systematic reviews have been published on this topic to ...
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DOI: 10.2196/28152
Salem A. Al-Jundi • Data in Brief
(2019)
This data article describes a survey dataset on administrative corruption and its main determinants (culture, organizational culture, political instability, and institutional weakness) in addition to social class. Prior research was consult...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104820
Janey Sewell, Carole Kelly, Adamma Aghaizu, Hannah Kitt et al. • JMIR Research Protocols
(2025)
BackgroundDue to advances in treatment, HIV is now a chronic condition with near-normal life expectancy. However, people with HIV continue to have a higher burden of mental and physical health conditions and are impacted by wider socioecono...
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DOI: 10.2196/58531
Loreta Bukartienė, Gintarė Jakimavičiūtė, Rūta Lukianskytė • Mokslo Taikomieji Tyrimai Lietuvos Kolegijose
(2018)
Straipsnyje analizuojama perdengimo sindromo raiška tarp skubios medicinos pagalbos (SMP) slaugos specialistų. Remiantis teorine profesinio perdengimo dimensijos požymių ir priežasčių analize, atliktas empirinis SMP slaugos specialistų tyri...
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Fatemeh Baji, Fereydoun Azadeh, Parastoo Parsaei-Mohammadi, Shoukat Parmah • مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت
(2018)
Introduction: Creating an image of the conceptual structure of health literacy area, as well as the study of interdisciplinary and the relationship between its domains seems necessary. The present study examined the intellectual structure o...
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DOI: 10.22122/him.v15i3.3577
Jin Rui, Yijing Li, Hector D. Menendez, Mariana Pinto da Costa • Digital Health
(2026)
Digital infrastructure is increasingly understood as part of the contemporary built environment and as a policy-relevant area-level correlate of older adults’ mental health. Existing studies have often relied on linear models and have paid ...
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DOI: 10.1177/20552076261465140
Kim Nordmann, Stefanie Sauter, Marie-Christin Redlich, Patricia Möbius-Lerch et al. • Digital Health
(2024)
Background Germany's healthcare system provides high-quality, universal health coverage to almost all residents. However, a major challenge lies in the strong separation of healthcare structures, which hinders efficient interprofessional an...
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DOI: 10.1177/20552076241259855
M. J. Ball, Judith V. Douglas • PubMed
(1998)
In a period of social transformation, we must reinvent health care. For guidance, we can look to the evolving discipline of medical informatics and to the patterns of investment in the practice arena. A top ranked application need, the comp...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-896-0-1176
Ozren Polašek, Josipa Kern • Informatics for Health and Social Care
(2011)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the medical informatics scientific output in 33 European countries. METHODS: Medical Subject Heading term "medical informatics" was used to identify all relevant articles published in 1998-2007 and indexed in the ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3109/17538157.2011.590256
Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Silvia Daniela Vaca, Deena El-Gabri, Leonardo Pestillo de Oliveira et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
(2018)
Abstract Background To evaluate the psychometric properties of a Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale in an injury population in Tanzania. Methods Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale was develo...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12955-018-0973-0
Saira Naim Haque, Carsten S. Østerlund, Madhu C Reddy • Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
(2010)
Similar to iSchools, healthcare is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses heterogeneous environments (e.g., hospitals, clinics, home) and perspectives. However, medical informatics research focuses mainly on technical solutions to narr...
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Randolph A. Miller, Dario A. Giuse • Methods of Information in Medicine
(1995)
Abstract: Heathfield and Wyatt’s article in the current issue of Methods opens a debate about the status of Medical Informatics as a discipline and as a profession. While the desire for more professionalism of Medical Informatics is laudabl...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1634626
Tsuyoshi Okuhara, Hiroko Okada, Rie Yokota • JMIR Research Protocols
(2025)
BackgroundThe internet and social media have become essential sources of health information for patients and citizens; however, they often disseminate misinformation that lacks scientific evidence. Health-related misinformation can undermin...
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DOI: 10.2196/69414