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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu…
Tomoko Kubota, Hidetoshi Mori, Tateyuki Morisawa, Kazuyo Hanyu, Hiroshi Kuge, Mayumi Watanabe, Tim Hideaki Tanaka
Training in acupuncture techniques has a long history of thousands of years. It has been individually handed down from person (teacher) to person (student). However, techniques and training have not been scientifically evaluated because individual differences…
Lifeng Fan, Souraya Sidani
Objectives: Treatment preferences affect treatment engagement, adherence and outcomes. There is limited knowledge of patients’ preferences for Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME). This study explored the preferences of Canadians with diabetes for compon…
Eva Brown Hajdukova, Liz Winter, Ros McLellan
Little is known about the wellbeing of young people living in post-Soviet nation contexts such as Kazakhstan. The qualitative data reported represents the views of 309 Kazakhstani young people on their conceptualizations of wellbeing that fell broadly into th…
Esther C. Gallegos-Cabriales, Juana Mercedes Gutiérrez-Valverde, Bertha Cecilia Salazar-González, Antonia M. Villarruel, Rosa Alicia Veloz-Garza, Nicolle Marinec, John D. Piette
Aims and objectives: To test an automated telephone service as a follow-up and support strategy for self-care in a population of adult Mexican patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: The design was a two-group comparative design, with pre and post-interventio…
Hoichi Amano, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Chiho Kitashima, Takashi Yokoo, Kazue Yamaoka
Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a pre-condition for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) undergoing hemodialysis, as well as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Therefore, it is vital that CKD prevention measures be established. In particular, so…
Shu-Qi Ge, Xin Tao
Objective: To explore the effects of the behavioral treatment combined with psychological counseling on female coital disorder in China. Methods: One hundred and sixteen female patients with coital disorder were divided into sexual behavior training combined…
Yuji Mitadera, Mayumi Watanabe, Nobuhiro Sato, Motoi Azumi, Kouhei Akazawa
The hospital environment in Japan has changed drastically lately. Its unpredictability has increased the need for hospitals to select management strategies to clarify their course. However, research on Japanese hospitals’ management strategies has only recent…
Mary Geitona, Hara Kousoulakou, Ioannis Goulis, Spilios Manolakopoulos, Themistoclis Vasiliadis, Dimitrios Christodoulou, Charalabos Gogos, Spyridon Dourakis, Ioannis George Koskinas, Alexandra Papadokostopoulou, Aris Lathouris, George Papatheodoridis
Objectives: To identify local resource use such as pharmaceutical treatment, medical follow-up, and patient hospitalization and estimate the budget impact of simeprevir (SMV) plus pegylated interferon (P)/ribavirin (R) as a treatment option in the early stage…
Juan Raymundo Velazquez, Gabriela Soid-Raggi, Luis Manuel Teran, Gandhi Fernando Romero-Pavon, Fernando Ramírez-Jimenez
Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) is an asthma phenotype characterized by nasal polyps, chronic hypertrophic eosinophilic sinusitis, asthma, and sensitivity to aspirin. Unawareness of this disease by patients and their physicians may have serious…
Rocio Rocha-Rdz, Macario Orduña Cabrera, Mariely Acosta-Álvarez, Nereyda Hernández-Nava
Self-efficacy is a belief in a person’s ability to perform action or behavior to achieve what is desired independent of the actual capacity of personal outcome. Objective: To determine the level of self-efficacy in adolescents of a public institution in the s…
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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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