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A photonovela is part of the diabetes tool kit Sharon A. Denham, RN, DSN, professor of nursing at Ohio University School of Nursing in Athens and director of the Appalachian Rural Health Institute, is creating for use in the Appalachian region. It will address family support for patients with diabetes.
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An overweight nurse with diabetes who works for Little Rock, AR-based Baptist Health System summed up the key to the success of the 2020 Health Solutions disease management program: "Knowing that you are going to be looking at my blood sugar levels helps me be consistent in taking my medication and checking my blood sugar," she told her disease management nurse, Paula Evans, MSN, RN, CCM, CS.
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In the first year of a disease management program to promote effective treatment for hepatitis C, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee was able to cut medication costs for the treatment of the disease by $1.63 million.
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African-American women with diabetes showed significant health improvements after participating in Keystone Mercy Health Plan's "40-Day Journey," a faith-based educational program at local churches that emphasizes nutrition, exercise, medication compliance, and water intake.
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People in health education are beginning to use a literature genre called a photonovela. This genre tells a picture story and is designed like a comic book with text in bubbles to indicate who is speaking.
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Mathematical models (a case reproduction number/stochastic model and a long-term epidemic dynamics/deterministic transmission model) were used to explore the effect of testing for all people 15 or older for HIV and initiating ARV therapy immediately after diagnosis.
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A retrospective study at a tertiary pediatric hospital in Israel of all children with a positive blood or synovial fluid culture for K. kingae during 1996-2006 revealed 62 children with invasive K. kingae infections. Of these, 42 (68%) had positive blood culture results and 20 (32%) had positive synovial fluid cultures. There were no cases of osteomyelitis documented.
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Schistosomiasis is the most important trematode infection worldwide, transmitted to humans through skin contact with infested freshwater.
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Companion animals have been carrying a secret around for years. Maybe that is why my sister's golden retriever is always smiling. Methicillin-resistant coagulase-positive staphylococci are not exclusively Staphylococcus aureus.
