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1. Seeking Treatment Options: Consumers' Search Behaviors and Cognitive Activities.

Author

Broussard, Ramona and Yan Zhang

Subjects
THERAPEUTICS, SEARCH engines, INTERVIEWING, INTERNET & society, HEALTH insurance, CONSUMER activism, HEALTH literacy, COMPUTER network resources
Abstract

As people increasingly search the Internet for health-related topics like treatment options, it is important to understand how they construct their searches, and how they understand the results. In this paper, we report results from an exploratory lab study with 40 cross-sectional participants and follow-up interviews with eleven of them about their use of search engines to find treatment options. While corroborating prior research concerning basic consumer health information search behaviors (e.g., query length and evaluation of results), our findings also extend the current understanding of health information searching by suggesting that the process of seeking treatment options is shaped by consumers' propensity for familiar and confirming information as well as their desire to seek novel information. Furthermore, our findings suggest an under-investigated idea of the importance of a search timeline: that is that a consumer is likely to look for confirming or novel information depending on where they are in a particular timeline during their search. The results indicate that search systems can better support consumers in finding novel information about treatment options, but that it would be best to introduce novel information after satisfying consumers search for general and familiar information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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2. Localizing Chronic Disease Management: Information Work and Health Translations.

Author

Kaziunas, Elizabeth, Ackerman, Mark S., and Veinot, Tiffany C. E.

Subjects
CHRONIC diseases, DIABETES complications, THERAPEUTICS, KIDNEY diseases, HYPERTENSION, MEDICAL informatics, MANAGEMENT
Abstract

Based on interviews with people who had diabetes, high blood pressure, and kidney disease in Flint, Michigan, we found people actively doing information work to manage their health in the face of poverty, potentially violent conditions, high stress, and a distrust of institutionalized medicine. More specifically, we observed people translating information into the context of their everyday lives. We present various translations of health information in the form of local strategies for chronic illness management. Study findings highlight initial implications to support health information services on a community level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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3. Pharmaceutical Medicine--A Specialist Discipline.

Author

Gabbay, Felicity

Subjects
MEDICAL specialties & specialists, PHARMACEUTICAL research, THERAPEUTICS, PHARMACEUTICAL industry, MEDICAL personnel, ORGANIZATIONAL structure
Abstract

Focuses on the development of pharmaceutical medicine as a specialist discipline. Role of pharmaceutical agents at the foundation of medicine and therapeutics; Structure of organizations involved in pharmaceutical research and development; Professional support groups and postgraduate courses in pharmaceutical medicine.

Published
2003

4. Rehabilitation and Long-term Management.

Author

Pugh, Robert

Subjects
REHABILITATION, SCHIZOPHRENIA, MENTAL illness, PATHOLOGICAL psychology, THERAPEUTICS
Abstract

The article examines the importance rehabilitation to patients suffering from schizophrenia. It explains that the aim of rehabilitation is to enable patients to cope with their illness and make the most of their lives, by reducing symptoms and increasing abilities whenever possible and by providing supportive services to match individual need. It discusses on the environmental, social and cultural factors and outcome of schizophrenia also a detailed information on the role of rehabilitation.

Published
2002

5. Chapter 5: Screening the Population.

Author

Lindahl, Bernt

Subjects
OBESITY, DIABETES, LIFESTYLES, MEDICAL screening, PUBLIC health, THERAPEUTICS
Abstract

An epidemic of obesity and type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes is in progress across the world. The global burden of diabetes has been projected to rise, with an increase in the total number of people with type 2 diabetes from about 120 million in 1997 to about 215 million in 2010 (1). The obvious remedy for this development is to combat overweight and obesity, and to counteract the sedentary lifestyle of modern society. The basis for these actions must be a population strategy of prevention. However, an equally important mission, not least from an ethical standpoint, is to find and engage those individuals that are in most need of help (high-risk strategy). The screening procedure is used to identify these high-risk individuals. Screening in this chapter refers to prescriptive screening, whose aim is to use early detection and early treatment to control the outcome of the disease. In epidemiological surveys, the principal aim of the screening is to explore the prevalence and natural history of the variable in question and not to bring patients to treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2001

6. Sexual Disorders.

Author

Kellett, J. M.

Subjects
THERAPEUTICS, IMPOTENCE, SEXUAL dysfunction, COUNSELING, CLINICAL medicine, GERIATRIC psychiatry, PSYCHIATRY
Abstract

The article cites a study that discusses the cause and treatment of erectile failure. Three hypotheses for the sexual disorder remain, referring to the impact of the increasing atheroma, degenerative changes in the autonomic system and the decline of the levels of self confidence with age. Treatment includes counseling and physical remedies like vacuum pumps, intracavernosal and intraurethral administration of alprostadil.

Published
2002