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Health Literacy
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2006-07)
Health literacy is “the ability of an individual to access, understand, and use
health-related information and services to
make appropriate health decisions.” For a
woman with diabetes, health literacy means
understanding ...
Missouri Children & Oral Health Care
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2007-11)
Oral health extends beyond a pretty
smile. Oral health is essential to maintaining overall health and quality of
life. Access to regular dental care is
recommended for all children to ensure
healthy growth. Improving ...
Health Disparities
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2007)
In the Healthy People 2010 report, issued
by the Department of Health and Human
Services, health disparities are defined
as “all differences among populations in
measures of health and healthcare.” Racial
and ethnic ...
Health literacy and Increased Health Care Costs
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2008)
Increased health literacy would decrease costs of health care.
Health Literacy and Health Care Quality
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2008)
How health literacy affects the quality of health care.
Skin
(William J. Krause, 2008-09)
Blog entry about human skin. Posted on September 6, 2008.
Capillaries
(William J. Krause, 2008-10)
Histology blog entry for October 10, 2008 about capillaries.
Ethical Issues: Access in Missouri
(Center for Health Ethics, 2007-06)
Medicaid spending in Missouri has been growing at double-digit rates since 1998, expanding to cover almost one in five citizens and contributing to the state's growing budgetary problems. Medicaid expenditures increased ...
Ethical Issues: Recommendations of the Citizens' Health Care Working Group
(Center for Health Ethics, 2006-11)
There is an important update regarding legislative attempts to improve health care, including end of life care, for all Americans in the this week's Update of the Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association (MHPCA). In ...
Ethical Issues: Futility Policies and Politics
(Center for Health Ethics, 2006-10)
In Texas Legislators are having second thoughts about a controversial futile care law that allows hospitals to unilaterally terminate life support in patients with end stage illness. Under the terms of the state's "futile-care ...
Ethical Issues: DNR Revisited
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-02)
In most cultures, when making treatment decisions for adults, children, and neonates with end stage illness, there tends to be universal agreement that overly aggressive treatment should be discouraged when death is near ...
Ethical Issues: Ethical Research
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-12)
In academic medicine we are ruled by many masters—the need to see patients, the expectations of teaching, the desire (and expectation) to advance our careers through scholarship and research, and the ever present specter ...
Ethical Issues: Organ Donation and Procurement
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-01)
The list of people waiting for organ transplants continues to grow. According to the Missouri Hospital Association more than 80,000 men, women and children nationwide are waiting for new organs, including more than 1,800 ...
Ethical Issues: Engaging Patients
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-11)
The Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association initiated the Ethical Force Program in 1997. The purpose of E Force is to develop performance measures for ethical behavior and practices that can be useful ...
The Ethical Use of New Drugs
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-10)
The practice of medicine requires clinical judgments within the context of an inexact and very complicated science, the end result of which has profound implication for the welfare of patients. The ethical question for the ...
Ethical Issues: Disparities in End of Life Care
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-09)
Market strategies tend to work as a negative force when it comes to ensuring adequate health care for the underserved in our society. When it comes to health care, and in particular end of life care, color still divides.
Ethical Issues: Futility Policies
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-03)
Futility, in general, is the inability to achieve an intended goal or outcome. Biomedical futility more specifically is a clinical judgment that, in light of the patient's current clinical circumstance, it is not physiologically ...
Ethical Issues: Treating Patients Without Permission
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-09)
Medical ethics is grounded by the notion that we must always respect the patient's right of self determination, which means that we should inform patients about what needs to be done and seek permission before doing it to ...
Ethical Issues: Saying I'm Sorry
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-06)
Patients respond more favorably and are more trusting of physicians who provide full disclosure about medical errors than physicians who are less forthright or purposely hold things back when things go wrong. But there is ...
Ethical Issues: Narrowing the Disparity Gap
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-11)
In 2003 the Institute of Medicine, in Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, reported a consistent body of research demonstrating significant racial variation in the access to and ...