Challenging the exclusion of people with mental illness: the Mental Health Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI).
Introduction With high hospitalisation rates and widespread social exclusion, mental illness is a profound health and social need that requires an integrated policy approach (Shepherd 2007). In the past, mental health models of support for people with acute mental illness have focussed on clinical symptoms, rather than...

Predictors of breast cancer screening in Asian and Latina University students.
Preventative screening in the form of clinical breast examinations remains among the best protections against breast cancer. Despite the benefits that regular examinations confer, many women fail to obtain screening tests. Because ethnic minority women are particularly unlikely to undergo regular screening, and experience increased mortality and morbidity as...

Generating treatment plan in medicine: a data mining approach.
INTRODUCTION Accurate and error-free of diagnosis and treatment given to patients has been a major issue highlighted in medical service nowadays. Traditionally, healthcare providers provide services based on their knowledge and experiences whether individually or collectively depending on cases. Research done proved that hospitals do not all...

Australian Journal of Social Issues: special issue devoted to selected papers from the 2007 Australian Social Policy Conference.
The papers in this Special Issue of The Australian Journal of Social Issues were originally presented at the 10th Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC), held at the University of New South Wales in July 2007. The theme of the conference was Social Policy Through the Life Course: Building Community...

Now is the time to consider applying for subsidized health care.
With the cost of gasoline, heating fuel and food (and just about everything else it seems) going through the roof, the State of Vermont's subsidized health care plans--Catamount Health, VHAP, and Medicaid are a better deal than ever. Each of these plans offers comprehensive coverage including hospitalization, prescription drugs,...

Health Care Without Harm's Nursing Student Essay Contest (2009).
In an effort to spread the word to nursing students of the important role nurses can and do play in advocating for environmental health, the Nurses Work Group of Health Care Without Harm (www.noharm.org/us/nurses), along with The Luminary Project (www.theluminaryproject. org), are holding the second annual Nursing Student Essay...

Tyler Health Care Center in Minnesota Debuts AutoPulse.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 October 2008-Tyler Health Care Center in Minnesota Debuts AutoPulse(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Zoll Medical, a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, announced that Tyler Health Care Center, a 20-bed community hospital in Tyler, Minnesota, is the latest in a growing...

NCQA: Health Care Quality Is Up, but Varies Across the Country.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-9 October 2008-NCQA: Health Care Quality Is Up, but Varies Across the Country(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The quality of health care for millions of Americans improved in 2007 but significant variations in performance continue to leave many people receiving substandard care, according to...

Dell Collaborates with Intel, Motion Computing for Wireless Health Care IT Solutions.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-7 October 2008-Dell Collaborates with Intel, Motion Computing for Wireless Health Care IT Solutions(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Dell, Intel and Motion Computing have launched a new service to assess, design and validate the quality and coverage of wireless networks soon to become the...

Association between paternal age at birth time and the risk of offspring developing schizophrenia.
INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia is a chronic devastating behavioural psychiatric disease whose history turn back to medical science ancientness. Less than 1% of world population attacked by schizophrenia. that have spread in every geographic region. Its prevalence and incidence rate is similar around the world but there is difference...