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...

Providing reproductive health care to internally displaced persons: barriers experienced by humanitarian agencies.
Abstract: Reproductive health care for internally displaced persons (IDPs) is recognised by the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations and the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium as a neglected area in humanitarian relief operations. To identify barriers to agencies providing reproductive health care to IDPs,...

Delivering maternal health care services in an internal conflict setting in Maguindanao, Philippines.
Abstract: To improve access to maternal health care and family planning services in conflict-stricken Maguindanao province, southern Philippines, several non-governmental organisations have begun collaborating with local public health services. This exploratory study describes the experiences of local government service providers and two NGOs in a context of long-standing internal...

Quality & safety in health care.
The discourse around quality and safety in health care has been growing ever louder over the last fifteen years both internationally and in Australia. The Quality in Australian Health Care Study demonstrated clearly that potentially preventable adverse events occurred in the health system at an alarming rate,...

In search of morally intelligent health care reform.
The health care policy debate is bitterly divisive because so much money is involved. Politicians want to keep the passionate debate going instead of acting. Why commit political suicide by opposing insurance and drug companies instead of prospering by hooking up with them? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Nurse practitioners a solution to health care crisis.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nurse practitioners' ability to offer expert nursing care that is both cost effective and able to reach those most in need, may be a solution to Australia's health care crisis, according to nurse academics. The solution was proposed at the recent 3rd International...

National health care provision review.
The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) has welcomed the Health Minister's announcement regarding the proposal to review the national system of primary health care provision in Australia. Australia needs a multidisciplinary approach to primary health care to ensure that all people receive efficient and quality health care, said...

More nurses needed to inform primary health care strategy.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The ANF has welcomed the Rudd Government's plans to develop a National Primary Health Care Strategy but is dismayed by the overrepresentation of doctors on the external reference group informing the strategy. ANF national secretary, Ged Kearney, said Australia needs a multidisciplinary approach to primary...

Advisers agree health care reform is certain.
WASHINGTON -- The nation's health care system will be overhauled in a substantive fashion in the early days of the next administration, promised advisers to the presidential candidates at a forum sponsored by the journal Health Affairs. Although the economy has replaced health care as the top...

Continuing education for Geriatric Health Care: Montana Geriatric Education Center funded to provide CE for health care professionals.
The Montana Geriatric Education Center (MTGEC) offers more than thirty online interdisciplinary courses or modules for continuing education in geriatric health care. These may be taken for personal benefit or for professional or academic credit. Groups of modules focus on core issues of aging, health problems of...