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West, Christopher E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research objectives: This dissertation examines the state of development of each of the eight core electronic health record (EHR) functionalities as described by the IOM and describes how the current state of these functionalities limit quality improvement efforts in ambulatory care settings. There is a great deal of literature describing both the…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Medical Evaluation, Records (Forms), Community Health Services
McFarlane, Delano J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Researchers that investigate the media's coverage of health have historically relied on keyword searches to retrieve relevant health news coverage, and manual content analysis methods to categorize and score health news text. These methods are problematic. Manual content analysis methods are labor intensive, time consuming, and inherently…
Descriptors: Obesity, Research Methodology, Public Health, Hypothesis Testing
Shaw, Ryan Jeffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The goal of this study was to design an intervention that would help people stay in the continued response phase of the Behavior Change Process and help prevent weight relapse. Using the Behavior Change Process and regulatory focus theory, an intervention was developed that leveraged short message service (SMS) to deliver messages to people who…
Descriptors: Intervention, Behavior Change, Body Weight, Health Behavior
Russell, Heather Gordy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The mixed method study focused on increasing blood donations from staff who work in a blood collecting organization and relies on Gilbert's Behavior Engineering Model as a framework. The qualitative phase of the study involved focus groups. Information from the focus groups and the literature review were used to create hypotheses. A survey was…
Descriptors: Donors, Focus Groups, Program Effectiveness, Surveys
Pretto, Aneesha Patrice – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In North Carolina, the eligibility criteria for enrollment in Part C early intervention services do not exclude infants and toddlers based on the severity or laterality of hearing loss. As such, the state's early intervention population represents a widely diverse array of children ranging from those with minimal to profound hearing losses. While…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Severity (of Disability), Investigations, Toddlers
Rodriguez, Daniela Cristina – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In Mexico, as in many other countries, HIV/AIDS strategies are developed at the federal level and implemented at the state level. Local programs are expected to use data, in particular surveillance data, to drive their decisions on programmatic activities and prioritize populations with which the program will engage. Since the early 1980s Mexico…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), State Programs, Prevention, Foreign Countries
Gover, Kristie S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An identified gap in the literature associated with college student alcohol use is the exploration of the problem based on ethnicity, specifically possible differences in use between Black and White college students. The purpose of the present study was to examine differences in alcohol use for Black and White college students at a small private…
Descriptors: College Students, Ethnicity, Educational Planning, Intervals
Huntington, Sally J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study, which takes place in a free medical clinic for low-income and uninsured patients, addresses the patients' health literacy and access to health information inside and outside of the clinic setting, as well as the strategies clinic providers use to effectively communicate health information. This study is based on participant…
Descriptors: Health Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Participant Observation
Corbaley, Salomay Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the level of crisis leadership preparedness facility administrators report frontline healthcare leaders are trained to perform during an exploding crisis in Los Angeles County healthcare facilities, providing emergency services. Methodology: This was a mixed method descriptive study. The…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Leadership Styles, Crisis Management, Leadership Effectiveness
Olola, Christopher Hillary Opiyo – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Discontinuity of care due to poor communication of patient health information among healthcare providers (HCPs) is a major efficiency and patient safety concern. Patients often see multiple HCPs and during each visit, the patient's core health information is required for appropriate decision making. Patients with access to their electronic medical…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Information Dissemination, Cooperation, Patients
Finley, Britney A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Health of college students is a national public health concern, however general health courses which cover topics of concern such as responsible sexual behaviors, alcoholism, drug abuse, tobacco use, nutrition, weight management, cardiovascular health, and mental health issues are rarely a required course for college students. University health…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Health, Public Health
Biscotti, Dina Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Autonomy is a social product. Although some might view autonomy as the absence of social interference in individual action, it is in fact produced through social institutions. It enables social actors to act; it is the justification for the allocation of enormous public resources into institutions classified as "public" or "nonprofit;" it can lead…
Descriptors: Expertise, Research Universities, Industry, Intellectual Property
Robinson, Kimberly Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Problematic drinking in college students is a serious public health problem. Although parental influence wanes during the college years, research suggests that parental behaviors in high school, including monitoring, alcohol-specific control (i.e., rules or communication), and problematic modeling of drinking, continue to predict their children's…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Self Efficacy, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse
Catalani, Caricia Eleanora Celebes – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The challenges facing public health today are too vast, complex, and urgent to be met by public health professionals alone. To improve the health and wellbeing of diverse communities around the globe, public health leaders are developing tools that engage communities in research and action, most particularly community-based participatory research…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Economic Development, Participatory Research, Health Personnel
Weatherbee, Mary Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research has shown that there is a lack of formal training in suicide for mental health professionals in graduate psychology programs (Bongar & Harmatz, 1991; Batista, 2007). Suicide is a public health issue, with one suicide occurring approximately every 16 minutes in the United States (www.cdc.gov). A recently developed theory on why people die…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Mental Health Workers, Public Health, Suicide