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Access to Health
by Rebecca J. Donatelle
Teacher and mentor Rebecca J. Donatelle helps readers make wise decisions about
their health using the most current information available. Along with insightful
self-assessments and behavior change commitments, Access to Health, Eighth Edition
also includes a comprehensive supplements package. Access to Health is comprehensive,
readable, and generously illustrated, making it the book of choice for today's health
and wellness enthusiasts.The Eighth Edition includes the latest research
and statistics, as well as hot topics of interest and importance to readers such as
body art, fast food, club drugs, alternative medicine, and safer sex. For college
instructors, students, or anyone interested in health and wellness.
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Table of Contents:
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Promoting Healthy Behavior Change
- Psychosocial Health: Achieving Mental, Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Wellness
- Managing Stress: Toward Prevention and Control
- Violence and Abuse: An Epidemic of Fear
- Communicating Effectively: A Key to Interpersonal Health
- Healthy Relationships: Friends, Family, and Significant Others
- Sexuality: Defining Your Sexual Behavior
- Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: Managing Your Fertility
- Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health
- Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance
- Personal Fitness: Improving Your Health Through Exercise
- Addictions and Addictive Behavior: Threats to Wellness
- Pharmaceutical Drugs: Safe and Responsible Use
- Drinking Responsibly: A Lifestyle Challenge
- Tobacco and Caffeine: Legal Addictions
- Illicit Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse
- Cardiovascular Disease: Helping the Beat Go On
- Cancer: Reducing Your Risks
- Infectious and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities
- Noninfectious Conditions: The Modern Maladies
- Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Process
- Dying and Death: The Final Transition
- Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
- Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services
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Research Articles:
Preventable hospitalizations and access to health care
JAMA. 1995 Jul 26;274(4):305-11.
by Bindman AB, Grumbach K, Osmond D, Komaromy M, Vranizan K, Lurie N, Billings J, Stewart A.
Objective - To examine whether the higher hospital admission rates for chronic medical
conditions such as asthma, hypertension, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, and diabetes in low-income communities resulted from community
differences in access to care,
prevalence of the diseases, propensity to seek care, or physician admitting style.
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Helping patients access high quality health information
BMJ 1999;319:764-766
by Shepperd S, Charnock D, Gann B.
The provision of consumer health information was pioneered in the United States:
organisations such as Planetree (a not for profit, community based healthcare initiative)
were among the first to provide information services.1 Over the years several
organisations in the United Kingdomincluding the College of Health, the Help
for Health Trust, the Health Education Authority, the Health Education Board for Scotland,
and self help groupshave provided information
on a wide range of health topics directly to patients or consumers
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Access to health care for Hispanics
JAMA. Vol. 265 No. 2, January 9, 1991
by E. Ginzberg
The conventional population paradigm in the United States has distinguished between
the white majority and the sizable and easily identified black minority. Until recently,
much less attention has been paid to Hispanics (or Latinos), currently 20 million in number,
who the Census Bureau projects will increase to
31 million persons of a total population of 283 million by the year 2010.
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Access to health care for children with special health care needs
Pediatrics. 2000 Apr;105(4 Pt 1):760-6.
by Newacheck PW, McManus M, Fox HB, Hung YY, Halfon N.
Objective:
To assess the role health insurance plays in influencing access to care and use
of services by children with special health care needs.
Methods:
We analyzed data on 57 553
children younger than 18 years old included in the 1994-1995 National Health Interview
Survey on Disability. The survey obtained information on special health care needs,
insurance status, and access to and use of health services. Bivariate and multivariate
analyses were used to assess the association of insurance with several measures of access
and utilization, including usual source of care, site of usual
care, missed or delayed care, and use of ambulatory physician services.
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