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A variety of web-based assessment tools are available for consumers to be able to identify reliable health websites; however, many may be too difficult for the layperson to use or understand. Existing search technologies are increasingly powerful, although the expanding volume of information on the...
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PMID: 16336621
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The Internet is becoming a ubiquitous medium, open to all. The paper explores the reasons why current health-related websites require extensive review and investment to ensure that they address the full spectrum of the audiences who may access their site. The audiences are no longer purely local or...
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PMID: 11470621
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Regular home care by the patient in addition to professional removal of subgingival plaque is generally very effective in controlling most inflammatory periodontal diseases. When disease does recur, despite frequent recall, it can usually be attributed to lack of sufficient supragingival and subging...
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PMID: 11155183
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The effectiveness of ensuring quality of care in reproductive health/family planning (RH/FP) services and making services accessible to people in rural areas is being demonstrated in Laos, where community people are willingly paying nominal fees for services provided under JOICFP's project. The bir...
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PMID: 12348061
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We strive in basic science. It is "soft," inexact, not "hard." In this article I hope to explain why such research is indeed fraught with hazard. The scientists are attempting a task that is, in a profound philosophical sense, impossible. They have no direct access to the data they most need, and ev...
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PMID: 11651498
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Since the proposal was first broached in 1987, a storm of controversy has engulfed Oregon's plan to prioritize the health care services offered to its Medicaid recipients. After two years of debate, community consultation, and public opinion polls, the Oregon Health Services Commission was mandated...
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PMID: 11642897
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Renewed emphasis is being given to the role of family planning health care programs. This review of the lessons learned during the past decade provides guidance to policy makers and program managers on ways to improve maternal, infant, and child health through family planning and related health and...
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PMID: 12342615
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