Attitude to Health
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications.

29 Nov 2009 The influence of religious beliefs and practices at the end of life is underinvestigated. Given nursing's advocacy role and the intimate and personal nature of the dimensions of religiosity and the end of life, exploring the multidimensional ... Read more...

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

Perspectives on transcultural care.

29 Nov 2009 Culture has been defined as the thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups. A culture of nursing refers to the learned and transmitted lifeways, values, symbols, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Attitude to Health'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications. 29 Nov 2009
• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• Perspectives on transcultural care. 29 Nov 2009
• Trust, power, and vulnerability: a discourse on helping in nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• [Montérégie Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre: integrating nurse navigators in Montérégie's oncology teams: one aspect of implementing the Cancer Control Program--Part 1] 29 Nov 2009
• Cervical cancer: disease prevention and informational support. 29 Nov 2009
• Doctors without metaphors. 30 Oct 2009
• Men's responses to HPV test results: development of a theory-based survey. 30 Oct 2009
• Measuring injury risk perceptions: feasibility of a Risk Estimation Scale. 30 Oct 2009
• An unacceptable slur? 29 Oct 2009
• Should healthy volunteers in clinical trials be paid according to risk? No. 20 Oct 2009
• Should healthy volunteers in clinical trials be paid according to risk? Yes. 20 Oct 2009
• [Narratives about cancer--the meeting with health care] 20 Oct 2009
• Use of multiperspective qualitative interviews to understand patients' and carers' beliefs, experiences, and needs. 12 Oct 2009
• Felt obligation to help others as a protective factor against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline in middle and later life. 11 Oct 2009
• New horizons for mental health in the UK. 8 Oct 2009
• Knowledge of drinking guidelines does not equal sensible drinking. 8 Oct 2009
• Public accountability in addiction treatment. 8 Oct 2009
• Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• How to win trust over flu. 6 Oct 2009

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Technical information about 'Attitude to Health'

Definition: Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.

Descriptor UI: D001294

Alternative terms: Attitude to Health; Health, Attitude to; Health Attitude; Attitude, Health; Attitudes, Health; Health Attitudes;

Related Mesh Headings: Patient Dropouts; Sick Role;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology;

Tree Number: F01.100.150; N05.300.150;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: includes attitude to disease