Patient Acceptance of Health Care
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults.

7 Oct 2009 Only half of older adults with a mental disorder use mental health services, and little is known about the causes of perceived need for mental health care (MHC). We used logistic regression to examine relationships among depression, anxiety, chronic ... Read more...

A survey of adolescent experiences of human papillomavirus vaccination in the Manchester study.

4 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: There is little information on girls' experiences of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in the prevention of cervical cancer. We investigated the views of adolescent girls who had been offered the vaccine as part of a feasibility ... Read more...

Effect of self-triage on waiting times at a walk-in sexual health clinic.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY: Lengthy waiting times can be a major problem in walk-in sexual health clinics. They are stressful for both patients and staff and may lead to clients with significant health issues leaving the department before being seen ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient Acceptance of Health Care'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• A survey of adolescent experiences of human papillomavirus vaccination in the Manchester study. 4 Oct 2009
• Acceptance of ligation and resection of tubes for contraception in Sri Lanka. 29 Sep 2009
• Effect of self-triage on waiting times at a walk-in sexual health clinic. 29 Sep 2009
• Canadian health care: a question of access. 29 Sep 2009
• Breast cancer screening among Vietnamese Americans: a randomized controlled trial of lay health worker outreach. 29 Sep 2009
• Safe, efficient, and cost-effective orthognathic surgery in the outpatient setting. 29 Sep 2009
• Building nonhospital-based platforms for ambulatory orthognathic surgery: facility, anesthesia, and price considerations. 29 Sep 2009
• Effects of an ongoing epidemic on the annual influenza vaccination rate and vaccination timing among the Medicare elderly: 2000-2005. 29 Sep 2009
• African Americans in commercial HMOs more likely to delay prescription drugs and use the emergency room. 29 Sep 2009
• [Physicians as key communicators of the influenza vaccination for the elderly, patients with chronic conditions, and health care workers. Results of a nationwide survey in the context of the national influenza vaccination campaign] 29 Sep 2009
• Disparities in BRCA testing: when insurance coverage is not a barrier. 29 Sep 2009
• Pain in adults with cerebral palsy: impact and solutions. 29 Sep 2009
• African American women's beliefs about mental illness, stigma, and preferred coping behaviors. 29 Sep 2009
• Reducing missed opportunities to vaccinate adults against influenza: what is realistic? 26 Sep 2009
• Prostate cancer screening decisions: results from the National Survey of Medical Decisions (DECISIONS study). 26 Sep 2009
• Simplifying consent increases HIV testing and new case detection: the San Francisco experience. 15 Sep 2009
• Implementation of and barriers to routine HIV screening for adolescents. 12 Sep 2009
• Upper gastrointestinal symptoms, psychosocial co-morbidity and health care seeking in general practice: population based case control study. 7 Sep 2009
• Cardiology Patient Page. Coping with my partner's ICD and cardiac disease. 6 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Patient Acceptance of Health Care'

Definition: The seeking and acceptance by patients of health service.

Descriptor UI: D010342

Alternative terms: Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Patient Acceptance of Healthcare; Healthcare Patient Acceptance; Healthcare Patient Acceptances; Acceptor Characteristics; Acceptor Characteristic; Characteristic, Acceptor; Characteristics, Acceptor; Acceptors; Acceptors, New; Acceptor, New; New Acceptor; New Acceptors; Program Acceptability; Acceptability, Program; Health Care Seeking Behavior; Method Acceptability; Acceptability, Method; Nonacceptor Characteristics; Characteristic, Nonacceptor; Characteristics, Nonacceptor; Nonacceptor Characteristic; Nonacceptors; Nonacceptor; Acceptability of Health Care; Health Care Acceptability; Acceptability of Healthcare; Healthcare Acceptabilities; Healthcare Acceptability; Acceptors, Repeat; Acceptor, Repeat; Repeat Acceptor; Repeat Acceptors;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: N05.300.150.600;

History Note: 75

Technical Notes: DF: PATIENT ACCEPT