Lancashire Care Foundation Trust this morning confirmed to HSJ it had given the NHS Litigation Authority notice it was leaving its clinical negligence scheme.
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Patient financial incentives (“incentives”) have been widely used to promote chlamydia screening uptake amongst 15-24 year olds in England, but there is scarce evidence of their effectiveness. The objectives of the study were to describe incentives used to promote chlamydia screening in Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England and to evaluate their impact on coverage and positivity rate.
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As epidemiological surveys have shown, binge drinking is a constant and wide-spread problem behavior in adolescents. It is not rare to find that more than half of all adolescents engage in this behavior when assessing only the last 4 weeks of time independent of the urbanity of the region they live in. There have been several reviews on predictors of substance consumption in adolescents in general, but there has been less high quality research on predictors of binge drinking, and most studies have not been theoretically based. The current study aimed to analyze the ultimate and distal factors predicting substance consumption according to Petraitis’ theory of triadic influence. We assessed the predictive value of these factors with respect to binge drinking in German adolescents, including the identification of influence direction.
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Childhood obesity in rural communities is a serious but understudied problem. The current experiment aims to assess a wide range of obesity risk factors among rural youth and to offer an 8-month intervention program for parents to reduce obesity risk in their preteen child.
via US health reforms offer chance for primary care and public health to integrate, says report | BMJ.
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Federal agencies should take steps to help bridge the longstanding gap between public health and primary care in the United States, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. It suggests that the changing nature of health concerns and the evolving reimbursement environment under the government’s health reforms offer new opportunities for better integration of the two specialties.
“Research increasingly is giving us insights into how to actually intervene in a meaningful way,” said Paul Wallace, chairman of the committee that wrote the report. “It is demonstrating that it is a team sport . . . for chronic disease.”
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Patients with many problems often face difficulties in modifying their behavior as desired. Uncovered basic needs may be an important barrier. This research tests the effect of patient-centered consultations for 20- to 44-year-old patients with multiple psychosocial and lifestyle problems. We focus on resources and barriers for obtaining self-chosen goals within life circumstances and lifestyle. Continue reading
