Michael D. Barnes, PhD, MCHES, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Science Computational health science, as we define it, represents the application of innovative computer science tools, including social media and data mining, to addressing health-‐ related questions and problems. With multidisciplinary student mentoring as our aim, we have established the BYU Computational Health Science […]
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MEDICALIZING AMERICA: AN ETIOlOGY OF U.S. HEALTH-CARE EXPENDITURES, 1948-91
Bradley L. Stoker, Department of Economics In the 1990s, runaway health care expenditures have worried U.S.!awmakers and citizens alike. According to data in the 1995 Economic Report of the President, real per-capita health care consumption (in 1994 dollars) grew an average of 4.7 percent annually between 1948 and 1991, versus a real average NNP growth […]
HELPING CHILDBEARING WOMEN MAKE CHOICES ABOUT HEALTH CARE: A PILOT STUDY
Kathleen Harkness, College of Nursing The purpose of this study was to track the perceptions of a group of primiparous women as related to the selection of and relationship with a health care provider. Though varied health care options exist for childbearing women, few women actively select from among their choices. In addition, many clients […]
A SURVEY OF LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION/TRANSLATION1 1N UTAH HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
Margaret Butler, Health Sciences Introduction Recent demographic changes in the United States are requiring health care workers to serve patients, particularly Hispanics, who do not speak English. This is true for the state of Utah as well Citing Immigration and Naturalization Service data, Wright (1993) reported that the number of Mexican immigrants who do not […]
Nursing Curricula Changes: Reflections of Shifts in Health Care Delivery
Chloe Allen Maycock and Dr. Cynthia O’Neill Conger, Nursing My ORCA grant resulted in a 50 page thesis that I submitted for graduation with University Honors. The thesis was completed between April 1997 and August 1998. The focus of my thesis was change in nursing curricula. The convergence of change and nursing curricula are inevitable. […]
Health Awareness in Mozambique: Prevailing Misconceptions of Malaria, AIDS, and Cholera
Kendall Burr and Dr. Willis Fails, Spanish and Portuguese Mozambicans only partially understand the nature of malaria, AIDS, and cholera, and I attempted to identify the major misconceptions they have regarding these three diseases. Their perceptions of how they are contracted, avoided, and treated are critically important to health awareness educators in the growing effort […]
Teaching Sanitation and Health Awareness to Underprivileged Women of the Dominican Republic
Charis Van Dusen and Professor Lynley Rowan, Health Sciences Department As a group of ten Brigham Young University students and instructors, we came to teach the Dominican Republic’s national health facilitators a methodology of teaching accompanied with a manual devised by Laubach Literacy under the direction of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. […]
Art Health Therapy
Jordan Inouye and Dr. Mark Magleby, Visual Arts Think about the process of painting a picture. Is it possible to use only an intuitive approach to achieve a work’s composition, proportion, and color scheme? No, an art work always requires a minimal amount of rational thought. Now think of practicing medicine. Can a doctor cure […]
Pursuing New Audiences for Visual Health Care in El Salvador
Joshua S. Gildea and Professor Richard K. Long, Communications El Salvador is a third-world country in Central America that suffers from extreme poverty and a lack of quality medical attention. The country has experienced great natural disasters in the past few years including Hurricane Mitch in October 1998 and two major earthquakes in January and February […]
The Physiological Effects of Music on Children in Health Clinics and Orphanages in Beira, Mozambique and Bapatla, India
Jordan Joseph Ash and Dr. Shane Reece, Statistics Music therapy seeks to take advantage of specific sounds and rhythms that promote physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being. While the physiological benefits of music have long been recognized, there have been few attempts to quantify the results and document their application. This paper seeks to […]
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