Vol. 2, Issue 1, Fall 2010
Charles W. Smith On the Web | Vol. 2, Issue 1, Fall 2010 | September 7, 2010
The “Snapshot of People’s Engagement in Their Health Care” (http://www.cfah.org/pdfs/CFAH_Snapshot_Abridged_2010.pdf) issued by the Center for Advancing Health (CFAH) provides an analysis of the actions people take (and don’t take) to benefit from the care available to them.
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Peter Frishauf, Richard W. Smith, Jessie Gruman & Lawrence W. Green Commentary | Featured Podcast | Podcasts | Vol. 2, Issue 1, Fall 2010 | August 9, 2010
In our new world of instant information exchange and empowered patients, how are clinicians and empowered patients challenging traditional ways to collect, evaluate, and publish evidence?
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Kurt Stange Reviews | Vol. 1, Issue 1, Fall 2009 | October 21, 2009
The Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM) seeks to foster a community of cooperative health care. The opportunity is to create a forum for recognizing commonality while sharing differences. Another journal, the Annals of Family Medicine, also launched in the information age, provides some parallels for engaging diverse constituencies in an international transdisciplinary dialogue around scientific papers, essays, reviews and commentary. JoPM has great potential to be a gathering place for those interested in interactive approaches to improving health care and health.
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Jessica Nutik Zitter Narratives | Vol. 2, Issue 1, Fall 2010 | June 28, 2010
In America, we often do a terrible job of managing the death process. Some 80% of Americans die either in the hospital or in nursing homes, deprived of the knowledge and information they need to manage their own deaths, unaware of their options. However, if asked, patients tend to reject aggressive treatment in favor of gentler care aimed at minimizing symptoms.
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Bern Shen Innovations | Vol. 1, Issue 1, Fall 2009 | October 21, 2009
Participatory medicine (PM) is facilitated by technology, but a purely technical analysis of their interaction provides only a partial picture. Drawing on a rich body of social science research, this article examines how both socio-cultural and biological perspectives lend additional context and a deeper understanding of the role of technology in PM.
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