the Consumer Health Library which houses an extensive collection of resources and exhibitions on a range of health issues including social anxiety and agoraphobia, and Alzheimer's disease
Cancer A Leading Chronic Disease And Prevention | Your Health Our Priority - 0 views
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A cancer registry is the cancer cases which are registered in a population or specific country. In whole world mortality rate due to cancer is 20%. In USA cancer is the second largest disease of causing death after heart disease. Recently in 2016 estimated that 595,690 people die from this disease according to cancer statistics of National Cancer Institute USA.
'Ignorance is bliss sometimes': constraints on the emergence of the 'informed patient' ... - 0 views
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Recent work in medical sociology suggests that there continues to be a gap between the partnership and ‘negotiation’ models of practitioner-patient relations and the empirical reality of everyday practice.
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Lupton (1997) has drawn attention to the fact that patients have agency here, too.
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in their interactions with doctors and other health care workers, lay people may pursue both the ideal type ‘consumerist’ and the ‘passive patient’ subject position simultaneously or variously, depending on the context (1997: 373).
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Information Literacy Weblog: Fostering health information literacy through use of a vir... - 0 views
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