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MANAJEMEN KEWIRAUSAHAAN UNTUK MENINGKATKAN USAHA KESEHATAN SEKOLAH DI SLB KABUPATEN BANDUNG BARAT

Indonesia is vigorously implementing a healthy community movement and participate in efforts to improve the hygiene and health of Indonesia's population that has the largest population of 46.497.175 million people, due to the fact Indonesia's health profile according to expert health experts in 2010 the average households with category of Clean and Healthy Behavior (PHBS) reached 35.68%. The spearhead of health development for the community through counseling in , health services in schools through the Government's attention to the movement of healthy Society, especially to further optimize School Health Enterprises in Public School expected to be improved, not least in Special School. Implementation of UKS in Special Education Schools certainly requires good management along with the complexity of learners in the Special Education Schools Heterogene type of abnormality (Blind, Deaf, Mental Retardation, Autism, disability, social behavior and Double Handycape), the needs of each level of education from the basic level to the level medium. The management of learning in Special Needs Education the implementation of the UKS program requires entrepreneurial spirit from the principal who is very objective and specific, especially in preparing the program, implement it. The entrepreneurial spirit is built with innovation, working hard, cooperating with related parties such as Puskesmas, Medical team and health experts to UKS program in Special Education schools done and implemented in the Implementation Plan both individual and classical learning. The management of entrepreneurship in West Bandung Special School to improve School Health Enterprises is expected to be a change agent in providing the teaching resources of students in Special Needs Education so as to reduce the number of morbidity, acquire health knowledge, implementing Clean and Healthy Behavior in daily life, although still with the guidance of teachers and parents should be done gradually and continuously so that the community environment can accept their existence without feeling awkward.

Insights Into the Relationships Between Health Communication and Doctor-patient Relationship: A Scientometric Analysis Based on CiteSpace and Validation of Questionnaires.

In order to understand the research status of the relationship between health communication and doctor-patient relationship, and to explore a new path of the impact of health communication on doctor-patient relationship, this paper adopted qualitative methods to quantize the literature over the past 10 years in the Web of Science database and carried out Co-Authorship Analysis, Co-Citation Analysis and Co-Occurrence Analysis based on CiteSpace. In addition, according to the results of bibliometric research, self-designed questionnaires were used to verify the result. A convenience sampling survey was conducted through the online "Questionnaire Star" platform (https://www.wjx.cn) on May 8, 2022, and a total of 254 questionnaires were collected. Interviewees were asked to use social software to acquire health knowledge. Participants come from 21 provinces, 4 municipalities, and 4 autonomous regions across the country, which is geographically representative. The results show that uncertainty of social media information and the particularity of the epidemic make the research on health communication and doctor-patient relationship in social media become a new hot spot. Social media health information quality (source credibility and content trust perception), information asymmetry perception, doctor-patient communication, doctor-patient consistency, doctor-patient trust, doctor-patient relationship may be the key variables for constructing theoretical models.

The Health Demands of Designated Drivers - Four Cities, China, 2019.

What is already known about this topic?The health status of designated drivers is largely associated with road safety, which is a major public health issue. However, few studies have focused on the health demands of designated drivers.What is added by this report?This study investigated the health consciousness, first aid knowledge learning, acceptable ways to acquire health knowledge, and willingness to have physical examinations for designated drivers to provide suggestions for improving their health status.What are the implications for public health practice?The industry and platform should provide scientific and reasonable guidance on healthy lifestyles for designated drivers and implement physical examinations to monitor their health status.

Online High School Community Health Worker Curriculum: Key Strategies of Transforming, Engagement, and Implementation.

Background: Ample research evidence has demonstrated that Community Health Worker (CHW) programs are a cost-effective, culturally integrated, and impactful way to improve community health. Although most existing CHW programs recruit adults as CHWs, high school students, with their intellectual readiness and intimate community knowledge, also have great potential to be engaged as CHWs that impact community health. With this potential in mind, the High School Community Health Worker Curriculum (HSCHW), for face-to-face training, was created in 2016 at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) as an innovative solution to improve community health in underserved, urban neighborhoods. Sixteen Metro Atlanta high school students participated in the program's first cohort. The face-to-face HSCHW training program received very positive feedback from the students and community partners involved. Additionally, during the inaugural training, the program received more than 150 nationwide inquiries about an opportunity to either participate in the program or replicate its curriculum. Hence, in 2018, a corresponding online curriculum was created to meet these needs. The online HSCHW curriculum covers the roles and competencies described in the CHW Core Consensus (C3) Project and focuses on developing high school students' critical thinking, decision-making, and communication skills. As of February 2021, 346 high school community health workers have participated in this online curriculum.Purpose: This paper reports on the research study of the critical processes and strategies of transforming, engaging, and implementing the online HSCHW curriculum.Method: The project team conducted the research study to identify the key strategies to transform the face-to-face HSCHW curriculum, the engagement strategies embedded in the online curriculum's content development, and, ultimately, the curriculum's outcomes. Altogether, this mixed-method study analyzed and reported on the learning outcomes of 265 students', in tandem with 17 high school students' focused-group interviews and responses to online surveys.Results: The results showed that integrating instructional design processes is critical for the online curriculum's success. “Interestingness,” the latent concept embedded in the online HSCHW curriculum, engages high school students in learning about complex CHW skills, through digital content and activities. Furthermore, the successful implementation of the program and its student learning outcomes was assured by integrating the online curriculum with local schools and community resources, training the local community and school “trainers” to facilitate the curriculum online, and providing ongoing coaching support from the program team.Impacts: This paper provides a research report on the key strategies and processes of creating and implementing an online CHW curriculum for high school students. Its findings will inform future endeavors to develop an online CHW curriculum for lifelong learners and increase training effectiveness. The online HSCHW curriculum increases the national capacity of community health workers, whose work will increase community engagement and health equity. The curriculum also empowers high school students to acquire health knowledge that can bridge the educational gap between health knowledge acquisition and health knowledge application. Additionally, the online HSCHW curriculum presents a concrete example of leveraging digital platforms to teach complex public health competencies to young adults who can positively impact community health.

Effects of Objective and Subjective Health Literacy on Patients' Accurate Judgment of Health Information and Decision-Making Ability: Survey Study.

BackgroundInterpreting health information and acquiring health knowledge have become more important with the accumulation of scientific medical knowledge and ideals of patient autonomy. Health literacy and its tremendous success as a concept can be considered an admission that not all is well in the distribution of health knowledge. The internet makes health information much more easily accessible than ever, but it introduces its own problems, of which health disinformation is a major one.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to determine whether objective and subjective health literacy are independent concepts and to test which of the two was associated more strongly with accurate judgments of the quality of a medical website and with behavioral intentions beneficial to health.MethodsA survey on depression and its treatments was conducted online (n=362). The Newest Vital Sign was employed to measure objective, performance-based health literacy, and the eHealth Literacy Scale was used to measure subjective, perception-based health literacy. Correlations, comparisons of means, linear and binary logistic regression, and mediation models were used to determine the associations.ResultsObjective and subjective health literacy were weakly associated with one another (r=0.06, P=.24). High objective health literacy levels were associated with an inclination to behave in ways that are beneficial to one’s own or others’ health (Exp[B]=2.068, P=.004) and an ability to recognize low-quality online sources of health information (β=–.4698, P=.005). The recognition also improved participants’ choice of treatment (β=–.3345, P<.001). Objective health literacy helped people to recognize misinformation on health websites and improved their judgment on their treatment for depression.ConclusionsSelf-reported, perception-based health literacy should be treated as a separate concept from objective, performance-based health literacy. Only objective health literacy appears to have the potential to prevent people from becoming victims of health disinformation.

Health literacy of college students in Beijing and the demands of health education

Health literacy is the main component of health quality and a comprehensive health indicator reflecting related idea, cognition, behavior and skills. In this paper, we investigated the overall level and characteristics of health literacy based on the survey data of college students in Beijing. The differences of health literacy level among sub-groups were compared, and the influencing factors of health literacy were discussed. The results showed that college students had a higher level in overall health literacy than other peers, but a lower level in the prevention of chronic disease and infectious disease. The level of health literacy of college students was mainly affected by their major, hometown, and situation of health-related elective. Besides, we also found that the way college students used to acquire health knowledge was inconsistent with their expectations, and the requirements for health education were also very high. More systematic and comprehensive health education should be provided in universities, with an emphasis on the knowledge of lifestyle and daily habits.

Health Behavior Nudging Through Health Information Exposure and Information Search

As the Internet has become one of the dominant sources of health information, online health information plays an important role for patients to acquire health knowledge and regulate their health behavior (European Commission, 2014). Researchers suggested different ways to nudge public health behavior through environments and policies (Marteau et al., 2011); few studies had explored the potential to use online health information environment to nudge health behavior. While there was established evidence showing the individual differences in online health information search behavior across the lifespan (e.g., Chin et al., 2009; Sharit et al., 2008), the current study was to examine the nudging effects on health behavior through online health information exposure and search. An online mixed-factor-design experiment was conducted on 136 adults across the lifespan (Mean age=49.79, SD=16.00). We examined two kinds of nudging routes, (1) health information exposure (manipulated by the experimenters), and (2) health information search (decided by the participants), on two kinds of health behaviors varying in the costs of taking these health behaviors. Target health behaviors included, (1) self-related health behavior: participants were asked to take a break for doing a stretch (low cost) or a walk (high cost) after long sitting; (2) self-unrelated health behavior: participants were asked to have researchers to donate to the rare disease association through writing down the date (low cost) or a 100-word endorsement article (high cost). In the experiment, each participant was assigned to read four topics (3 articles under each topic) and answer the questions after each health topic. The questions varied in difficulties, which participants could decide to answer the questions based on their own knowledge, their memory from reading, or searching the answers online. To manipulate health information exposure, half of the participants were assigned to read the online articles related to the target health behaviors (such as the harms of long sitting and the target rare disease). Participants were not disclosed about the study goals at the beginning. They were not told that the study goal was to examine whether they took the target health behaviors or not, but to examine how adults learn from online health information. To measure the actions of target health behaviors, for the self-related health behavior, after roughly 40 minutes of the study, participants were requested to take a break for 10 minutes. For the self-unrelated health behavior, at the end of the study, participants were asked whether they would like to show their support to a rare disease association. The manipulations in the costs of health behaviors were assigned in counterbalanced order. Logistic regressions were used to examine the effects of nudging routes and costs of actions on two kinds of target health behaviors. Results suggested that mere information exposure did not affect the likelihood to take the target health behaviors regardless of its relatedness to self-interests or costs of actions. Further, for self-related health behavior, adults were more likely to take actions after a more deliberate engagement with the information - through information search. For health behavior that was unrelated to self-interests, participants were more likely to take actions after they searched the information about this rare disease and only when the costs of actions were low. This study has shown the potentials and limitations of health nudging in different health behaviors, and has its implications on designing effective health nudging strategies on different health behaviors.

Patients\u2019 health literacy in relation to the preference for a general practitioner as the source of health information

BackgroundFor many patients, the general practitioner (GP) is the most important point of contact for obtaining information about a wide range of health topics. However, patients with different characteristics may seek health information from different sources, such as friends or the internet. The relationship between patient characteristics and preferences for information sources is understudied. We investigate which information sources are used by patients for health-related questions and how this relates to patients’ sociodemographics, health, and health literacy.MethodsA stratified and population-based survey was conducted to investigate health information sources within the German population over 35 years (n = 4144). Sociodemographics, use of technology, health-related indicators, and health literacy (including self-efficacy and action planning), as well as questions regarding the ratings of multiple health-related information sources, were investigated in personal interviews and analyzed using logistic regression.ResultsIn our study, GPs were the most important source of information for the patients, followed by medical specialists, pharmacists and the internet. Patient age and number of illnesses were associated with the choice of information source. Furthermore, action planning and self-efficacy for acquiring health knowledge were associated with the selected source of information.ConclusionsInformation provider appears to be an important role for GPs, particularly among old and chronically ill patients. GPs should have the specific capabilities to fill this role and should be trained and referred to accordingly. Self-efficacy and action planning for acquiring health knowledge are important patient factors doctors can use for brief inventions during consultations.

Assessment of factors affecting diabetes management in the City Changing Diabetes (CCD) study in Tianjin.

ObjectiveThis study aimed to identify the local levels of vulnerability among patients with Type-II diabetes (T2DM) in Tianjin. The study was aimed at curbing the rise of T2DM in cities.Methods229 participants living with T2DM were purposively sampled from hospitals in Tianjin. Collected data were coded and analysed following well-established thematic analysis principles.ResultsTwelve themes involving 29 factors were associated with diabetes patients’ vulnerability: 1. Financial constraints (Low Income, Unemployment, No Medical Insurance/Low ratio reimbursement); 2. Severity of disease (Appearance of symptoms, complications, co-morbidities, high BMI, poor disease control); 3. Health literacy (No/Low/Wrong knowledge of health literacy); 4. Health beliefs (Perceived diabetes indifferently, Passively Acquire Health Knowledge, Distrust of primary health services); 5. Medical environment (Needs not met by Medical Services); 6. Life restrictions (Daily Life, Occupational Restriction); 7. Lifestyle change (Adhering to traditional or unhealthy diet, Lack of exercise, Low-quality sleep); 8. Time poverty (Healthcare-seeking behaviours were limited by work, Healthcare-seeking behaviours were limited by family issues); 9. Mental Condition (Negative emotions towards diabetes, Negative emotions towards life); 10. Levels of Support (Lack of community support, Lack of support from Friends and Family, Lack of Social Support); 11. Social integration (Low Degree of Integration, Belief in Suffering Alone); 12. Experience of transitions (Diet, Dwelling Environment).ConclusionBased on our findings, specific interventions targeting individual patients, family, community and society are needed to improve diabetes control, as well as patients’ mental health care and general living conditions.

Perceptions and use of sources of health knowledge by young adolescents.

Understanding how adolescents acquire health knowledge and where they currently seek answers to health-related questions may facilitate the development of interventions that will be both engaging and effective, and may help to improve health over the short- and long-term. The present study sought to investigate the perception and use of sources of health knowledge by young adolescents as stratified by gender. Thirty 50-min long focus groups were conducted with 143 participants. Focus group questions were built around the following three main categories: sources of knowledge, including preferred sources, sources accessed for general health, and sources accessed for personal/sensitive health; health information and behaviour change, including characteristics of health knowledge presentation that have influenced behaviour change; and learning preferences to promote behaviour change. Content analysis of focus group transcripts was performed. The use of sources of health knowledge was similar between genders, with some differences noted between sources accessed for general as compared to personal health questions. As well, motivation appeared to be the primary influence of health behaviour change, with knowledge being reported as both as positive and neutral influence, most notably in the areas of diet and exercise. Lastly, adolescents reported several characteristics of health knowledge presentation that they felt would motivate positive behaviour change, including engaging and participatory activities. These results should be considered in the development of interventions to improve health-related behaviour in adolescents, although future research to quantify the use of sources of health knowledge by this population is recommended.

The Acceptance of Smart Wearable Devices through Health Cognitive

Many people have become “health consumers” and “health conscious” by seeking products to more effectively manage health-related lifestyle aspects such as fitness activities, healthcare, sports, and rehabilitation. The results revealed that perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and health cognitive had a significant impact on attitude to use. To increase individuals’ intention to use smart wearable devices, it is critical to encourage a positive attitude toward using the devices to acquire health knowledge. Emphasizing devising effective means to communicate the health utility of the devices to customers should be the highest priority for industry producers.

The use of annual physical examinations among the elderly in rural China: a cross-sectional study

BackgroundPeriodic physical examination is considered helpful in preventing illness and promoting health among the elderly. Limited information is available about the use of annual physical examinations among the elderly in rural areas, however. This research explores the distribution characteristics of annual physical examination use and its determinants among people aged 60 or over in rural China.MethodsA cross-sectional study was undertaken to estimate distribution characteristics of annual physical examination use and to collect data of sociodemographic characteristics, health knowledge level, and health communication channels. Participants were 1128 people aged 60 or over, randomly selected from four different provinces in the East, Mid-East, Mid-West, and West China. Logistic regression determined the predictors of annual physical examination use.ResultsParticipants were predominantly aged 60–79 (44.1%) and 70–79 (42.0%). A total of 716 (63.5%) participants underwent annual physical examinations. Those who reported acquiring health knowledge via bulletin boards and village doctors had a higher probability of using annual physical examinations (OR = 3.15 and 1.53). The probability for civil servants/retired having annual physical examinations was 2.16 times higher than for farmers. Those who had an average level of health knowledge had a higher probability of using annual physical examinations than those at the below-average level (odds ratio: 2.07).ConclusionThe government and public health institutions should assist farmers to acquire the habit of having annual physical examinations. Traditional channels, such as bulletin boards, should be used to deliver health information. Village doctors should be supported in delivering health information to the elderly in rural areas.

Migration of health workers and health of international migrants: framework for bridging some knowledge disjoints between brain drain and brawn drain

A paradox in knowledge management paradigms is posed: that leading to a dichotomy between factor-endowment and factor-use in the health sector of any given country. While investment in acquiring health knowledge embodied in overseas health workers from other countries could lead to better health and therefore higher productivity of the native workforce in the developed North countries, immigration of overseas non-health-workers, particularly those at the lower end of the skill spectrum, could neutralise that advantage if their health and therefore productivity is allowed to wither away. For the developing South countries, this adds a new question in the policy debate on brain drain – whether ‘drain’ of knowledge for the origin country as defined in terms of loss of benefits to the people physically left behind within its sovereign geographical territory, or a more inclusive and wider definition of ‘drain’ of knowledge for its people irrespective of their physical location in a globalised and interconnected world. The latter definition could have significant implications for bridging our knowledge disjoints between health policies involving migrants and migration policies involving health workers.

Survey on health knowledge among Yayuncun community residents in Beijing

A baseline survey on health knowledge was conducted in Yayuncun (Asian Games Village) Community in 2004 and 2005 respectively. A sample consisting of 1765 residents aged 15 and above from 600 households, who had lived in the community at least 5 years, was randomly taken; the Beijing Typical Community Resident Questionnaire was used for survey and the participants were followedup annually from 2006 to 2008. The results showed that the awareness rate of food nutrition and disease prevention increased year by year; however, the participants with educational level lower than junior middle school had the lowest rate of overall health knowledge. The main channels for local residents to acquire health knowledge were activities, lectures and other programs with the title of the Olympic Games; the educational level and the year of survey were independent affecting factors on overall health knowledge among residents. Key words: Health knowledge,attitudes, practice; Questionnaires

Health knowledge acquisition by rural women with chronic health conditions: A tale of two Web approaches

To determine the differences in health knowledge acquisition and the perceived impact on self-management of chronic illness provided by two approaches to providing Web-based information. Repeated-measure questionnaire administered at four time points: baseline, 11, 23 and 53 weeks; a post-computer intervention survey. One hundred and seventy-six chronically ill women (aged 32-68 years) living in rural areas. Scores on knowledge questions within repeated measures; participant ratings on perceptions of abilities to self-manage. The 22-week computer-based intervention provided online support and health information. Women were randomly assigned to an intense intervention (n = 54), less-intense intervention (n = 58) or control group (n = 64). Both computer intervention groups gained significantly in health knowledge with little differential effect at intervention conclusion or after 6 months, when there was a drop-off in health knowledge retention of about one-third (intense - baseline mean = 0.54, week 23 = 0.69, week 53 = 0.65; less intense - 0.58, 0.68, 0.65). Control remained about the same (0.51, 0.51, 0.53). Using an anova analysis, there was no appreciable difference between intervention groups in perceptions of ability to self-manage illness (intense - mean = 4.02 (on a scale of 1-6), standard deviation = 0.99); less intense - (mean = 3.85, standard deviation = 1.00), t(107) = 0.90, P = 0.37). A less-intense intervention can be as effective as a more complex, labour-intensive and costly intervention in assisting chronically ill rural women to acquire health knowledge they consider to be moderately helpful in managing their chronic conditions.

Development of Theory-based, Online Health Learning Modules for Older Adults

Recently, the number of older adult online users has increased rapidly. In 2004, 22% of Americans aged 65 years or older (about 8 million) used the Internet, and 66% of them performed online searches for health information. The Web, therefore, can serve as a useful medium to educate older adults on selected health topics. In this study, the researchers developed four Web-based learning modules related to hip fracture prevention and tested the usability of these modules employing eight older adult online users. The findings from the usability tests demonstrated that the online learning modules were usable to the older adult participants. Additionally, these individuals could acquire health knowledge using these online modules. The important lessons learned through the research process will assist the researchers in conducting further studies in using health Web learning modules for older adults. A further study will be conducted to test the effects of these modules on preventing hip fractures.

I Want to Know: Exploring How Older Women Acquire Health Knowledge After a Myocardial Infarction

ABSTRACT The purpose of this descriptive naturalistic study was to: (a) explore how older women not participating in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR) acquire health knowledge regarding secondary prevention measures after a myocardial infarction (MI), and (b) describe women's perceived barriers to acquiring this knowledge. Women (N = 15), ages 66–88, participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews. Data analysis resulted in four global categories: (a) previous learning, (b) self knowledge, (c) actively seeking knowledge from others, and (d) information provided by others. Barriers to acquiring health knowledge after MI without the support of outpatient CR were also identified.