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`Barefoot doctors' in rural Georgia: The effect of peer selection on the performance of trained volunteers
(Elsevier, 1984)
Does volunteer selection by peers have a measurable effect on volunteer performance? This paper examines this question in the context of a field experiment which used community organizations as a means to select people to ...
Kutambuwa ugonjuwa: Concepts of illness and transformation among the Tabwa of Zaire
(Elsevier, 1981-07)
Beginning with the description of a single instance of problematic illness, this paper moves toward the comprehension of Tabwa therapeutics by placing them in their most complete conceptual context. Decisions made regarding ...
Personal control and health promotion
(Elsevier, 1989)
Personal control is an individual's belief about the degree that he or she can bring about good events and avoid bad events. High personal control is associated with intellectual, emotional, behavioral, and physiological ...
The effect of the social organization of work on the voluntary turnover rate of hospital nurses in the United States
(Elsevier, 1992-06)
In light of current concerns over nursing shortages and productivity, voluntary turnover among hospital nurses in the United States has assumed renewed importance as a managerial issue. This study examines the thesis that ...
Psycho-social aspects of recovery from coronary heart disease: A review
(Elsevier, 1977-02)
The literature dealing with the psychological and social aspects of recovery from and rehabilitation to the acute onset of coronary heart disease (CHD) was reviewed. The papers published since an earlier review were placed ...
Out of the clinic into the home: Control and patient-physician communication
(Elsevier, 1986)
The communication of information between patient and physician is a difficult and often flawed undertaking. Although the patient may be more immediately aware of dissatisfaction with the results, the presence of incomplete ...
The economic implications of preventive health care
(Elsevier, 1979-12)
Today's cost-conscious political environment subjects the economic implications of proposed health care expenditures to careful scrutiny. This paper examines both the logic of and the evidence on preventive health care ...
Career preferences and perceptions of the medical labor market among Mexican interns
(Elsevier, 1983)
This paper examines the relationship between choice of career and perception of the medical labor market, as well as the effects of social origin, type of medical school, and place of internship. The data are derived from ...