New Perspectives on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Health

This book focuses on new research in understanding knowledge, attitudes and practices in health around the globe. Advances in medicine as well as computers and electronics have made possible remarkable gains in our understanding of diseases on all levels from the theoretical to the clinical. In addition, much of the population can instantly access many types of health knowledge online. Blending the old and new knowledge and getting it public under relentless attack from their own insurance companies and seeing doctors under non-stop pressure to see more patients and order less tests, have created a situation where an understanding or health knowledge by many is essential yet often worse than the ailment.

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Preface; Patient Empowerment and Health Decision-Making; Influence and Countermeasure of HIV/AIDS to the Armed Forces; Comparing the Definitions of WHO and ATPIII Metabolic Syndrome (MS) in School Children; Occupational Health Promotion for Healthcare Workers; Community-Tailored Interventions to Promote Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care-Seeking; Strengthening Chronic Disease Management Capacity through Knowledge Mobilization; Theoretical Approaches; Food Choice in Ireland: The Potential Influences on Food Consumption During Teenage Years; KAP Survey in a Non-Western Setting: A Critical Discussion Based on A Medical Anthropology Study on Malaria in Pregnancy in Rural Malawi; Intentions are not Sufficient to Change Behavior: Strategies that Promote Behavior Change and Healthy Weight Management; Sexual Motivation and HIV Testing; Implications of Myths, Beliefs and Practices on Children's Oral Health in Developing Countries; Explaining Type 2 Diabetes: Comparing Patients' and Physicians' Models in Mexico; Values and Sexual Practices: Inter and Intra-Cultural Variations in Romania and the UK; Beliefs, Facilitators and Barriers to Screenings for Early Detection of Breast Cancer Among Arab Women; Index.