The measurement of children's quality of life has an important role to play in improving their experience of health and … measures that are not only comprehensible to children of different age groups, but also meaningful to parents and health … the individual is also discussed in the light of the advantages to be gained from the increased uptake within health and …

undertaken to examine evidence of a ‘housing effect’ on children's health, learning, safety and behaviour. The results found … strong evidence of a relationship between poor housing conditions and children's health and some evidence that growing up in …

Purpose – There is a lack of valid and reliable generic measures of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) for children … moderate (α=0.42 time one, 0.53 time two). A small significant correlation was found between the QoL-C and Child Health Meter …

Touch‐screen kiosks are situated in a variety of locations to provide the public with ready access to health …, number of pages printed and health topics viewed. There were considerable differences between the kiosk locations. This early …

Purpose – By selectively reviewing theory‐driven survey studies on internet health information seeking, the paper aims … need for multidisciplinary frameworks that can capture the complexity of online health information behavior. The studies … and gratifications, health belief model, and information seeking models – demonstrating that an integration of theoretical …

and clinical effectiveness) is dependent on the way individual health professionals actually acquire, use and value … knowledge. Health information services need to use a variety of strategies and knowledge management skills to ensure that the …

“Discourse structure differences in lay and professional health communication”, published in this journal in 2012 (Vol. 68 No. 6 …) offers valuable insights into computer-mediated health communication and deserves further discussion of its methodological …

Purpose To date, health information behaviour (HIB) models have not been applied to an exploration of Wikipedia as a … consumer health information resource. Wikipedia has been situated and is well established as a valuable resource for the … general layperson wishing to learn more about their health or the health of a loved one. This paper aims to identify an …