/methodology/approach – In total, 30 food-interested people were asked to (1) sort a series of 56 statements about food, health, and eating on a …

, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) communities' health information practices and how participants resist this power … and their communities create, seek, use and share health information. We focus on the information world maps for this …–their health–and frames these perspectives and topics within an informational context. Our use of information world mapping and …

, the author examines medical records, and especially mental health records, as actants that participate in the …

Post-retirement health benefits could bring a shock to governments, retirees …

Medicare and Social Security in determining job exit rates at age 65. Of central importance is whether individuals value health … medical expenses. To address this problem the model accounts explicitly for the effects of health cost volatility and health … individuals can self-insure against health cost shocks. Self-insurance potentially reduces an individual's valuation of health …

This paper asserts that America's health care system is broken and cannot be repaired with timid half-measures. It …: Each is necessary to make the other possible. It further states that if we do not make health care more affordable and our … of millions of uninsured impairs the efficiency we need to make health care and insurance affordable for all. Thus …

-developed countries (LDCs) have had to cut back social spending, including spending on government health programs. As a result, these … countries have been forced to explore alternative means fo financing health services, including greater recovery of costs in the … government health sector via user fees. …