From public health to personal health: violence against women across the life span

Article Abstract:

The health care community should address the needs of the increasing numbers of physically and sexually abused women of all ages. Research has shown that 20-25% of women have experienced sexual or physical abuse either before the age of 18 or sometime in their adult life. Most women know or are related to their abuser. The abuse may contribute to additional medical and psychological problems including stomach or intestinal illness or symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. Abused women and children need access to safe, supportive, and appropriate health care, crisis assistance, and counseling. The health care community needs to educate itself and the public about the patterns of domestic violence and the community resources available to abused women. Community agencies and the health professions could coordinate their efforts to develop specialized intervention teams for abused women.

Care and treatment, Editorial, Diagnosis, Abused women, Family violence, Domestic violence

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Personal Time: The Patient's Experience

Article Abstract:

The author discusses the subjective perception of time experienced by patients who are the subjects of chronic or life-threatening disease. Their sense of time is altered, and the author uses the Greek terms kronos and kairos to elucidate. Kronos is linear time and the normal day-to-day perception we all know. Kairos is soul-satisfying time, which he defines illustratively as what one feels walking with a grandchild. He uses the case of two patients, showing the diary of one with multiple sclerosis, and the paintings of another with Hodgkin's disease to demonstrate the reappraisal of life which goes on.

Psychological aspects, Health aspects, Time perception, Chronic diseases, Terminally ill persons, Terminally ill

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Health care information and the protection of personal privacy: ethical and legal considerations

Article Abstract:

Federal government regulations may be necessary to ensure that private patient information is not published in electronic data sets without informed consent. Many states have differing laws regarding patient confidentiality. Patient information shared with health care providers, third party payers, and researchers can, however, provide important data about health care quality and trends. A reasonable ethical balance should be reached regarding respect for the patient's medical record and the need for informed public health policies.

Analysis, Ethical aspects, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Medical records, Access control, Centralized databases, Information storage and retrieval

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