Major behavioral theories focus on proximal influences on behavior that are considered to
be predominantly cognitive characteristics of the individual largely uninfluenced by social …

Objectives To examine how practice constraints contribute to barriers in the health care of
persons with dementia and their families, particularly with respect to behavioral aspects of care…

Objective: This qualitative study sought to identify cultural beliefs, practices and experiences
that influence access to preventive oral health care for young children from different racial …

… With a different sample, Barker and Mitteness 1990 also reported that 10% of their respondents
were young men caring for older women. Around one fifth of cases in this study involved …

Prior literature emphasizes that Asian Americans with dementia may be particularly vulnerable
to the stigma of chronic and severe mental illness. However, there is a dearth of empirical …

The arrival of the millennium has understandably created a growing tendency for social
commentators to evaluate the current state of the world, assess prior developments and suggest …

The behavioral theory constructs most often used to study mammography utilization—perceived
benefit, perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, intention, and subjective norms—have …

Background The purpose of this study was to assess information available in the dental
literature on oral health-related cultural beliefs. In the US, as elsewhere, many racial/ethnic …

The geriatric medical literature presents a perspective on urinary incontinence in the elderly
that is sharply divergent from the realities of medical and lay responses to incontinence. This …

Purpose Children's health is influenced by the context in which they live. We provide a
descriptive essay on the status of children in rural America to highlight features of the rural …