Health Without Gaps continues to support our vulnerable population.

Health and Safety Net Hospitals

There are numerous hospitals and clinics that have benefitted from understanding the experiences of patients during and after the episode of their care. Additionally, safety net clinics play a significant role in different communities. By providing free and subsidized health services, low income residents can better access care at their fingertips. Bouwman, Bomhoff, Robben, & […]

Some Questions Asked About Recruiting for the Interview

What are the best sources for finding participants who fit your criteria for inclusion in the sample? Recruitment will be formed by language-appropriate flyers posted in community-based organizations providing oral health care, child care, and other services. Other recruitment options will include laundromats, beauty shops, barber parlors, grocery stores, libraries, and churches. Who do you […]

Quality of Healthcare in Community Health Centers

            It has become very important in healthcare environments, especially of community health centers to approach patients as consumers of health services, while answering their complaints and comments (Frosch & Elwyn, 2014). Patient dissatisfaction and satisfaction of care should be echoed as important outputs of any country’s sound healthcare system (Lyu, Wick, Housman & Freishlag […]

Social Change, Research and Implication

Positive social change happens when individuals strongly believe they have the control to make a difference–and they take necessary measures. There are people who seek to influence positive social change by creating lasting impacts in the lives of others. I take positive social change as a moral responsibility for who has the will and means to perform such […]

Community Outreach and Social Change

I believed community outreach is a form of social change for health sustainability in many parts of the developing world. Public health education supports the values held within the public health sector. For example, according to World Health Organization, education is another social factor (i.e. contributive factor) of health sustainability in Philippines, and perhaps the […]

Codes in Qualitative Research

Dr. Susan Marcus mentioned how a code in qualitative analysis is most often a word or a short phrase that symbolically assigns a combined, and an essence-capturing attribute, for some portion of language, or visual data (Laureate Education, 2016). Data analysis is the most demanding and central aspect of qualitative research. Coding is one of […]

Some of the Steps in dissertation Writing

Some of the steps of writing effective dissertation include research topic, research design and methods, literature reviews, committee selections, research premise, IRB, research prospectus, conceptual framework and theoretical framework, problem statements, research objectives and research questions, et cetera. I was especially entice by how the literature review is an essential part of the research process […]

Participants Interview Types

What is important in audio or video tape recording is that it involves more of in-depth interviews, and not only asking questions, but methodically recording and documenting the replies to review for deeper meaning and understanding (Guion, Diehl & McDonald, 2001). If participants’ preference is email response, then participants also need to feel comfortable writing […]

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