Social Determinants of Cognitive Health and Cognitive Health Care Planning [PDF]
Abstract Social determinants are critical to shaping our path toward health equity. In fact, research has highlighted healthcare, education access, social and community context, economic stability, and neighborhood and built environment as key factors in health and well-being across the lifespan.
Allan, Alexa +2 more
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Terrapino: a mobile application for Alzheimer’s risk assessment and cognitive health promotion [PDF]
ObjectiveMobile health technologies offer scalable opportunities to promote public health, including cognitive health, via education, engagement, and personalized health approach.
Ross Andel +8 more
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Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior [PDF]
Using data from NLSY97, we analyze the impact of education on health behavior. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behavior, supporting the productive efficiency hypothesis. Accounting for cognitive ability does not significantly alter the relationship between education and health behavior.
Naci Mocan, Duha T. Altindag
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Physical activity and cognitive health [PDF]
BackgroundThe industrialized nations are experiencing a demographic revolution caused by the continuing increase in longevity and the rapid rise in the percentage of the population older than 65 years. Interventions that promote healthy aging will continue to gain significance as efforts to delay disability and loss of function intensify.MethodsBecause
M Kathryn, Jedrziewski +2 more
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CHAMP: Cognitive behaviour therapy for health anxiety in medical patients, a randomised controlled trial. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Abnormal health anxiety, also called hypochondriasis, has been successfully treated by cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in patients recruited from primary care, but only one pilot trial has been carried out among those attending secondary ...
Smith, Georgina +57 more
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Cognitive function in childhood and lifetime cognitive change in relation to mental wellbeing in four cohorts of older people [PDF]
Background: poorer cognitive ability in youth is a risk factor for later mental health problems but it is largely unknown whether cognitive ability, in youth or in later life, is predictive of mental wellbeing.
Gale Catharine R. +40 more
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Informal fallacies as cognitive heuristics in public health reasoning [PDF]
The public must make assessments of a range of health-related issues. However, these assessments require scientific knowledge which is often lacking or ineffectively utilized by the public.
Louise Cummings +2 more
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Lifestyle activities, mental health and cognitive function in adults aged 50 to 90 years [PDF]
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel UniversityIn a series of studies, lifestyle activities, mental health and aerobic fitness were investigated in relation to mean RT and response time variability ...
Bauermeister, Sarah
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Caffeine and Health and Cognition in the Elderly [PDF]
The behavioral effects of caffeine are well documented, and research suggests that caffeine may help to prevent and manage cognitive changes as a person gets older. The present article describes a secondary analysis of epidemiological data from a sample of 3659 volunteers (average age: 70 years; range 61-98 years).
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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability [PDF]
We aim to disentangle the relative impact of (i) cognitive ability and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable (mortality), and an ordinal educational variable.
Govert E. Bijwaard +2 more
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