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Schooling, cognitive ability and health [PDF]

open access: possibleHealth Economics, 2005
A large literature documents a strong correlation between health and educational outcomes. In this paper we investigate the role of cognitive ability in the health-education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that one standard deviation increase in cognitive ability is associated with roughly the same increase in health as two years of schooling and that ...
M. Christopher Auld, Nirmal Sidhu
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Social Cognition and Health

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1982
Health settings provide an important arena within which to test and refine social psychological theories. Using interview data from cancer patients, results are presented pertaining to four areas of social psychological theory: attribution theory, psychological control, social comparison theory, and victimization.
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Cognitive bias in health leaders

Healthcare Management Forum, 2017
Cognitive bias can be a serious impediment to rational decision-making by health leaders. We use a hypothetical case study to introduce some basic concepts of bias with examples of mitigation strategies. We argue that the effect of biases should be considered when making every significant administrative decision.
Samuel G, Campbell   +2 more
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Health cognition assessment

2001
Introduction Health cognitions are items of knowledge or beliefs about health and illness. These include evaluations of health-relevant behaviours, expectations about the consequences of these behaviours, self-representations, perceptions of social approval or disapproval resulting from engaging in these behaviours, perceptions about the behaviour of ...
Mcmillan, Brian, Conner, Mark
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Cognition and health

Journal of Religion and Health, 1962
This is an age of mass communication. It is also an age in which ideo logical conflicts and mental diseases are appearing on an unprecedented scale throughout the world. Contemporary man apparently lives not only in an increasingly polluted atmosphere, but also in a "no?sphere" (Teil hard de Chardin) : that is a mental climate that seems to be more or ...
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Cognitive Health in Older Adults

The Nurse Practitioner, 2011
This article addresses both the theoretical and practical issues associated with cognitive aging, including the implications of neurophysiological changes in the brain as well as practical ways of screening for changes that may be problematic or may actually enhance healthy cognitive adaptations.
Laura M, Struble, Barbara-Jean, Sullivan
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Cognitive health: An emerging public health issue

Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2007
A focus on cognitive health is consistent with the major principles that guide public health efforts in the United States. The purpose of our commentary is to provide a framework for placing cognitive health within the context of public health. We begin by describing the demographic and historical imperatives compelling the nation to attend to the ...
Lynda A, Anderson, Stephen R, McConnell
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Cognitive Health Counseling 40+

2013
This article introduces Cognitive Health Counseling 40+ (CH.CO40+), an individualized intervention that is conceptually based on the orchestration model of quality-of-life management ( Martin & Kliegel, 2010 ) and aims at improving satisfaction with cognitive health in adults aged 40 years and older.
Eschen, Anne   +2 more
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Cognition and Health Ageing

2019
Currently over 50 million people worldwide have dementia. Given the current lack of pharmacological disease-modifying therapy for dementia, it is important to emphasise preventative measures and strategies to reduce the risk of cognitive decline.
Robert Briggs   +2 more
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