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Measuring oral health: The Physical Oral Health Index
Journal of Dentistry, 2022Oral health is an important component of a person's general health. Studies focusing on this issue need valid and reliable tools to assess oral health. Aim was to develop a comprehensive measure for physical oral health and to establish its measurement properties.The construct physical oral health was defined based on a systematic literature review and
Daniel R, Reissmann +4 more
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Dietary Glycemic Index: Health Implications
Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2009Weight loss can be achieved by any means of energy restriction, but the challenge is to achieve sustainable weight loss and prevent weight "creep" without increasing the risk of chronic disease. The modest success of low fat diets has prompted research on alternative dietary strategies, including high protein diets and low glycemic index (GI) diets ...
Jennie, Brand-Miller +3 more
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Harefuah, 2010
Recently, a booklet presenting a national health index was published by the Israel Medical Association (IMA]. The publication of an objective tool for the measurement and evaluation of the health of the population in Israel and the assessment of the healthcare system is an important and valued action.
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Recently, a booklet presenting a national health index was published by the Israel Medical Association (IMA]. The publication of an objective tool for the measurement and evaluation of the health of the population in Israel and the assessment of the healthcare system is an important and valued action.
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The Health Self-Determinism Index
Nursing Research, 1985This study is a psychometric evaluation of a new measure of motivation in health behavior. The Health Self-Determinism Index was completed by 202 randomly selected adults via a mail survey. The multidimensionality of the construct was supported through the factorial isolation of four subscales: self-determined health judgments, self-determined health ...
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What is Health? A Multiple Correspondence Health Index
Eastern Economic Journal, 2011This paper illustrates a health index that uses multiple correspondence analysis to reduce multiple discrete indicators to a continuous variable using minimal modeling assumptions. The continuous index enables fixed effects estimators when health is the dependent variable, and it exhibits more variation than self-assessed health (SAH) to support ...
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1981
The problem of measurement, and in particular of quantitative assessment of the health of a designated population or of the health care rendered by a health care system, health program, or individual provider, is fundamental to the application of operations research to health care systems. There are two primary aspects to this problem. First, a measure
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The problem of measurement, and in particular of quantitative assessment of the health of a designated population or of the health care rendered by a health care system, health program, or individual provider, is fundamental to the application of operations research to health care systems. There are two primary aspects to this problem. First, a measure
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Health Self Determination Index
Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2016 Issue 1, 2016The Health Self Determination Index (HSDI) is a tool to measure the degree to which legal systems allow a person is able to make choices and decisions based on their own preferences and interests with regard to their health. The HSDI measures the degree to which a given regulatory environment recognize, guarantees and protects a self-determination with
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