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Heavy metal contamination in the complete stretch of Yamuna river: A fuzzy logic approach for comprehensive health risk assessment.

PLoS ONE, 2022
River Yamuna is one of the most sacred major tributaries of river Ganga. This study aimed to assess the level of heavy metals in monsoon and non-monsoon season in river Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh, India and to assess the possible source of contamination and
Maneesh Jaiswal, Sanjay Kumar Gupta, Mayuri Chabukdhara, Mahmoud Nasr, Arvind Kumar Nema, Jakir Hussain, Tabarak Malik   +6 more
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Operator Exposure to Heavy Metals from Wood Pellet Ash – Risk Assessment [PDF]

Kemija u Industriji, 2022
Ash is a by-product of wood biomass combustion that must be removed daily from stoves or fireplaces. Therefore, operators or owners are exposed to the potential impact of ash.
Mirha Pazalja, Mirsada Salihović, Alisa Smajović   +2 more
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Measuring impairments of functioning and health in patients with axial spondyloarthritis by using the ASAS Health Index and the Environmental Item Set : translation and cross-cultural adaptation into 15 languages [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction: The Assessments of SpondyloArthritis international society Health Index (ASAS HI) measures functioning and health in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) across 17 aspects of health and 9 environmental factors (EF).
Bautista-Molano, W, Boonen, A, Braun, J, Burgos-Vargas, R, Chiowchanwisawakit, P, Duruoz, T, El-Zorkany, B, Essers, I, Gaydukova, I, Gossec, L, Grazio, S, Gu, J, Géher, P, Khan, MA, Kiltz, U, Kim, TJ, Maksymowych, WP, Marzo-Ortega, H, Navarro-Compán, V, Olivieri, I, Patrikos, D, Pimentel-Santos, FM, Schirmer, M, Van den Bosch, Filip, van der Heijde, D, Weber, U, Zochling, J   +26 more
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Assessing horizontal equity in health care utilization in Iran: a decomposition analysis

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Despite the goal of horizontal equity in Iran, little is known about it. This study aimed i) to assess socioeconomic inequality and horizontal inequity in the healthcare utilization; and ii) to explore the contribution of need and non-need ...
Farideh Mostafavi, Bakhtiar Piroozi, Paola Mosquera, Reza Majdzadeh, Ghobad Moradi   +4 more
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Comparative Clinical Study Testing the Effectiveness of School Based Oral Health Education Using Experiential Learning or Traditional Lecturing in 10 Year-Old Children [PDF]

, 2015
Background School based oral health education through traditional lecturing has been found successful only in improving oral health knowledge, while has low effectiveness in oral hygiene and gingival health.
Angelopoulou, Matina V., Kavvadia, katerina, Oulis, Constantine J., Taoufik, Konstantine   +3 more
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Determinants of Primary School Teachers’ Health Literacy in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania: A Reflection on Access to Health Information

Advances in Public Health, 2023
Background. Teachers have the potential of promoting health knowledge and consequently health-literacy (HL) enhancement. Cognizant of this, interventions geared toward influencing and strengthening school teachers’ HL have remained important.
David M. Mshingo, Mikidadi I. Muhanga, Raymond J. Salanga, Edwin E. Ngowi   +3 more
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Horizontal inequity trends of health care utilization in rural China after the medicine and healthcare system reform: based on longitudinal data from 2010 to 2018

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background To assess the effectiveness of China's medicine and health care reform in promoting equity in health care utilization among rural residents, it is necessary to analyze temporal trends in equity in health care utilization among rural residents ...
Jinpeng Xu, Guomei Tian, Jiale Sun, Jian Liu, Fangting Chen, Qi Shi, Ting Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Jingran He, Fangmin Deng, Bokai Zhang, Haixin Wang, Qunhong Wu, Zheng Kang   +13 more
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Oral Hygiene Facilitators and Barriers in Greek 10 Years Old Schoolchildren [PDF]

, 2015
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the oral hygiene facilitators and barriers for 10 years old Greek children, via a questionnaire and clinical examination.
Angelopoulou, Matina V., Kavvadia, Katerina, Oulis, Constantine, Reppa, Christina   +3 more
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Validation of the Russian-language version of the ASAS Health Index

Научно-практическая ревматология, 2019
The Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS) Health Index (HI) is a comprehensive tool for quantifying the health of patients with axial (ax) spondyloarthritis (SpA), including ankylosing spondylitis (AS). ASAS HI was developed on the
A. I. Akulova, A. P. Rebrov, Sh. Erdes, I. Z. Gaydukova   +3 more
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Digital health care service reform and health inequity for older people: a quasi-natural experiment in China

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectiveAddressing health inequity (HI) for older people is a pivotal global public health concern, as it impedes the process of healthy ageing. The digital health care service reform (DHSR) emerges as a progressive public health approach to enhance the
Xinzhu Qi, Tieying Feng, Renyi Deng
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