European Core Health Indicators - status and perspectives [PDF]
Background The European Core Health Indicators (ECHI) are a key source of comparable health information for the European Union (EU) and its Member States (MS).
Angela Fehr +5 more
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Comparison of Health Status Indicators in Iran with the Eastern Mediterranean Countries using Multiple Attribute Decision-Making Methods [PDF]
Background: Improving public health is the main goal of healthcare systems across the world. Healthcare policymakers often use comparisons between different healthcare systems to better position their country and use the outcome to develop novel ...
Najmeh Bordbar +5 more
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Optimal indicators of socioeconomic status for health research [PDF]
Objectives: This paper examines the relationship between various measures of SES and mortality for a representative sample of individuals. ; Methods: Data are from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
David Williams +3 more
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Signal complexity indicators of health status in clinical EEG [PDF]
Brain signal variability changes across the lifespan in both health and disease, likely reflecting changes in information processing capacity related to development, aging and neurological disorders.
Kelly Shen +2 more
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Community Health Status Indicators: Adding a Geospatial Component
An Internet mapping application is being introduced in conjunction with the release of the second version of the Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) Report.
Janet L. Heitgerd, PhD +10 more
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NUTRITIONAL INDICATORS OF MALNUTRITION IN HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is associated with clinical factors, including longer hospital stay, increased morbidity and mortality and hospital costs. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of malnutrition using different nutritional indicators and to ...
Vânia Aparecida LEANDRO-MERHI +3 more
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Urban health indicators and indices—current status [PDF]
Though numbers alone may be insufficient to capture the nuances of population health, they provide a common language of appraisal and furnish clear evidence of disparities and inequalities. Over the past 30 years, facilitated by high speed computing and electronics, considerable investment has been made in the collection and analysis of urban health ...
Rothenberg, Richard +5 more
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Health and Socioeconomic Status: Examination of Differences in Socioeconomic Status According to Some Health Indicators [PDF]
Health is open to the influence of many social factors, and when the distribution of health within the social structure is examined, it appears that it differs with socioeconomic status.
İhsan Kutlu
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Diagnosis of maternal and child health situation in the municipality of Tanque do Piauí-PI [PDF]
Objective: To describe the diagnosis of maternal and child health in the city of Tanque do Piauí-PI. Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study using epidemiological survey by downloading the database for the years of 2007, 2008 and 2009 from
Lorena Sousa Soares +2 more
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Can physical education state policies impact on youth’s health behaviors? A natural experiment study
Since 2011 an educational policy promulgated that public schools from Pernambuco have had to offer physical education (PE) class in the same shift where students are enrolled. This study examined the impact of the implementation of an educational policy
Lizandra Barbosa da Silva +4 more
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