Sentinel Human Health Indicators: To Evaluate the Health Status of Vulnerable Communities [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2002 The presence of toxic substances in the Great Lakes (GL) basin continues to be a significant concern. In the United States, some 70,000 commercial and industrial compounds are now in use. More than 30,000 are produced or used in the Great Lakes ecosystem. These substances include organochlorines (e.g., polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, furans,
Christopher T. De Rosa +1 more
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Intuitive eating, objective weight status and physical indicators of health [PDF]
Obesity Science & Practice, 2019 SummaryIntroductionIntuitive eating (IE) has emerged as a weight‐neutral approach to health promotion for those with overweight/obesity. This weight‐neutral paradigm has some support, although research thus far has often neglected to control for potential confounds (i.e.
N. G. Keirns, M. A. W. Hawkins
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Association between the Mediterranean Diet Index and self-reported Gingival Health Status Indicators in a population of Chilean adults: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
J Appl Oral Sci, 2023 Sáenz-Ravello G +7 more
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Comparison of Health Status Indicators in Iran with the Eastern Mediterranean Countries Using Multiple Attribute Decision-Making Methods. [PDF]
Iran J Med Sci, 2022 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 ...
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Community health status indicators: adding a geospatial component.
Preventing chronic disease, 2008 An Internet mapping application is being introduced in conjunction with the release of the second version of the Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) Report. The CHSI Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst is an easy-to-use Web-based mapping application that provides new opportunities for the visualization, exploration, and understanding of ...
Janet L. Heitgerd, PhD +10 more
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Temporal Physical Activity Patterns and Association with Health Status Indicators and Chronic Disease [PDF]
Curr Dev Nutr, 2020 Eicher-Miller H +8 more
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NUTRITIONAL INDICATORS OF MALNUTRITION IN HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS [PDF]
Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2019 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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Health and Socioeconomic Status: Examination of Differences in Socioeconomic Status According to Some Health Indicators [PDF]
İnsan & Toplum, 2020 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]
Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde, 2013 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
Revista Brasileira de Atividade Física e Saúde, 2021 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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