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Regular activities as indicators of subjective health status

International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1986
In order to measure rehabilitation effectiveness, both functional limitations and symptoms need to be assessed. The utility of activity measures as health indicators was explored by studying patterns of everyday activity in two samples, using 26 self-report items.
H R, Winefield, S M, Cormack
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Status report on maternal and child health indicators

The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, 1995
The health of pregnant women and children has improved substantially since the 1960s. In the past decade, however, progress in preventing infant deaths, reducing the incidence of low-birth-weight infants, and ensuring first trimester prenatal care has slowed.
S R, Givens, M L, Moore
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Serum Amyloid A as an Indicator of Health Status in Falcons

Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery, 2013
Serum amyloid A (SAA) is used as an indicator of health status in many species. To investigate the possible use of SAA as a health indicator in falcons, SAA levels were measured in 259 falcons of varying species and health status. A significant increase (P < .001) in SAA concentrations was observed in falcons affected by inflammatory disease compared ...
Valentina, Caliendo, Peter, McKinney, Tom, Bailey, Joerg, Kinne, Ulrich, Wernery   +4 more
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Health Status Indicators

1995
Major objective of the analyses of data presented here, was to obtain a better understanding of the information content; the information collecting, processing and documentation procedures; the information quality, reliability and stability; the quality control and maintenance procedures; the overall targets of the information
Wolfgang Morgenstern, Victor K. Ivanov, Anatoli I. Michalski, Anatoli F. Tsyb, Gotthard Schettler   +4 more
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Improving dental health status indicators for evaluation

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1996
Abstract Central to the evaluation of any dental health programme is the dental status of the population it serves. The DMFT index has been widely used to indicate dental status in evaluations, however, there are a number of characteristics of the DMFT index which undermine its value in evaluating programmes.
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Associations between xerostomia and health status indicators in the elderly

Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 2006
Aims: This study investigated the associations between xerostomia (dry mouth) (low, moderate and high) with other categorical variables (e.g. demographic and health status indicators). This paper aims to report on the severity of xerostomia in the elderly population and investigate the relationship with other aspects of perceived health.
David W, Matear, D, Locker, M, Stephens, H P, Lawrence   +3 more
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A health status indicator for the Chinese elderly in Hong Kong

International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing, 1995
This paper proposes an instrument comprising of 28 questions on seven dimensions to assess the quality of life of a subpopulation. Our hierarchical model which utilizes Thurstone's Law of comparative judgment and Mckenna's modification will give a score from 0 to 100 of an individual's overall health quality.
W C, Ip, Y K, Kwan, G T, Pong, A C, Poon
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Status and future of the forest health indicators program of the USA

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2010
For two decades, the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, has been charged with implementing a nationwide field-based forest health monitoring effort. Given its extensive nature, the monitoring program has been gradually implemented across forest health indicators and inventoried states.
Christopher William, Woodall, Michael C, Amacher, William A, Bechtold, John W, Coulston, Sarah, Jovan, Charles H, Perry, Kadonna C, Randolph, Beth K, Schulz, Gretchen C, Smith, Borys, Tkacz, Susan, Will-Wolf   +10 more
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Influence of lifestyle, health behavior, and health indices on the health status of underserved adults

Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2013
To examine how lifestyle, health behavior, and health indices best predict health status in underserved adults.Eighty-four underserved adults from a nurse-managed center completed an investigator-developed instrument to measure lifestyle, health behavior, and health indices.
Theresa A, Kessler, Elise M, Alverson
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Health and lifestyle surveys: beyond health status indicators

Health Education Journal, 1994
In 1992/3 a health and lifestyle postal survey was conducted among 10,000 people in Cheshire and Wirral. The findings indicate that many respon dents want to adopt healthier lifestyles in relation to diet, exercise, smoking and alcohol consumption, but they encounter barriers to this which include: lack of will power, enjoyment of unhealthy behaviour ...
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