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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,
Heraline E, Hicks, Christopher T, De Rosa   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Patient‐Level Barriers and Facilitators to Inpatient Physical Therapy in Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hematological Malignancy: A Qualitative Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite their increased risk for functional impairment resulting from cancer and its treatments, few adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a hematological malignancy receive the recommended or therapeutic dose of exercise per week during inpatient hospitalizations.
Jennifer A. Kelleher, Jennifer L. Bernstein, Katia M. Crisler, Julia K. Herriott, Kimberly L. Klages, Robin E. Norris, Mariann L. Strenk, Sarah E. Bills, Meghan E. McGrady   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating and Ranking of Isfahan Provinces in Terms of Access to Health Sector Indicators

مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2014
Introduction: One of the most important dimensions of communities development is health development, in the other hand, is amount and quality of accessing of people to healthcare services.
Hossein Ebrahimipour, Saeid Karimi, Jamil Sadighifar, javad Ebrahimzadeh, Mohammad Taghi Arman, Somaye Afshari   +5 more
doaj  

National School Health Survey: Methodological aspects changes and comparability with the Global School-based Student Health Survey [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
Objective: To analyze the changes in the methodological aspects of the National Survey of School Health (PeNSE) and its comparability with the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS).
Alan Cristian Marinho Ferreira, Alanna Gomes da Silva, Évelin Angélica Herculano de Morais, Deborah Carvalho Malta   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Health Status of Southern Children: A Neglected Regional Disparity

, 2005
Purpose: Great variations exist in child health outcomes among states in the United States, with southern states consistently ranked among the lowest in the country.
Bryant, Thomas, Dailey, Amy B., Goldhagen, Jeffrey, Livingood, William, Remo, Radley, Watts, Graham, Wludyka, Peter, Wood, David   +7 more
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Avaliação dos indicadores epidemiológicos e operacionais para a hanseníase em municípios prioritários no estado do Paraná, 2001 a 2010

Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
OBJETIVO: descrever os indicadores epidemiológicos e operacionais da hanseníase nos municípios de Curitiba, Londrina e Foz do Iguaçu, estado do Paraná, Brasil.
Keurilene Sutil de Oliveira, Jhenifer de Souza, Regiane Bezerra Campos, Adriana Zilly, Reinaldo Antonio Silva-Sobrinho   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The health hazards of unemployment and poor education: the socioeconomic determinants of health duration in the European Union [PDF]

, 2007
The effect of socioeconomic status on the likelihood that an individual enters a period of poor health is examined using an Accelerated Failure Time methodology.
Cooper, D., McCausland, W. David, Theodossiou, Ioannis   +2 more
core  

Health inequalities in the older population: the role of personal capital, social resources and socio-economic circumstances.

, 2003
Older people now constitute the majority of those with health problems in developed countries so an understanding of health variations in later life is increasingly important. In this paper, we use data from three rounds of the Health Survey for England,
Grundy, Emily, Sloggett, Andy
core   +1 more source

Increasing Public Perceptions of Stroke [PDF]

, 2020
Analysis of publicly available data for the selected county of Rutland Vermont was performed to understand the underlying health problems affecting the county.
Conde Fabela, Juan, Conde, Juan A
core   +1 more source

Assessing preventable hospitalisation indicators (APHID): protocol for a data-linkage study using cohort study and administrative data [PDF]

, 2012
Introduction Potentially preventable hospitalisation (PPH) has been adopted widely by international health systems as an indicator of the accessibility and overall effectiveness of primary care. The Assessing Preventable Hospitalisation InDicators (APHID)
Blyth, F.M., Douglas, K.M.A., Elliott, R.F., Jorm, L.R., Leyland, A.H., Redman, S.   +5 more
core   +2 more sources