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West Indian Medical Journal, 2012 Over the last six decades, comprehensive national health surveys have become important data-gathering mechanisms to inform countries on their health status and provide information for health policy and programme planning. Developing countries have only recently begun such surveys and Jamaica has been at the forefront of this effort.
T S, Ferguson +4 more
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Archives of Public Health, 2016 Background There is strong evidence to indicate that regular moderate intensity physical activity is associated with health benefits. Furthermore, sedentary behavior has been related with an increased risk for all-cause mortality.
Thérésa Lebacq +7 more
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Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2003 Dear Editor, At this small base world women's day was celebrated by carrying out medical examination of women. It is prudent to note that in Armed Forces we are mostly concerned with the medical examination of the service personnel, whereas families of service personnel are never screened for common diseases unless they have complaints.
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Malaria Journal, 2019 Background Ensuring universal access to malaria diagnosis and treatment is a key component of Pillar 1 of the World Health Organization Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030.
Cameron Taylor +4 more
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Dietary patterns and sleep disorders in Mexican adults from a National Health and Nutrition Survey
Journal of Nutritional Science, 2021 Given the high prevalence of multiple non-communicable chronic diseases in Mexico, the aim of the present study was to assess the association between dietary patterns and sleep disorders in a national representative sample of 5076 Mexican adults (20–59 ...
Elsa B. Gaona-Pineda +5 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Previous studies have shown that those in lower socioeconomic positions (SEPs) generally have higher levels of behavioural non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors. However, there are limited studies examining recent trends in inequalities.
Fatai Ogunlayi +4 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018 Background The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the “Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) Collaboration” in 2012. The SCC is designed to contribute to quality care by providing reminders of evidence-based practices for the prevention and management of
Pedro J. Saturno-Hernández +3 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 Background: Dependence is a significant health-related condition for older adults (OA) and implies that self-care is transferred to other people, the community or institutions.
Aarón Salinas-Rodríguez +3 more
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Archives of Public Health, 2017 Background Statistical methods to model the usual dietary intake of foods in a population generally ignore the additional information on the never-consumers. The objective of this study is to determine the added value of Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ)
Cloë Ost +3 more
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Ciencia & saude coletiva, 2021 This paper aims to analyze the characteristics of national health surveys conducted in Brazil and England by their respective Statistics institutes. For Brazil, the National Health Survey (PNS) was considered, and the Health Survey for England (HSE) for England. To this end, we show a preliminary overview of the different population profiles of the two
César, Marques +1 more
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