Commentary: What Is an Adverse Health Effect?

What is an adverse health effect?

Health is defined as homeostasis of the cellular ecology, and a state where there has not been an inordinate loss, reversible or irreversible, of the structural and/or functional reserves of the body. An adverse health effect is defined as the causation, promotion, facilitation and/or exacerbation of a structural and/or functional abnormality, with the implication that the abnormality produced ...

health communication what it is and what is not

Commentary: What Is Sports Medicine?

To the question “What is psychology,” Dean Carl E. Seashore of the State University of Iowa once answered, “Anything that interests the psychologist.” A similar answer might be given to the question of “What is sports medicine?” It is “anything that relates to sports or physical welfare that interests those who are interested in sports medicine.” 1 By 2004 there was still no consensus in the Un...

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

What is information? with an Emphasis on Zins’s Views

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore some important views and theories of information and knowledge in the area of library and information science (LIS) and then to propose a new model of information and knowledge. Method: This research has been conducted by using a comparative content analysis of the existing materials on conceptualizations and definitions of information and knowledge...