introduction: pain in the achilles tendon during loading is a very common condition. conservative treatments, such as low level laser therapy (lllt) have been reported to give varying results. recently, a new laser treatment technique, high power laser treatment (hplt) (swiss dynalaser®), was introduced in scandinavia, but has not, to our knowledge, been systematically tested before. the object...

OBJECTIVES To examine the income gaps associated with self-rated poor health at the district level in Korea and to identify the geographical correlations between self-rated poor health, life expectancy, and the associated income gaps. METHODS We analyzed data for 1,578,189 participants from the Community Health Survey of Korea collected between 2008 and 2014. The age-standardized prevalence o...

Abstract In recent years the literature exploring state dependent nature of individual self-rated health has grown rapidly. We contribute to this ‘reporting heterogeneity’ research field in two main ways. First, we are among few studies examine determinants reporting heterogeneity Russian context. Second, echoing social literature, augment standard battery level socioeconomic and demographic ch...

Background: Morning reports are one the most popular clinical education in hospital setting. The first step to improve quality of this educational method is to know about current situation. The aim of this study was to study the effect of educational workshop on quality of morning report in Golestan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: In this interventional study, using census sampling 14...

OBJECTIVE To examine the contribution of adolescents' sleep problems and tiredness to psychological symptoms after accounting for shared risk and psychological co-morbidity. METHODS Secondary analyses of cross-sectional data on 12-16-year-old (N = 980) adolescents without chronic illness, functional limitation, or developmental delay. Adolescents rated sleep problems, tiredness, and psycholog...

BACKGROUND Self-rated health is a one-point measure commonly used for recognising subjectively perceived health and covering a wide range of individual's health aspects. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to examine the extent to which self-rated health reflects the differences due to demographic characteristics, physical, psychical and social well-being, health disorders, occurrence of chron...