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2012 the “Survey on HumanEnvironment Interaction” was launched using SurveyMonkey. The survey aimed to explore how humans view their relationship to the natural world as well as how demographics influence beliefs about environmental issues. In September, with 383 respondents, the survey was closed for analysis. Over 90% of respondents agreed that there is a direct link between human health and ...

The Global Health programme (GHP) within the Health Service Executive (HSE) aims to improve health in developing countries by creating partnerships between Irish and developing world healthcare institutions. To ascertain the level of interest among HSE staff for the GHP a web-based survey was conducted. 1,028 responses were received. Medical professionals, 202 (27.7%) composed the largest categ...

We used results from a national tuberculosis prevalence survey in Eritrea to calculate case detection rate (CDR) and compared it with the published CDR. The CDR obtained from the survey was approximately 40%, whereas the CDR published by the World Health Organization was 3x lower (14%).

This study investigated predictors of happiness and life satisfaction in Rwanda. Data from the World Value Survey (2007; 2012) and gathered from 3,030 Rwandese (age ranging 16 to 90 years, mean age = 34.2, SD = 12.7; 50.5% were females) were pooled for the analysis. For the comparison, international World Value Survey data were utilized. A fixed effects multilevel regression model was used to p...

Many studies report empirical relationships between adult health outcomes and market returns to work in developing countries. Our extension of these ideas involves explicitly considering how the availability, quality and utilization of health care a®ects health and labor market outcomes. We develop an econometric model for the demand for health care using a discrete-choice framework, then link ...

OBJECTIVES This report highlights selected health characteristics of four age groups of older adults-55-64 years, 65-74 years, 75-84 years, and 85 years and over-using data from the 2004 through 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Data are presented for each of these age groups by sex, race and Hispanic origin, and by poverty, health insurance, and marital status. METHODS The estima...

“Prevention is better than treatment”, says an old Arab proverb, yet unfortunately for many Arabs today, medical treatment is the main method of dealing with diseases and risk factors. In a recent Population Health Metrics publication, “The diabetes-obesity-hypertension nexus in Qatar: evidence from the World Health Survey”, [1] Ali et al. analyzed data from the World Health Organization’s Worl...