OBJECTIVE To describe: a) the methods used to quantify biochemical indicators of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), and other cardiovascular risk indicators in the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006 (ENSANUT 2006) and b) compare the sub-sample with the non-selected participants in diverse socio-demographic, anthropometric and health characteristics. MATERIAL AND METHODS A sub-sample of 6 0...

BACKGROUND Responses to public health need require information on the distribution of mental and physical ill health by demographic and socioeconomic factors at the local community level. METHODS The South East London Community Health (SELCoH) study is a community psychiatric and physical morbidity survey. Trained interviewers conducted face-to-face computer assisted interviews with 1698 adul...

BACKGROUND Oral health-related quality of life can be assessed positively, by measuring satisfaction with mouth, or negatively, by measuring oral impact on the performance of daily activities. The study objective was to validate two complementary indicators, i.e., the OIDP (Oral Impacts on Daily Performances) and Oral Satisfaction 0-10 Scale (OSS), in two qualitatively different socio-demograph...

Socioeconomic, demographic, and health characteristic surveys were conducted by medical and nursing students of the Aga Khan University in two settlements of Karachi city. Comparisons of health and socioeconomic indicators are made between Orangi, a squatter settlement (katchi abadi) and Karimabad, a middle class community. Results of these surveys suggest that the demo graphic and health chara...

BACKGROUND The Ontology of Medically Related Social Entities (OMRSE) was initially developed in 2011 to provide a framework for modeling demographic data in Resource Description Framework/Web Ontology Language. It is built upon the Basic Formal Ontology and conforms to Open Biomedical Ontologies Foundry's best practices. DESCRIPTION We report recent development of OMRSE which includes represe...

BACKGROUND The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) projects the magnitude of mortality reduction based on baseline coverage, demographic characteristics and coverage targets. As a validation exercise, we compared neonatal, post-neonatal, infant, child and under-5 mortality reductions as projected by LiST to changes in mortality measured through demographic surveys in Ghana and Mali as part of a recently co...

this study aimed at estimating the rate of creativity of sport organization managers regarding organizational culture. 46 managers in physical education office of east azerbaijan voluntary filled out organizational culture of robbins, rendsip creativity and demographic questionnaires. statistical analysis of data (e.g. pearson correlation coefficient) indicated a significant relationship betwee...

This work applies geoadditive latent variable models to analyze the impact of risk factors and the spatial effects on the latent, unobservable variable "health status" or "frailty" of a child less than 5 years of age using the 2003 Demographic and Health survey (DHS) data from Egypt. Childhood diseases are a major cause of death of children in the developing world. In developing countries a qua...

UNLABELLED To check the rate of failure, hearing loss and its association with demographic variables and risk indicators for hearing loss in newborns submitted to the Newborn Hearing Screening in a secondary hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional and retrospective study, involving 1,570 newborns submitted to the different stages of the Newborn Hearing Screening Program. Initially, we...

OBJECTIVE To identify demographic and health indicators of domestic violence. DESIGN Anonymous questionnaire survey of patients regarding violence and a chart review regarding symptoms and diagnoses. SETTING Community-based family practice residency training center in a midwestern city. PARTICIPANTS Women 18 years of age or older visiting the center over a 2-month period in 1990. Of 476 e...