نتایج جستجو برای: health status indicators

تعداد نتایج: 1389455  

Journal: :Nutrition reviews 2009
Lindsay H Allen

Assessment of micronutrient status is a major concern in public health nutrition, yet there are serious limitations to the indicators currently available. This paper presents the merits of these indicators along with their drawbacks, which include cost, lack of congruence between cutoffs denoting deficiency and adverse functional consequences, and inconsistent methods of evaluating the confound...

2014
Khosro Mohamadi Khodabakhsh Ahmadi Ali Fathi Ashtiani Parviz Azad Fallah Abbas Ebadi Emad Yahaghi

BACKGROUND Promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders are of the main concerns for every country. Achieving these goals requires effective indexes for evaluating mental health. Therefore, to develop mental health enhancement programs in Iran, there is a need to measure the state of mental health in Iran. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to select a set of mental health indicators that...

Journal: :Vital and health statistics. Series 3, Analytical studies 2016
C D Fryar Q Gu C L Ogden K M Flegal

Anthropometry or human body measurements provide important indicators of nutritional status in children and adults (1). In children, measurements reflect general health status, dietary adequacy, and growth and development over time. In adults, body measurements are used to evaluate health and dietary status, disease risk, and body composition. This report presents anthropometric reference data ...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 1992
J M Najman W Bor J Morrison M Andersen G Williams

Socio-economic inequalities in adult and child health in Australia have been an issue of national concern. While a large body of data has discussed adult health, there have been relatively few Australian reports of socio-economic inequalities in child health. This occurs in a context where there have been increases in the proportion of Australian children living in poverty and where there has b...

2017
KATALIN NAGYVÁRADI-ZSUZSA MÁTRAI

Several research works in the related international literature on sociology and health sciences deal with the state of health in one selected population. In these researches, the chosen sample is often connected with special jobs, especially with healthcare professionals and their working conditions. These studies predominantly examine the self-rated subjective health status using questionnaire...

Journal: :National health statistics reports 2012
Jennifer D Parker Nataliya Kravets Keeve Nachman Amir Sapkota

OBJECTIVES Growing evidence has shown the harmful effects of traffic-related pollution on human health, including adverse respiratory, cardiovascular, and pregnancy outcomes. This report describes the linkage of data from the 1999-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) and traffic indicators from the 2005 National Highway Planning Network. METHODS The residential addr...

2015
Silvia Paddock Lauren Brum Kathleen Sorrow Samuel Thomas Susan Spence Catharina Maulbecker-Armstrong Clifford Goodman Michael Peake Gordon McVie Gary Geipel Rose Li

Concerns about rising health care costs and the often incremental nature of improvements in health outcomes continue to fuel intense debates about 'progress' and 'value' in cancer research. In times of tightening fiscal constraints, it is increasingly important for patients and their representatives to define what constitutes 'value' to them. It is clear that diverse stakeholders have different...

Journal: :Preventing Chronic Disease 2008
Janet L Heitgerd Andrew L Dent Kimberlee A Elmore Brian Kaplan James B Holt Marilyn M Metzler Koren Melfi Jennifer M Stanley Keisher Highsmith Norma Kanarek Karen Frederickson Comer

An Internet mapping application is being introduced in conjunction with the release of the second version of the Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) Report. The CHSI Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst is an easy-to-use Web-based mapping application that provides new opportunities for the visualization, exploration, and understanding of the indicators. Indicators can be mapped an...

2016
Gretchen A Stevens Leontine Alkema Robert E Black J Ties Boerma Gary S Collins Majid Ezzati John T Grove Daniel R Hogan Margaret C Hogan Richard Horton Joy E Lawn Ana Marušić Colin D Mathers Christopher J L Murray Igor Rudan Joshua A Salomon Paul J Simpson Theo Vos Vivian Welch

Measurements of health indicators are rarely available for every population and period of interest, and available data may not be comparable. The Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER) define best reporting practices for studies that calculate health estimates for multiple populations (in time or space) using multiple information sources. Health estimates th...

Journal: :Acta medica Croatica : casopis Hravatske akademije medicinskih znanosti 2015
Dinko Puntarić Ina Stašević Darko Ropac Tamara Poljičanin Dijana Mayer

The article presents the basic principles of health care, health care measures and strategic objectives of these measures in Croatia. The health of the population does not depend solely on the activities of the health care system but also on various demographic indicators. Our success in implementing health care depends largely on the structure of health facilities and health workers. The Croat...

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