OBJECTIVES Childhood obesity continues to be a problem. Children in rural populations are more likely to be overweight or obese and a lack of resources in those areas may contribute to this problem. We aimed to assess the impact of a pilot pharmacy health-care professional out-of-school time vigorous physical activity and nutrition education program on fourth and fifth graders in a rural Texas ...

In the field of diagnostic test studies, the accuracy of a diagnostic test is essential in evaluating the performance of the test. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC ) curve and the area under the curve (AUC ) are widely used in such evaluation procedures. Meanwhile, the Youden index is also introduced into practice to measure the accuracy of the diagnostic test from another aspect. The...

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Implementing public health measures with obvious benefits becomes a complex struggle when commercial interests are paramount T he evening of 25 March 2009 was cool for the community consultation — a necessary step before the implementation of fluoridation of the Cobram water supply. There were only a few people present in the Civic Centre, but they warmly applauded the initiative. None of the e...

An important disadvantage of the h-index is that typically it cannot take into account the specific field of research of a researcher. Usually sample point estimates of the average and median h-index values for the various fields are reported that are highly variable and dependent of the specific samples and it would be useful to provide confidence intervals of prediction accuracy. In this pape...

Low acceptance of body image can lead to behavioral changes and disorders such as depression, excessive desire lose weight dieting, eating disorders, well low self-esteem. This study aims analyze the effect using E-WoHealth on perceived image, self-confidence, Body Mass Index (BMI) among female adolescents. has obtained ethical approval issued by Faculty Public Health, Hasanuddin University No....

The article, studies the relationship between consumer confidence and stock market index in Vietnam's context of Covid-19 pandemic shock, data collected from 2012Q1 to 2021Q4 Nielsen sources. Consumer is measured by (CCI), (SMI). authors use P.VAR model solve set goals. Research results show that there a strong positive Vietnam period 2012 2021. In addition, shocks past CCI SMI value also affec...