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oral health as an essential indicator of public health significantly affects public health. adequate knowledge, attitude and practice can effectively prevent many oral diseases. therefore, this study examines students’ knowledge, attitude and practice toward oral health. the study used a descriptive – analytical method and immediate sample available for gathering data. this study included the v...

A child's growth achievement is a useful indicator of his well-being and nutritional status. This can easily be assessed by comparing his growth parameters such as weight, length and head ci rcumference, with norms or standards derived from a relatively healthy population of genetically similar children. Such standards are essential to professionals working with children, for example paediatric...

Previous research has shown marital status and marital quality are consistent predictors of health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease and mortality. To better understand the relationship among marital status, marital quality, and cardiovascular health, we examined how marital status and marital quality were associated with an early indicator of deteriorating cardiovascular health, high-...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between physical health and psychological well-being among oldest-old adults. Structural equation modeling was performed to examine health influences on psychological well-being among 306 octogenarians and centenarians from the Georgia Centenarian Study. Latent variables were created to reflect subjective health, as measured by self-rat...

Age, along with sex and ethnicity serve as primary perceptual bases on which people categorise one another and thus age serves as perceptual indicator of abilities, competence, skills, experience and even health status. Age-based discrimination arises in relation to specific age points, particular age ranges, and also in terms of general category labels such as ‘young’ or ‘old’. Ageism permeate...

PURPOSE Educational attainment is a widely used indicator of socioeconomic status (SES) in health studies. However, little is known about its relationship to health relative to measures of occupational standing. This study directly compared education with an array of occupational measures-including social class-in relation to health. METHODS The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study collected self-rep...

objective: to identify the relationship between socioeconomic status, health system development and the incidence, prevalence and mortality of  tuberculosis in asia and the pacific. methods: incidence, prevalence and mortality rates of  tuberculosis and 20 variables of  socioeconomic, health system and biological behavioral issues were included in the study involving all 46 countries of  the as...