infants and children are valuable human resources for our future. their desirable growth influences the quality of human resources for the future. nutritional education is one of the most important ways to improve children's health. the purpose of this study was to determine the impact of nutrition education program on reducing growth failure among children based on health belief model (hbm) in...

INTRODUCTION Breast cancer is an international health problem in the world over. Mammography screening behavior has critical role in early detection and decreasing of its mortality. Educational programs play an important role in promoting breast cancer screening behaviors and women health. Health belief models (HBM) is the most common models that have been applied in Mammography screening behav...

OBJECTIVE To improve primary prevention of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection by promoting vaccination and increased condom use among upper secondary school students. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING 18 upper secondary schools in Sweden. PARTICIPANTS Schools were first randomised to the intervention or the control group, after which individual classes were randomised ...

BACKGROUND Mexico is one of the countries with the highest rates of overweight and obesity around the world, with 68.8% of men and 73% of women reporting both. This is a public health problem since there are several health related consequences of not exercising, like having cardiovascular diseases or some types of cancers. All of these problems can be prevented by promoting exercise, so it is i...

The “European Human Biomonitoring Initiative” (HBM4EU) derives human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs) for the general population (HBM-GVGenPop) and/or occupationally exposed adults (HBM-GVWorker) several priority substances and substance groups as identified by policy makers, scientists stakeholders at EU national level, including bisphenol A (BPA). exposure to BPA is widespread of parti...

BACKGROUND Balancing the rights and obligations of custodians and applicants in relation to access to biobanks is of utmost importance to guarantee trust and confidence. This study aimed to reveal which issues divide different stakeholders in an attempt to determine the rights and/or obligations held on human biological materials (HBM) and data. METHODS Twenty-eight informants in the Benelux ...

BACKGROUND Osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease. The purpose of this study is to investigate the health belief model (HBM) and social cognitive theory (SCT) for osteoporosis preventive nutritional behaviors in women. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this quasi-experimental study, 120 patients who were women and registered under the health centers in Fasa City, Fars Province, Iran we...

BACKGROUND Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is deleterious to pregnant women and their unborn children. The prevalence of SHS exposure among pregnant women is particularly high in many Asian countries where approximately half of the male population smokes. We aim to investigate the efficacy of an intervention based on an expanded Health Belief Model (HBM) incorporating self-efficacy to educate a...

Hierarchical Balancing Method is applied on Linearly Extensible ∆ multiprocessor network. This method is used for calculating Load imbalance Factor for arbitrary binary and ternary trees. The result obtained are plotted and found that results are better as compared to HBM giving other results on some other multiprocessor network. Simulation studies show the better performance to other similar s...