BACKGROUND Unmetabolized serum folic acid (UMFA) has been detected in adults. Previous research indicates that high folic acid intakes may be associated with risk of cancer. OBJECTIVE The objective was to examine UMFA concentrations in relation to dietary and supplemental folate and status biomarkers in the US population aged > or =60 y. DESIGN Surplus sera were analyzed with the use of dat...

BACKGROUND Accessibility of quality healthcare across the globe has generated a lot of attention among public health practitioners. AIM This study explored the background characteristics of female prisoners and how it influences their assessment of the quality of accessible healthcare in the Kumasi Female Prison. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted at ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Dental anxiety leads to avoidance of dental treatment and could lead to impaired oral health. The aim of this study was to determine the reliability of the Serbian version of Children's Fear Survey Schedule Dental Subscale (CFSS-DS) and the relations between dental anxiety and oral health status in a sample of Serbian schoolchildren. METHODS The CFSS-DS scale was translated int...

BACKGROUND There are emerging opportunities to improve the health of Aboriginal children and youth. The Aboriginal Children's Health and Well-being Measure (ACHWM) was developed to enable Aboriginal communities to obtain group-level data from the perspectives of their children 8 to 18 years of age. The survey was developed in collaboration with children, based on the Medicine Wheel framework. T...

in 1979, a community health survey for the purpose of establishing population babe. services were conducted in the villages of region of isfahan with a population of about 10,000. the target group involved males and females with in the age group of more than one year old. the population under study, 617 males and 565 females who were selected by household random sampling, where examined for the...

BACKGROUND The serious mental illness Health Improvement Profile [HIP] is a brief pragmatic tool, which enables mental health nurses to work together with patients to screen physical health and take evidence-based action when variables are identified to be at risk. Piloting has demonstrated clinical utility and acceptability. METHODS/DESIGN A single blind parallel group cluster randomised con...

CONTEXT Little is known about the relationship between race/ethnicity and depression among US blacks. OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence, persistence, treatment, and disability of depression in African Americans, Caribbean blacks, and non-Hispanic whites in the National Survey of American Life. DESIGN A slightly modified adaptation of the World Health Organization World Mental Health vers...

A previous study in Cairo, Egypt highlighted the need to improve the patient safety culture among health-care providers at Ain Shams University hospitals. This descriptive cross-sectional study assessed healthcare providers' perceptions of patient safety culture within the organization and determined factors that played a role in patient safety culture. A representative sample of 510 physicians...

Preface The past few years have witnessed a tremendous interest in logic-based probabilistic learning as testified by the number of formalisms and systems and their applications. Logic-based probabilistic learning is a multidisciplinary research area that integrates relational or logic formalisms, probabilistic reasoning mechanisms, and machine learning and data mining principles. Logic-based p...