Dysphagia is a common symptom in otolaryngologic diseases. For the treatment of oropharyngeal dysphagia, conservative primarily considered, including behavioral Interventions, modified diet, and facilitation. Behavioral interventions include posture change, swallowing maneuvers, excise. If patient diagnosed with dysphagia caused by motor dysfunction, should be actively considered. When applying...

Science teachers could play a vital role in promoting health literacy and safe behaviors to limit the spread of communicable diseases. However, there is limited research concerning their attitudes behavioral intentions toward diseases, such as COVID-19. Using theory planned behavior framework, we employed non-experimental survey compare towards adopting COVID-19 preventative measures among pre-...

background sexually transmitted infections (stis) have a major negative impact on sexual and reproductive health globally. the most effective way to avoid stis is to abstain from sexual contact or having sex only in a long-term, mutually monogamous relationship with an uninfected partner. objectives this study aimed to determine behavioral prevention regarding stis. patients and methods this an...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of, and identify factors associated with, accumulated risky behavior relating to cardiovascular diseases among adults. METHODS This was a population-based cross-sectional study on a representative sample of 2732 adults of both sexes in Pelotas, Southern Brazil, in 2010. The behavioral risk factors investigated were: smoking; leisure-time physical inactivit...

Health coaching is an effective strategy for improving cardiovascular disease risk factors. Coaching interventions have primarily been studied in Caucasians, and the effectiveness in other ethnic groups is not known. Further, adaptation of coaching to include culturally specific components has not been studied. Our aim is to describe a culturally specific coaching program targeted at reducing c...

The spread of an infectious disease is known to change people's behavior, which in turn affects the spread of disease. Adaptive network models that account for both epidemic and behavior change have found oscillations, but in an extremely narrow region of the parameter space, which contrasts with intuition and available data. In this letter we propose a simple SIS epidemic model on an adaptive ...

Why don't health care workers universally embrace vaccination to prevent vaccine preventable diseases and protect themselves and their patients? To address this problem most vaccination campaigns focus on providing education and information to health care workers. While knowledge is a necessary first step, it is likely not sufficient to increase health care worker vaccine uptake. We discuss a n...

background: acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) was firstly reported from california and soon became a pandemic in the world.this disease poses seriousthreats to humans’ health.in this study, we intended to examine the characteristicsof hiv-positive patients whoreferred to the behavioral diseases consultation center (bdcc) in shiraz, iran.   methods : this was a cross-sectional descripti...

Purpose: As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other emerging infectious diseases continue to threaten health security, a strategy is required increase nursing students’ care intention for patients with such diseases. This study aimed identify factors influencing Korean intentions in regard diseases.Methods: The intention, COVID-19 knowledge level, ethical sensitivity, beliefs, attitudes t...