Exposure to smoking during pregnancy is known to be one of the main modifiable risk factors, which threatens maternal and child health. Along with this factor, are not to be neglected also other risk factors belonging to lifestyle sphere, such as alcohol, sedentary, irregular daily meal serving plan, lack of knowledge. Main objective is identification of behavioral risk factors during pregnancy...

Despite the pervasiveness of electronic markets in our lives, only little is known about the role of user interfaces (UIs) in promoting good performance in market domains. How does the way we display market information to end-users, and the set of choices we offer, influence economic efficiency? In this paper, we introduce a new research agenda on “market user interface design.” We take the dom...

Evidence for the role of behavior in the etiology of asthma is reviewed here. Behavioral factors have not convincingly been shown to play a part in the inception of asthma. It has been suggested that asthma attacks can be precipitated by conditioning. Previous experiences leading to the expectation that an attack may occur can be regarded as a behavioral factor which may trigger an attack, poss...

Disease screening instruments used for secondary prevention can facilitate early determination and treatment of pathogenic factors, effectively reducing disease incidence, mortality rates, and health complications. Therefore, people should be encouraged to receive health examinations for discovering potential pathogenic factors before symptoms occur. Here, we used the health belief model as a f...

The European Commission estimates that car crash-related costs in Europe are around 160 billion euros, approximately 2% of the Gross Domestic Product [1]. In several countries, car crashes are the first cause of death among subjects aged 15-30, with a direct heavy impact on the years of life lost; in young subjects car crashes also represent one of the major causes of disability [2]. Several dr...

This review focuses on the biobehavioral factors that show robust associations with markers of inflammation and discusses the following variables: diet, smoking, coffee, alcohol, exercise, and sleep disruption. Each of these variables has been assessed in large-scale epidemiological studies, and many of them have been assessed in clinical and experimental studies as well. Treatment strategies t...

Obesity has been recognized as a major public health problem and one of the most important causes of the burden of disease worldwide (Ezzati et al, 2002). Its prevalence has escalated over the last two decades, reaching pandemic levels in the developed countries and also increasing in the developing world (Wang & Lobstein, 2006). In fact, in the newsletter of the World Health Organization/Europ...

To improve teachers’ productivity, factors involved need to be identified and strengthened. To this end a conceptual model was initially constructed and then modified based on the feedback given by 12 experts. The final model consisted of three dimensions or topics, four sub topics, 22 concepts, or constituents, and 79 indices. The input dimension included subtopics of cognitive and behavioral ...