background: oral diseases are common chronic diseases that are affected by human health behavior. one-way to promote health behaviors can be achieved through education. the present study aims to assess the effect of an oral health education program using motivational interviewing (mi) method on oral health status of preschool children. materials and methods: this study recruited 222 volunteer c...

In order to provide a scientific basis for the development of Yunnan wetland ecosystem, we construct ecosystem health evaluation system with 15 indexes selected from three aspects including pressure, status and response based on PSR mathematical model. Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) was used determine weight indicators divided into “the five status” “health, sub-health, fragility, illness, scu...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between experienced physical violence and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) by comparing self-reported health status for individuals with and without experience of physical violence. Our hypothesis was that individuals exposed to violence would experience worse HRQoL than non-exposed individuals. We tested whether men and wom...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to measure the decline in the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) associated with some diseases in South Korean adults. METHODS The EQ-5D health states in the 2005 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHNES) and the Korean EQ-5D valuation set were used to obtain the EQ-5D indexes of the study subjects. Each disease group was defined when the...

objective: health and medicare issue plays a vital role in socio-economic life of the people in any society. that is why most of the economic planners expect much more from public health sector, including creating jobs, revenues and healthy social opportunities in addition to basic health necessities. the main objective of the present study is to measure the level of development of different pr...

Birth weight and gestational age are important measures of a newborn's intrinsic health, serving both as outcome measures and explanatory variables in health studies. The measures are highly correlated but occasionally inconsistent. We anticipate that health researchers and other scientists would be helped by summary indexes of birth weight and gestational age that give more precise indications...

This research analyzes the relationship between social indexes and the implementation level of the Family Health Program (PSF) in cities of Santa Catarina State, Brazil. The social indexes applied were: total population, human development index (HDI), per capita expenses with health and political party at local administration. Findings have shown a strong relationship between the population num...