I feel that the title chosen by your Council for this Annual Address is one which is particularly important to us all at the moment, and Particularly appropriate for this Association to discuss. We had hoped to have Sir George Schuster to speak ; but most unfortunately he "ad to refuse, and as I had gone a little way to Put before my fellow members of the Council the importance of the subject, ...

The Mediterranean diet (MD) emerged as a healthy food regimen long before it could be recognised which nutrients or foods were responsible for its observed benefits, and it was only in the middle of the last century that the first scientific approach 'The Seven Countries Study' appeared. Epidemiological and anthropological studies of the MD converged, first by investigating at single nutrients ...

Canada is by no means inundated by scholarship surrounding the history of people with mental health problems or intellectual disabilities. Despite the existence of some fi ne essays and treatises on narrower topics, as the Editors of this excellent collection opine, “there have been very few attempts at national synthesis.”1 Worse still, from the perspective of the potential of research to fost...

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Mobile phones are a pervasive platform for opportunistic sensing of behaviors and opinions. We show that location and communication sensors can be used to model individual symptoms, long-term health outcomes, and diffusion of opinions in society. For individuals, phone-based features can be used to predict changes in health, such as common colds, influenza, and stress, and automatically identif...

Each society has a social health definition based on its characteristics. One of the important and influential factors on social health is the level of social consensus in society. This research was conducted to investigate the effect of social consensus on social health. The statistical population of the study is all citizens living in Tehran. The sampling method was multi-stage cluster sampli...

The world population is aging. In fact, between 2000 and 2050 the global population ≥ 60 years of age is projected to more than triple, reaching nearly 2 billion, and the elderly population is growing faster than the total population in practically all regions of the world (United Nations 2001). Recently, aging has received increasing attention. The theme of World Health Day in 2012 was aging a...

When we speak of a healthful environment, we think mainly of safe, wholesome, palatable water, of a healthful diet, of clean air, and of shelter for our families where they live, and work, and rest. The need for a healthful environment is common to all peoples: it cuts across boundaries of occupation, race, class, and politics. If it differs from neighborhood to neighborhood, and from region to...