Impact of oral health on quality of life among the elderly population of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil pptx

... School of Dentistry, Western Santa Catarina University. Braz Oral Res 2004;18(1):85-91 Impact of oral health on quality of life among the elderly population of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil Impacto ... prosthesis. The conclusion was that the need for maxillary and mandibular prosthesis impacted the quality of life among the elderly...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... lessen their impact on HRQOL among the elderly. Health of the elderly, chronic disease, quality of life, Brazil. ABSTRACT The onset of chronic disease tends to increase with age. Rising life expectancy leads ... Ciconelli 5 Objectives. To assess the impact of chronic disease and the number of diseases on the vari- ous aspects of health- related q...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... activities, their social lives and finances 2 . There- fore, one of the greatest public health challenges is to increase the number of years of a healthy and quality life. The concept of quality of life ... 4 Rozana Mesquita Ciconelli 5 Abstract As life expectancy continues to rise, one of the greatest challenges of public health is to improve the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... regarding the association between these behaviors and different aspects of quality of life, especially among the elderly. The few studies investigating the association between health- related quality ... and number of chronic conditions. 491 Rev Saúde Pública 2011;45(3):485-93 component of quality of life, and smokers showed poorer quality of life than ne...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... High proportion with chronic medical conditions  9 out of 10 seniors reported having at least one chronic health condition  43% have at least three multiple conditions  Hypertension (56%)  ... reported poor quality of life  In the face of impaired physical and mental functioning, perceived social handicap stands in the way of realizing quality of life Symposium...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... had these serious conditions; so we decided to collapse them further into one dichotomous measure (presence of any of the five conditions is coded 1, and freedom from all of these conditions ... education is not predictive of mortality among the Mainlanders might be that a majority of them have at least some years of schooling, so there is little variation in the measure...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... to the Swedish regional study, the dental team constitutes the main source of information for the lay population of various ages (Hugoson et al. 2005). Physicians and other health professionals ... modify the disease, the presence of dental plaque on the one hand is crucial in initiating inflammatory mechanisms of periodontitis and the host’s response on...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... association with sibship size, the overall relationship is small. Rather than the number of siblings, one’s adult socioeconomic conditions appear the most important determinants of health conditions ... population that contain information on the number of siblings born alive to mothers of the survey respondents. The survey also collected detailed information on f...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... between the TT and the ST on the same three levels. 2.1.2. Operation of the model A key concept in the operation of House’s model is the context of situation or ‘situational dimensions’. The author ... function. On the dimension Province, the ideational component of the text’s function is strongly supported by the use of a highly conventionalized and inst...

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