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... class in asthma Thorax 2009, 64:38-43 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-11-25 Cite this article as: Nachman and Parker: Exposures to fine particulate air pollution and respiratory outcomes in adults using ... concept, advising on analysis, interpretation and presentation of data, and assistance in drafting manuscript Both authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare ... and National Vital Statistics System has indicated that disparities in asthma-related hospitalization and mortality may be increasing over time [24,25] Variations in the burden of sinusitis and...

... aims to assist health educators to integrate chronic disease education into existing and new programs, using a population health approach It consists of: • background reading about how this chronic ... approach to be used in the primary health care setting Educating the educators All education providers require information/training about how to implement and embed this curriculum into their existing ... clinical or individual approach and into a population health approach, for selected health issues Issue Educating from an individual/clinical perspective Educating from a population health approach...

... (Fajemilehin, 2001) Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the quality of life against the back ground of the health behaviours and traditional life style practices of the elderly persons in ... CONCLUSIONS The elderly persons’ socio-economic status traditional life style practices were strong determinant of health behaviours and quality of life The findings in a vastly changing society ... positive health behaviours such as utilization of health facilities, using their drugs as prescribed, eating and drinking on time in clean and wholesome environment promote quality of life in old...

... determinants of sexual QoL after prostatectomy [9] The aims of the present study are: 1) to assess QoL outcomes in prostate cancer survivors who are disease- free at least years after radical prostatectomy, ... Potosky AL: Urinary and sexual function after radical prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer: the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study JAMA 2000, 283(3):354-60 Rogers CG, Su LM, Link RE, ... Angeles, Prostate Cancer Index; UF: Urinary Function; SF: Sexual Function; UB: Urinary Bother; SB: Sexual Bother; Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests...

... doi:10.1186/1742-2094-8-127 Cite this article as: Weinstock-Guttman et al.: Serum lipid profiles are associated with disability and MRI outcomes in multiple sclerosis Journal of Neuroinflammation 2011 8:127 Submit ... in the groups with and without statin treatment in the lipid profile variables including HDL, LDL, triglycerides, total cholesterol and cholesterol to HDL Not surprisingly, the group on statin ... etc.), and insufficient quality of the MRI scan for quantitative analysis [24] MRI Analysis Quantitative MRI analysis obtained within ± months from the baseline clinical visit (yielding EDSS and...

... Sterud et al.: A comparison of general and ambulance specific stressors: predictors of job satisfaction and health problems in a nationwide one-year follow-up study of Norwegian ambulance personnel ... among ambulance personnel are mainly related to ambulance specific stressors • Health complaints and low job satisfaction among ambulance personnel are mainly related to general job- related stressors ... http://www.occup-med.com/content/6/1/10 Page of Table Means, standard deviations and comparison between the sample available at T1 only and the sample available at both T1 and T2 Sample T-test (T1 and T2) sample vs sample (n...

... Koutsouris, A S Andreou, C Pattichis, and C Schizas, “Multipurpose health care telemedicine system,” in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology ... TESTING AND RESULTS The described system was implemented to be used in two main test applications: telemedicine in emergency handling and remote health care for patients In this paper, the emergency ... stages of the health care value chain, from health information and prevention all the way through to rehabilitation and long-term care A potential advantage of including telemedicine in this...