... opportunities for success in achieving longer and healthier life expectancy. Methodology: Data from the baseline survey of participants in the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS) ... Population: Managing Health Care and End of Life Decisions in Singapore, 29 May 2009, SingaporeNg Tze Pin, Gerontological Research Programme, Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School ... 400JapanUnited KingdomNew ZealandUnited StatesAustraliaCanadaChinaIndiaThailandSouth KoreaIndonesiaPhilippinesMalaysiaSingaporeSymposium on Health Care Challenges for an Ageing Population:...
... learning in health education,especially in comparison with traditional teachingmethods, remains to be proven.ConclusionsDistance learning is becoming increasingly apparentas a promising method ... basis forassessment purposes or the planning of learning strat-egies (3). We are in the very beginning of this phase in academic learning, and research in the field is neededbefore we are able ... important in causing them to persist in finishingthe program (20). This is consistent with 15 DL in- structors surveyed in Ohio, who stressed strongly thatinstructors should develop classroom interaction...
... watching television, gardening, reading newspapers, magazines and books, shopping, telephoning, going to the pub, doing nothing, writing letters, sleeping, playing computer games, and typing ... continue the offline characteristic of being the ones responsible for maintaining ties with kin (Boneva & Kraut; see also Haythornthwaite & Kazmer). Howard, Rainie, and Jones did not find ... M. (2003). Fathoming the digital divide. Studies in Internet Communication: Theory and Practice, 19. (forthcoming) 1THE INTERNET IN EVERYDAY LIFE: AN INTRODUCTION Caroline Haythornthwaite...
... proud princesses, strutting about in high andmighty manner, but a gracions, kind lady and an unaffected child. This child showed a genuine interest in sport in Friesland, in excavations in Maastricht, ... is the principle of reciprocity more observed than in Dutch hospitality in certain classes. In verysmall villages many offices are combined in one person, and so we find a prominent inhabitant ... good food, good lodging, andkind treatment. Should they care to cultivate the fine art of cooking, they get instruction in that line, and are in most cases allowed to work independently, and...
... Cancer QLQ-C30: A quality-of -life instrument for use in international clinical trials in oncology. J National Cancer Institute, 85, 365-76. American Cancer Society Cancer Facts and Figures. ... third highest scores were insomnia and pain for cancer patients. Pinar et al. (2008) study ndings indicated that pain was one of the negatively affected parameters (Pinar et al., 2008).When ... those having primary or less education. Physical scores increase as the education level increases in the women. Women who had monthly income <500 USD, had lower physical well-being scores...
... thoughthe decline in the lending rate, higher uncertainty deters individuals from taking loans,and the share of household credit in GDP declines from 14.3% to 13.4%. If individualuncertainty is low, ... life- cycle profiles of income and consumption. In initial periods,when income is relatively low, individuals are taking loans as they expect that theirincome will increase in the future. Consequently ... other measures of individual in- come uncertainty: the income quintile share ratio (income of the 20% richest to incomeof 20% poorest), the percentage of working households in the risk of poverty...
... mud holes in the road. Night marching was attended with additional discomforts and dangers, such asfalling off bridges, stumbling into ditches, tearing the face and injuring the eyes against the ... battery in position and firing on theretiring enemy. A battery of the enemy is replying, and shells are bursting overhead, or ploughing hugefurrows in the ground. Musket balls are "rapping" ... and sinking with a deep "thud"into the bodies of the poor horses. Smoke obscures the scene, but the cannoniers in faint outline can be seencheerfully serving the guns.As the opposing...
... beginning of an irre-versible decline in the kingdom’s political and military fortunes. Onemay see a certain symbolism in the strengthening of the acropolisfortifications at this time, including ... in the palace kitchen.The King’s OfficialsWhile in a physical sense the king seems to have been kept well insu-lated from the majority of his subjects, in an administrative sense hemaintained ... functionsof kingship in the Near East, as well as in Homeric society, whichcombines the king’s religious,military,and judicial roles.The respon-sibilities of empire also required the king to maintain...
... HRQL scores in the Spanish sample. Theuse of both instruments in different populations, includ-ing clinical samples and from different geographical areas in Spain will allow for continuing the ... different meaningaccording to the individual or group evaluated. Consist-ent findings in the literature have presented a gender pat-tern in favour of boys and younger teens in severalinternational ... case of the KINDL-R questionnaire [14]. The VSP-Awas developed using exclusively the opinion of adoles-cents for defining item and domain content [13]. The finalmodel included in both questionnaires...
... in QOL among over-weight and obese individuals. These studies suggest thatphysical activity combined with diet can be effective in improving health related QOL in several domains, includ-ing ... satisfaction in both genders.Nevertheless, body image dissatisfaction in girls washigher than in boys. Our results were in agreement withother findings in the literature [39,40], suggesting that ... decrease in bingeeating scores both in girls and boys after a long-termmultidisciplinary therapy. These results can be attributed,at least in part, to a decrease in anxiety scores, since ananxious...
... Estimating clinically significant differ-ences in quality of life outcomes. Qual Life Res 2005, 14:285-95.22. Ware JE, Keller SK: Interpreting general health measures. In Quality of life and ... (+5.1, +2.8, and +2.5 points, respectively, in favor of adalimumab). The differences seen in Bodily Painare clinically significant (ie, exceeding 3.0 points). Forthose receiving placebo, mean scores ... consid-ered clinically meaningful, given they exceed the 3.0 pointminimum clinically important difference (MCID) criteria.Assessing the impact of treatment on health-related quality of lifein psoriasisSF-36...
... adult obesity. Thisbaseline information can be used to track changes overtime, in BMI and health status. In addition, this study canbe used as baseline information to investigate relation-ships ... Corresponding author AbstractBackground: We investigated the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and health-relatedquality of life (HRQOL) indicated by baseline health status in elementary ... Differences in methodology, sample size and sample characteristicsmay explain our findings that suggest psychosocial healthis not significantly associated with a child's BMI.Our findings suggest...
... However, sincethe peak incidence of childhood ALL is in young children,obtaining self reports will be a continuing problem in QoL studies during treatment.Although it would have interesting to ... dose of intravenousvincristine, followed by a second vincristine dose oneweek later. As vincristine is known to potentially haveneurotoxic side-effects, it might interfere with certainaspects ... al[15] during the first, most intensive, year of treatment.The decline in QoL for certain items during the second,less intensive year of treatment, might be related to anincreasing cumulative...