... substances used? 4) What health risks are involved in substance use? 5) What substance users know about these health risks? 6) What substance users to avoid these health risks? 7) What interventions/ ... tailor-made health intervention and to assist in making decisions about appropriate interventions for health- related and social problems This approach links the assessment of the nature and extent ... there is international evidence on and experience with adequate responses, limited responses addressing drug use and drug-use-related HIV and other health risks are witnessed in South Africa...
... Integrating sexual and reproductive health into healthemergencyand disaster risk management Healthemergencyand disaster risk management Sexual and reproductive health: a public health priority ... health priority A multisectoral and multidisciplinary healthemergencyand disaster risk management system protects public healthand reduces morbidity, mortality and disability associated with ... responders and can identify pregnant women and survivors of sexual violence and support them in getting the care they need Integrating sexual and reproductive health into healthemergencyand disaster...
... as smoking, diet and lifestyle (4), thereby reflecting a persons’ general healthand mortality risk It has also been associated with an increased risk of death, independently of health factors, ... (4):e618-23 Oral healthand mortality risk participants having no denture and no severe cognitive impairment died during one year as opposed to 50% of participants wearing dentures and suffering ... no denture and no severe cognitive impairment (n=86), (2) no denture and severe cognitive impairment (n=151), (3) denture and no severe cognitive impairment (n=31) and (4) denture and severe...
... by enhanced standardization and interoperability The role of risk in emergency response • Examine emergency responders’ perceptions of and their responses to risks inherent in emergency response ... Occupational Safety andHealth (NIOSH) is very pleased to have made possible this report conveying community views of healthand safety risks and the personal protective needs for emergency responders ... 89 Risk Assessment 89 PPT Identification and Evaluation 90 Standards and Certification 92 Logistics 94 Storage, Transportation, and Outfitting 94 Maintenance and Reliability...
... Basen-Engquist K and Parcel GS, Attitudes, norms, and self-efficacy: a model of adolescents’ HIV-related sexual risk behavior, Health Education Quarterly, 1992, 19(2):263–277; and Adih WK and Alexander CS, ... Service and Macro International, Ghana Demographic andHealth Survey 1993, Calverton, MD, USA: Macro International, 1994; Ghana Statistical Service and Macro International, Ghana Demographic andHealth ... et al., Reproductive healthriskand protective factors among youth in Lusaka, Zambia, Journal of Adolescent Health, 2002, 30(1):76–86; and Adetunji J, Condom use in marital and nonmarital relationships...
... relationship between work-related health limitations andrisk of marital disruption, and that relationship was restricted to the health limitations of husbands Work-related health limitations that wives ... of Healthand Social Behavior, 31, 162 – 172 Mirowsky, J., & Ross, C (2003) Education, social status, andhealth Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter Ono, H (1998) Husbands’ and wives’ resources and ... quality andhealth over the life course Journal of Healthand Social Behavior, 47, – 16 Vinokur, A., & Vinokur-Kaplan, D (1993) In sickness and in health: Patterns of social support and undermining...
... providers and key informants in Malawi who generously gave their time and shared their thoughts and concerns, and to the health Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Human Resources for Health ... 14(27):40-50 World Health Organization: The World Health Report 2006: Working Together for Health Geneva; 2006 Franco LM, Bennett S, Kanfer R: Health sector reform and public sector health worker ... management and supervision; training and career progression; incentives http://www.human-resources -health. com/content/7/1/14 and retention factors; resource constraints; motivation; and status...
... on safe and healthy work practices Methodology An initial situational analysis was conducted to investigate the nature and method of pesticide use and application which included the brand of pesticide, ... the rest of Luzon Island which makes certain physiologic profile of farmers different The agricultural crops grown between the lowland and highland would also be different, and thus, would have ... farm:promoting agricultural healthand safety 1995 Sanborn MD, Cole D, Abelsohn A, Weir E: Identifying and managing adverse environmental health effects of pesticides CAMJ 166:1431 Miranda J, McConnell...
... 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 ... using both Bluetooth and RS232 serial ports In order to allow realtime interaction and coordination among users, caregivers and medical staff, both audio and video transmission and recording require ... the long and short-term health care process Furthermore, telemedicine facilitates the continuous monitoring of health status through the transmission and storage of updated medical and general...
... VT, Merkhofer MW: Risk Assessment Methods – Approaches for Assessing Healthand Environmental Risks Plenum Press, New York, 1993 Campos H: The ten commandments of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary ... monitoring and surveillance systems (MO&SS) andrisk assessment The requirements to be fulfilled by MO&SS in order to support high-quality risk assessments are discussed Acta vet scand Suppl 94 ... survey design, but also have a basic understanding of risk assessment and the respective data needs (Younes & Somich-Mullin 1998) Discussion and conclusions Risk assessment as a scientific framework...
... assessment of risk of chemicals to human healthand well-being and the environment, and present the newest concepts in the evaluation of risks Format: Lectures including case studies, andrisk assessment ... assessment General human and eco-toxicology Tools used in risk assessments Animal studies Human studies Exposure assessment Mode of Action Standard setting Management andcommunicationRISK ASSESSMENT ... The Netherlands Mary E Meek, McLaughlin Center for population HealthRisk Assessment, Ottowa, Canada Kerstin Gutschmidt, WHO, Geneva LECTURES: Give the theoretical background for risk assessment...
... the financial crisis Redefining risk after the crisis T he financial crisisand its aftermath have forced investors to reconsider their idea of riskand their own risk appetite, as well as to rethink ... counterparty risk This report considers what risk is and how it can be measured, specifically addressing questions such as how investors assess their own risk profile, what constitutes low and high risk, and ... Limited 2010 Assessing and explaining risk Investors’ expectations after the financial crisis Conclusion I nvestors are now very aware that investing andrisk go hand in hand, as evidenced by their...
... fallers and repeat fallers, need to be described The aim of this paper is to use such baseline data to compare healthand lifestyle factors between fallers and non-fallers and between single and ... variables were significant and independent risk factors for falls: taking four or Fig Type of medications prescribed and taken regularly by non-fallers and fallers and single and multiple fallers (% ... (LP0990057) and the NSW Ministry of Health W Watson was supported by the NSW Ministry of Health The authors would like to thank the Centre for Population Healthand the Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence...
... identify and classify financial risks into (i) market risk; (ii) currency risk; (iii) credit risk; (iv) liquidity risk; (v) sector risk; (vi) volatility risk; (vii) event risk; (viii) regulatory risk; ... of crisisandrisk will be analysed in order to understand the basic issues, methodologies and strategies in financial crisis management planning and processes Unless specifically stated, crisis ... identification, risk assessment, crisis planning and preparation, mobilisation and response, recovery and plan testing Else_IBM-ABA_cH002.qxd 8/4/2006 7:52 PM Page 23 Planning for CrisisandRisk Management:...
... too Health risks related to food products can be divided into two groups of factors: health safety risks and health- nutrition risks Both are especially important in the burden of illness and ... safety risks and they only retain reducing nutrition andhealth risks secondary Minimising food safety risks is thus a fundamental condition of accepting products while reducing nutrition andhealth ... large hyper- and supermarkets in order to assess health consciousness andrisk management strategies of customers Validating a model summarising the context of risk perception andrisk management...
... Table and Figure 1) We further performed stratified analysis according to asthma type (atopic asthma and non-atopic asthma), age (children and adult) and ethnicity (Asian and Caucasian and African ... risk factor, OR was selected 1.5 and 2.0 as the relative riskand а=0.05 as the significance http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2010, 58 Table Summary ORs of the RANTES -28C/G polymorphism and ... significant for P < 0.01 We used the fixed-effects model and the random-effects model based on the Mantel-Haenszel method and the DerSimonian and Laird method, respectively, to combine values from...
... and BMI categories on the risk of type DM Total unprocessed meat, red meat and poultry were categorized into groups (lower quartile, second and third quartiles combined, and upper quartile) and ... types of meat and the risk of diabetes Poultry consumption was associated with a moderate decrease in risk of type DM in the NHS II [6] No association between poultry consumption andrisk of type ... higher risk of type DM [17] To our knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption andrisk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI and...
... scatter, minimize the risk Unfortunately, it is defense riskscattering methods which caused great risks because the managing boards and those who use it did not understand how it work, because ... such as globalization and quick transference to high technology time Before the crisis, this process was strong, crisis make the speed increase Global economic crisis more and more It is this ... trade It is the logical and periodical story But this crisis is not that case, not simple like that In term of view, we need to put this crisis in a more insightful contexts and explain it in that...