... interactions of ADLs and disease vary in magnitude and significance, both in this model and others Determinants of Health Status: the HealthStatus Transition Model Using the HealthStatus Transition ... Several key policy issues and recommendations arise as a result of this work Modeling future healthand spending Under the status quo (health statusand disability trends defined by technology and ... Medicare reimbursement and total healthcare reimbursement as the dependent variables, andhealthstatus measures, selfreported disease categories, and interactions of health measures and disease conditions...
... HealthStatus good healthstatus Disease Status good healthstatus absence of disease absence of disease died loss bad healthstatus died loss bad healthstatus presence of disease Status of Multimorbidity ... ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in the case of the general healthstatusand into ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ for each specific disease and multimorbidity In the original questionnaire, the general healthstatus ... General HealthStatusand Specific Diseases of Elderly Women and Men: A Longitudinal Analysis for Western and Eastern Germany Christian Wegner and Marc Luy Introduction In general, the health status...
... physical and mental healthstatus with respect to adolescents’ global QOL and several life domains and (b) the extent to which the relationships among self-reported physical and mental health statusand ... physical and mental health status, the life domains, and global QOL were used to determine the magnitude of the total and the indirect relationships between physical and mental healthstatusand global ... mediation) and physical healthstatus (67.8% total mediation) and global QOL Other studies have shown that self-reported general healthstatus is significantly associated with health- promoting and health- risk...
... QOL, andhealth status) and agreement among the instruments used to operationalize the constructs The primary goal of this paper is to determine whether mental health, physical health, and quality ... mental health, physical health, and quality of life are highly related, both cross-sectionally and over time, with mental healthand quality of life more similar to each other than to physical health ... mental health, physical health, and quality of life All of the measures improved significantly over time, with the measures of mental health improving the most, physical health the least, and QOL...
... “never drink.” Adjusted items Healthstatus items Three items addressed health: perceived health status, chronic diseases and BMI (25) Perceived healthstatus was assessed by asking, ... factors and future development of depression Considering the results of previous studies, we chose three healthstatus items of perceived health status, chronic diseases and body mass index (BMI) and ... demographic characteristics, health status, lifestyle factors and social networks, and also included the Todai Health Index (THI) [18], which quantitatively represents mental and physical complaints...
... water and sanitation (Lavy et al 1996, Thomas and Strauss 1992 and Jalan and Ravallion 2003) Quality of health care has received recent attention as a determinant of child health Barber and Gertler ... and age is a composite measure of height for age and weight for height, and consequently, it confounds the short and long run health problems We will also use Z-scores for weight for height and ... Berhman, J and A Deolalikar (1988) Healthand Nutrition” Handbook of Development Economics North Holland, Amsterdam, 631-711 Behrman, J., (1996) “The Impact of Healthand Nutrition on Education” The...
... Socioeconomic StatusandHealth The report also contains 151 Trend Tables organized around four major subject areas: healthstatusand determinants, health care utilization, health care resources, andhealth ... between SES and morbidity and mortality, prevention and risk factors, and access to care andhealth insurance The Health, United States series presents an annual look at national trends in health ... areas: healthstatusand determinants, health care utilization, health care resources, andhealth care expenditures The tables present data for selected years, to highlight major trends in health...
... 28 Appendix: Key Indicators of Women's Health Figures and Tables Figure 1: Determinants of women's healthand nutritional status throughout the life cycle Figure 2: Healthand nutrition problems ... IMPROVING WOMEN’S HEALTH Issues andInterventions Anne Tinker, Kathleen Finn, and Joanne Epp June 2000 Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Discussion Paper This series is produced by the Health, Nutrition, ... Biological and socialfactors affect women's health throughout their lives and have cumulative effects A life cycle approach to health involves assessing critical risks and supporting key interventions...
... Type andHealthStatus in a National Sample of Elderly Israelis, Soc Sci & Med., 46: 599-609 Ren, X.S., K Skinner and A Lee, 1999 Social Support, Social Selection and Self-assessed Health Status: ... Quality of life is the key component of the healthstatus The present research deals with the relationship between nature of support and the health characteristics of elderly Health disabilities ... elderly people To analyze the healthstatus of elderly people To find out the association, if any, between family support andhealthstatus of elderly people MATERIALS AND METHODS For the present...
... self-reported healthstatus have been widely studied (8-10), and this health outcome has been shown to predict future morbidity and mortality (11–13) Research should help to inform and focus public health ... self-reported healthstatus among elderly persons in Barbados TABLE Potential determinants of self-reported health status, study of historical and current predictors of self-reported healthstatus in ... professional occupation, and better childhood economic situation andhealth with improved healthstatus in the elderly Historical predictors explained 5.2% of variation in reported health status, but that...
... on moderate and vigorous physical activities was calculated only for the elderly people who performed some type of physical activity (means and standard deviations) The mental healthand physical ... characteristic is the loss of interest in and/ or motivation for joining in physical, cultural and social activities, particularly Physical activity and mental healthstatus of elderly Benedetti TRB et ... and predictors of depression in elderly Canadians: the Canadian study of healthand aging Chronic Dis Can 2005;26(4):93-9 12 Simons LA, Simons J, McCallum J, Friedlander Y Lifestyle factors and...
... Cronbach’s alphas were 81 and 80 in the Korean and Japanese sample, respectively Physical functioning and general health perception was measured to evaluate healthstatus using SF-36 Version ... (best possible health status) Discriminant validity of the Korean and Japanese versions of SF-36 was established and reported Cronbach’s alphas were 93–.94 and 84–.86 in the Korean and Japanese ... was influenced by loneliness and general healthstatus in Korean and Japanese elderly This corresponds to the study results of Cacioppo et al., (2006) and Tiikkainen and Heillinen (2005) These...
... stratifier; and (iii) measuring the degree of inequality The variables of interest, that is the maternal and child health outcomes andinterventions are listed in Tables and In the Demographic andHealth ... T, Kataika E: Equity in healthand healthcare in Malawi: analysis of trends BMC Publ Health 2007, 7:78 Whitehead M: The concepts and principles of equity in health Int J Health Serv 1992, 22:429-445 ... maternal and child health outcomes andinterventions that are deemed as inequities Following Whitehead’s seminal definition, equity in health is the absence of systematic inequalities in health...
... between healthstatusand the use of general practitioners (GPs) With these observations as a reference point, we projected the future size of the elderly population, their healthstatusand what ... their health status, their use of health services and sociodemographic information The person provided more detailed information about his or her own general health, height, weight, preventive health ... general practitioners, by age, sex and self-assessed healthstatus [Source: NPHS] 14831 October 15/97 CMAJ /Page 1031 Healthstatus of Canada’s elderly population Moore and associates23 estimated that...
... capital andhealth status, we restrict our analysis to the key informants aged between 25 and 85 years old, who are not student and who reported both their health status, their social capital and ... participation and self-assessed healthstatus among the whole population and subpopulations in order to test a different association of social participation andhealthstatus according to occupation and ... and inactive population the association between social participation and self-assessed healthstatus Since the correlation that we may expect between social capital and self-assessed health status...
... determines efficacy? The roles of codes and guidance materials in occupational safety andhealth regulation Policy and practice in healthand safety 7(2): 3-29 Healthand Safety Executive (2006) Backs! ... environmental protection and work, healthand safety Simplicity, having clear goals and objectives and requiring minimal additional commitment of time and resources from business were key features of ... practice by encouraging safe and healthy behaviours and discouraging unsafe and unhealthy behaviours through the use of positive and negative incentives “carrots and sticks” approach This section...
... Definitions and inclusion criteria Study Design Randomised controlled trials (RCTs), controlled before and after (CBA), uncontrolled before and after, interrupted time series, and cohort and case ... Odgaard-Jensen J, Johansen M, Aja GN, Zwarenstein M, Scheel IB: Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child healthand the management of infectious diseases Cochrane Database ... in Benin, Velema and colleagues [30] assessed known potential confounders and selection biases (socioeconomic status, age, sex and the village from which the children came) and demonstrated that...
... Mols and Denollet Healthand Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:9 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/9 Table Outcomes of studies: Healthstatus Outcome (3a) Study Participants Conclusion Mental health ... behavioral and biological mechanisms of disease as a Mols and Denollet Healthand Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:9 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/9 Table 3: Outcomes of studies: Healthstatus ... problems and increase their mental and somatic healthstatus Future intervention trials are needed to study the extent to which interventions are able to decrease work-related problems and increase...
... study, analyzed and interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript RD and MBH contributed to the design and interpretation of the analysis All authors read and critically revised and approved the ... correlation between PCS-12 and PCS-36 and between MCS-12 and MCS-36 for the entire sample and by BMI group The Pearson correlation was 0.82 for the physical component summary scores and 0.95 for the mental ... illness, and quality of life We calculated body mass index (BMI) from self-reported height and weight and categorized respondents as normal weight, overweight, and obese according to standard guidelines...