... China Authors’ contributions YJ contributed to the conception and design of the study, the conception and interpretation of the statistical analysis, and drafted the manuscript YWL contributed to ... education junior-level, lower vocational education; Intermediate education involves general secondary education-senior level, and vocational education-junior level; Higher education involves vocational ... identification of children in control group is typically impossible due to ethical reasons for protecting anonymity On the other hand, this study provided one of very few representative samples of PE...
... Radiation Oncology 2007, 2:30 http://www.ro-journal.com/content/2/1/30 the combination of one of these riskfactors with smoking [7-11] Combined radiochemotherapy is the gold-standard in treatment of ... difference among female smokers and non smokers with a strong tendency to better prognosis of non smoking females None of the female non smokers suffered from local recurrence Also among males there ... number of male patients at all and non smoking males We think both, gender and smoking have influence on local control, although we could not demonstrate significance on the basis of our data One...
... already ongoing in several countries and through international collaboration [50] Conclusions In conclusion, we found that the progression of a new CVE in early RA was predicted by traditional CV risk ... traditional riskfactors for CVD are also of importance in early RA In previous studies, their relative contribution to the total risk may have been concealed by the strong influence of inflammation ... the National Board ofHealthand Welfare Furthermore, traditional CV riskfactors (ongoing treatment for hypertension and current blood pressure, diabetes mellitus (DM), smoking (current and previous),...
... implementation science in public healthand he has published widely in the areas of tobacco control, obesity prevention and falls prevention He is currently an Investigator on three National Healthand ... medication use, alcohol consumption, and smoking status Information on fall experience, knowledge and perception of falls was also obtained Respondents were asked if in the last 12 months they ... / Journal of Safety Research 45 (2013) 7–13 Table Comparison of demographic, co-morbidity, medication andhealth status characteristics of fallers and non-fallers and single fallers and multiple...
... indicators of the quality ofhealth professionals education WFME identifies nine areas of quality assessment and potential improvement ofhealth professionals education: • mission and objectives ... expenditures on personnel Ministry of education The ministry of education often controls the number of medical personnel who are trained and the curricula of the medical and other health personnel educational ... current status of human resources for health (or the projected status given continuation of current conditions) and the desired state of human resources for health in each category ofhealth worker...
... sources of knowledge creation Since innovations are economic implementations of new ideas, exploration and • understanding of markets and use of market information to shape creation of new products ... National and international immigration and emigration data; • National register data; • Case studies of S&T institutions and organisations; • CV studies of personnel at S&T institutions and organisations, ... qualification or a combination of both qualification and occupation For a picture of both HRST supply and demand, the Canberra Manual advocates a definition based on qualifications and occupation It...
... sources of knowledge creation Since innovations are economic implementations of new ideas, exploration and • understanding of markets and use of market information to shape creation of new products ... National and international immigration and emigration data; • National register data; • Case studies of S&T institutions and organisations; • CV studies of personnel at S&T institutions and organisations, ... qualification or a combination of both qualification and occupation For a picture of both HRST supply and demand, the Canberra Manual advocates a definition based on qualifications and occupation It...
... indicators of the quality ofhealth professionals education WFME identifies nine areas of quality assessment and potential improvement ofhealth professionals education: • mission and objectives ... expenditures on personnel Ministry of education The ministry of education often controls the number of medical personnel who are trained and the curricula of the medical and other health personnel educational ... current status of human resources for health (or the projected status given continuation of current conditions) and the desired state of human resources for health in each category ofhealth worker...
... the dynamics of the labour market, and often ignores health personnel's propensity to emigrate Bloor and Maynard consider it important to factor in the supply and demand ofhealth personnel in the ... analysed and compared, and lessons were extracted from the two distinct exercises focusing on the context, on the elaboration process, on the actors involved, on the methodological approach, andon ... team of external specialists (a senior human resources specialist, a statistician, and a health economist), who visited Mozambique on a number of occasions and for relatively long periods (two months)...
... influence of oral health conditions, socioeconomic status and home environment factorson schoolchildrens selfperception of quality of life Janice S Paula 1, Isabel CG Leite 2, Anderson B Almeida, ... the influence of clinical conditions, socioeconomic status, home environment of children and subjective perceptions of parents and children about general and oral healthon OHRQoL of schoolchildren ... Authors' contributions JSP participated in the conception and design of the study, data interpretation, data acquisition, and drafting the manuscript ICGL contributed to the conception and design of...
... association between health status of people andriskof getting pH1N1/2009 infection as all cases and controls had no underlying chronic disease A further study may be in requirement CONCLUSIONS Epidemiology ... - 7.66] and OR = 2.09 [1.02 4.29], respectively) (table 3.15 - 3.18) These two riskfactors complemented one another and could confirm the relation between contact behaviour andriskof getting ... 3.3 Riskfactorsof pH1N1/2009 Table 3.15 - 3.18 The association between some factorsandriskof getting infection with pH1N1/2009 (univariate analysis) Infected by Non-infected by 2009 pandemic...
... positive control if there was at least one inhibition at a serum dilution of 1/16 among the 15 blood samples Inoculation of embryonated chicken eggs for virus isolation For detecting AI viruses and/ or ... cross-sectional study, all analyses was performed Seroprevalence of LPAI and associated riskfactors 163 using Microsoft Excel 2000 and SPSS, version 12.0 For identifying possible risk factors, ... Seroprevalence of LPAI and associated riskfactors 165 Table Difference in farmer's recognition of clinical signs between seropositive and seronegative flocks No (%) Seropositive (n = 25) Realization of...
... resections (pneumonectomy, lobectomy, and sublobar resections) were performed through a standard posterolateral thoracotomy Type of pulmonary resection, duration of surgery and intraoperative ... resection, preoperative riskfactors (such as alcohol abuse, higher ASA score classification), pulmonary resection type and the transfusion of FFP during intraoperative period were the predictors of ... association with transfusion of FFP, but not with numbers of red cell units, or their age or leukocytes content [24] Further studies confirmed an association between plasma transfusion and ARDS...
... operation CPB duration postoperatively The duration of sedation*, relaxation*, peritoneal dialysis, secondary chest closure Other parameters Pre-operated, re-operation, death * The number of days of ... Version 9) In children who received repeated surgery in the first year of life only the data of the last operation was used for investigation Treatment of chylothorax On institutional consent, ... assessed the duration of drainage, the day of maximum loss of chylous and the type and duration of treatment (fatty acidfree MCT-enriched diet, TPN, octreotide, recanalisation of thrombosed veins...
... Alcohol consumption [93,94] - - - - - - Self-reported riskfactors Page of 17 (page number not for citation purposes) Globalization andHealth 2009, 5:7 http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/5/1/7 ... Comparison of disease outcomes andrisk factor levels among populations of African descent in the UK and the Netherlands Physical inactivity (non-adherence to recommendations) [66,93] = + + - = + Consumption ... as the emerging risk factors, management of some Page 12 of 17 (page number not for citation purposes) Globalization andHealth 2009, 5:7 riskfactors such as cholesterol andhealth care use...
... personal and interpersonal stressors on the job as determined by three dimensions: exhaustion, cynicism and professional inefficacy “Exhaustion” is described as the feeling of not being able to offer ... this situation Shedding light on associations of this type would permit a better characterisation of these profiles and would facilitate the understanding and specific identification of subjects ... purpose-designed software Conclusions Our results add to the understanding of the type of professional burnout present in employees of a university organisation in Spain and support the idea of a differential...
... English and German) was analysed, and relevant riskfactorsand confounding factors were included in the questionnaire Hence the questionnaire contained questions about sociodemographic factors, ... both men and women, the relevance of occupational factors as well as nonoccupational and constitutional predictors could be shown It is likely that, as in other chronic diseases, these riskfactors ... associations between knee OA and some of Page of 15 the work factors just mentioned [28] In men, hand-arm vibration (OR, 2.8; 95% CI, 1.2 to 6.4) as well as working under wet/cold conditions and/ or...
... international comparison of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Chinese preschool children in Singapore to plan public health programmes for prevention and intervention of overweight and obesity ... himself/herself to the conditions during gestation Thus, many studies have focused onfactorsof prenatal and perinatal period such as maternal obesity, nutrition, behavioral, and psychological factors Children ... the size and number of adipocytes increase,79,80 and it may be the reason for the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity in this age group of 60.0–72.0 months among the 24.0–72.0 months in...
... skewness of 2.29, 1.62 and 2.35 and kurtosis of 15.53, 5.27 and 13.72, respectively On the other hand, the age groups of 6–11.9, 12–23.9 and 24– 35.9 months showed normal distribution (p=0.54, ... participants and non-participants were similar (40.48 vs 39.78 months) with standard deviations of 18.57 and 18.48 respectively There was no significant difference in ages between participants and non-participants ... of boys by age groups 74 Figure Distribution of BMI of girls by age groups 75 3.3.4 Distributions of Skinfold (Triceps) Measurements 1,176 children were 48 months or older However, only 923 of...
... Study area and Study population The study areas were South-Western part of Singapore (Bukit Batok, Clementi and Queenstown) and Western parts of Singapore (Jurong East and Jurong West) of Housing ... Clementi, and Queenstown) and Western (Jurong East and Jurong West) part of Singapore with Chinese children aged 6–72 months formed the sampling frame Disproportionate stratified random sampling by month ... interviewers of our research team The questionnaire was adapted and modified from both the SCORM (Singapore Cohort Study of the RiskFactors for Myopia)74 and the quality of life questionnaire of MEPEDS...