legal standards for health related claims

... existing standards sets 10 Standards for Health Promotion in Hospitals STANDARDS FOR HEALTH PROMOTION IN HOSPITALS Management Policy Standard The organization has a written policy for health promotion ... for improving health and sustaining quality of life, however, a review of existing standards for quality in health care for references to health promotion activities yielded little results Standards ... promotion in hospitals The need for standards for health promotion in hospitals Format and application of standards The way forward 10 Standards for health promotion in hospitals 11 Standard 1:...

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... Standards for Health Education 14 11/16/11 12:56 PM Guide to the Wisconsin Standards for Health Education The Wisconsin Standards for Health Education reflects and expands upon the National Health ... Wisconsin Standards for Health Education: Critical Questions Defining The Standards What are health education standards? Standards specify what students should know and be able to Standards in health ... Wisconsin Model Academic Standards (1997) and the National Health Education Standards (2006) The Wisconsin Standards for Health Education provides a framework for aligning health education curriculum,...

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... to care for and show respect for self and others v demonstrate refusal skills to protect health v identify ways to protect and preserve a healthy environment v develop a safety plan for healthy ... decisions about personal and community health issues They will know about and use valid health information, products, and services Students will advocate for healthy families and communities Students ... advocating for healthy individuals, families and schools • analyze how media and technology influence the selection of health information, products and services • recognize the need to be an advocate for...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... may be of benefit for the health and vision -related QOL of the patient and for the involvement of ophthalmologists in their patient's general health Abbreviations AMD: Age -related macular degeneration; ... on health- related quality of life Am J Public Health 1997, 87:38-44 Fortin M, Bravo G, Hudon C, Lapointe L, Almirall J, Dubois MF, Vanasse A: Relationship between multimorbidity and healthrelated ... EQ-5D [18] and reported the most common descriptive health states for our study population The EQ5D has been extensively validated, also for Dutch healthy individuals [19] There is extensive documentation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... leave before ICU, marital status, employment before ICU, employment at the follow-up time, education, born in Sweden, and preexisting disease) and ICU -related factors on HRQoL Health- related ... and Health- Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) at six months (n = 980) Abbreviations APACHE II: Acute Physiology and Chronic health Evaluation score; EQ-5D: EuroQol 5-Dimensions; HRQoL: Health- Related ... length of stay; SF-36: Short Form health survey Acknowledgements We thank Ebba Lunden for collecting the data, Olle Eriksson for statistical advice, and Mary Evans for the English revision of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessment of risk and risk management for water -related infectious disease This page intentionally left blank Water Quality Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessment ... Guidelines, Standards and Health INTRODUCTION The aim of the water -related WHO guidelines is the protection of public health They are intended to be used as the basis for the development of national standards ... to James Chudley, for assistance in the preparation of the illustrations, to Andy Fewtrell for technical advice, and to the Centre for Research into Environment and Health for its continued support...

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... and improvement for girls (16.3) was nearly double the improvement noted for boys Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2009, 3:39 ... Medicinal Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) Version 7.0 Reported AEs were monitored and recorded throughout the study and for 30 Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) ... The raw mean scores for all scales were then transformed on a 0-100 continuum, with higher scores indicating less negative impact or improved HRQL Thus, increasing AIM-C scores for these scales...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... background information For example, teachers who provide reproductive health/ HIV education need to have a capacity for health literacy” – the capacity to obtain, interpret, and understand basic health ... place management and supervision needed for implementation and oversight C Curriculum Implementation Standards 20 Standards for Curriculum-Based Reproductive Health and HIV Education Programs The ... successful Standards for Curriculum-Based Reproductive Health and HIV Education Programs Example After using conventional activities for needs assessments, such as focus groups discussions and key informant...

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... on National Health Education Standards (2007) National health education standards: Achieving health excellence Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society Lohrmann, D K (2005) Creating a healthy school ... age-appropriate activities that address each component of health- related and skill -related fitness Develop a health- related fitness goal and track progress using health/ fitness indicators Determine the extent ... the impact of health- related fitness components as a measure of fitness and health Debate the use of performance-enhancing substances (i.e., anabolic steroids and other legal and illegal substances)...

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... strengthen formal care in the nursing home and reorienting health services both in the community and homes for the elderly From limitation of our study was we neither detect health- related behaviors ... Montazeri A (2008) Determinants of health- related quality of life in elderly in Tehran, Iran BMC Public Health 8, 323 30 Tsai SY, Chi LY, Lee LS and Chou P (2004) Healthrelated quality of life among ... Babu BV (2010) Healthrelated quality of life of elderly living in the rural community and homes for the elderly in a district of India: Application of the short form 36 (SF-36) health survey questionnaire...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... Leading to the Development of Standards of Practice for Health Promotion in Higher Education Journal of American College Health, 51(6), 247254 3 / Standards of Practice for Health Promotion in Higher ... 351-377 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 1986 Sundsvall Statement on Supportive Environments for Health Sundsvall, Sweden: World Health Organization; ... social justice as determinants of health 4 / Standards of Practice for Health Promotion in Higher Education STANDARD 6.4 Develop measurable goals and objectives for health promotion initiatives Theory-Based...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... factors related to better or worse health status or use in clinical practice and public health for the assessment of health interventions Conclusion The results of this study will be of use for future ... Vecú Santé Perçue de l'Adolescent;KINDL: Questionnaire for measuring health- related quality of life in children and adolescents; HRQL: Health- Related Quality of Life; CBCL: Child Behaviour Checklist; ... determinants of health Edited by: Marmot M, Wilkinson RG Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1999 Cohen S, Underwood LG, Gottlieb BH: Social support measurement and intervention A guide for health and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... 155 (37.8) Screening for overweight/obesity 14 (3.4) Screening for hypertension Screening for diabetes 407 (99.3) 362 (88.3) Screening for breast cancer 173 (42.2) Screening for cervical cancer ... provision of health care [17] The growing number of climacteric stage women and the increasing body of knowledge about the complexity of their health needs are raising new requirements for health services ... healthy diet and did regular leisure time physical activity Most of those with unhealthy lifestyles had not received information to improve it In family medicine clinics, all members of the health...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... were approached for enrollment after it was determined the child was to be discharged to home Informed consent was obtained from the child's legal guardian; assent was obtained for children > ... To account for an anticipated 20% loss to follow-up, our target enrollment was 106 patients The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences program, Version 12 for Windows was used for most statistical ... method to populations are "at-risk" for poor outcomes[22], such as recidivism, future healthcare utilization, and higher healthcare costs[23,24] The time required for completion and need follow-up...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... written informed consent after having received written information about the study Clinical examination before angiography All patients underwent a clinical examination before the angiography Before ... Nonlinearity was indicated for LVEF and body mass index and for General Health at level All other continuous independent variables were entered linearly into the models The results for the linear and ... Determinants of general health General health was negatively related to symptoms of anxiety (coefficients: -0.59, p = 0.037) and depression (coefficient: -0.74, p = 0.036) and positively related to physical...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Correlation coefficients (r) Physical Health Physical Functioning Role physical Bodily Pain General Health Mental Health Vitality Social Functioning Role Emotional Mental Health CIRS‡ -0.55** -0.41** ... disease severity However, R2 values for the FCI related to physical health scores, although lower than those of the CIRS, remained highly significant after controlling for confounders Given that the ... mental health For all scales and both summary scales, lower scores indicate lower HRQOL From an exhaustive chart review, we extracted a comprehensive list of diagnoses of all chronic conditions for...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... a national project to secure the future of health care Guidelines for the implementation of a nationwide system for assessing health care needs and for the treatment criteria were prepared by ... Explaining waiting times variations for elective surgery across OECD countries OECD Health Working Papers 2003, 7: National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health Operative inpatient services ... patients awaiting hip replacement for osteoarthritis Rheumatology (Oxford) 2002, 9:1001-1007 Jones CA, Voaklander DC, Johnston DW, Suarez-Almazor ME: Health related quality of life outcomes after...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Lohr K: Choosing measures of health status for individuals in general populations American Journal of Public Health 1981, 71:620-625 Brunner H, Giannini E: Health- related quality of life in children ... and conceptual problems when developing paediatric health- related quality of life measures For example, children's understanding of illness and health is age dependent due to social, language, ... and factors related to the impacts This index can also be used to assess oral health needs in population surveys, thus making it useful for planning services Its scoring system enables health planners...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... coefficients are 0.70 for group comparisons and 0.900.95 for individual comparisons [66] Accordingly, the reliability coefficients for both CPQ total and subscales exceeded standards for group and individual ... (HRQoL): Healthrelated quality of life; (ICC): Intraclass correlation coefficient; (OHRQoL): Oral health- related quality of life; (QoL): Quality of life; (RDC/TMD): Research Diagnostic Criteria for ... measures were used for the analysis of internal reliability; the corrected item total correlation and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient [37] Values above 0.2 for the former and 0.7 for the latter...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 6% for EQ-5D, 38% vs 27% for SF-12, 12% vs 4% for SGRQ), as well as in patients aged 68 and older (10% vs 6% for EQ-5D, 41% vs 21% for SF-12, 13% vs 2% for SGRQ) Proportion with best or worst health ... 14 The EuroQol Group: EuroQol - a new facility for the measurement of health- related quality of life Health Policy 1990, 16:199-208 Menn et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:39 ... with longer stays for those in stage IV In all, patients were observed twice and patient was observed three times Therefore, the 117 patients represent 127 admissions Health- related quality of...

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