the welfare state and women apos s quality of life

... to support the quality of life themes relevant to women s health and well-being Defining the welfare state The welfare state is “ a capitalist society in which the state has intervened in the ... Medicaid Conclusion: the welfare state and women s quality of life The findings concerning women s quality of life in Canada are consistent with the analysis of Fast and Keating s [82] who identified ... economics The rise of transnational corporations that can easily shift investments across the globe serves to pressure nations into acceding to their demands for changes that reverse reforms associated...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... scale [12] This scale was selected because it has been successfully applied to acute illnesses, whereas other quality of life scales, such as the SF-36 Health Survey, are better suited to assess ... episodes yearly in the United States [1] On average, each episode is associated with 1.2 days of missed work or classes [1] The cost of treating ambulatory patients with symptoms of dysuria is ... Outcome was assessed by telephone interview using a standardized questionnaire to assess resolution of symptoms, compliance with the prescribed regimen, and occurrence of adverse events Patients were...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... be emphasised that a poor QOL is associated with several acknowledged predictors of ED admissions such as depressive symptoms, lack of social support, loneliness, larger use of ED visits [45-49] ... OPQOL subscore respectively For each health outcome, comparisons between subjects scoring in the lowest quartiles of these indices and the rest of the sample were performed by means of the chi-squared ... if they were living in their principal place of residence without sharing this residence with any other person Functional status was assessed by means of the scale for the Basic Activities of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... effects and limited ceiling effects (2%) were observed in a previous sample [33] The AIM-C consists of core scales to assess child (8 items) and family (10 items) HRQL The measure also consists of ... summarized using descriptive statistics Data for MSS were summarized as number and percentage of subjects with the following responses to each of the survey questions using descriptive statistics: ... caregivers at 30 ± days after the last dose of study medication to assess any new or ongoing AEs Health-related quality of life and medication satisfaction measures As secondary objectives of this study,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... historical and the primary purpose of those interviews was not to assess the QoL of the patients, but rather to assess their perceptions of current treatments for iron overload As a result, in the first ... Depression Scale (GDS), bi-dimensional scales such as the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and multidimensional instruments such as the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form Health Survey ... from searching the electronic databases Medline and Embase Studies were qualitatively discussed, and there was insufficient data to synthesize the evidence Further research could use statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... assess differences among groups Second, we perform a descriptive analysis of the PCS and MCS scores stratified by groups and characteristics of the sample To assess the possible differences between ... fractures Page of 10 Main outcome measure Health related quality of life was measured with the Spanish version-2 of the MOS SF-12 questionnaire [31], a simplified self-administered version of the SF-36 ... we estimate means and confidence intervals (95%CI) of the SF12 domains and the PCS and MCS scores for the groups, and use the ANOVA Oneway methods to evaluate differences between groups Totals...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... was 0.94 and was considered “satisfactory.” [20] OHIP-J14 summary score test-retest reliability assessed in a previous study [23] in the same patient population and measured with the intraclass ... many other oral health problems when assessed with broad concepts such as oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) For example, several studies have shown a relationship between self-assessed ... of schooling having the stronger correlations Although the reasons for these differences were not further explored in the present study, these findings suggest that nonclinical characteristics...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... over the past 15 years By incorporating subjective and objective assessment, our understanding of the consequences of oral disease and tooth loss has improved [51] Subjective assessment has also ... of surveys, such as the number of observers, observer agreements, representativeness for larger samples, and the use of validated instruments were not always described, but were not used in the ... studies As far as we are aware of, this is the first systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between OHRQoL and tooth loss Data from our systematic review and meta-analyses of observational...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 1.82 ns 1.98 (1.07-3.67) ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns 2.79 5.18 (1.33-5.84) (1.90-14.13) ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns (0.95-3.48) Reason for migration (seeking job) Level of ... samples t-test were used in the bivariate analyses Logistic regression analysis (LRA) was used to assess the final effects of the independent variables on the dependent variables Adjusted Odds ratios ... ratios were used as final measures of causality For all statistical tests, p values less than 0.05 were considered as significant Results The sociodemographic characteristics of the participants...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... version 3.69.1.14 http://www.Winsteps.com was used to perform the Rasch analyses SAS version 9.2 (SAS, Inc.; Cary, NC) was used to run all other statistics We considered p < 0.05 as statistically ... This linearity that the Rasch model constructs differs from the assumed linearity of classical test theory and much of item response theory–methodologies used to develop the majority of HRQL instruments ... HRQL scores and clinical measures of disease severity or functional status as evidence for the validity of an instrument; however, the importance of such associations is primarily in understanding...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... least one post-baseline VAS assessment) and safety assessments were based on the safety analysis set (i.e all randomized patients who received study drug and had at least one post-baseline safety ... Assessment and definition of response Study assessments made at baseline and each subsequent scheduled clinic visit (72 hours, days, weeks, and weeks post-dose) included: patient assessment of pain ... physician s assessment of tenderness, swelling, and erythema in the target joint; and physician and patient global assessments of response to treatment In addition, blood samples were collected for assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... items classified as and as being not stressful and those classified as 3, and as being stressful Table shows the recollection of experiences reported as being more stressful (that is, difficult to ... previous health state and on the existence of co-morbidities and on the aggressiveness suffered during the critical illness period, neuropsychological sequelae depend not only on the aggressiveness ... stress factors reported by patients • The association between current memory disturbances, cognitive disturbances, sleep disturbances and subsequent quality of life may be one of the key messages...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... F-Sozu and post-traumatic stress disorder stress (PTSD) score is shown Severity of PTSD was verified with the Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome 10-Questions Inventory (PTSS-10) score Diagnosis of ... as means of summed scores A rating of points indicates the highest degree of social support Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Statistical analysis We used SPSS Software (SPSS ... function Discussion The aims of this study were to investigate long-term HRQoL in survivors of ARDS, to assess the influence of persistent PTSD symptoms on HRQoL, and to prove the hypothesis that...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... the seriousness of pre-existing diseases and the burden of each disease [28] We think that part of the differences that remained after the adjustment for pre-existing diseases is the result of ... discharge from the hospital These patients, with the highest frequency of pre-existing diseases, had the lowest HRQoL scores registered in the study (data not shown) Discussion Data from this study ... was their pre-existing diseases Page of 10 three ICUs are emergencies and the most common primary diagnoses are multiple trauma, sepsis, and disturbances in respiratory or circulatory systems...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... led to the expansion of the welfare state? Going beyond simple causality, the spending pressure that arises from the expansion of the welfare state and the revenue-raising power of the tax state ... Partisanship, Globalization, and the Welfare State Despite the use of different data and different assumptions, quantitative studies of the postwar expansion of the welfare state draw a surprisingly ... across countries Because the relative size of the welfare state across countries does not change significantly as a result of the definitions of welfare or social security expenditure, here these...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:20

... led to the expansion of the welfare state? Going beyond simple causality, the spending pressure that arises from the expansion of the welfare state and the revenue-raising power of the tax state ... Partisanship, Globalization, and the Welfare State Despite the use of different data and different assumptions, quantitative studies of the postwar expansion of the welfare state draw a surprisingly ... across countries Because the relative size of the welfare state across countries does not change significantly as a result of the definitions of welfare or social security expenditure, here these...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 19:20

... patients self-assessed health-related quality of life was comparable to quality of life of controls [22] In the present study QoL was measured with the Profile of Quality of Life in the Chronically ... n .s n .s n .s n .s n .s n .s n .s The distribution of the highest professional qualifications was the same, the only remarkable feature was that more than half of the female patients had not finished ... questionnaires Both conducted the realisation and the analysis of the study and helped to draft the manuscript JR participated in the design of the study and participated in the analysis of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... factors, we used the Hassles and Uplifts Scales, two validated scales of everyday stressors that focus on relatively minor events of everyday life [16,17] The Hassles Scale consists of 117 items ... between pain intensity and the total number of months of depression or the age at onset of depression Measurements of stressors and quality of life: daily hassles and uplift scale, SF-36 There were ...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... outcomes, and its strength of association was less than that of a variety of other personal, social and environmental variables, suggesting that the former was mediated by the others These results ... performed using the SAS software [41] A Poisson regression model was used to assess the association between the predictor variables and outcomes A backward stepwise procedure was used to include ... to determine quality of life associated with oral health and consists of 35 items The responses in each item are given using a Likert-type scale based on the number of points in the scale: Never...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20