Chronic Disease Prevention
Knowledge mobilisation for chronic disease prevention: the case of the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre
... Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, a research partnership for chronic disease prevention, has operationalised its approach to ...in chronic disease ...
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Chronic Disease Prevention and the New Public Health
... Finally, professionals and professional organizations throughout the health system must do their part to tackle population risk factors decisively and proactively according to evidence-based practice and clinical ...
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Targets and indicators for chronic disease prevention in Australia
... prevention opportunities. Blood and ovarian cancers were omitted owing to the lack of effective screening options. Survival at one year following cancer diagnosis is as an accepted marker for early diagnosis, ...
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Chronic disease prevention and management programs in primary care
... Understanding how CDPM programs work in differ- ent contexts is essential knowledge for health profes- sionals, decision makers, and other stakeholders who want to improve care for patients with chronic ...
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Three Year Community Based Intervention for Chronic Disease Prevention in Epidemiological and Political Transition Context: Example of Tunisia
... use prevention, workshops were organized by the team of the project and schoolchildren leaders in each school with the presence of parents on three different topics tobacco prevention and physical ac- ...
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Impact analysis of assessment, consultation and education services to support the adoption of smart home technologies, innovations for chronic disease prevention and solutions for independent living
... LifeTec is a leading provider of specialist information, consultation, and education on assistive technology that can help individuals improve their quality of life and remain independent. Through a health professional ...
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Evaluating the integration of chronic disease prevention and management services into primary health care
... vascular disease (CVD), heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and diabetes, and aims to: (1) reduce and correct modifiable risk factors; (2) strengthen individual ...
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Survey of Health Knowledge Between Medical and Non-medical College Students in Fengtai Distract of Beijing
... infectious disease prevention, chronic disease prevention, public places reliability analysis between medical and non-medical students ...
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A Physicians's Guide to Preventing Tobacco Use During Childhood and Adolescence
... Bethesda, MD: US Dept of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and [r] ...
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Patient engagement as a risk factor in personalized health care: a systematic review of the literature on chronic disease
... There are challenges to including patient engagement as part of a health risk appraisal, as this review demonstrates. First, there is considerable variability in quantifying en- gagement, and in this review the construct ...
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Prevention of sudden cardiac death in patients with chronic kidney disease
... with chronic kidney disease (CKD), particularly those on dialysis, while sudden cardiac death (SCD) might be responsible for as many as 60% of SCD in patients undergoing ...
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Outcome at 2 Years of Age of Infants From the DART Study: A Multicenter, International, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Low-Dose Dexamethasonef
... the combined end point of either death or cerebral palsy in those who were randomly assigned when treatment was started after the first week of life was neutral (typ- ical relative risk: 0.99; 95% CLs: 0.81, 1.21). In ...
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Prevention and control of influenza in persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... respiratory disease that causes epidemics and pandemics in the human populations from temperate ...as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (Barker 1986; Thompson et al 2003; Glezen et al ...
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Emerging Nutraceutical Companies in India- A Link between Food and Medicine
... Nutraceuticals comprises of “Nutrient” + “Pharmaceuticals” as they possess nutritional along with medicinal values [1]. In 1989, Dr. Stephen De Felice coined the term “Nutraceuticals”. It is generally defined as a ...
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An update on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... lungs. The Z-variant of AAT is an ineffective protein that may arise as a consequence of a genetic point mutation, which results in a decrease in normal AAT secretion, a greatly reduced ability to inhibit neutrophil ...
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2596.pdf
... established the Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program, which defined the responsibilities of beryllium manufacturers to their employees and set exposure limits for total berylli[r] ...
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Summary of data reported to CDC's national automated biosurveillance system, 2008
... Limitations of this study include representation of only a convenience sample of civilian hospitals and an inability to perform detailed comparisons of visits at individual facilities with data received by the system. ...
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Pneumocystis jirovecii colonization in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
... Despite the application of prophylaxis and therapy (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole) (Table 2) pneumocystis pneumonia due to P. jirovecii remains a life-threatening infection with significant morbidity and mortality ...
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Understanding determinants of nutrition, physical activity and quality of life among older adults: the Wellbeing, Eating and Exercise for a Long Life (WELL) study
... In addition, rural populations suffer higher rates of socioeconomic disadvantage with lower incomes, and lower levels of educational attainment. Older adults liv- ing in rural areas have worse health compared with those ...
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Integrated management strategies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... multisystem disease with signifi- cant morbidity and mortality that remains underdiagnosed and ...this disease including smoking cessation, long-acting bronchodilator therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation, and ...
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