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Physical inactivity as a policy problem: applying a concept from policy analysis to a public health issue
... a public health issue, “ translates ” into a policy-making ...important public health issue during the last two ...the public when their benefits are not highly divisible; ...
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Teen pregnancy in rural western Kenya: a public health issue
... large public health issue in developing countries like Kenya, teenage pregnancy and the associated lack of education, as well as partner violence among teen girls are the more important public ...
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CONGENITAL ANOMALIES: A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE IN INDIA
... based Health information survey on birth ...poor health-related statistics, lack of birth defect surveillance and registries and reliance on hospital-based rather than population-based studies have ...
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Pornography as a Public Health Issue: Promoting Violence and Exploitation of Children, Youth, and Adults
... pornography has a material impact on sexual health as well as social wellbeing. The long-term effects of this can only be guessed at, since no generation has previously been saturated with such extreme sexual ...
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Editorial: Mental Health as a Public Health Issue
... mental health—still a neglected field in many countries of the world—is as fundamental to public health as is physical ...the health system and society. Health promotion in these ...
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Dementia in the oldest old: a multi-factorial and growing public health issue
... general health, low level of physical activity, depression, and delirium, whereas apolipoprotein E genotype, late-life hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and elevated peripheral infl ammatory markers appear to have ...
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Promoting Physical Activity with Hard to Reach Women: An Iterative and Participatory Research Study
... the public health issue and its impacts; Secondly, Evidence- including empirical research, data, participant opinions and experiences; ...affecting health from a holistic perspective, and ...
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Financial Access to Dental Care Through Health Insurance in Senegal
... to health care, in general, and oral care in particular in most African countries is ...major public health issue because of their high occurrence and huge impact on overall health and ...
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A Review on Health and Nutrition Status in Bangladesh: Issues and Challenges
... World Health Organization, nearly 400 children die each day from acute respiratory infections (ARIs) in ...major public health problem in Bangladesh with ...major public health ...
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Implications on Health and Adherence to CPAP Treatment
... Respiratory disorders during sleep have as a general characteristic the alteration of the respira- tory cycle while sleeping. The most outstanding characteristic of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syn- drome (OSA) is the partial ...
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Costs of Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
... Yearly charges, on average, were $5,795,270 for emergency department visits and $108,433,072 for hospitalizations. Combined yearly charges for emergency department visits and hospitalizations, on average, were ...
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Effectiveness of stop smoking interventions among adults: protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and an updated systematic review
... Worldwide, it is estimated that nearly one in seven adults smoke tobacco daily [5]. According to the Canad- ian Community Health Survey (CCHS), five million (16%) Canadians over the age of 12 years in 2017 smoked ...
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Time Series Evaluation of Birth Defects in Areas with and without Unconventional Natural Gas Development
... Despite an increase in unconventional natural gas development (UNGD) across the country, the exposures to the chemicals utilized throughout the process and the potential health impacts remain poorly understood. ...
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Conceptions of public communication of science by coordinators of graduate programs in public health
... Paradoxically, amid the new technologies, teaching science becomes a challenging process for educators. How then to interest children, adolescents, young people and adults in a fascinating world, yet still hidden behind ...
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Examining the social construction of surveillance: a critical issue for health visitors and public health nurses working with mothers and children
... (Public Health England 2016). In recent years the health visiting contribution to the public health of children and families has been strengthened and a new service model for ...
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Assessment of Dietary Practice and Anthropometric Status of Pregnant Women in Aleta Chuko Woreda Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s™ Region /SNNPR/, Ethiopia: Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study
... Poor health and nutrition are associated with repeated, closely spaced pregnancies that progressively reduce women’s nutritional reserves to the point of nutritional depletion, known as the maternal depletion ...
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An Analysis of and Recommendations for the Peruvian Blood Collection and Transfusion System
... Peruvian blood banks lacked uniformity. Focusing on pricing, the cost of collection of a unit of blood ranged from 10 to 165 Peruvian soles ($3.33-$55.00 USD) and the cost of infection screening ranged from 22 to 585 ...
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Current Status of Myocardial Infarction and Risk Factors for Associated Mortality in Iran: A Review
... Citation: Ahmadi A, Etemad K, Ahmadi S, Khaledifard A (2016) Current Status of Myocardial Infarction and Risk Factors for Associated Mortality in Iran: A Review. J Epidemiol Public Health Rev 1(1): doi ...
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Bicycle Helmet Use Trends and Related Risk of Mortality and Traumatic Brain Injury among Pediatric Trauma
... Weighted estimates were employed for all analyses. To compare representative samples of helmeted patients to non-helmeted patients, we used chi-square for categorical variables and Student’s t Test for continuous ...
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End-of-Life Healthcare Expenditure for the Elderly in Japan
... in Germany [7], 66% in the US [8], and 71% in Switzerland [9]. Medicare expenditures during the last 12 months of life decline with age at death [8], and reasons suggested for this include shorter intervals between ...
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