Sentences with phrase «health indices»

In the latest study, low scores on the brain health index at age 3 were found to predict high healthcare and social costs as an adult.

The third was a population health index based on five factors: annual rates for hip fractures and strokes, obesity, smoking status and surveys of self - reported illness.

The brain health index may also give early warning of risk of future cognitive decline in individuals before they notice any symptoms.

This new School Health Index reduces confusion about which tool to use by replacing the old Healthy Schools Program Inventory.

Dr. Miyanji and colleagues used a validated questionnaire specifically designed for evaluation of children with severe CP — the Caregiver Priorities and Child Health Index of Life with Disabilities, or «CPCHILD» — to assess the impact of scoliosis surgery at one, two, and five years postoperatively.

The Market Health Index illustrates the current health of a region's housing market relative to other markets across the country.

Under Brig's leadership as principal, Fruita Middle School's organizational health index grew from the lowest to the highest levels.

Maternal mortality is increasingly high, Nigeria has one of the poorest maternal and child health indices in the world with maternal 800-3000 deaths per 100,000 live births, life time risk of dying from pregnancy related complications of 1:8 compared to 1:10 in developing countries (Nigeria Demographic Health Survey 2004).

Simoes says the Public Health Index model balances the impact of health risks across criteria of prioritization such as magnitude, severity and urgency of health issues with the effectiveness and cost of interventions, and the community's willingness to address various health risks.

Depicted graphically at the bottom of this page, APM's Rental Property Management Health Index found that Worcester ranks fifth in the nation in terms of income potential for investors in residential rental properties.

This has helped to improve the educational outcomes and favourable health indices for our people.»

Those from countries like Japan, with high national health index scores, chose the more feminine face more than three - quarters of the time, the authors report online today in Biology Letters.

The Mercer Pension Health Index, which calculates plans» capacity to meet their members» promised future income under current conditions, stood at 94 % as of June 30, up from 76 % in 2011.

The Market Health Index illustrates the current health of a region's housing market relative to other markets across the country.

Affordability accounted for 40 % of the housing health index, while each of the other three factors accounted for 20 %.

More than 60 researchers from a cross section of disciplines and institutions, including the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have created the Ocean Health Index to do just that.

«Using the Public Health Index model, we found hypertension, physical inactivity, insufficient blood pressure screening, high cholesterol, smoking and binge drinking to be the leading burdens that have the highest impact on public health in Brazil,» Simoes said.

The difference couldn't be explained by the ratio of men to women in a country, its gross national income, or the race of the participants, but it did correlate with the national health index of the men's countries — a measure of overall well - being.

The 2014 Sun Life Canadian Health Index found that 66 per cent of those surveyed said deteriorating health was their biggest worry going into old age.

The Global Health Index looked at 163 countries.

This animation shows monthly composites of vegetation health index derived from data from the AVHRR sensor on - board the NOAA POES satellite.

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Relational Health Indices (RHI) with a group of 450 first year and senior students at a women's liberal arts college.

To measure our success in these areas, we track meaningful metrics such as employee engagement and satisfaction (i.e., employee volunteering, employee giving and results of the Organizational Health Index survey), total employees receiving performance reviews, average hours of training, turnover rates and rate of return from leave.

Moreover, recent declines in Dunn & Bradstreet's monthly Small Business Health Index show that, overall, small firms are still struggling in this economy.

School Health Index training is available as part of CDC's E-Learning Series: Training Tools for Healthy Schools.

Buhari said at the inauguration on Tuesday in Abuja that the provision of quality health care service would reverse the poor health indices in the country.

The study, «A Priority Health Index Identifies the Top Six Priority Risk and Related Factors for Non-communicable Diseases in Brazilian Cities,» recently was published in BMC Public Health, the journal of epidemiology and public health.

The foundation's system purports to categorize a food with space - age precision and assign to it a single numerical value that denotes its ultimate healthfulness.The model may not be the perfect tool the nutrition community dreams of, but now that the U.K.is pushing ahead with its plan, this purportedly definitive health index is now affecting the messages about food — and, presumably, the food itself — that kids consume.

Dr Dickie added: «Through a unique collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, which is funded by the Stroke Association in the UK, the next step is to test the brain health index approach in newly - developed brain scanners, such as the ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner at the University of Glasgow's Imaging Centre of Excellence, and in larger groups of patients.

«Eventually we hope to introduce brain health index into clinical practice so that it may improve early identification and treatment of cognitive decline and dementia after stroke.»

The brain health index predicted more strongly cognitive deficits commonly seen in stroke and SVD than current, validated clinical scoring methods and other computer programmes used for assessing features of brain deterioration.

According to the National Sleep Foundation's Sleep Health Index, forty - five percent of Americans said that either poor or insufficient sleep affected their normal activities at least once during the seven days beforehand.

Additionally, the School Health Index works to align school health practices in coordination with national surveillance systems to ensure that kids are healthy and ready to learn.

Similarly, according to Car MD, the Tacoma was No. 2 for all pickups in the latest Vehicle Health Index, which evaluated entries from the 2015 model year (using the number of «check - engine» light problems reported per vehicle, as well as the cost of repair).

Using data from the 2017 Canadian Financial Health Index and other sources, the report finds that B.C. women make less money, pay more for housing and face a higher cost of living than women in the rest of the county.

Here are some of the metrics that FitBark devices track: Activity counts (BarkPoints) Rest, active and play time Nocturnal sleep score Overall health index Activity index Calorie burn Distance traveled In particular, FitBark devices are useful to monitor changes in mobility, anxiety and skin conditions.

Italians are the world's healthiest people, according to the latest Global Health Index by Bloomberg.

One small caveat for this category: Zillow didn't have Market Health Index data available for every state.

In this particular population the exposure to infant massage sessions resulted in an improvement in several health indexes, such as weight - gain, increases in length, head circumference, bone density, and body temperature (Scafidi et al., 1986; Scafidi et al., 1990; Kuhn et al., 1991; Wheeden et al., 1993; Moyer Mileur et al., 1995; Jinon, 1996; Dieter et al., 2001, 2003; Ke et al., 2001; Duan et al., 2002; Ferber et al., 2002; Liu, 2005; Lu et al., 2005; Na et al., 2005; Diego et al., 2008).

Five specific questions were used to derive the mental health index, namely; (1) «Have you been a nervous person?»

«Not only does the Rental Property Management Health Index offer investors a quick, comprehensive grasp of the current rental market on a national scale, it provides the type of data that should be most important from a business standpoint, like yearly rent variances and a particular city's urban development trends,» said Cook.

APM's Rental Property Management Health Index provides essential information to help investors assess the long - term value of rental properties nationwide, according to Steve Cook, award winning real estate journalist and co-publisher of Real Estate Economy Watch.