Sentences with phrase «major health indicators»

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If you just look at loan growth, which is one of the major indicators of a bank's health, Canadian Western Bank has seen its loans grow by about 7 % year - to - date, compared to between 1.1 % and 6.2 % for the biggest six banks.

Recent research has provided major breakthroughs in this field, resulting with some strong indicators that the blood type can be a key influence in multiple aspects of the health, from infertility to an increased risk of cancer.

The chlorophyll content of a food is a major indicator of the health attributes of any given plant based food.

NFP is considered a leading indicator of employment, which in turn is a leading indicator of overall economic health in the U.S. Currently, as the U.S. economy attempts to gain solid footing after the financial debacle of the last few years, NFP holds extreme importance since employment is a major problem right now.

Tapping the touch pad opens your journal, while the light bar utilises a variety of colours and tones to produce an indicator showing the status of Major Fletcher's health ranging from a bright green to show full health steadily declining into lighter shades of green into yellow, orange and dark red when on the brink of defeat from his enemies, alongside vibration when firing a weapon at his enemies.

Created in Google Earth, the State of the World's Rivers maps nearly 6,000 dams in the world's 50 major river basins, and ranks their ecological health according to indicators of river fragmentation, water quality and biodiversity.

Behavior is often a major indicator of mental health, and a person's behavior may be heavily influenced by physiological, social, cognitive, and emotional factors.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

A number of other interventions have been widely used including play therapy, individual insight therapy, cognitive behavioral therapies, biofeedback, and dietary interventions, but there is little support for their effectiveness in the literature.57 One recent study did inspect adherence to quality indicators for the outpatient care of ADHD, conduct disorder and major depression, including the use of behavior modification, for 813 children seen in 62 mental health clinics in California from August 1, 1998, through May 31, 1999.