Sentences with phrase «measures of health status»

Replication and extension of these findings should include complementary measures of both health status and care, potentially including parent and physician reports, self - reports from older children and adolescents, and potentially even results of laboratory or other confirmative diagnostic tests.

For example, longitudinal studies have concluded that social networks and social support are causal factors in several measures of health status, including psychological distress, cardiovascular diseases, chronic diseases, mortality, and quality of life (Berkman & Syme, 1979; Eng, Rimm, Fitzmaurice, & Kawachi, 2002; House, Landis, & Umberson, 1988; Seeman, Kaplan, Knudsen, Cohen, & Guralnik, 1987).

The SF - 12 is a widely used self - reported generic measure of health status, and is tailored for use in large health surveys of general populations.

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Style is important as a status symbol and a measure of their success, but they're unconcerned with personal health.

The index is a composite indicator of health status, educational attainment (social development) coupled with per capita income (economic performance) and remains one of the most credible measures for human development across countries and regions worldwide.

The study examined the self - reported measures of childhood socio - economic status, attachment orientations (such as fear of abandonment or difficulty in forming relationships), stress and adult health of 213 participants from 2005 to 2011.

«The findings should be interpreted with caution given that childhood socioeconomic status is notoriously difficult to measure for a number of reasons, including recall bias, but other studies have shown that childhood socioeconomic status can have a critical impact on adult health independent of adult socioeconomic status.

As part of the Framingham Heart Study, participants updated researchers on their social contacts and health status, including happiness, as measured by a standard psychological questionnaire.

«The measure of vegetation index or «green - ness» is really the easiest and more straightforward way to measure the overall health status of the plant.»

Researchers surveyed spouses with questionnaires to measure their health status and calculate their quality of life.

The importance of vitamin B6 is often overlooked in conventional medicine, except for cases of overt B6 deficiency which doctors believe to be rare.1 Although not widely recognized, poor vitamin B6 status may be relatively common in individuals eating a Standard American Diet.2 In the United States, a remarkably high number of adults — ninety percent of women and seventy - one percent of men — consume diets that are deficient in vitamin B6 using the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) as a measure.3 Furthermore, according to recent national health data, many individuals have inadequate vitamin B6 status despite meeting the RDA of B6 from their diets.4

As part of a series of measures to tackle it, the government has introduced the National Healthy Schools Programme, through which schools are awarded Healthy School status if they can demonstrate meaningful achievement in four areas: personal, social and health education, healthy eating, physical activity, and emotional health and wellbeing.

What if, on a given day in May every year, every medical clinic in America saw federal assessment officials measuring the health status of everyone enrolled in that clinic, then aggregated the results to give a score to the clinic and tied doctors» pay to those rankings.

Veterinarians commonly use rectal thermometers to measure body temperatures when assessing the health status of cats.

While present and future climate changes pose serious threats to our coastal zones and resources, Surfrider's current beach health indicators do not completely measure environmental quality or assess the status of coastal management in light of climate change impacts.

[60] Health - related quality of life measures integrate the mortality and morbidity effects of disease to produce health status scores for an individual or populHealth - related quality of life measures integrate the mortality and morbidity effects of disease to produce health status scores for an individual or populhealth status scores for an individual or population.

The outcomes considered each rely on self - reported health status, and although a large literature exists that demonstrates the relevance of such measures for indicating ill - health, for example, 15 40 this is acknowledged as a weakness of the study.

We also could not control for or analyze socioeconomic factors in the present analyses due to the absence of measures of familial socioeconomic status; however, the National American Indian Adolescent Health Survey is the largest and most comprehensive database available on rural, reservation - based American Indian and Alaska Native youth, and there is little reason to believe that a representative sample of school - based, rural American Indian adolescents would yield findings substantially different from those presented here.18

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

Association of socioeconomic status measured by education, and cardiovascular health: a population - based cross-sectional study

The new Australian government and all Australian Governments, through the Council of Australian Governments (or COAG), have agreed to a series of targets to be achieved over the next five to ten years to start the process to close the gap in health status and ultimately in life expectancy, as well as across a range of other measures.

Measuring the mental health status of the Norwegian population: a comparison of the instruments SCL - 25, SCL - 10, SCL - 5 and MHI - 5 (SF - 36)

Both partners completed a self - report survey that included questions about their current loneliness levels, relationship quality measures, and a range of demographic and baseline variables (e.g., income, education, employment status, number of children, whether other family members lived with them, health, depression, etc.).

However, Indigenous Australians continue to suffer grossly disproportionate rates of disadvantage against all measures of socio - economic status, including health (ABS, 2013; AIHW, 2011a, 2011b).

Depressive status, physical and mental health, functional status and quality of life were measured at baseline, 10 weeks and six months using established, validated tools.

The relationship between depressive symptoms and step count has only been assessed in specific populations with small sample sizes, such as low - socioeconomic status Latino immigrants, 16 elderly Japanese people17 or patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure18 19 or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.20 21 Studies yield contradictory results, with some observing no association between depressive symptoms and daily step count, 19 21 while others report a negative correlation.16 — 18 20 In one cross-sectional sample of healthy older adults, an inverse association between depressive symptoms (using the Goldberg Depression Scale - 15) and accelerometer measured daily step count disappeared after controlling for general health and disability.22 While a systematic review suggests reduced levels of objectively measured PA in patients with depression, 23 it is not known whether this association is present in those at high risk of CVD and taken into account important confounding such as gender and age.

Measures utilized included assessment of tobacco and marijuana use and health - risking sexual behaviors, placement change, and pubertal status.

This study examined to what extent immigrant status and other factors play a role in determining measures of their children's health and well - being, and finally to investigate whether a home visiting intervention modified any of these factors.

international figures demonstrate that optimally and consistently resourced primary health care systems can make a significant difference to the health status of populations, as measured by life expectancy, within a decade.

Main outcome measures: Sociodemographic and general health indicators, smoking status, number of cigarettes smoked per day and quit attempts.

This was also the case for Perkins and Harris (1990), who relied on a global measure of physical health and did not find statistically significant differences by marital status.

The most apparent is that single measures of absolute concentrations of salivary cortisol, for most health - related variables, seldom give significant findings; deviation measures, in terms of diurnal deviations and / or laboratory stress tests seem to be more strongly and consistently associated with a number of factors, such as Socioeconomic Status (SES), psychological characteristics, biological variables in terms of overweight and abdominal fat accumulation, and mental and somatic disease.

Other variables (maternal parity, housing stability, hospitalization, perceived health status, employment, use of the Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program, and cigarette smoking; whether the mother was living with a partner; and infant gestational age, birth weight, need for transfer to an intensive care nursery, health insurance, special needs, health status as perceived by the mother, and age at the time of the survey) were included if the adjusted odds ratio differed from the crude odds ratio by at least 10 %, which is a well - accepted method of confounder selection when the decision of whether to adjust is unclear.42, 43 Any variable associated with both the predictor (depression) and the outcome (infant health services use, parenting practices, or injury - prevention measures) at P <.25, as suggested by Mickey and Greenland, 42 was also included.

Because the CIS is a global measure of impairment, these data can not be used to investigate particular aspects of child emotional or behavioral problems, such as depression or anxiety, and how they may vary by paternal mental health status, and they apply only to children ages 5 to 17 years.

Similarly, as EMA mood ratings were correlated with standardized measures of distress and well - being, it suggested they had validity as indicators of adolescent mental health status.

Other measures of general health, such as children's nutritional status, would also be interesting, especially among economically disadvantaged populations.

For example, a recent review of Aboriginal primary health care states that: international figures demonstrate that optimally and consistently resourced primary health care systems can make a significant difference to the health status of populations, as measured by life expectancy, within a decade.

Self - rated health status as a health measure: The predictive value of self - reported health status on the use of physician services and on mortality in the working - age population

objective measures of selected chronic diseases, nutrition status and other risk factors which can be combined with self - reported data about health status and conditions (e.g. diabetes)

However, in order for such hypotheses to be evaluated, new measures capturing the various processes by which parents monitor chronically ill youth must first be developed and must include items evaluating domains such as direct supervision, surveillance of the youth through checking medical device and supply use, checking with the youth and other family members regarding adherence behavior or health status, gathering information from other adults and so on.

The primary outcome was the self - perceived health status of the adolescents, as measured with the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL)[23, 24].

They measure parent age, education, occupation, ethnicity, number of children, household status, housing situation, household economy, substance abuse, child birth weight, child gestation at birth, and child health.

Since the measure was upheld, the law's popular underwriting and rating reforms already in effect, i.e. the ability of young adults to stay on their parents» policies, reduction in Medicare Part D copays, etc., as well as those going into effect in 2014, such as the ban on denying coverage on the basis of a preexisting condition or setting insurance premiums on the basis of health status or sex, will remain intact.