Sentences with phrase «population health factors»

Similarly, health insurance rates can increase depending on zip code, cost of medical care in the area and population health factors, such as the local obesity rate.

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One of the perks of working in the biotechnology industry is that one's colleagues occasionally send along gems like the following: «Health Disparity focuses on understanding and / or addressing factors that contribute to differences in the disease experience across populations....

A recent study of tobacco ads concludes: «In the face of increasing public knowledge about the health risks of smoking and the shrinking population of current smokers, the tobacco industry has portrayed smoking in advertisements in a misleading manner — as adventuresome, healthy, safe, and erotic, images in stark contrast to the voluminous data implicating smoking as a factor in ill health.

In his book, «God is Alive and Well: The Future of Religion in America,» Newport argues that a number of factors, including baby boomers reaching senior ages, migration to more religious states, recognition of health and well being of religion and an increase in a Hispanic population, are all reasons that «we are going to continue to have a quite religious nation going forward.»

Melinda's growth is being propelled in large part by four key factors: the increasing popularity of spicy foods; America's rapidly expanding population of Central, South American and Caribbean immigrants; the widely recognized health benefits of chile peppers; and the growing purchasing power of Millennials who are more apt to experiment with new spices and flavor profiles.

Abstinence from Kona, tobacco, and alcohol by many Adventists has afforded a near - unique opportunity for studies to be conducted within that population group on the health effects of Kona drinking, free from confounding factors.

Indeed, in February, SI posed three basic questions about the nature of 7 - footers (population size, factors responsible for height, and health risks) to the membership of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society.

«University Of Wisconsin «Snapshot» Supports Findings of Community Health Assessment» A ranking of New York State's 62 counties finds Oneida County in the middle of the pack overall for those factors influencing population health, but towards the bottom of the list in terms of overall health statusHealth Assessment» A ranking of New York State's 62 counties finds Oneida County in the middle of the pack overall for those factors influencing population health, but towards the bottom of the list in terms of overall health statushealth, but towards the bottom of the list in terms of overall health statushealth status; a...

Epidemiology is the scientific study of factors affecting the health and illness of individuals and populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.

The information available on their recovery means we can measure the impacts of both environment and social factors on population health.»

The study, the largest of its kind in the world, compared the health of Deaf people with the hearing population and found that Deaf adults have high levels of risk factors for common conditions, such as heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

For years, scientists studying lakes and other ecosystems have predicted collapses before they happen, using long - term data on environmental factors and population health.

«Sodium intake is only one — and for most people not necessarily a large — factor in chronic hypertension,» says Hillel Cohen, co-executive editor of the American Journal of Hypertension and a clinical epidemiology and population health professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

According to the senior author Ken Smith, Ph.D., a population health researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and a distinguished professor of family studies and population science at the University of Utah, «This study shows that early - life socioeconomic status, based on factors such as parental occupation at birth, may be associated with cancer risk in adulthood.

«I have already ensured that the issues surrounding CIHR and its reforms will be considered by the panel, and I look forward to their advice,» wrote Philpott, who also noted that «I expect CIHR to ensure that the very best health research across all pillars [biomedical; clinical; health systems and services; and social cultural, environmental factors that affect the health of populations] is funded according to the highest international standards of research excellence.»

Some say that's a misleading and potentially dangerous conclusion, given two factors: the relatively low incidence of ASD in the general population and the fact that maternal depression — which can lead to poor sleep and eating patterns — can lead to greater health risks for unborn children.

This work defines an element, often missing from health policy discussions, in improving outcomes for this important population and underscores the importance of social factors in affecting health outcomes both for people at risk of becoming infected with HIV and for those living with HIV or AIDS, said the researchers.

It's known that a range of factors can increase risk of poor mental health among the population in general and the same holds true for gay and bisexual men.

Researchers collected data for factors that influence a person's health such as poverty, illness and income for Hamilton's First Nations population.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services should develop «a public population - based approach to dealing with pain as the singularly important integrating factor,» Pizzo said.

Based on data from the large H70 and women's population studies, researchers at the University of Gothenburg Center for Aging and Health (AgeCap) have examined the sexual attitudes of senior citizens and identified the factors that determine whether or not they remain sexually active.

It found that 19 percent of the 38.6 million Americans with mood disorders use prescription opioids, compared to 5 percent of the general population — a difference that remained even when the researchers controlled for factors such as physical health, level of pain, age, sex and race.

The discovery could help scientists understand how social, cultural, and environmental factors interact with genetics to create differences in health outcomes between different ethnic populations, the authors say, and provides a counterpoint to long - standing efforts in the biomedical research community to replace imprecise racial and ethnic categorization with genetic tests to determine ancestry.

«We were looking at the optimum way to evaluate people with chest pain and focusing on those patients who are generally older, have many risk factors for coronary disease or may have had prior health problems, basically the intermediate to higher risk population,» Miller said.

«With an underfunded health care system and a population that would benefit more from a focus on lifestyle factors, such as smoking and abuse of alcohol and drugs, we should not enter into expensive high - tech endeavors,» says Tiina Tasmuth, a professor of medical education at the University of Tallinn.

«We studied asymptomatic individuals with a low risk of cardiovascular events at baseline and used noninvasive imaging to predict the risk of an event downstream,» said David A. Bluemke, M.D, Ph.D., from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. «This is the first population - based prospective study to determine if vulnerable plaque features by MRI add to the risk of a cardiovascular event beyond the traditional risk factors.»

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 key factors are the effects of increasing female education on lowering birth rates in developing countries, and the health target that includes universal access to reproductive health services,» says IIASA population researcher Samir KC, who also worked on the study.

Experts suggest that as survival rates improve, understanding racial and socioeconomic differences in pediatric populations are important factors to consider for overall health status.

High ozone concentrations typically occur outside of the cities and represent a risk factor for the health of rural population as well as for agricultural production.

While feral honey bee populations may be healthy in many parts of the world, the researchers note that the health of managed honey bee colonies is threatened by a host of factors including habitat loss, pesticides, pathogens, parasites and climate change.

The results of the ophthalmologic segment of the population - based Gutenberg Health Study (GHS) undertaken by the Mainz University Medical Center provides evidence that environmental factors may outweigh genetic factors in the development of myopia.

Diversity in Genomics Research Cohorts The lack of diversity within participant cohorts in genetics and genomics research limits our ability to study variation across the human genome and the genetic factors that influence health and disease, as well as our ability to ensure that every segment of the population is able to benefit from advances stemming from the research.

Additionally, this study has shown that strength training can reduce the risk of death by 19 % even among a population of subjects with common health risk factors like drinking and smoking, and suffering from chronic conditions such as hypertension.

The current recommendation is based on unique conditions associated with the current pandemic, including low levels of population immunity to 2009 H1N1, the potential for health - care personnel to be exposed to H1N1 patients, and other factors, Dimond says.

His research showed that several factors contributed to this incredible oral health in certain populations, mainly:

There are many factors involved in this seeming decline in health — increases in population, crowding, living in close proximity with animals and the resultant transmission of diseases, but certainly the change in diet was a major factor.

I think that there are indeed other risk factors such as the health of the oxalobacter formigenes population in the gut, but there isn't a good way at this time for people to have that information.

There are many known health dangers which are known risk factors for obesity and which correlate with low carbohydrate consumption in the general population.

Consistent epidemiological evidence, particularly for depression, suggests an association between measures of diet quality and mental health, across multiple populations and age groups; these do not appear to be explained by other demographic, lifestyle factors or reverse causality.

A healthy colon bacteria population is the most important factor in gut health, healthy immune function, and healthy bowel function (stool is primarily composed of shed GI tract cells, bile salts, gut flora bacteria, not undigested food — even coma patients fed with tubes have bowel movements).

If you have been told you have gluten intolerance (over 30 % of the population does, and 90 % or more people suffering from thyroid imbalances and autoimmune and inflammatory conditions are thought to be intolerant to gluten), we've put together a set of gluten resources to help you to determine if gluten may be one of the contributing factors in your health challenges, and to help you avoid gluten and actually enjoy your gluten - free lifestyle.

Pain is one of the most commonly indicated health - related factors leading to poor quality of life.1 — 3 Not surprisingly, persons suffering from pain are more likely to also suffer from anxiety or depression compared to the normal population.2, 3 Pain can be difficult to assess and treat, and it often requires long - term management with a variety of pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches.

The plant based diet may be temporarily effective for CORRECTING poor health from these factors, but for the growing population of responsibly physically active individuals that require higher protein diets, a strictly plant based diet will only starve their muscles, bones and tendons leading to injury, tissue damage and disease.

The report focuses on three factors affecting the structure of dating and relationships: demographic projections (including life expectancy, population, ethnography, health), social projections (including marriage rates, alternative relationships, religious / cultural shifts) and technological shifts (rate of technological change, effects on labour market, emerging technologies).

Education impacts a multitude of important factors in the health and well - being of a population.

StopBullying.gov describes Risk Factors for bullying, including information about at - risk populations such as LGBT youth and youth with disabilities and special health needs.

Shep's groundbreaking longitudinal study of African American children growing up in the Woodlawn area of Chicago was among the first community studies to identify risk factors for negative health and behavioral outcomes in an urban, minority population.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, which has risen to prominence with its annual rankings of state charter school laws, sought to measure the «health» of each system, as determined by factors such as the size of charter populations, racial demographics, test scores and the use of «innovative» practices such as extended school days or apprenticeship programs.

Our state - by - state estimates capture variation in costs and benefits due to factors such as population, income distribution, teacher salaries, crime rates, health care costs, tax burdens, and current expenditures on all levels of education, child welfare, criminal justice, and health care.