• World Health Day on 7 April 2023 coincides with the 75th anniversary of the World Health Organization. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Details for: The National Leprosy Control Programme-World Health Organization Workshop on Urban Leprosy Control, Acworth Leprosy Hospital, Wadala, Bombay, India, from 12th November 1981 to 17th November 1981. (who.int)
  • Studies generated by CLS investigators have contributed substantially to USEPA, United States Centers for Disease Control (USCDC), and World Health Organization (WHO) regulatory and clinical care policies with respect to the prevention of environmental lead exposure and the medical management of lead-exposed children. (uc.edu)
  • World Health Organization (WHO) has recently reported that environmental risks including SHS take lives of 1.7 million children under 5 years of age every year [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The World Health Organization recommends that children aged ≥6 months be vaccinated against influenza. (who.int)
  • 4,6,7 Therefore, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the inclusion of children aged 6 to 59 months as a priority group for seasonal influenza vaccination. (who.int)
  • Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization, Cairo, Egypt (Correspondence to I.A. Shaikh: [email protected]). (who.int)
  • EMR on cumulative mortality and morbid- natural and man-made, occur in our Region, ity from either natural disasters or complex the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) humanitarian emergencies, nevertheless of the World Health Organization (WHO). (who.int)
  • Since its inception, the CLS has collected data on lead exposure (blood lead concentrations), neurobehavioral and neuromotor outcomes, child health, nutrition, environmental nurture, and sociodemographic variables on a quarterly to yearly basis from the first trimester of pregnancy to adulthood. (uc.edu)
  • It is well known that SHS exposure brings about almost the same adverse health outcomes as active smoking [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Outcomes of cataract surgery in a rural and urban south Indi. (lww.com)
  • We further compared outcomes between the rural and urban populations. (lww.com)
  • Persons with SPD demonstrate but measuring mental illness in general disadvantage in both socioeconomic status and health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • In healthcare, it feels like the worst of times as in the U.S., we are so challenged by the opioid crisis, costs spiraling, clinician burnout, and consumers health-financially insecure. (healthpopuli.com)
  • It can also be the Best of Times for health - if we recognize, together, the role of social determinants to address root causes of healthcare woes and disparities. (healthpopuli.com)
  • His accomplishments span the fields of sanitation technology, social enterprise, and healthcare education for millions of people, serving as a model for NGO agencies and public health initiatives around the world. (solutions-site.org)
  • SSM recently reached a deal with SLU and Tenet Healthcare to purchase the hospital. (nextstl.com)
  • SLU will retain a financial interest and governance rights in SSM, and the healthcare company will own and operate the 356-bed teaching hospital. (nextstl.com)
  • Says Don Jenion, senior project manager for Vancouver Coastal Health, "We are very pleased with the results of our project, which exceeds the standards for an acute healthcare facility. (canadianinteriors.com)
  • Mississippi is home to nineteen rural, publicly-owned hospitals, which are tasked with providing healthcare for many non-urban Mississippians. (supertalk.fm)
  • Improving access to such health care might improve quality of life and reduce hospital readmissions among COPD patients and reduce COPD mortality. (cdc.gov)
  • To assess the motivators and barriers to seasonal influenza vaccination among the HCWs and to promote vaccination coverage of HCWs in different health care settings by developing a tailored communication toolkit. (who.int)
  • A cross sectional survey was conducted to assess the barriers and motivators of seasonal influenza vaccine uptake and compliance among health care workers (HCWs). (who.int)
  • A random sample of 1008 subjects was drawn from the list of HCWs (physicians - nurses) at all specified health care facilities mentioned above. (who.int)
  • A blog covering the health/care ecosystem and people. (healthpopuli.com)
  • Today, I share my most important learning with delegates to the AHA meeting: that social factors, and not so much health care, are the most important contributors to our community's health and wellbeing. (healthpopuli.com)
  • Health insurance is surely an on-ramp to health care access: it is necessary, but not sufficient, to deal with our health care challenges and public health inequities. (healthpopuli.com)
  • I point to an article in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association) published July 26, 2017, from Rita Rubin, looking at the "Half-century After 'Summer of Love,'" where free clinics still play a vital role in American health care since evolving from 1967 when the Haight-Asbury Free Clinic was founded in San Francisco - 50 years ago. (healthpopuli.com)
  • The article, thus, discusses the potential of this type of partnership for reflection on the Indigenous Health Care Subsystem, arguing that this model can constitute a kind of support for social control exercised by the communities. (scielosp.org)
  • Hospitals care for the critically ill patients while those who exhibited mild illness received care from their homes. (essaywriter.org)
  • St. Mary's is also one of the first recent hospitals in the province to incorporate point-of-care stations at each inpatient bedroom, allowing supplies to be loaded on the corridor side of the room and be accessed from within, creating effective restocking processes and reducing interruptions to patients. (canadianinteriors.com)
  • The names speak eloquently of a rich Christian heritage in the field of health care. (amazonaws.com)
  • The past several days I've been talking about health care, and you may wonder what this subject has to do with the Christian church. (amazonaws.com)
  • We forget that when we talk about government-run health care, we're talking about bureaucrats taking over what was once largely a Christian ministry. (amazonaws.com)
  • Historically, Christians have taken seriously the social commands of Jesus, who came up with the original comprehensive health package: Feed the hungry, care for the sick, look after the widow and orphan. (amazonaws.com)
  • Is there any way back to the Christian vision of health care? (amazonaws.com)
  • We stumbled on "a method of health care I'd never done before," says Dr. Carolyn Klaus, founder of the clinic. (amazonaws.com)
  • With limited access to specialised care, most patients with DKA in South Africa are managed at district hospital level. (bvsalud.org)
  • Safe water, balanced nutrition, prenatal care and full immunization remain long term health goals. (edu.ph)
  • Clinician interviews and clinician reports to a web based reporting system were used for analysis of hospital based and ambulatory care events, respectively. (bmj.com)
  • A pediatric patient safety taxonomy, relevant to both hospital based and ambulatory pediatric care, was developed from the analysis of 122 hospital based and 144 ambulatory care events. (bmj.com)
  • This patient safety taxonomy reflects the nature of events that occur in both pediatric hospital based and ambulatory care settings. (bmj.com)
  • Team Trump says administration's action on health care 'is working. (salon.com)
  • It represents messaging the president will likely repeat, especially as polls consistently show health care is a top concern for voters. (salon.com)
  • According to Team Trump, the specifics behind these claims include a range of actions, from steps designed to increase organ transplantation and access to HIV medication to loosening regulations around short-term limited-duration health care plans and association health plans as well as "more participation" in ACA insurance markets. (salon.com)
  • Those policies haven't always succeeded, but it is rather misleading, if not comical, for an administration that has pursued multiple policies that would reduce access to health care to claim that it has expanded such access," said Jonathan Oberlander, a health policy professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. (salon.com)
  • As for health care costs: Growth has slowed, but costs are still going up, said Robert Berenson, a health policy analyst at the Urban Institute who studies hospital pricing. (salon.com)
  • That's largely because the price of hospital and doctor care continues to increase, he said, which makes health care more expensive. (salon.com)
  • An advanced practice nurse-centered discharge planning and home care intervention for at-risk hospitalized elders reduced readmissions, lengthened the time between discharge and readmission, and decreased the costs of providing health care. (nih.gov)
  • Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 106 / Monday, June 4, 2007 / Rules and Regulations services authorized by an I/T/U consistent with part 136 of this title or section 503(a) of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA), Public Law 94-437, as amended, 25 U.S.C. 1653(a). (j) No additional charges. (justia.com)
  • prevalence of mental illness and Conclusions --The associations between SPD and sociodemographic characteristics of adults with mental characteristics, health status, and health care utilization are similar to the disorders is important in planning relationships found between serious mental illnesses (for example, major depression policies for treatment and prevention, or schizophrenia) and these same variables. (cdc.gov)
  • McKnight argued if Nebraska legislators had the best interests of women and families in mind, they would be debating bills to strengthen maternal health care, affordable child care and early childhood education. (publicnewsservice.org)
  • For any physical or mental health needs, the life and the choice of the mother to be able to have reproductive health care is a priority, and I believe essential in our state in order to protect religious freedom," Goldberg explained. (publicnewsservice.org)
  • Such a wide treatment gap may result from a combination of, for instance, inadequate capacities of health care systems and inequitable distributions of resources, particularly in resource-poor and rural areas. (who.int)
  • Epilepsy can be treated at primary health care level but very often the health care workers there are not adequately trained to diagnose or treat epilepsy. (who.int)
  • Although national essential medicines lists frequently include first-line antiepileptic medicines, their inclusion does not guarantee availability in public health care facilities. (who.int)
  • 7. Although the impact of the dual epidemics on public health and development is generally recognized, and governments are making efforts to strengthen the health sector's response to the dual epidemics through improved access to health care, the weaknesses of the health sector appear to be growing. (who.int)
  • BACKGROUND: Availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) and its effective use may influence safety climate perceptions among health care personnel (HCP). (cdc.gov)
  • It is unclear how health care organizations can leverage the effective use of respiratory protection to engage in continuous improvement of their safety climate, which can inform opportunities for employee education and engagement. (cdc.gov)
  • 136.31 Authorization by urban Indian organization. (justia.com)
  • An urban Indian organization may authorize for purchase items and services for an eligible urban Indian (as those terms are defined in 25 U.S.C. 1603(f) and (h)) according to section 503 of the IHCIA and applicable regulations. (justia.com)
  • A new § 489.29 is added to subpart B to read as follows: I § 489.29 Special requirements concerning beneficiaries served by the Indian Health Service, Tribal health programs, and urban Indian organization health programs. (justia.com)
  • The World conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Organization Global Burden of Health Statistics (NCHS). (cdc.gov)
  • Permissions to conduct the current study were taken from the Director of the university hospital, the section of Preventive Medicine at the Egyptian Ministry of Health and the local Health Directorate of Ismailia Governorate. (who.int)
  • and update state-level variations in COPD measures, CDC analyzed 2015 data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Medicare hospital records, and death certificate data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). (cdc.gov)
  • The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) 2013 Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties, which uses 2010 U.S. Census population data and the February 2013 Office of Management and Budget designations of metropolitan statistical area, micropolitan statistical area, or noncore area ( 2 ), was used to classify urban-rural status of BRFSS respondents, Medicare inpatient claims, decedents, and populations at risk based on reported county of residence. (cdc.gov)
  • Another 200,000 American Indians and Alaska Natives under the age of 65 are living with a long-term disability (for which they receive Social Security Disability Insurance benefits) or a health condition, such as end stage renal disease, which qualifies them for Medicare. (kff.org)
  • 5 (Data specific to the share of elderly American Indians and Alaska Natives living on reservations are difficult to verify, but as described later in this paper, about a third of Medicare beneficiaries report IHS as a source of health coverage, which may reflect their proximity to reservations and land trusts. (kff.org)
  • Services and items furnished by Medicare-participating inpatient hospitals shall be subject to the payment methodology set forth in § 136.30. (justia.com)
  • This study aimed to investigate the impact of the new payment method on total medical expenditure per case, length of stay (LOS), and in-hospital mortality rate across different hospitals. (bvsalud.org)
  • The interrupted time series model was used to examine the impact of the DIP payment reform on inflation-adjusted total expenditure per case, LOS, and in-hospital mortality rate across different hospitals, which were stratified into different hospital ownerships (public and private) and hospital levels (tertiary, secondary, and primary). (bvsalud.org)
  • The monthly trend of in-hospital mortality rate decreased significantly in private (0.083 percentage points, P = 0.002) and secondary (0.037 percentage points, P = 0.002) hospitals. (bvsalud.org)
  • 1 and is of great public health concern because of its huge morbidity and mortality burden. (who.int)
  • In the years 2004-05 direct and indirect mortality, morbidity alone, over 160 countries were affected by and trauma resulting in an over-burdening natural and technological disasters, result- and/or possible collapse of the health sys- ing in over 350 000 deaths and over US$ tem (Table 1). (who.int)
  • In the course of identifying specific data sources and quantifying data definitions for each objective, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) identified numerous objectives for which the baselines specified in Healthy People 2000 required revision. (cdc.gov)
  • In February 1993, the Public Health Service (PHS) Healthy People 2000 Steering Committee accepted the NCHS recommendation to revise the baselines for approximately 100 objectives (Table 1). (cdc.gov)
  • New analysis of NHS Digital data by the charity Rethink Mental Illness reveals huge regional variation in the numbers of people subject to the Mental Health Act - in some areas almost three times the national average. (rethink.org)
  • Ahead of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act which is being published next month, campaigners call for urgent reform of the "outdated" Act that disproportionally affects people who are BAME, people from deprived backgrounds and those living in urban areas. (rethink.org)
  • The Mental Health Act is the law in England and Wales which governs when someone can be treated for a mental illness without their consent. (rethink.org)
  • According to Rethink Mental Illness, the reasons behind the variation will be complex, but factors include deprivation, particularly in urban areas, which impacts on mental health. (rethink.org)
  • This is an issue being looked at as part of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, led by Sir Simon Wessely. (rethink.org)
  • These figures highlight what Theresa May called one of the "burning injustices" in Britain today: that if you are poor, from a black, Asian or minority ethnicity background and live in an urban area, you are much more likely to come into contact with the Mental Health Act if you have mental illness. (rethink.org)
  • Given how many people are affected, it's crucial we have a Mental Health Act that works. (rethink.org)
  • Mental health is an important distress (SPD) in the noninstitutionalized adult population of the United States, as component of overall health. (cdc.gov)
  • Accurate information about the visits and visits to mental health professionals than adults without SPD. (cdc.gov)
  • The DIP payment reform resulted in a significant increase of the monthly trend of adjusted total expenditure per case in public (1.1%, P = 0.000), tertiary (0.6%, P = 0.000), secondary (0.4%, P = 0.047) and primary hospitals (0.9%, P = 0.039). (bvsalud.org)
  • Setting: Large, urban, tertiary academic children's hospital. (cdc.gov)
  • DIP reform encouraged public hospitals and high-level hospitals to treat patients with higher illness severities and requiring high treatment intensity, resulting in a significant increase in total expenditure per case. (bvsalud.org)
  • This was a case series of all patients presenting to a district hospital with DKA and COVID-19 infection between July 2020 and July 2021. (bvsalud.org)
  • There is one area in which prices appear to have dipped: In the 2019 and 2020 health insurance years, the rate of ACA premium increases slowed and, in some cases, declined, Blumberg said. (salon.com)
  • Specifically, the effect of limited health literacy on patient assessment of RA disease activity and discordance with provider [physician] assessment has not been investigated. (jrheum.org)
  • Patient report was predicted by specific hospital, belief that their hospitalisation was smoking related, diagnosis of a smoking related disease, and physician documentation of counselling. (bmj.com)
  • Physician documentation was predicted by female patient, specific hospital, longer hospital stay, and marginally predicted by smoking related disease. (bmj.com)
  • To clarify the trends by regional characteristics, SMAs were divided into four groups based on urban or rural status and initial physician supply (lower/higher). (bmj.com)
  • Results From 2005 to 2035, the absolute number of physicians aged 25-64 will decline by 6.1% in rural areas with an initially lower physician supply, but it will increase by 37.0% in urban areas with an initially lower supply. (bmj.com)
  • In order to increase the accuracy of the future projection and make it easier to understand, we divided 342 areas into 4 area groups based on urban/rural status and lower/higher physician supply, based on earlier studies. (bmj.com)
  • Lawyer, physician, and writer on health. (londonremembers.com)
  • DESIGN Stickers on subjects' charts prompted physicians to give brief smoking cessation counselling to patients in the hospital. (bmj.com)
  • CONCLUSIONS Physicians document counselling in the hospital at a lower rate than patients report it, and the correlation between reports is very low, making an accurate assessment of true rates of counselling difficult. (bmj.com)
  • Furthermore, physicians aged 25-64 will be more concentrated in urban areas, and physicians will age more rapidly in rural places than urban ones. (bmj.com)
  • Subjects: Physicians and nurses employed at Children's Hospital Los Angeles randomly selected from a global hospital e-mail server over a 3-week time frame were invited to participate and receive an incentive on completion. (cdc.gov)
  • To examine the effectiveness of an advanced practice nurse-centered discharge planning and home follow-up intervention for elders at risk for hospital readmissions. (nih.gov)
  • The next issues was to develop an educational program to select and train a new kind of professional: proficient in advanced methods of managing disease, but also with competence to improve the health in the community. (edu.ph)
  • METHODS: We conducted a descriptive analysis based on the National Health Service Survey (NHSS) from 1993 to 2018. (bvsalud.org)
  • Among older adults, Methods --The estimates in this report were derived from the Family Core and mental illnesses increase the risk of Sample Adult components of the 2001-04 National Health Interview Survey, institutionalization (3). (cdc.gov)
  • nevertheless much remains to be done to provide the evidence through rigorous research methods to standardize other essential elements of the health response to humanitarian emergencies. (who.int)
  • 4 COPD is a public health problem as it is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, and one of the leading causes of morbidity, occupational disability, and worsened quality of life. (dovepress.com)
  • St. Mary's Hospital is unique among other British Columbia hospitals: not only are all of its inpatient rooms single-occupancy - a first for VCH and a proven method for minimizing the transmission of infections between patients - it is one of the few hospitals to have operable windows in all clinical and inpatient areas, which has received significant positive feedback from patients and staff. (canadianinteriors.com)
  • The CLS was initiated in 1979 by researchers and clinicians at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. (uc.edu)
  • The study was designed to examine the impact of low to moderate lead exposure on children's health, with a special emphasis on the developing nervous system. (uc.edu)
  • I'm talking about the names carved above the doors of sprawling hospitals in so many neighborhoods: St. Jude, St. Elizabeth, Holy Cross, Good Samaritan. (amazonaws.com)
  • It may be particular hospitals or possibly medical teams, urban areas, intellectual health skin clinics, college health and fitness centers, and so on Describe the reason you prefer that. (artech.se)
  • A total of 600 community-dwelling older adults were recruited from the outpatient clinics of three major hospitals in Foshan city between July 2007 and July 2008. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A total of 600 community-dwelling older adults were initially recruited from the outpatient clinics of three major hospitals, namely, the First People's Hospital of Shunde, First People's Hospital of Nanhai, and Second People's Hospital of Foshan. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Subjects from the clinics of the Departments of Gastroenterology, Dermatology, Chinese Medicine, Urology and Otolaryngology were approached at random while they were waiting for medical service. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Those subjects with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or had been on long-term modification of diet for medical reasons were excluded. (biomedcentral.com)
  • and to identify the impact of each report on smoking cessation attempts after discharge from the hospital. (bmj.com)
  • Randomized clinical trial with follow-up at 2, 6, 12, and 24 weeks after index hospital discharge. (nih.gov)
  • "This study provides clear evidence that oral supplementation with Pycnogenol is beneficial to the skin in Han Chinese subjects working outdoors in an urban environment," ​wrote researchers from Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing EWISH Testing Technology Co., Ltd., IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (Germany), and the Air Force General Hospital in Beijing. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • Bill was that rare priest who did a PhD in economics and taught in the secular world of The University of Michigan's department of economics just as I was considering a major in the subject. (healthpopuli.com)
  • Loma Linda University, Center for Health Promotion, CA. (cdc.gov)
  • SSM purchased the Saint Louis University hospital and announced a $500M redevelopment. (nextstl.com)
  • nextSTL has learned SSM Health's early plans for its, soon to be, most recent acquisition call for the possible demolition of the existing Saint Louis University (SLU) Hospital. (nextstl.com)
  • The university is purchasing the hospital from Tenet, which has owned the facility since 1998. (nextstl.com)
  • According to a press release the transaction between SSM Health and the university is expected to be finalized later this summer. (nextstl.com)
  • Interventions: Subjects underwent a didactic lecture or a combination of didactic lecture and tabletop exercise. (cdc.gov)
  • The ingredient has been the subject of scores of clinical studies suggesting benefits covering everything from cardiovascular, joint, cognitive and eye health to sports nutrition, relief of hay fever, PMS, tinnitus, hemorrhoidal pain and menopause symptoms. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • We are also extremely pleased with the cooperation provided by the project team and would like to thank them - along with the Clinical Users and Administration, Sunshine Coast Regional Health District, Sunshine Coast Regional District Planning Offices, District of Sechelt, and the Sechelt Indian Band - for their years of dedication to this outstanding project. (canadianinteriors.com)
  • Clinical instruction emphasized complex disorders more than common community health problems. (edu.ph)
  • The SRE provides an isolated IT environment that permits our partner hospitals and clinical researchers to manage sensitive health data for research purposes, while addressing many of the confidentiality concerns that complicate medical research involving human subjects. (case.edu)
  • Later in college, I took a course in Urban Economics from a professor whose teachings, ethos and spirit would shape me forever: Bill Neenan, PhD, was also known as William B. Neenan, SJ. (healthpopuli.com)
  • His book on urban economics is one of the main textbooks on the topic. (healthpopuli.com)
  • His teaching, sense of humor, and outlook for good and hope profoundly informed my own approach to the subject, and ultimately, my professional path in health economics. (healthpopuli.com)
  • Researchers repeatedly report increases in subjects' mood, fewer incidents of depressive symptoms, as well as increased memory span and decreased symptoms of anxiety after a walk in nature, as compared to a walk through an urban environment. (psychologytoday.com)
  • However, subjects who underwent the tabletop simulation had a better sense of knowledge and comfort with the topics compared with those who only underwent a didactic lecture. (cdc.gov)
  • All subjects underwent a comprehensive ophthalmic examination that included visual acuity, refraction, slit-lamp biomicroscopy, applanation tonometry, gonioscopy, and dilated retinal examination. (lww.com)
  • Pycnogenol has a deep catalog of research for skin health, and this study builds upon decades of existing science to show that oral supplementation with Pycnogenol can make a significant difference in skin health and appearance, even in strenuous environmental conditions. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • One Korean study of patients diagnosed with moderate to severe depression compared the effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) performed in a hospital to CBT performed in an arboretum with a forest-like setting. (psychologytoday.com)
  • The study included 110 subjects. (jrheum.org)
  • We used a cross-sectional study design to investigate the effect of health literacy on differences in patient and provider global health assessments of RA activity. (jrheum.org)
  • We recruited subjects at the end of their rheumatology clinic visits by first providing patients with a verbal description of the study prior to the use of any written materials. (jrheum.org)
  • The study was approved by the National Health Research Authority of Zambia through the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (reference no. 007-10-18). (cdc.gov)
  • The Cincinnati Lead Study (CLS) is a prospective longitudinal examination of the effects of low to moderate prenatal and postnatal lead exposure on the health and development of urban inner-city infants, children, adolescents and adults. (uc.edu)
  • The study has been funded for the last 40 years through grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). (uc.edu)
  • An article from National Geographic highlights the Cincinnati Lead Study cohort, the world's longest-running birth cohort research since 1979 at UC's Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences. (uc.edu)
  • Incidence of respiratory symptoms and chronic disease in a non-smoking population as a function of long-term cumulative exposure to ambient air pollutants (Adventist health study of smog follow-up study). (cdc.gov)
  • This study describes the profile of patients admitted to a district hospital in South Africa with DKA and COVID-19 and examines associated risk factors encountered. (bvsalud.org)
  • Forty-three controls and 42 intervention subjects (22 lecture + tabletop exercise, 20 lecture only) completed the study. (cdc.gov)
  • We explored the association between prenatal exposure to SHS and neurodevelopment at 24 months of age considering genetic polymorphism and breastfeeding in 720 mothers and their offspring enrolled in the Korean multicenter birth cohort study (Mothers and Children Environmental Health, MOCEH). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Population-based cross-sectional study of subjects aged 40 years or more. (lww.com)
  • 8 - 11 ] The Chennai glaucoma study (CGS) is a population-based cross-sectional study in a rural and an urban south Indian population aged ≥40 years. (lww.com)
  • The Denver Health and Hospital Authority is an urban "safety net" system that serves 150,000 patients annually, of which 78% are minorities and 50% do not have health insurance 15 . (jrheum.org)
  • In June, a south suburban Denver fire district filed suit against the urban renewal authority (URA) in Parker, Colorado over the diversion of property taxes to subsidize redevelopment projects. (i2i.org)
  • NUMBER 5 - REVISIONS TO HP 2000 BASELINE - JULY 1993 Introduction Healthy People 2000 (1) presents 523 specific (unduplicated) objectives and special population subobjectives to improve the health of Americans by the year 2000. (cdc.gov)
  • In seminars, workshops, and side events during the week, participants explored the causes, health impacts and possible solutions to inadequate sanitation that currently affects more than 2.6 billion people across the planet, kills over 5000 children daily, and causes the illnesses that fill half of the hospital beds in the developing world. (solutions-site.org)
  • To be eligible, subjects must be 55 years of age or over and have resided in Foshan for at least the past five years. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Within this paper it is possible to tell in relation to noise pollution, analyze the earlier information about music pollution in the areas, in addition to define the way it has impact on the health of often the citizens. (artech.se)
  • Nature walks, and even short visits to parks and woodlands within urban areas, have been found to boost creativity, mood, and sense of vitality. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Subjects were recruited prenatally from urban, inner-city areas of Cincinnati where there has been historically a high incidence of lead poisoning. (uc.edu)
  • CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of NCDs increased rapidly in China and was similar in urban and rural areas in 2018. (bvsalud.org)
  • This paper endeavours to characterise emergent issues and gaps in government institutional disaster management mechanisms for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in peri-urban areas. (iwaponline.com)
  • Emergent issues and gaps with regard to mechanisms for emergency sanitation in peri-urban areas have been characterised. (iwaponline.com)
  • Despite this, little effort has been made in conceptualising the issues in existing institutional and policy approaches to peri-urban WASH issues related to disaster management strategies for improved prevention, preparedness, and response in such areas. (iwaponline.com)
  • The so-called "treatment gap" (the percentage of people with epilepsy whose seizures are not being appropriately treated at a given point in time) is estimated to be 75% in low-income countries and substantially higher in rural areas than in urban areas. (who.int)
  • The prevalence of hypertension, for example, ranges from 10% to 40% in the urban areas of some African countries. (who.int)
  • this is why it is critical to take your pet to a hospital where trained nurses will continue to closely monitor your pet after anesthesia. (pethealthnetwork.com)
  • For example, the Esperanza Health Center in Philadelphia is staffed by Christian doctors, nurses, and social workers. (amazonaws.com)
  • in the 1930s, the hotel was briefly transformed into a hospital and health resort, and employees have since claimed to see visions of nurses moving corpses on gurneys along with the ghost of Theodora, a deceased cancer patient who frequented the resort for treatment. (maxim.com)
  • Health Sciences Lab 8:42-47. (cdc.gov)
  • In priority area 14 (Maternal and Infant Health), 11 subobjective baselines were revised to reflect a change in the method of tabulating births based on the race of the mother instead of the race of the child. (cdc.gov)
  • CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that implementing the DIP payment reform yields inconsistent consequences across different hospitals. (bvsalud.org)
  • This hypothesis is based on numerous studies showing that patients with limited health-related literacy more often report poorer health compared to persons with adequate health literacy 5 , 10 - 14 . (jrheum.org)
  • Pickering said that those hospitals serve a community that is older, poorer, sicker, and more dependent upon public insurance than others. (supertalk.fm)
  • Three thousand nine hundred and twenty-four rural subjects from 27 contiguous villages and 3850 urban subjects from five randomly selected divisions were studied. (lww.com)
  • Compared to those who walked through a well-trafficked urban area, participants in several studies who walked through a green space or a natural environment, such as an arboretum, were better able to focus and concentrate on a test of their working memory. (psychologytoday.com)
  • SETTING Four hospitals in the Minneapolis/St Paul metropolitan area. (bmj.com)
  • It is a case of Zambia's Kanyama peri-urban area and focuses on disaster management issues related to prevention, preparedness, and response. (iwaponline.com)
  • Prevalence of diagnosed COPD was estimated using the 2015 BRFSS survey, an annual state-based, random-digit-dialed cellular and landline telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized U.S. population aged ≥18 years § that is conducted by state health departments in collaboration with CDC. (cdc.gov)
  • Limited health literacy is also more prevalent among the elderly, persons with fewer years of schooling, and minorities 2 . (jrheum.org)
  • Fast-forward past twenty-plus years working with hospitals, health plans, clinicians, technology developers, consumer goods and electronics companies, financial services and non-profit organizations. (healthpopuli.com)
  • Serving its community for 29 years, the Vancouver office of Perkins+Will is a multi-disciplinary design firm known for design excellence and innovation, approaching the challenges of architectural, interior and urban design with a global vision and unmatched resources. (canadianinteriors.com)
  • But 20 years after this charter's inception, the need for health reforms convergence bringing medical schools on board is still in want. (edu.ph)
  • It is a prospective surveillance of SARI in 2 hospitals for 3 years. (123dok.net)
  • 5 years in urban settings was 21.9% for the 2009-2010 season and 25.6% for the 2011-2012 season. (who.int)
  • In my talk, I'll connect the dots between me-as-a-child in '67 Detroit to evolving as a health economist to work with clients on solutions underpinned by social determinants of health, to drive individual, population, and public health across America. (healthpopuli.com)
  • This emphasis on the sick largely ignored disease prevention, health promotion, community development and the social and economic determinants of health. (edu.ph)
  • The Songkhla registry, besides being hospital-based, has population-based cancer registration data available since 1990. (who.int)
  • The registry caters to cases registered are included in the estimation of the a mixed urban and rural population of about 1.1 survival probability. (who.int)
  • Diagnosed COPD was defined as an affirmative response to the question "Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional ever told you that you had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, emphysema, or chronic bronchitis? (cdc.gov)
  • 6. The dual epidemics of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are now the greatest challenge to public health and development in Africa. (who.int)
  • Listening to and working with all these stakeholders in health over two+ decades has offered me another kind of education. (healthpopuli.com)
  • Against this background and aware of the challenge of starting a new school with very limited resource, consultations between the community, the health professionals, and the academic stakeholders were initiated. (edu.ph)
  • What spheres of health-related practice need more nursing employees? (artech.se)
  • This prepared students to be specialists and to practice hospital medicine in urban centers. (edu.ph)
  • The authors assessed the sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value of this SQNS against the Brief Peripheral Neuropathy Screen (BPSN) in detecting HIV-associated sensory neuropathy in patients recruited from a rural and an urban hospital in Zambia. (bmj.com)
  • 77 patients (48 (62.3%) urban and 29 (37.7%) rural) were enrolled. (bmj.com)
  • We perform kidney/heart transplants in Manila, but 80% of the rural people of Western Mindanao have no health services). (edu.ph)
  • Changes in the prevalence of NCDs in rural were larger than those in urban. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 2004, the Mississippi Legislature passed the Rural Health Availability Act, which allowed rural hospitals to more easily serve their respective communities, but the hospitals are still subject to many financial hardships. (supertalk.fm)
  • Only five rural, publicly-owned hospitals are rated as "Excellent" or "Good. (supertalk.fm)
  • Five hundred and twenty-eight (216 males, 312 females, 781 eyes) rural subjects (13.5%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 12.4% to 14.6%) and 406 (197 males, 209 females, 604 eyes) urban subjects (10.5%, 95% CI 9.6-11.5%) had undergone cataract surgery. (lww.com)
  • In 30% of rural and 16% of urban subjects uncorrected refraction was the cause of visual impairment. (lww.com)
  • 1973. Atmospheric sulfur dioxide and sulfate: distribution of concentrations at urban and non-urban sites in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • 3) "Comprehensive medical rehabilitation hospital" means a general hospital that specializes in providing comprehensive medical rehabilitation services, including surgery and related ancillary services. (texas.gov)
  • 7) "Hospital" includes a general hospital and a special hospital. (texas.gov)
  • 9) "Pediatric and adolescent hospital" means a general hospital that specializes in providing services to children and adolescents, including surgery and related ancillary services. (texas.gov)
  • We extracted genomic DNA and subjected it to PCR screening that targeted the citrate synthase gene ( gltA ) of Rickettsia . (cdc.gov)
  • We subjected the positive samples to multiple-gene sequencing analysis targeting the 17-kDa common antigen ( htrA ), outer membrane protein A ( OmpA ), and outer membrane protein B ( OmpB ) genes using previously described primers (Appendix Table 2). (cdc.gov)
  • T in the IL1A gene and periodontitis in subjects from Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • The 1992 and 2003 US National Center for Education Statistics surveys indicate that about half the adults in the United States exhibit limited health literacy - i.e., they cannot obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions 1 . (jrheum.org)
  • 2) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services Commission. (texas.gov)
  • 2-a) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of state health services. (texas.gov)
  • 4) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services. (texas.gov)
  • 4-a) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission. (texas.gov)
  • When American Indians and Alaska Natives live far from reservations, they may have little to no access to IHS-funded services, given the comparatively small scope of the Urban Indian Health Program described later in this issue brief. (kff.org)
  • All of the volunteers were classed as workers who spent long hours outdoors in Beijing and were exposed to urban air pollution and environmental stress as well as seasonal changes in temperature and humidity from April to November. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • Targeting LEED Gold status, St. Mary's Hospital is pushing the environmental envelope as well: the entire site is targeting net carbon reduction through the use of a geo-exchange system, a high-performance envelope, a photovoltaic array and passive design strategies, such as the use of solar shading and operable windows that allow for natural ventilation. (canadianinteriors.com)
  • Two urban, academically affiliated hospitals in Philadelphia, Pa. (nih.gov)
  • Health literacy was independently associated with the extent of discrepancy between PTGA and MDGA in English-speaking patients with RA at an urban clinic. (jrheum.org)
  • As minority patients are more likely to be recruited for research trials 3 , understanding the influence of health literacy on disease assessment is critical. (jrheum.org)
  • We hypothesized that patients with RA in an urban medical system demonstrate low levels of health literacy. (jrheum.org)
  • We further hypothesized that patients with RA who have low levels of health literacy assess their disease as more active and have a greater discrepancy with the provider assessment than patients with adequate health literacy. (jrheum.org)
  • To enroll subjects, our research assistant searched the daily clinic schedule and medical charts for adult patients with RA who self-identified English as their primary language. (jrheum.org)
  • SUBJECTS 682 hospital patients who had smoked more than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and had smoked in the last three months. (bmj.com)
  • Hospitals are widely accepted as environments full of stress not only for the patients but even for the workers who spent long hours there. (edu.al)
  • Students in teaching hospitals worked with patients suffering from complex medical problems. (edu.ph)
  • Consecutive new stroke patients seen at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Lokoja over a 3-month period were studied. (who.int)
  • When we think about health or oncology, we only think in a very technological operation," Forero told KAMR Local 4 News "We forget the little, simple things we can do to improve the outcome of the patients. (medscape.com)
  • The topics included manual scavenging, sanitation for the urban poor, financing of sanitation, and the effects that climate change could have on sanitation, among many other subjects. (solutions-site.org)
  • The founder of Sulabh Sanitation Movement in India, Dr. Pathak is known around the world for his wide-ranging work in the sanitation field to improve public health, advance social progress, and improve human rights in his home nation and other countries. (solutions-site.org)
  • As a matter of fact, safe water and sanitation go hand in hand for improvement of community health. (solutions-site.org)
  • We used validated instruments [Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA) and Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM)] and linear regression to determine whether health literacy predicts disease measure discrepancy. (jrheum.org)
  • It is unclear whether the use of dietary supplements affects the health of the Chinese adults. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 1989. Health effects of air pollutants: Sulfuric acid, the old and the new. (cdc.gov)
  • Central to the design of the lobby was the creation of a new public room for the community, the recognition of the many donors who contributed to the project, and the inclusion of artwork - such as a mural that welcomes visitors to the hospital and spans the entire 70-foot-long lobby - created by members of the Sechelt Indian Band, who also donated the land for the hospital. (canadianinteriors.com)
  • Today hospitals with names like Holy Family Medical Center routinely abort babies in the same wards that once echoed with the cries of newborns. (amazonaws.com)
  • These three hospitals were similar in size and types of medical treatments provided. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Additionally, SLU Hospital employees will become SSM employees. (nextstl.com)