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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Consumer Health"”.
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Nutrition labelling of food to promote consumer health in transitional Thailand
… diseases (NCDs) that are now major public health problems. Interest in this nutrition transition of changing environment, diet, and lifestyle generated the nutrition labelling research conducted for this thesis. Thai nutrition labelling aims to promote healthier eating among consumers. The …
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Nutrition labelling of food to promote consumer health in transitional Thailand
… diseases (NCDs) that are now major public health problems. Interest in this nutrition transition of changing environment, diet, and lifestyle generated the nutrition labelling research conducted for this thesis. Thai nutrition labelling aims to promote healthier eating among consumers. The …
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UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION USE IN ONLINE CONSUMER-HEALTH SUPPORT GROUPS: A LOOK INTO INTERACTIVE HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS
<p>UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION USE IN ONLINE CONSUMER HEALTH SUPPORT GROUPS: A LOOK INTO INTERACTIVE HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS</p> <p> The exponential growth of the Internet in the past two decades has been accompanied by an increased interest by Internet users in communicating among each other …
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The Public Library as Health Information Resource?
… institutions, often serving people with limited health care access. Thus, by public demand they have evolved to become important resources for rural health consumers to acquire information. Some public libraries have approached this role by subscribing to health databases, or by providing a link …
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Effects of a Medicare, Medicaid and Private Health Insurance Program on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Elderly Citizens
… of the University of Illinois' Medicare-Medicaid Consumer Health Information Education Program developed for elderly citizens in two Cooperative Extension regions in North Central and Southern Illinois. Another purpose was to devise a valid and reliable instrument for assessing elderly citizens …
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Health information on the Internet : strategies for assessing consumer needs and improving consumer information retrieval
… are increasingly turning to the Internet for health information. However, the search strategies consumers are using to obtain information are often unsuccessful. Since some patients are using the information they obtain to influence health decisions, it is increasingly important to identify …
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A Comprehensive Health Education Curriculum for Junior High School
… this field report is to present a comprehensive health education curriculum for junior high school. Procedure. The curriculum content identified and organized in the comprehensive health education curriculum was synthesized after reviewing varied types of references: school curriculum guides - …
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Explorations of Perceived Product Efficacy
… efficacy. The current research shows that consumers make biased duration judgments of product efficacy: consumers make shorter (vs. longer) duration judgments when they perceive a concurrent task to be relatively difficult (vs. easy). The effect of perceived task difficulty on duration …
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Optical characterization of emulsions and applications in the dairy industry
… therefore essential as it directly affects human health and wellbeing. The present thesis discusses work towards developing analytical technologies and methods for the dairy industry in India, to improve product safety and quality and eventually consumer health. A user-centric product design and …
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Healing the Work Place: Wellness Initiative Programs for the City of Marietta.
Due to the increase in health care costs and its impact on both employers and employees, the City of Marietta is interested in the wellness programs and how it can be implemented because they serve as good alternatives to reducing health care costs. Thus my main project is to research on the …
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Investigating change in toxic algae in Scottish coastal waters
… occurrence has the potential to better protect consumer health from contaminated shellfish and the aquaculture industry from financial losses through site closures and/or product toxicity. In this PhD project, the ecology of toxin-producing taxa and impacts of environmental parameters on them …
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Consumer Adoption of Health Information Systems
… nearly 18 percent of the country's GDP, the U.S. healthcare industry continues to wrestle with growing cost and a quality of care that does not match the increased spending. The dominant focus to date has been on promoting Health IT (HIT) system implementation and digitizing health records at the …
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Análise comparativa da qualidade nutricional de ricotas tradicional, light e orgânica vendidas em João Pessoa
… and high fat content, What confers a risk to consumer health seeking th e output in ricotta cheese to fit your nutritional needs, without, in any way, confer risk your health by high intake of saturated fat.
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Análise das condições microbiológicas de queijos minas frescal vendidos em João Pessoa-PB
… characteristics and represent a risk to public health. The legislation for this cheese is deficient for not having a more defined technical regulation, not to have more precise information regarding the composition, classification, hygiene requirements, standards of bottling and labeling, due to …
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Advancing Potable Water Infrastructure through an Improved Understanding of Polymer Pipe Oxidation, Polymer–Contaminant Interactions, and Consumer Perception of Taste
… has focused on removing acute and chronic health threats from water, substantially less study has focused on potable water infrastructure and water quality deterioration, monitoring technologies, and relationships between water taste and consumer health. These knowledge–gaps have left …
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A Lexi-ontological Resource for Consumer Healthcare: The Italian Consumer Medical Vocabulary
In the era of Consumer Health Informatics, healthcare consumers and patients play an active role because they increasingly explore health related information sources on their own, and they become more responsible for their personal healthcare, trying to find information on the web, consulting …
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Designing technologies for exposure to diverse opinions
… insights on the selective exposure bias in consumer health information seeking, and an exploration of group selective exposure and its implication for social technology design. Perhaps most importantly, the dissertation pinpoints several directions in which selective exposure theories can be …
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Emotional Certainty and Health Communications
… as an important emotional dimension that affects health message processing and persuasion. Specifically, I suggest that emotions high on certainty appraisal can provide confidence to cope with the insecurity instigated by threatening health communications. Five studies are proposed to demonstrate …
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Emotional Reasoning and Decision Making: understanding and regulating emotions that serve people's goals
Increasing physical activity and adopting a healthy diet have the goal to enhance consumer welfare. The goal of this set of studies is to contribute to a research agenda that tries to support and enhance the life of consumers, through the exploration of emotional intelligence as a new possible …
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Efficient, robust and uncertainty aware mobile health
… various mobile applications, including health monitoring. As the difference between consumer health wearables and medical devices begins to soften, it is now common for a single wearable device to monitor a range of medical risk factors. Potentially, these devices could give patients …
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