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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Dimensions of health"”.
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Social support among mothers of infants who were hospitalized for an extended period from birth
… technology have influenced the population of infants currently receiving care in neonatal intensive care units. The survival rate of infants who are severely disabled or critically ill has increased. Consequently, the care of infants with special needs has become both more complex and …
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The Capacity of a Southern University to Promote and Support Health Literacy Among College Students: A Case Study Approach
<p>The primary purpose of this case study was to determine if the university under study had adequate health-related programs, services, and supports in place to develop health-literate young adults. A secondary purpose was to identify strengths and gaps in these university health-related programs, …
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Critiquing Economic Frameworks in Sustainable Development: Health Equity, Resource Management and Materialism
… to three topics in sustainable development: health equity, sustainable non-renewable resource management and development approaches. The themes of the three papers are as follows: Political Dimensions of Health Equity in Mozambique - In order to promote equity in health, analysis should look …
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences of Adult Thermal Burn Survivors: The Navigation Toward Recovery and Health
Burn injury impacts the lives of over 1.1 million people within the United States annually (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, 2011). Taking into account current advancements in burn trauma care, approximately 95 percent of those hospitalized will survive their injuries. With increased …
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Health discrepancies and marital satisfaction in older couples
… marital satisfaction has been robustly linked to health, and well-being. However, health discrepancy between romantic partners and how such differences in health may be linked to marital satisfaction has received far less attention. The current study extends previous research by examining the …
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Pharmacy Internet Navigation Skills in Older Adults with HIV Disease: Influence of Health Literacy and Association with Medication Management
A large portion of health-based Internet use for persons with HIV is focused on online pharmacies, which can provide a more anonymous, cheaper and easier alternative to purchasing medications. Pharmacy Internet navigation skills (INS) are an important component of successful online pharmacy use in …
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Health Promoting Leadership in a Virtual Context
Organisational leadership is regarded as one of the most important aspects of the workplace as it has been linked to productivity and efficiency and significantly influences employee health and well-being. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the shift to virtual work has shifted job demands and often …
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Implications of Normative Choices in Rating and Preference-Based Approaches to Valuing Health Outcomes
Governments and health systems allocate limited healthcare resources informed by standardized measures of health-related quality of life to compare the value of different treatments. The processes of determining these values and translating subjective human experiences into scores to inform policy …
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Essays on Health Economics
This thesis consists of three chapters on health economics. The first chapter attempts to offer evidence that consumers learn about the characteristics of their health insurance plans, using data from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. A participation incentive payment was offered by the …
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Re-weighting the Quality of Well-Being Scale and assessment of self-reported health status in Chinese Americans.
… by Hispanics. Little is known about their health state preferences or their health status. The purpose of this research was to determine whether a Chinese-American population has different preference values on four dimensions of health status than a general community sample in the United …
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Grounded Theory Approach to Examine Trust, Innovation, and Resiliency in Health Security Leadership
… COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical weaknesses in health security leadership. Approximately 40 million Americans lost their local public health leaders due to political interference, threats, and untenable working conditions. This exodus revealed a fundamental gap in understanding how effective …
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The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts: The Social Support Exchange Process
… that yields many psychological and physiological health benefits. The goal of this study was to examine the effects of the support exchange process from a dyadic perspective on health outcomes and to investigate the extent that gender and relationship characteristics influence the support process …
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Health Behavior among College Students: Assessing Help-Seeking Behaviors in University Wellness Center Clients
Researchers have noted that 70% of diseases are preventable (Ballard et al., 2007) yet few individuals use preventive services (Wang et al., 2005). The purpose of this study was to examine differences between students who seek preventive services at a university wellness center and those who do not …
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From effects to affect: the multidimensional impact of dancing with Parkinson’s
… condition characterized by a variety of motor and non-motor symptoms that can lead to increasing disability and complex psychosocial challenges. While medical treatments can help people living with Parkinson’s to manage symptoms, they do not fully address many challenges associated …
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The Ethical Significance of the Virtuous Organization Inspired by Catholic Mission for the Delivery of Health Care
… secular components essential to the character of a virtuous organization: agency, social responsibility and ethical environment. When Catholic mission is the impetus to organizational purpose, the secular components of the virtuous organization are deepened from that faith perspective's mission …
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Male Arab-Muslims Health and Health Promotion Perceptions and Practices
The Arab Muslim population is one of the dramatically increasing minorities in the United States. In addition to other factors, gender, religion and cultural background influence individuals' beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes to health and illness. Little is known about Arab American male …
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Health and disease in two villages in South-Eastern Lesotho : a social anthropological perspective
… and mortality data identify major disease and health trends for large populations. It is also well known that high infant mortality rates, high incidence of infectious fevers, as well as the variety of diseases commonly associated with malnutrition, are correlated with social conditions of …
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Patient-centred communication and patient education: a multimodal social semiotic approach
… approach This study explores the phenomenon of patient-centred communication within the South African health context. Patient-centred communication involves several distinct but interlinked elements, namely, taking a holistic approach to illness, 'seeing' through the patient's eyes, …
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A socio-cultural study investigating the influences on food and lifestyle choices, and the cultural transition, of British Bangladeshis living in Tower Hamlets East London
The prevalence of obesity and Type 2 diabetes is increasing world-wide being most evident in non-industrialised populations, and in deprived communities and minority ethnic groups, residing in the "affluent west". In the UK, the South Asian population, and in particular the Bangladeshi community, …
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A Comparison of Self-Esteem and Health Locus of Control in Adolescents with Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
… descriptive survey establishing a baseline level of self-esteem and health locus of control in insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) adolescents. The purpose of the research was to study and describe health behaviors of IDDM adolescents in regards to self-concept and health locus of control. …
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