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Showing 1 to 20 of 426 for “"Health Risk"”.
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Employee wellness, health risk assessment, modifiable health risk, PEN-3 model, worksite culture, worksite envirmonent
<p>This study used an online Health Risk Appraisal (HRA) to assess individual employee health and eight additional statements to assess the worksite health "culture" of Eastern Michigan University. It was hypothesized there will be a relationship between EMU employees’ levels of self-reported …
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Adolescent Health Care and Health Risk Screenings
It is well documented that adolescents are at risk for participating in high-risk health concerns. Few studies have examined health risk factors that are screened for by health care providers. The objective of this study was: to identify the high-risk health factors that were being screened for, …
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Exploring socio-affective mental health risk factors in adolescence
… the psychological and social processes in mental health disorders; in particular the socio-cognitive affective processing in depression across the lifespan. Depression risk is prevalent amongst adolescents, and there has been considerable research interest focusing on building a clear profile of …
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Essays on the Economics of Environmental and Health Risk
Individuals face many types of risk, including to their property, finances, and health. In this thesis, I study a variety of strategies for mitigating those risks, in the context of health shocks and natural disasters. In the health context, risk of disease onset is mitigated in some cases with …
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AMBIGUITY AND ANXIETY IN THE PROCESSING OF HEALTH RISK MESSAGES
… at the effects of manipulating the ambiguity of health risk messages on worry and perceived susceptibility. In view of literature that indicates robust emotion-congruent effects of anxiety on the interpretation of ambiguous information, a procedure was used to manipulate levels of state-anxiety …
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Wellness Characteristics and Health Risk Behaviors of Young Adult University Students
… of this study was to examine wellness and health risk behaviors of young adults at a university in the southwest. Nutrition, physical activity, alcohol use, and safe sexual practices are high priority health concerns on college campuses. Health promotion is integral to nursing. Early …
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Health risk perception of Karoo residents related to fracking, South Africa
… to increasing evidence of the environmental and health risks fracking poses. However, experts favouring fracking propose this technology as a greener alternative to conventional energy sources such as coal. Limited scientific evidence is available internationally related to knowledge and risk …
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Relationship of health risk behaviors to stress and depression in U.S. workers
Organizations have found that mental health conditions, more specifically stress and depression to be major contributing factors for the increase in employer health care costs. Stressed and depressed employees have been identified as having the highest correlation with higher heath care costs than …
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Bio-terrorism: steps to effective public health risk communication and fear management
… gap exists in the preparedness of the public health system to respond to terrorism: risk communication. Unless this system is better structured to provide American citizens with a clear understanding of the potential risks and hazards associated with a terrorist event -- particularly a …
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Understanding health risk factor prevalence and enhancing health behaviours of airline pilots
… non-communicable diseases (NCD) and their major risk factors are associated with adverse acute and chronic health outcomes and may pose risks to flight safety and economic burden. Restorative sleep, healthy nutrition, and sufficient physical activity are powerful lifestyle behaviours that are …
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MACT Implementation at an Organic Chemical Manufacturing Facility: Human Health Risk Reduction
<p>Human health risk assessments are used by environmental regulatory agencies to determine risk from Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs). In this study, the Human Exposure Model (HEM-3) was used to compare the cancer and non-cancer inhalation health effects of a single organic chemical manufacturing …
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Latent Class Analysis of Health Risk Behaviors Among Survivors of Childhood Adversities
This study examined the clustering of health risk behaviors among young adults who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACE). Data were collected from young adults attending a four-year university in the Midwest using online surveys. Results from a Latent Class Analysis (LCA) indicated …
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Relationship of health risk behaviors to stress and depression in U.S. workers
Organizations have found that mental health conditions, more specifically stress and depression to be major contributing factors for the increase in employer health care costs. Stressed and depressed employees have been identified as having the highest correlation with higher heath care costs than …
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Investigating the role of human genomewide heterozygosity as a health risk factor
… investigate whether IGWH can be considered as a health risk factor or a protective factor in humans. Methods This study was based on two samples from isolated communities of Croatian Adriatic islands, with a total of 1,930 adult examinees from Islands of Vis (N=986) and Korcula (N=944). Examinees …
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Reducing Substance Use with Implementation Intentions: A Treatment for Health Risk Behaviors
… automatized behaviors with negative long-term health consequences need effective interventions to promote change towards more healthful behaviors. Implementation intentions, the structured linking of critical situations and alternative, healthier responses, have been shown to improve …
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PREDICTIVE ABILITY OF A 3D BODY SCANNING MOBILE APPLICATION FOR METABOLIC HEALTH RISK
… in the reception of primary care. Limitations to healthcare including access, cost, and availability, highlighting the need for simple, efficient, and accessible cardiometabolic health risk screening. Given the surge in smartphone ownership over the last decade, this study sought to determine the …
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The relationship between participation in organized church youth activities and health risk behaviors
… church youth activities and selected adolescent health risk behaviors. The sample used for the study included 72 youths representing eight Episcopal churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. The survey instrument included 95 items: 83 questions from the 1999 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance …
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An investigation of prosocial and health risk behaviors as predictors of academic motivation
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