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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Health benefit"”.
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Methods, Tools, and Data to Facilitate Development and Implementation of Essential Health Benefit Packages
Essential Health Benefit Packages (EHBPs) are a key implementation strategy for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). EHBP determines entitlement, reallocates resources, guides budgeting, influences service delivery, generates demand, and reduces service fees. Despite countries' interest in …
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Improving the Health Benefit of Broccoli by Maximizing Sulforaphane Formation: A Role for Epithiospecifier Protein
The isothiocyanate sulforaphane is a potent anticarcinogen derived from broccoli. For sulforaphane to be formed, fresh broccoli tissue must be crushed, allowing the myrosinase-catalyzed hydrolysis of the glucosinolate precursor, glucoraphanin. A common assumption has been that sulforaphane is the …
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Parental Awareness, Consumption And Feeding Practices Of Functional Foods
Functional foods are believed to improve overall health and well-being and reduce the risk of specific diseases. Research has examined adult awareness and consumption of functional foods. However, research on whether parental awareness and consumption of functional foods results in feeding their …
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Physical activity and its association with selected dietary behaviors
… standard for physical activity sufficient for a health benefit. Physical activity was not significantly related to increased fruit and vegetable consumption, decreased dietary fat and calorie intake, and participants acquiring new nutrition skills. Physical activity was negatively associated with …
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Field evaluation and health assessment of air cleaners in removing radon decay products in domestic environments
… lungs are recognized as producing a significant health risk. Air cleaners are one of the mitigative methods that remove radon decay products rather than radon itself. Currently, there are still uncertainties about the health benefit of air cleaners. Therefore, a better understanding of how air …
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Bifidobacterial enzymic transformation of isoflavones, their bioavailability and effects on disease risk biomarkers in postmenopausal women
… into fermented milk products to enhance their health benefit. Postmenopausal women, who are associated with high rates of chronic disease due to ovarian failure and subsequent diminishing oestrogen levels, are seeking natural alternatives to oestrogen and hormone replacement therapy due to its …
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The Gendered Effects of Marriage on Health in Japan: Structure, Role Expectations, and Outcomes
One of the most robust findings in health literature is the association between marital status and health. A growing body of research in the United States has shown that married individuals are healthier than their single counterparts. The gender difference in the health benefit of marriage, …
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Probiotic therapy for heart failure: Investigating the potential anti-hypertrophic properties of probiotics
… when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host. Considering the established cardiovascular benefits of some probiotics, including reduction of cholesterol and hypertension, it was hypothesized that probiotics can improve outcomes of heart failure. Probiotics or …
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Social Support And Health Outcomes In Adolescents Experiencing Homelessness And Poverty: A Test Of The Main Effect And Stress-Buffering Hypotheses
<p>The health benefit and stress-buffering effects of social support were examined. Homeless (N=250) and housed (N=148) adolescents were assessed in adolescence and again in early adulthood, providing longitudinal data to help understand how these social constructs may change and influence health. …
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Biological effects of bioactive components and extracts derived from edible plants commonly used in human nutrition
… to a better understanding of the potential health benefit of plant foods.
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Mandating the HPV Vaccine as a School-Entry Requirement: Ethical and Policy Considerations
… with the HPV vaccine that our nation's public health officials have yet to encounter in any other vaccine, prompting a re-evaluation of the proper role of vaccine mandates. This thesis evaluates what makes the HPV vaccine different from previously mandated vaccines, offering an analysis of the …
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Measuring The Effect Of Weighted Devices On Exercise Enjoyment
<p>Physical activity provides an important health benefit for both males and females. Seven out of every ten U.S. deaths are from chronic disease and many of those deaths could have been preventable. With a lack of physical activity and poor diet, chronic illnesses such as obesity, cancer, …
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Remodeling urban fitness trails to engaging and healthy public spaces for all
… physical activities as a means to improve public health, the Chinese government proposed the National Fitness Program and put it into practice. One significant approach applied by the program is to build “fitness trails” in available public spaces for nearby residents. However, these trails, …
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The evolution of virulence in Candida auris determined through experimental, ecological and epidemiological approaches
… infection in Japan in 2008 to a global public health threat featuring the spread of six clades across six continents. Major problems concerning its management include: (i) propensity to cause invasive human infec- tion, especially in critically unwell patients, with an associated mor- tality of …
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Relationships between circadian rhythms, timing of eating behaviors, and the human gastrointestinal microbiota
… in which we live, no avenue for potentially health-promoting intervention should be ignored. One such avenue that has gained recent attention is the modulation of the gastrointestinal microbiota. Microbiota interventions have come into the spotlight because of the proposed relationships …
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Modeling Physical Activity in Working Adults: How Suitable Is the Expanded Parallel Process Model?
… Expanded Parallel Process Model in predicting health enhancing physical activity as an outcome variable. The theory is tested in the context of risk for coronary heart disease and involves secondary analyses of a dataset from a group of working adults. These individuals had elected first to …
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Essays on Immigrant Mental Health: A Look at Health Reporting, Model Identification, and Policy Changes
… country, immigrants are, on average, physically healthier than the native-born population; however, it is unclear whether this health benefit extends to mental health or whether it applies to recent immigrant cohorts. This thesis seeks to understand the healthy immigrant effect with regards to …
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Using Probiotics in Intensive Care with Special Reference to Lactobacillus plantarum 299 and 299v
Probiotics are Live microorganisms that confer a health benefit on the host. The composition of the microflora in the gastrointestinal tract is rather constant in healthy subjects, but is easily disturbed by severe illness and the use of antibiotics. The intestinal barrier that separates the …
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