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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Health costs"”.
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Estimating environmental and human health benefits of reducing pesticide use through integrated pest management programs
… - reductions in the environmental and human health costs of pesticide use. A methodology is developed to estimate the environmental and human health costs of pesticide use associated with the production of any crop. The cost estimates for production under "conventional" (i.e. non-IPM) pest …
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A trial evaluation of the participatory action oriented training programme in small and medium scale enterprises in Vietnam
… of the world. Seeking better ways to improve health and safety in SMEs is a key target for national authorities and international agencies. This study aims to apply and evaluate the effectiveness of an occupational health training method called ‘Participatory Action Oriented Training’ (PAOT); …
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OMB Circular No. A-76 : efficiency review : and performance measurement of the Department of Defense health care delivery system
… and organizational efficiency. The Military Health Services System (MHSS) has been notorious for its assumed inefficiency. This apparent "waste" gets attention when health costs go up as productivity trends downward when measured by the Composite Work Unit (CWU) . This thesis examines the CWU …
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Mental Health and Victimization Experiences in Fibromyalgia: A Literature Review
… with financial, emotional, interpersonal, and health costs that can affect not only the person diagnosed, but his or her family and friends. Presently, the etiology of FM is largely unknown and there is no definitive cure. Researchers have identified several possible contributing factors in the …
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Health care system in China
The Chinese health care system is presented in this thesis. In the past ten years, the Chinese health care system has drawn the attention of interested people. However, most studies explored the system in limited aspects. They do not take into account the Chinese health care system as a whole. This …
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Women Living with HIV/AIDS and Disclosure
… access and retention in care, and optimize health care outcomes potentially lowering health costs and producing a healthier patient population.</p>
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Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
Cities today face growing environmental and health threats due to climate change. Building urban resilience requires understanding the complex interplays between environmental and social systems that account for adaptation dynamics. Using new data, computational tools, and economic analysis, this …
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The Role of Distress Tolerance and Emotion Regulation in the Health Risk Behaviors of College Students with and without ADHD
… period associated with increased engagement in health risk behaviors, particularly in college students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a disorder characterized by low distress tolerance and significant difficulty managing emotions. However, research has not examined how …
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Essays on Industrial Pollution, Regulation, and Health
… pollution and environmental regulation on health outcomes and health-improving behaviors. It draws on quasi-experimental variation from two distinct settings to evaluate the consequences of pollution exposure and the potential for regulatory interventions to mitigate these health costs. …
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Surviving and thriving in work with mental health conditions – refocusing counselling psychology?
Background and Aim Mental health costs UK businesses billions of pounds each year through high levels of absence and presenteeism. Despite improved interventions around enabling people with mental health conditions back into and remaining in work through Supported Employment, the figures around …
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Public health impacts of excess NOx̳ emissions from Volkswagen diesel passenger vehicles in Germany
… of 0.18 g.km-1 . This thesis estimates the human health impacts and costs associated with excess emissions from VW cars driven in Germany. A distribution of on-road emissions factors is derived from existing measurements and combined with sales data and a vehicle fleet model to estimate total …
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Representations of obesity in national newspapers: A comparative study between China and Australia
… demonstrates that obesity is a major global health problem. It is critical to examine how print media represent obesity because they influence public understanding of the problem. It is also essential to determine ways to improve health journalism and health outcomes. While there is a …
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Implementing and evaluating a weight reduction program for diabetic patients at a primary health care facility in the Western Cape
… disability, reduced life expectancy and enormous health costs for virtually every society. Medical Nutrition Therapy is important for the prevention, treatment, self-management of diabetes and the prevention or delay in onset of diabetes-related complications. The current nutritional guidelines …
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Institutional perspectives on road pricing : essays on implementation, response, and adaptation
… road users a fee for the external social costs of using private vehicles. These costs typically remain unaccounted for in routine road transport operations and benefit-cost analyses. They include the costs of travel delays for other road users due to congestion, the costs of air pollution …
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Ethical Decision-Making among Critical Care Unit Nurses
The health care business has created complex relationships between consumers and health care institutions. Rising health costs, rationing of health care and medical technology have put critical care unit (CCU) nurses in complex environments where they must face ethical conflict. CCU nurses find …
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Complexities and comorbidities in patients with chronic non-cancer pain: Suicidal behaviours and pharmaceutical opioid use
… and community in terms of social, financial and health costs. To date, research has been limited in a number of areas, including the association of CNCP with suicidality, the nature of pharmaceutical opioid use in people living with CNCP, the prevalence of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in …
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Relations Between Alcohol Use And Migraine Among Young Adults
… economic, social, physical and psychological health costs. Many environmental and physiological factors have been shown to precipitate migraine, including stress, hormonal fluctuations (in women), weather events, and changes in sleep and eating habits. In retrospective studies, a sizeable …
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Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Model to Estimate Exposure to Campylobacter from Consumption of Chicken in the United States
Public health costs of foodborne campylobacteriosis are estimated to cost more than a billion dollars in the United States annually. This pathogen has been primarily associated with chicken production and processing which is a ~$33 billion industry. To further identify practices that could reduce …
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UN MODELLO DI RETE PER LA GESTIONE INTEGRATA DELLA PATOLOGIA DIABETICA
… (approved for funding by the Italian Ministry of Health) has been designed to evaluate an innovative care model for diabetes, based on the Outpatient Day Service (ODS), in term of quality of healthcare, compliance, social and health costs and patient's quality of life and satisfaction. We enrolled …
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Substance Abuse Treatment Avoidance, Length of Stay, and Criminal Justice Referral For Women of Reproductive Age In South Carolina Prior to and After theWhitner Decision (1993 to 2007)
… abuse treatment for women reduces related health costs. Punitive state legal responses to maternal substance use may serve as a barrier for women seeking treatment. South Carolina has had the most punitive substance abuse law for women in the nation since the <em>Whitner v. State</em> …
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