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Showing 1 to 20 of 345 for “"Preventive Medicine"”.
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Predictive Modelling Approach to Data-Driven Computational Preventive Medicine
… approaches to data-driven computational preventive medicine and offers an alternative framework to statistical analysis in preventive medicine research. In the early parts of this research, this thesis presents research by proposing a synergy of machine learning methods for detecting …
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The Ethical Justification of Increasing Awareness of Preventive Medicine among Healthcare Professionals, Patients and the General Public in the United States
<p>While practiced for centuries, preventive medicine has received increased attention during the recent times. Preventive medicine has a distinct mission to protect, promote, and maintain health as well as to prevent diseases, disabilities, and premature deaths. It aims to fulfill its mission …
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Frequency-Domain Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the Human Brain
… may be for general health knowledge and preventive medicine.
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Personality analysis from the clinical point of view
… individuals. Along with the new interest in preventive medicine, the psychologically trained physician is giving serious thought to the prevention of behaviour disorders. The psychiatrist gets results in this field because he has been taught to interpret human conduct as an integrated whole …
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Healthcare Agents: Large Language Models in Health Prediction and Decision-Making
… agents in healthcare systems, advancing both preventive medicine through continuous health monitoring and clinical decision support through distributed AI reasoning.
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The impact of pre-treatment identification of personality style and personality disorder symptoms on psychotherapy outcomes in a training clinic
… results appeared to be beneficial from a preventive medicine perspective; however, more methodologically rigorous investigations need to be conducted before anything definitive can be deduced.</p>
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Students' knowledge about tobacco one year after receiving the PAL smoking prevention program
… than any other single action in the field of preventive medicine. In Ontario, since 1989, both Public Health Units and Boards ofEducations have been mandated to provide educational studies related to tobacco use prevention. Even given this fact, there has been an increase in smoking behaviQurs …
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Perspectives on health care choices: women users, service providers, and community leaders in Appalachia
… proposals advocate Primary Health Care (PHC) and preventive medicine as an efficacious way to control health care costs in the United States. This study examined a community in rural, southwest Virginia and evaluated the potential for PHC success. The study used focus groups to determine how Women …
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Helicobacter pylori and its Association with Gastric and Oesophageal Carcinomas
… case-control studies were performed in the Malmö Preventive Medicine cohort consisting of 32,906 subjects. Tumour cases were identified by the Swedish National Cancer Registry. H. pylori infection was identified serologically by an in-house ELISA and a commercial Western blot method, Helicoblot …
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Clinical and epidemiologic aspects of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Special emphasis on cardiovascular outcome and risk factors
… of RA, we used two large surveys, the Malmö Preventive Medicine Program and the Malmö Diet Cancer Study. Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the two community based RA cohorts was increased compared to the background population. Treatment with adalimumab was associated with decreased …
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Utilising active play interventions to improve physical activity and fundamental movement skills in children
… pragmatic evaluation (chapter 5- published in Preventive Medicine Reports) aimed to determine the effect of participating in Active Play on school day physical activity, the proportion of time spent in MVPA during a typical session and FMS. The pragmatic evaluation was used to inform a …
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Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Postmenopausal Women
… non smoking postmenopausal women who completed a preventive medicine physical examination, in the Aerobic Center Longitudinal Study between 1987 and 1995, were examined. Cardiorespiratory fitness was determined by total treadmill time to exhaustion on a graded exercise test, CVD risk factors were …
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Hormonal factors in rheumatoid arthritis – Their impact on disease risk and severity
… in Malmö between 1974 and 1992 (Malmö preventive medicine programme, (MPMP)) and 1991-1996 (Malmö diet and cancer study (MDCS), respectively). Participants answered a questionnaire and blood samples were collected. We identified incident cases of RA by linking the cohorts to four …
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Lead poisoning: with special reference to renal and vascular symptoms
… importance, not only from the point of view of preventive medicine, but from the point of view of the general practitioner and the community at large whom he serves. Lead enters very intimately into industrial and domestic life. Apart from the smelting of the metal itself, and from the …
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Acceptance and utilisation of primary health care in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia
… co-exist and compete, and where traditional medicine is still used and practised. A sample comprising both utilisers of the PHC centres and non- utilisers were questioned about their health practices, beliefs and attitudes, and an attempt was made to determine whether socio- economic and …
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Adventist Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of 19th Century Founding Governing Principles in 21st Century Adventist Hospitals
… visions on health: (a) health education and preventive medicine, (b) healthcare for Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) members, (c) indirect witnessing to non-believers patients, (d) sustain financial and administration model despite attention to all social classes, (e) unwavering biblical …
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Non-Contact Sleep Monitoring
"The road ahead for preventive medicine seems clear. It is the delivery of high quality, personalised (as opposed to depersonalised) comprehensive medical care to all." Burney, Steiger, and Georges (1964) This world's population is ageing, and this is set to intensify over the next forty years. …
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Understanding health risk factor prevalence and enhancing health behaviours of airline pilots
… with NCD risk reduction. Although occupational preventive medicine research is increasing, airline pilots are largely underrepresented in the literature. Through a series of seven studies, this PhD thesis aimed to enhance the understanding of modifiable health risk factor status for airline …
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NUTRACEUTICALS FOR ONE HEALTH
… and that in the past, veterinary and human medicine have promoted the massive and improper use of antibiotics, the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance has become a global problem (GBD 2021 Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators, 2024). For these reasons, the concept of health is not limited …
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Supporting men who use anabolic steroids: A sequential multi-methods study
Background An increasing amount of research exploring use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) has been undertaken over the past three decades and, in recent years, there has been a growing awareness of this form of substance use on a societal level and as a public health problem in the UK. …
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