health based Articles
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Health-related quality of life and recognition of desertification among inhabitants of the Loess Plateau region of China: findings for city and village communities
This article elucidates the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) the recognition of desertification among people living in the semi-arid Loess Plateau of China. HRQOL was assessed with a three-dimensional survey of general health perception, vitality, and general mental health based on a 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). Scores for general health perception were approximately the same ...
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Derivation of Human Health‐Based Ambient Water Quality Criteria: A Consideration of Conservatism and Protectiveness Goals
Under the terms of the Clean Water Act, criteria for the protection of human health [Human Health Ambient Water Quality Criteria (HHWQC)] are traditionally derived using United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)‐recommended equations that include parameters for exposure assessment. To derive “adequately protective” HHWQC, USEPA proposes the use of default values for these ...
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Report of racial and digital disparities in web-based health information
The objective of this study was to examine how racial and ethnic characteristics are associated with access to computers, the internet and online health information. Using stratified survey data and binary logistic regression, we examine the persistence of the digital divide and implications for digitally underserved ...
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Managing personal medical knowledge: agent-based knowledge acquisition
Information that is available on the World Wide Web (WWW) is already more vast than can be comprehensibly studied by individuals and is increasing at a staggering pace. Health consumerism is fuelled by knowledgeable patients. A key to health consumerism is locating reliable health information on the WWW. Unfortunately, much health information on the web is of suspect quality. Differences between ...
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Innovations in primary care management: a Brazilian experience
Primary care (PC) is a form of organisation from the public health assistance structure that plays a key function for the local systems of healthcare, which guarantees the principles of the health system in Brazil. Based on the theories that sustain the concepts of innovation, this research has the main objective to identify the innovations which occur in the PC of the health system of Caxias do ...
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Economic Valuation of Health for Environmental Policy: Comparing Alternative Approaches. Introduction and Overview
Protecting human health is a primary goal of environmental policy and economic evaluation of health can help policy-makers judge the relative worth of alternative actions. Economists use two distinct approaches in normatively evaluating health. Whereas environmental economists use benefit-cost analysis supported by monetary valuation in terms of willingness-to-pay, health economists evaluate ...
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Global Water Research Council selects best bioanalysis tools for endocrine disrupting chemicals
The aim of this fact sheet is to review the methodology used to establish guideline values for inorganic and organic chemicals which may be found in drinking water. Such guidance is needed to assist the management of good water quality when the potential for adverse health effects, based on the intrinsic toxicity of the chemical, requires some quantitative description of limits which should be ...
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PCR assay targeting virulence genes of
Helicobacter pylori isolated from drinking water and clinical samples in Lahore metropolitan, PakistanHelicobacter pylorus is considered for chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers and adenocarcinoma and its high infection rate is observed in overcrowded and lower socioeconomic groups in developing countries. This study was designed to identify the role of drinking water in the transmission and prevalence of H. pylori (HP). Selective HP medium was developed for enrichment and presumptive identification ...
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Education’s Role in Fighting Infectious Diseases
Misinformation can have a profound impact on public health, experts say that education might be the key to combating it. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), immunization saves millions of lives each year. But given that many are still hesitant to get vaccinated for COVID-19, it is apparent that we are amidst an ‘infodemic’. “We’re not just battling ...
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Schistosome Vaccine, Schistoshield - Case Study
Schistosomiasis is a major neglected tropical disease (NTD) of public health concern to a billion people. Currently an estimated 200 million are infected and an additional an estimated 800 million people are at risk of acquiring this disease in 74 countries. The disease carries high morbidity. Revised estimates of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) and recent calculations based on ...
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Drawing into Bloodless Health Monitors
A team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley developed a wearable sensor to monitor an individual’s health based upon their sweat. The sensor is constructed as a patch with a spiral-patterned microfluidic component where sweat samples can flow and be analyzed.[1] It has shown potential for monitoring sodium and fluid loss, and in some cases potassium.[1] The team would ...
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5 key steps for employers to advance health equity
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Center for Health Justice (AAMC) recently created Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts. While this health equity solutions guide was created for doctors, hospitals, and other leaders in the healthcare space, its content has many important implications for employers as ...
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Development of an in vivo assay for detection of non-targeted radiation effects
An adaptive response may be defined as the effect of a small priming dose of radiation modifying the anticipated cellular response of the same tissues so as to alter the predicted response to a larger dose of radiation. We and many others have demonstrated that at low radiation doses (less than 0.5 Gy) the lethal and mutational effect of the radiation is mainly, possibly entirely, due to the ...
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Sight Diagnostics raises $71M Series D for its blood analyzer
Sight Diagnostics, the Israel-based health-tech company behind the FDA-cleared OLO blood analyzer, today announced that it has raised a $71 million Series D round with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies, Longliv Ventures (which led its Series C round) and crowd-funding platform OurCrowd. With this, the company has now raised a total of $124 million, though the company declined to ...
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Innovation Spotlight: Alucent Biomedical | Can we Make ‘Stents’ Obsolete?
As part of our ongoing Vascular Innovation Series in conjunction with The Way to My Heart, journalist Kym McNicholas interviewed Alucent Biomedical CEO, Dr. Myles Greenberg. Treatment for vascular blockages is getting a much-needed innovation makeover. Alucent’s first area of focus is one the most debilitating vascular diseases –peripheral artery disease, plaque build-up in mainly ...
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It’s time for the health care industry to raise its voice on climate change
It’s time for the health care industry to raise its voice on climate change The new Clean Power Plan, stunning in its audacity, will undoubtedly face many hurdles in the coming years. Yet already it has achieved something no other major climate initiative has been able to do. It has reframed the climate conversation to put the focus squarely on the health of humans. Of course, this ...
By Ensia
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Speeding Up Healthcare Innovation Leveraging Cloud Technology
Over the past decade, cloud computing has undergone remarkable expansion. The collective revenue generated by AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft surged from $49 billion in 2018 to an astonishing $206 billion in 2022.[i] Projections from Future Market Insights indicate that the revenue from cloud services is poised to maintain an impressive average annual growth rate of 21%, reaching a staggering ...
By Caresyntax
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Inside the Transition of Flow Based Patient Care
The nuclear cardiology department at Ochsner Health System, a New Orleans-based multi- hospital organization with facilities peppered throughout southern Louisiana, is revising its cardiac imaging model and implementing a flow-based imaging program. Leveraging the Positron Attrius cardiac PET system, the new model is characterized by highly accurate patient diagnosis and treatment ...
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Re-examining the health effects of radiation and its protection
The health effects of radiation from atomic explosions in Japan were completely different from those due to radiation from the Co-60 contaminated apartments in Taiwan. The sudden exposure to acute radiation in extremely high doses killed Japanese people, and harmed the survivors in lower doses as shown by increased cancer mortality, especially the leukemia based on the LNT model. The chronic ...
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WTP- and QALY-Based Approaches to Valuing Health for Policy: Common Ground and Disputed Territory
This paper discusses links between two approaches to the value of health: the willingness to pay approach of environmental economics and the quality-adjusted life year approach of health economics. The approaches are used in cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses of health interventions. Despite fundamental differences in the decision contexts and conceptual foundations of the two ...
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