Conclusions and Relevance This study found that adults aged 18 to 64 years with PCC were more likely than other adults to have difficulty getting and paying for health care. These findings suggest that policies aimed at improving access and affordability may focus on accelerating development of trea...
Residents in aged care organisations require a sense of wholeness and self-oriented of spirituality for their physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the policies, procedures and practices at a specific aged care facility, in order to conduct ...
Understanding the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for such health conditions may help to inform healthcare providers and their patients, guide health interventions, reduce healthcare costs, improve quality of life, and increase longevity for aging Americans. The purpose of this study was to ...
The proportion of women assessed who had FNA cytology and/or core biopsy in the 2 age-groups was compared using data from standard returns. All other assessment procedures were assumed to be the same for both age-groups. To estimate total costs, the numbers invited, screened and assessed in...
Thus, concerted efforts are required to devise FBDGs and implementation plans that are coherently integrated into the national food, agriculture, health policies and programs and can engage a wide range of stakeholders from the government, non-governmental, private, academic and media sectors. Such ...
Loserth and B. Meyer for technical assistance and J. Schreiber, A. Weidner and T. Bimmerlein for their attentive care of mice. We thank the Edinburgh Brain and Tissue Bank for providing the postmortem brain tissue. This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (grant no. MA1053...
Information sessions will be organized for all participants of the PESA cohort study to introduce the RCT and to present the main aims and procedures of the study. Recruitment emails will be sent to all 4,184 PESA cohort participants with a link to express online interest in participation. ...
elderly employees by putting in placetax incentives for their employers49/and byproviding funding for older entrepreneurs50/. Many of these measures are in fact already in place, but current policies need to be reviewed and revised, and implementation should be tightened beyond the merely voluntary...
in fresh complete medium for additional 24-h stimulation with anti-CD3 (10 μg/ml) and anti-CD28 (10 μg/ml) mAbs. ELISA for mouse IFN-γ and IL-17 in culture supernatants was performed using reagents purchased from BD PharMingen following the manufacturer’s recommended procedures. ...
There were about 260 men and women aged 40–59 years per sample—total N=4680. Quality of dietary interview and data entry were monitored and enhanced by extensive systematic ongoing quality control procedures at local, country, and international level. Four databases on nutrient composition of ...