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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is a recent example of health care reform. This law is an attempt to provide a mandated health insurance system to eliminate some of the bad practices of the insurance companies. Obamacare attempts to provide more ...
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The PS and balancing weights act in the same way as survey or sampling weights and add increased variability into the statistical models and treatment effect estimates. We can assess the impact of different PS and balancing weight methods by computing the ESS, which denotes the remaining sample ...
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Although leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) improves general health, little is known about its impacts on the health of hypertensive people within the United States. We investigated the general health of hypertensive people and the relationship betwee
In addition to the Situated-IMB Model, Conexiones was also founded in the Theory of Triadic Influence [34], a multilevel Social Cognitive theory [35] that hypothesizes three “streams of influence” (individual, social, and structural) which may act simultaneously to affect self-efficacy to ...
ACT conceived the idea of studying the effect of mindfulness on older adults’ immigrants and is responsible for the project administration, data management and analysis, and preparation of the initial version of the manuscript. ACT, AKL, and J-PS contributed to the conceptualization, design, and...
Summary of the main findings and possible explanations The respondents in this study showed strong support and consensus for the use of the Mental Health Act, particularly to protect the health and welfare of patients. Most psychiatrists responding to the survey supported the concept of protection fr...
The lack of awareness is not confined to the general public or families alone; even medical staff, professionals, and individuals working within the healthcare system may act out of ignorance, leading to the perpetuation of stigma. Zanko’s father shares his experience of frequently engaging in ...