Chapter 14 - How can policy outcomes be monitored and measured?doi:10.4324/9780203462928_chapter_14Bob StewartMatthew NicholsonAaron Smith & Hans WesterbeekRoutledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games
In recent years, a large body of empirical work has focused on measuring and explaining socio-economic inequalities in health outcomes and health service use. In any effort to address these questions, analysts must confront the issue of how to measure socioeconomic status. In developing countries,...
Social relationships are crucial for well-being and health, and considerable research has established social stressors as a risk for well-being and health. However, researchers have used many different constructs, and it is unclear if these are actually
Since living in cities is associated with an increased risk for mental disorders such as anxiety disorders, depression, and schizophrenia, it is essential to understand how exposure to urban and natural environments affects mental health and the brain. It has been shown that the amygdala is more ...
Patient Activation and Health Literacy: What's the Difference? How Do Each Contribute to Health Outcomes In this paper we define health literacy and patient activation, discuss how each construct is measured, and review the evidence linking each construct to o... J Hibbard - 《Stud Health Techn...
Moreover, there are differences in the technical methods the two Regions adopted. For the target-setting phase, Tuscany uses a global performance goal and an overall improvement goal, with the aim to motivate health authorities to pay attention to all the indicators, in order to reduce potential...
health services between urban and rural residents is not equal. The majority of rural migrant women are "amphibious" in urban and rural areas. In fact, the public health services they enjoy are a mixture of leading rural public health services and limited urban public health services, which is...
some argue that it might well be possible that both common and rare alleles are important.36 The clinical validity of a genetic test is determined by the associa- tion between the genetic variant to be tested and the disease in question, measured by sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood rati...
and similar difficulties predict negative social and wider health outcomes across a range of psychiatric and mental health conditions2,3,4. Despite clear individual differences in the ability to read others’ emotional expressions, little is known about why these individual differences exist. Here we ...
measured with the following question: “In the past year, how frequently have you typically engaged in physical exercises that raise your heart rate and last for 20 minutes at a time?”Mental health. Current/former clinical diagnosis of depression and anxiety disorder was measured using the ...