The author considers in detail the difficulties of comparing health levels in various communities. The morbidity rate in a community may be adversely affected by a poor health service but a very good health service, leading to earlier diagnosis of chronic conditions, would result in an increased ...
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The index correlated strongly with self-ratings of health status and functional disability and varied as expected according to age, sex, and income. Subjects classified to different categories of chronic conditions reported different levels of health, as predicted. The HUI was also associated with ...
This resulted in a p-value of 0.081, suggesting that activity levels between the last 2 years have not altered significantly. In addition to the paired t-test, Fig. 1 gives support to this hypothesis. The relatively similar shape followed by the two lines also hints that activity has ...
Effects of the living environment in a model of social determinants of health focusing on the cognitive mechanism of urban residents We investigated the effects of living environment on the health status of urban residents using a quantitative model of social determinants of health, focu... Y Otsuk...
Three Systems Levels State Local Governance Structure of Assessment Tools Essential Public Health Service Indicator Model Community Standard Questions Example From Local Tool Essential Service # 1: Monitor health status to identify community health problems Indicator: Population-based Community Hea...
Measuring Community Disaster Resilience at local levels: An adaptable Resilience Framework Decision makers, practitioners and community members need to assess the disaster resilience of their communities and to understand better the risks they fa... H Tariq - 《International Journal of Disaster Risk Redu...
health-system effective coverage, we aggregated individual effective coverage indicators to produce an overall index using health gain weights, which were derived from country-specific disease burden estimates relative to theoretical levels of burden avertable given intervention levels and associated ...
Glycemic Status and Incident Heart Failure in Elderly Without History of Diabetes Mellitus: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study It is unclear whether measures of glycemic status beyond fasting glucose (FG) levels improve incident heart failure (HF) prediction in patients without his... A...
The main strength of our study is its use of the CMWI, developed using the ageing cohorts representative of Chinese middle-aged and older community-dwelling individuals, to measure multimorbidity burden in annual health check-ups data of primary care. There are also several limitations. First, ou...