Top Research Papers on Health

In the recent years, we are seeing the aging of global population with transformations of growth curves, demands in the areas of Health, Psychology and Education, in particular addressing the better global preparedness for this healthy aging. Positive Psychology has been taking ground, with interfaces with Health Psychology, Education for Leisure and Recreation, Emotional Education and lifelong Health Promotion, connecting with areas that can be applied by professionals called educators and caregivers, assisting the human development from the point of view of higher life quality, especially th...

The study has identified impacts, both benefits and harms in all three life-cycle phases for e-Health: up-stream (materials extraction, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, distribution), mid- Stream (use period), and down- stream (end-of-life processes--disposal, recycling).

The author considers various aspects of a healthy lifestyle, the need to maintain it in modern megacities, and its impact on the lifestyle of children, adolescents, and middle-aged people.

A poststructuralist approach was applied to conduct qualitative interviews with eight to 11 year old children to address a knowledge gap in children’s conceptualizations of health, healthy bodies, and health practices.

This book describes in detail a health education curriculum designed for preschool children that permits the child to learn more about himself and hence build up his self-concept and make health a valued asset for the child.

A model of healthy university and the experience of the International University of Catalonia in creating a healthy workplace are described, which focuses on interventions and programs for changing the population distribution of the main risk factors for non-communicable diseases.

The WHO2000 report presents a new vision and puts health systems at the political agenda, however, its policy implications are unclear, and its methodology is wedely critezised.

The public offer of health grants is a possibility to get an overview of project activities within a certain region and innovative, economic and qualitative highly valuated approaches can be made familiar to the general public by this procedure.

The review analyzes geriatric syndromes associated with oral health problems and proposes to include questionnaires to identify dental problems in a comprehensive geriatric assessment.

The main violations of the nutrition structure of the population of the Russian Federation are reflected and effective tools for its improvement, prevention of alimentary-dependent non-communicable diseases and health-saving of the nation are proposed.

It is argued that human health is best understood as a capability to be healthy—a meta-capability to achieve a cluster of basic and inter-related capabilities and functionings in line with Martha Nussbaum’s central human capabilities.

The presentation will explore the role of Health Promotion in healthy ageing and the burden of disease of elderly citizens in Europe is associated with lifestyle factors.

The 'Healthy oceans for a healthy future' is an extensive teaching resource for lower, mid and upper primary school students.

This paper explores the nature of argumentation , and its potential impact within the setting of the doctor-patient interaction. More specifically, we propose a twofold investigation. Firstly, we intend to clarify the ontological conditions for supporting the appropriateness of using argumentation in the medical setting, and show its general advantages. Within this framework, by relying on a set of medical consultation recorded with the help of Tessin physicians, we shall underline a typology of action types where argumentation occurs in the medical setting. Secondly, we shall offer some key-c...

Comparing the existing documentation on the European Network of Health Promoting Schools (ENHPS) and on the French School Health Service, many differences as well as similarities are appearing.

To follow the guidelines for a model diet, start by resisting the urge to compare yourself to other models, and focusing on what's healthy for you is the healthiest runway to strut on.

Evidence-based design can incorporate many kinds of outcomes, including health, environmental performance, cost, and aesthetic preference, although it has been most extensively applied to health impacts.

Comparisons are made of the definitions of health/healthy foods in the literature, and those of 683 farmers, companies and multiple retailers researched by questionnaire survey, to allow flexibility on perceptions and the development of new foods.

This chapter focused on the One Health approach, its definition as well as implications of the definition, what 'One' implies in terms of trans- and interdisciplinarity, and how to define 'Health' within the One health approach.

In contrast to mainstream health psychology, critical health psychology explicitly sought approaches to health that took account of contexts, power relations, and broader social and political structures. Developed from a breadth of ideas, enthusiasm, theoretical, methodological, and practice strengths from the late 1990s a number of events signalled the arrival of critical health psychology as a sub-field of psychology and in the social sciences more generally. The inaugural critical health psychology conference “Reconstructing Health Psychology” in 1999, and biennial conferences are significa...

This editorial comments on the articles by Ramsay et al, Kossioni etal, and Joseph M. Mylotte on the role of phosphorous in the response to infectious disease.

The authors found that the 49 largest US health care organizations (HCOs) included in their study lagged behind other large corporations in CSR reporting during the 2015 to 2016 study period; but, unlike the timing of the IOM report, the sustainability movement may already be under way.

Accurate data on prevalence of oral disease is required to monitor effectiveness of public health approaches, which should be segregated based on setting, sociodemographic status, and comorbidities and adapted and tailored for implementation during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

The Public Health and Healthy Ageing Research Group of the HKU Faculty of Dentistry is committed to protecting and improving oral health for all people by performing and synthesising clinical, community-level, and educational research, and by applying public health sciences.

Implementation plan for the Healthy Ireland Framework specifically focused on the HSE, the workforce, the services and the people the authors care for.

For a long period of time, gender disparities have been addressed by medical doctors and scientists, but less attention has been paid to the differences between men and women because women live longer than men and worldwide life expectancy is still increasing.

Nursing professionals can encourage healthy workplaces by promoting good health, thus assisting in the development of individuals, families and society and, in this way, supporting the achievement of the goals set by employers and employees.

Health impact assessments are appearing on the minerals sector's radar thanks to the benefits they bring and the need to assess the risks and benefits to the economy.

This issue of the Global Fruit & Veg Newsletter reports on the links between diet and bone health, and the importance of a healthy and balanced diet or a Mediterranean diet during childhood and especially adolescence.

Three reasons for nurses and other healthcare providers to proceed with caution are offered; otherwise, human culture could become merely a tool of the healthcare industry to be instrumentally deployed in meeting its procedural goals.

Differences in the perception of local governments in Poland concerning health clusters as tools for the modernization of the healthcare system, as well as recognition of the scale and forms of direct involvement of local government in the creation and development of cluster initiatives in health care are described.

The digital health and health literacy trends and disparities that persist are highlighted and remedies to ensure that health literacy and digital health issues receive the attention they deserve in the next decade are proposed.

The time has come to accept the fundamental reality that the impending budgetary squeeze, the current health crisis and the workplace are inextricably linked and fiscal soundness can be advanced through strategic investment in the health and productivity of the working-age population through a new preventive-based paradigm centered in the workplace.

Global challenges require collaborative interdisciplinary approaches to address climate change and other global challenges.

It is identified that in order to ensure the health of migrants, host countries have to effectively coordinate and collaborate with other countries and sectors and promote migrant-sensitive health policies aimed at improving the health of migrants.

Tuohy documents a mosaic pattern of policy change in two very different political systems: the US, where the Obama administration’s piecemeal but simultaneous and rapidly enacted policy changes could be expected, and the UK, where this pattern emerged from an unprecedented Conservative‒ Liberal Democratic coalition government.

To which extent individuals are able to deal with stress and whether their employers and respective supervisors (leaders) accept responsibility for their health, for instance, by leading by example is investigated.

It was turned out that the patients showed a low tendency to practice to maintain the healthy life style such as the proper eating habit or the effort to control the stress, so it is necessary to develop the strategy and the management program to enhance the self-nursing activities to Control the patients' blood pressure at the proper level.

The project incorporated health-related concepts and activities into traditional English coursework for students in grades eight and nine to address the general lack of health education provided through this nation's middle and high school curricula.

Analyses indicated that after controlling for gender and age, organisational health was associated with increased personal wellness, lower health age, better overall nutrition, reduced fat intake, increased f...

This contribution aspires to show one linguistic aspect of two words: health (a noun) and healthy (an adjective), namely their occurrence and usage in phraseological expressions. We will focus on comparisons such as healthy as a beet, healthy as a fish, healthy as a beech, and phraseological units adjective + health, like iron health, strong health, robust health. We will attempt to determine the frequency of these phraseological connections in contemporary Czech writings within the Czech National Corpus called SYN and we will consider the subject matter of the texts that contain these phraseo...

The broad theme that emerged from analysing the perceptions of parents regarding what constitutes health behaviours and a healthy environment was that there were facilitators and barriers in each instance.

This aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the utilisation of general health examinations and health and a healthy lifestyle.

A strong correlation at the state level between health outcomes and poverty and health insurance coverage at thestate level was identified and health disparities are still a major public health problem in US.

Although the community never reprimanded HWs directly, they continued having a healthy lifestyle since they had acquired health education that impacts their behavior and thus they became health role models.

The paper shows how PiHG contributions have orchestrated or captured debates over medical and health geographies, exploring how ‘the medical’ and ‘health’ intersect and diverge, giving rise to different trajectories in both the field as a whole and specific foci of inquiry loosely clustering within it.

This chapter discusses the links between population size and health, and the role that ideology and social support play in shaping these relationships.

Scaling of the Sonatal-pedagogy, in particular the system of prenatal education, will contribute to the sanitation of the Russian gene pool, demography improvement and formation of responsible parenthood.

The policy adheres to the following principles: accessibility, youth participation, collaboration and partnerships, professional development, evaluation, evidence based approaches and sustainability.

Public Health 101: Healthy People--Healthy Populations provides a big-picture, population perspective on the determinants of health and disease and the tools available to protect and promote health.