Showing papers in "Public Health in 2009"

TL;DR: Rates of hospital admission for ACSCs are increasingly used as a measure of the effectiveness of primary care, but different conceptual interpretations of the term 'ACSC' and use of differing definitions and diagnostic codes impact on the proportion of admissions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that having adequate coping resources, especially social support, in workplaces may be an important factor for improving teachers' quality of life.

TL;DR: It is recommended that, as well as educational level, other socio- economic indicators should be used to identify socio-economic groups where smoking rates are highest, and estimates of inequalities in initiation and cessation rates are needed to identify the most important age groups and entry points for policies to tackle inequalities in smoking.

TL;DR: The demographics, determinants and profiles of imprisoned women clearly show factors that should be central to any prison policy for women and an analysis of the role of trauma history shows its strong influence on offending behaviour.

TL;DR: Language difficulties and specific cultural issues are key barriers to first-generation Somali women attending cervical screening and providing education and information orally as well as improving access to a more culturally appropriate screening service could lead to improved uptake among this group.

TL;DR: Interventions designed to reduce PTSD among populations affected by the May 2008 earthquake should focus on individuals with no household income, those living in shelters or temporary houses, those with damaged households, and those who experienced a death in the family.

TL;DR: In this article, a catalogues of book to open is presented for gender and health the effects of constrained choices and social policies is one of the literary work in this world in suitable to be reading material.

TL;DR: Diabetes and physical inactivity are important public health issues in urban West Africa, with similar prevalences to wealthy industrialized countries.

TL;DR: The quantitative analysis showed that public access to green space improved between 1990 and 2003 as a result of the regeneration and acquisition of new areas, and the average reduction in distance toGreen space was 162 m, however, such improvements were distributed differentially between population groups.

TL;DR: Musculoskeletal pain is prevalent among elderly men and women, being much higher in the latter, giving rise to considerable functional and psychological impairments.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that people with hypertension represent a vulnerable population, and it is important to prevent and treat comorbidity of hypertension.

TL;DR: This paper outlines the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) emerging conceptual framework for public health, based on the experience of the first 3 years of producing public health guidance at NICE, to shape the revisions to NICE's public health process and methods manuals for use post 2009.

TL;DR: A cross-sectional MHL assessment was undertaken in a poor, rural area of Maharashtra, India to inform the development of a mental health training programme as discussed by the authors, where participants were presented with two vignettes describing people experiencing symptoms of mental disorders (depression, psychosis), and were asked to name the problems and to identify the treatments and people that were most likely to be helpful (or otherwise), and the likely outcomes for people with such problems.

TL;DR: The pattern of UVR exposure experienced by outdoor workers from selected occupations in New Zealand is described in order to identify the impact of behaviour and work conditions on exposure and to suggest the influence of behavioural rather than climatic factors.

TL;DR: Male gender, depressive moods and a low importance of good grades at university were risk factors for drinking alcohol more than once per week as well as for problem drinking, and support for banning the sale of alcohol on campus varies between countries.

TL;DR: Three-year follow-up research in this case study indicates a significant change in parent target behaviours, particularly among parents aware of the campaign, and substantially more healthcare professionals believe that they have the resources to educate parents about monitoring their child's cognitive, social and physical development.

TL;DR: The risk of obesity and overweight associated with developmental delay increased between 3 and 5 years of age and is apparent in young children at risk of intellectual disabilities.

TL;DR: The first national population-based and cross-sectional study was conducted in 2005 in 41 universities of medical sciences in all 30 provinces of Iran and involved multi-stage cluster sampling from 25-64 year-old Iranians and non-institutionalized populations.

TL;DR: Facts and figures are given which justify the call for urgent action and the key aspects of an emerging new agenda for mental health and prisons are listed.

TL;DR: Environmental policy needs to give more priority to reducing the incidence of street-level incivilities and the absence of environmental goods, both of which appear to be more important for health than perceptions of large-scale infrastructural incivility.

TL;DR: Men's levels of overall alcohol consumption and hazardous drinking were substantially higher than women's levels in all three cohorts in both 1990 and 2000, and the authors have chosen to use definitions widely used in the UK in the period covered by this study.

TL;DR: The intervention to reduce air pollution with respect to perceived dust and soot pollution, risk perception, annoyance and health symptoms was successful and path analyses suggest that perceived pollution and health risk perception play important roles in understanding and predicting environmentally induced annoyance andhealth symptoms.

TL;DR: A paradigm shift is needed in the way in which research is produced and consumed and a new approach to knowledge co-creation is overdue whereby researchers and those they are seeking to address work together to define the research questions, agree the methods, and assess the implications of the data analysis and findings for policy and practice.

TL;DR: Any attempt to deal with the problem of hazardous drinking in Russia must deal with all sources of alcohol, both legal and illegal, as individuals have demonstrated a high degree of ingenuity in identifying alternative sources ofalcohol, both in the past and the present.

TL;DR: Some of the sachet-packaged samples of drinking water in Western Nigeria were of poor quality and many of the water processors did not comply with the guidelines of the quality regulatory agency.

TL;DR: Physical activity was positively associated with self-rated health in Koreans and the independent association between a lower level of physical activity and poor self- rated health supports public health programmes that encourage regular physical activity.

TL;DR: QRA has an important role in producing estimates for the health impacts of those risk factors where there is a sufficient base of research to quantify relationships between population exposure and health, and to predict the effects of policies on population exposure.

TL;DR: Improvement is needed in RNTCP training, and emphasis needs to be given to correct diagnosis, management and follow-up of TB patients, health policy managers and DOTS implementers should encourage all doctors, particularly private sector doctors, to receive RNTCp training and follow DOTS methodology.