Khorasani B1, Gholizadeh Pasha A2 1. Assistant professor, Department of surgery, Faculty of medicine, Tehran University of rehabilitation 2. Assistant professor, Department of surgery, Faculty of medicine, Babol University of medical sciences Abstract Background: Acute appendicitis is a completely known disease but for many physicians chronic appendicitis is unknown and some of them do...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of chronic physical and mental disorders is increasing among children and adolescents in the United States. In this study, we investigated the association between mental health disorders and chronic physical conditions among children, and we assessed whether having mental disorders is associated with increased health care costs for children with chronic physical cond...

Sedentary lifestyle is a serious health problem in the world and, in the Brazil, 80% of the population presents this behavior with a lower level of physical activity [1]. This behavior is associated with serious health risks and inversely related to physical activity (PA). Low levels of physical activity may develop or aggravate chronic degenerative diseases; however, this PA promotion prevents...

Sedentary lifestyle is a serious health problem in the world and, in the Brazil, 80% of the population presents this behavior with a lower level of physical activity [1]. This behavior is associated with serious health risks and inversely related to physical activity (PA). Low levels of physical activity may develop or aggravate chronic degenerative diseases; however, this PA promotion prevents...

Sedentary lifestyle is a serious health problem in the world and, in the Brazil, 80% of the population presents this behavior with a lower level of physical activity [1]. This behavior is associated with serious health risks and inversely related to physical activity (PA). Low levels of physical activity may develop or aggravate chronic degenerative diseases; however, this PA promotion prevents...

The high prevalence of chronic pain (duration >3 months) reported from different populations indicates a public health problem. Knowledge of the long-term course of chronic non-malignant pain is incomplete and scarce. This paper describes a follow-up of a cohort recruited from a survey in the general population. The cohort (n=214) consisted initially of individuals with widespread or located (n...

Background and Objectives: Prayer is one of the most important religious ordinances and is one of the necessities of Islam. In spite of the progression of medicine science, it is sometimes seen that the mundane subjects become hopeless in curing physical diseases and this time, the hopeless man appeals to the Lord God. This review study was conducted to examine the positive and negative views r...

BACKGROUND Physical and emotional abuse of children is a large scale problem in South Africa, with severe negative outcomes for survivors. Although chronic household illness has shown to be a predictor for physical and emotional abuse, no research has thus far investigated the different pathways from household chronic illness to child abuse victimisation in South Africa. METHODS Confidential ...

Many of the affected patients do not receive a correct diagnosis and undergo numerous fruitless investigations and attempts at treatment. The narrow focus on the somatic aspects of a complex problem may reinforce their concerns about having a physical disease, make them less satisfied with the healthcare system, contribute to the development of chronic disablement and cause healthcare costs to ...