Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Monitoring of quality of life after liver transplantation is a step toward patient centered care, but unfortunately a comprehensive and scientific instrument for this evaluation is not yet available. Background medical and mental condition of patients as well as social and economic support of the patients should be considered fo...

Health, well-being, quality of life, and lifestyle are central concepts within health science, although generally accepted definitions are still lacking. Lifestyle can either be seen as an independent variable and the cause of unhealthy behaviour or as a dependent variable, which is affected by conditions in the society. In the first case, the attention is directed on each individual case: main...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the microbiological quality of well water in the Kalutara district. METHOD A retrospective analysis was carried out of reports on water samples taken from tube wells, protected wells and unprotected wells in Kalutara district in 2007. Information was obtained from laboratory registers and request forms. RESULTS In 2007, the microbiological quality of 185 samples of ...

Quality can be defined as “a degree of excellence. In practice, we use testing as a measure of the outgoing quality of devices. The problem is that there is not a oneto-one correlation between test and quality. Just because a unit is tested doesn’t guarantee that it is defect-free. Similarly, “guaranteed-by-design” functionality, usually isn’t (with no offense intended to the incredibly talente...

This paper analyses the relation between air quality and subjective well-being in Germany. Life Satisfaction (LS) data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is connected with daily county pollution in terms of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) from 1998 to 2008. The assumed microeconometric happiness function is estimated considering individual time invaria...

We propose a new mesh refinement algorithm for computing quality guaranteed Delaunay triangulations in three dimensions. The refinement relies on new ideas for computing the goodness of the mesh, and a sampling strategy that employs numerically stable Steiner points. We show through experiments that the new algorithm results in sparse well-spaced point sets which in turn leads to tetrahedral me...

BACKGROUND Sleep disorders are considered as one of the most important problems in hemodialysis patients, making their everyday life a serious hazard. Sleep quality of hemodialysis patients and consequences of sleep disorders on other aspects of health such as spiritual well-being are important issues. OBJECTIVES This study examined the relationship between spiritual well-being and quality of...

background: leukaemia is a chronic disease with unknown cause whose treatment is included various stages such as bone marrow transplantation. some research accredited the role of quality of life before transplantation in physical well-being after bmt. the purpose of the present research was to study the relation between quality of life dimensions and physical well-being of post-bmt in patients ...