Corresponding Author Dr. Nishat Shahi Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, M.M. College of Dental Sciences and Research, Mullana, Ambala. Contact : 08968140058 Email: [email protected]

OBJECTIVE To determine the importance of parents' global adaptive functioning as a predictor of participation rate and subsequent child social competence outcome in 3 program components of an evidence-based, multifaceted, preventive intervention for at-risk children. METHOD Families of program children (n = 124, mean age 6.6 years at recruitment) were offered 3 program components that continu...

This article reviews the experiences of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Tennessee before and after Medicaid managed care demonstrations began. Adapting to managed care proved challenging, but all FQHCs survived. Overall, FQHCs performed better financially than anticipated, partly because demonstrations expanded coverage to previously uninsured individuals...

The impact of participation in Head Start is investigated using a national sample of children. Comparisons are drawn between siblings to control for selection. Head Start is associated with large and significant gains in test scores among both whites and African-Americans. However, among African-Americans, these gains are quickly lost. Head Start significantly reduces the probability that a whi...

Positive illusions are associated with unrealistic optimism about the future and an inflated assessment of one's abilities. They are prevalent in normal life and are considered essential for maintaining a healthy mental state, although, there are disagreements to the extent to which people demonstrate these positive illusions and whether they are beneficial or not. But whatever the situation, i...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the association between intermittent lack of health insurance coverage and use of preventive health services. METHODS Analyses focused on longitudinal data on insurance status and preventive service use among a national sample of US adults who participated in the Health and Retirement Study. RESULTS Findings showed that, among individuals who obtain insurance ...

Young women (aged 18-26 years) are a heterogeneous population transitioning from adolescence into adulthood who may present with unique issues and challenges, including a potential gap in health care after pediatric health care. Obstetrician-gynecologists should note that these patients may need assistance in transitioning from a pediatrician to a provider of adult health care (an internist, fa...

The proposal that Late Paleolithic (50,000–10,000 BP) ancestral experience might serve as a model for prevention research and even, if justified by experiment, as a paradigm for health promotion recommendations is sometimes discounted, before critical assessment, because of reservations based on unjustified preconceptions. Most often such biases involve comparative life expectancy, potential ge...

Objectives. The objectives were to present a costeffectiveness analysis of a smoking cessation program delivered by physicians and compare results to other smoking cessation interventions. Methods. Retrospective effectiveness figures from a previous evaluation of the smoking cessation program were supplemented with estimates based on researched assumptions. Net abstinence rates were determined ...