introduction: health literacy is a fundamental part of the healing promotion. the aim of this study was to evaluate periodontal health literacy among patients. materials and methods: 296 patients attending periodontal clinic who were above 16 years old participated in this study. gathering data was based on screening questions on a 5-point likert scale. after completion questionnaire, data was ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Oral Health Programme has worked hard over the past 5 years to increase the awareness of oral health worldwide as oral health is important component of general health and quality of life. Meanwhile, oral disease is still a major public health problem in high income countries and the burden of oral disease is growing in many low- and middle income count...

1Department of Biosciences and Oral Diagnosis, Institute of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University (Unesp), São José dos Campos, São Paulo 12245-000, Brazil. 2University Braz Cubas, Mogi das Cruzes 08773-380, Brazil. 3Universidade Mogi das Cruzes, Mogi das Cruzes 08780-911, Brazil. 4Human Anatomy and Embriology Area, Functional Biology and Health Sciences Department, University of V...

The Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework refers to a class of models that are derived by directly modeling the dynamics of instantaneous forward-rates. The central insight of this framework is to recognize that there is an explicit relationship between the drift and volatility parameters of the forward-rate dynamics in a no-arbitrage world. The familiar short-rate models can be derived in the HJM fram...

At the time of surgical repair, a lung biopsy was performed on patients with congenital heart defects who either had pulmonary hypertension or in whom it would be likely to develop if the lesion were not corrected. Pulmonary vascular changes, assessed morphometrically and also according to the classification of Heath and Edwards (Circulation 18: 533, 1958), were correlated with the postoperativ...

Benjamin Heath is a second-year graduate student at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. As a graduate research assistant at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Heath focuses on domestic preparedness issues within the Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Project. Within the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project, Heath researches and analyzes the chemical and...

Introduction: health literacy is a fundamental part of the healing promotion. The aim of this study was to evaluate periodontal health literacy among patients. Materials and methods: 296 patients attending periodontal clinic who were above 16 years old participated in this study. Gathering data was based on screening questions on a 5-point Likert scale. After completion questionnaire, data was...