The link between family relations and well-being in old age has received ample attention in the international literature, but remains least examined in the Arab region where cultural ideals assume positive intergenerational relations within families as the norm. In this paper, we employ survey data collected in Greater Beirut in 2009 to explore associations between family relations and health. ...

This research examines whether lower-income married renters are more likely to become homeowners than comparable single renters. Using data from the Community Advantage Panel Study, we use discrete-time survival analysis with propensity score matching to explore this relationship. Results indicate married couples have higher odds of buying a home, and do so at faster rates, than their unmarried...

This report describes a case study concerned with acute and subacute health effects of formaldehyde in the indoor air, which is based on a large group of control houses and houses retroinsulated 4 to 5 years earlier with urea formaldehyde foam insulation (UFFI). Both groups underwent an environmental and health assessment on two occasions separated by an interval of 12 months, during which abou...

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BACKGROUND/RATIONALE In the Republic of Ireland, the amount of clinical teaching expected of staff nurses has increased substantially in the wake of the transfer of nursing education to universities, and the advent of supernumerary status for students. A modicum of previous research noted that staff nurses are unclear about their role in relation to facilitating the clinical learning of supernu...

In today's economic climate, there is a need to demonstrate a return on investment for healthcare spending and for clinical practice and policy to be informed by evidence. Navigating this process is difficult for decision-makers, clinicians, and researchers alike. This article will describe how a knowledge translation framework and an evidence-based policy-making process were integrated to clar...

OBJECTIVE To assess trends in selenium status in South Australians from 1977 to 2002. DESIGN Six cross-sectional surveys. PARTICIPANTS 117 participants in 1977, 30 in 1979, 96 and 103 (separate surveys) in 1987, 200 in 1988, and 288 volunteer blood donors in 2002. A total of 834 healthy Australian adults (mean age, 42 years [range, 17-71 years]; 445 were male). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Plasm...

In an effort to increase the accessibility and comprehensiveness of care for rural Veterans with HIV, the VA Office of Rural Health (ORH) funded a pilot telehealth collaborative care program that was developed and tested by the Veterans Rural Health Resource Center-Iowa City. Telehealth collaboration can put fragmented networks of primary and specialty care providers in touch. Clinical video te...

The development of statistical indicators for monitoring performance throughout the National Health Service began in 1981. In recent years, computer software packages containing performance indicators have been amended to include Health and Social Services Boards in Northern Ireland. Although this information is available to anyone with an interest in service provision, the main purpose of the ...

INTRODUCTION Since adoption of the measles case-based surveillance system in Zimbabwe in 1998, data has been routinely collected at all levels of the health delivery system and sent to national level with little or no documented evidence of use to identify risky populations, monitor impact of interventions and measure progress towards achieving measles elimination. We analysed this data to dete...