OBJECTIVES A web-based survey has been administered annually since 2005 throughout Korea to assess the prevalence of adolescent health risk behaviors among middle and high school students. The aim of this study was to evaluate the test-retest reliability of the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (KYRBWS) questionnaire. METHODS A convenience sample of 2298 middle and high school studen...

OBJECTIVES Language has been identified as a determinant of mental health. Within Canada, individuals may speak an official language and still belong within the linguistic minority (Francophones outside Quebec and Anglophones within Quebec). The objectives of this study were to compare mental health problems between minority and majority official language communities, and examine the associatio...

This paper contributes to the literature on income-related inequalities in health across European Union Member States. The European Community Household Panel Users’ Database (ECHP-UDB) is used for this analysis. Two binary measures of health limitations are used for the full 8 waves in the ECHP-UDB. Concentration indices and mobility indices are derived for these indicators of severe limitation...

Background: Although many efforts made for the advancement of medical science, it is distributed inequitably despite of all existing financial and human resources facilities. Children as the most important and vulnerable groups of society are influenced by these inequities. The Objective of this study is comparison of children health indices in rich and poor rural zones in Mashhad/Iran. Methods...

BACKGROUND The objective of screening programs is to discover life threatening diseases in as many patients as early as possible and to increase the chance of survival. To be able to compare aspects of health care quality, methods are needed for benchmarking that allow comparisons on various health care levels (regional, national, and international). OBJECTIVES Applications and extensions of ...

background : a healthy organization is a place that people like to work and they are proud of being a part of it. this study aimed to evaluate the relation between organizational health indicators and organizational effectiveness among employees of isfahan university of medical sciences. methods: this cross – sectional study was done on 672 employees in seven staffs of iums. samples were select...

The optical signature of leaves is an important monitoring and predictive parameter for a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses, including drought. Such signatures derived from spectroscopic measurements provide vegetation indices - a quantitative method for assessing plant health. However, the commonly used metrics suffer from low sensitivity. Relatively small changes in water content in mode...

The purpose of this article is to examine the current health promotion orientation of youth sports clubs in Finland in view of the standards created previously for the health promoting sports club (HPSC). Ninety-seven youth sports clubs participated, and 273 sports club officials and 240 coaches answered the questionnaires. To describe clubs health promotion orientations, an HPSC index was crea...