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Moukhyer, Mohamed Eisa Eltahir. "Health profile of Sudanese adolescents (Umbada adolescents health survey) /." Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 2005. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=6294.

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Hoyt, Lacey C. "University of Wisconsin-Stout Student Health Services survey project awareness survey." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007hoytl.pdf.

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Jacklitsch, Brenda Louise. "Texas camelid health and management survey." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1930.

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Ellis, Susan Patricia. "Health promotion programmes : a national survey /." Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Information Service, 1992. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00092825.pdf.

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Schira, Norma. "A Survey of Health Promotion Activities of Health Systems Agencies." TopSCHOLAR®, 1986. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1980.

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The National Health Planning and Resources Development Act. Public Law 93-641, the last major step in the regulation of the health care system, created a network of health system agencies and state level health planning agencies. Subsequent legislation, the Health Planning and Resources Development Amendment 1929, Public Law 96-79, amended 1974 Law and changed the role and function of health systems agencies to include more regulatory activities. By 1981, the activities of Health System Agencies were being curtained by the action of the Reagan administration. The Health promotion/wellness movement which seeks to improve health has been developing as a compliment to medical medicine for several years. Previous research has determined that health systems agencies were active in health promotion and identified several planning and implementation activities related to this involvement. This is a survey of health systems agencies to determine their efforts in healthy promotions. Resources allocated to these activities, and opinions of the director relevant to agency involvement in health promotion. All active healthy system agencies listed in the 1980. Directory of Health System Agencies (DHSH) were surveyed by a mailed questionnaire. Reponses were receive from 112 agencies (57%) and the respondents were found to be representative of the population. The results revealed health systems agencies to be involved in health promotion. More than 90 percent of the responders listed some type of health promotion activity in their Healthy System Plans for the 1979-1980 planning year. Approximately half of the responders reported some community activity in health promotion. The majority of executive directors saw health systems agencies as being only moderately effective in controlling health care costs: considered healthy promotion as a viable means of controlling health care cost: and believed that modifications of individual life-styles had the greatest potential for improving health status. The survey revealed that Healthy System Agencies did not restrict the wellness/health promotion activities to traditional health facilities, but were defining health broadly and working with a variety of agencies to develop services.

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Cohen, Bonnie Lynn. "Health behaviour survey of secondary school students." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0024/MQ51056.pdf.

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Obrizan, Maksym. "Essays on selection in health survey data." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/566.

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In this dissertation I examine the effects of sample selection on the probability of stroke among older adults. If study subjects are selected into the sample based on some non-experimental selection process, then statistical analysis may produce inconsistent estimates. Chapter 1 develops a model of non-ignorable selection for a discrete outcome variable, such as whether stroke occurred or not. I start by noticing that in the literature there are relatively few applications of the Heckman model to the case of a discrete outcome variable and they are limited to a bivariate case. After that I extend the Bayesian multivariate probit model of Chib and Greenberg (1998) broadly following the logic of Heckman's original (1979) work. The model in the first chapter of my dissertation is set in a way general enough to handle multiple selection and discrete-continuous outcome equations. The first extension of the multivariate probit model in Chib and Greenberg (1998) allows some of the outcomes to be missing. In particular, stroke occurrence is missing whenever the person is not selected into the sample. In terms of latent variable representation this implies that multivariate normal distribution is not truncated in the direction of missing outcome. I also use Cholesky factorization of the variance matrix to avoid the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm in the Gibbs sampler. Chapter 2 evaluates how severe the problem of sample selection is in Assets and HEAlth Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) data set. I start with a more restrictive assumption of ignorable selection. In particular, I apply the propensity score method as in a recent paper by Wolinsky et al. (2009) and find no selection effects in the study of stroke. Then I consider the model developed in Chapter 1, which is based on a less restrictive assumption of non-ignorable selection, and also find no evidence of selection. Thus, the main substantive contribution of this chapter is the absence of selection effects based on either ignorable or non-ignorable sample selection model.

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Petrich, Macie. "Vocal Health Survey of Instrumental Music Educators." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1588015468956836.

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Roberts, Heather. "Promoting participation in health in the community using a health survey." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1993. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12598/.

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Health promotion is an emerging discipline that seeks to enhance positive health and prevent ill health. This thesis is designed to inform practice in health promotion. It is based on an action research project that draws together interdisciplinary concepts of the measurement of health and community participation. In so doing it identifies the use of a survey, the Community Health Promotion Survey (CHPS). The thesis argues that when used creatively in this way a survey may simultaneously serve two purposes: first, measure health-related behaviour and, secondly, promote participation in health within a community. Thus, in this study, the survey process and its impact on the lay community were considered to be as important as the measurements of health-related behaviour obtained. Surveys to measure the health-related behaviour of whole populations have been well tested and standard methods were adopted. In this project two of the three local GP Practices gave permission for their FPC patients' lists to be used as a sampling frame which covered 75% of all Staveley's 13,420 adult patients. Lists were stratified by age and sex. A 20% systematic, random sample of 2,003 patients was drawn. The sample was shown to be representative by age and sex of the whole population. A postal survey of these patients, using two reminders, obtained a response of 59% after exclusions for non-delivery of 8%. Males and the elderly are under-represented in response. Teachers in all 3 local secondary schools agreed to administer the survey to their first and fourth year groups. Response from pupils attending school on the day on which the survey took place was 100%. Self-reported measurements of health-related behaviour were obtained, using reliable questions. For example, 23% of adult respondents were ex-smokers and 26% were daily cigarette smokers. 22% of respondents reported that they never drank alcohol and 18% of males had drunk more than 21 units of alcohol in the previous week. Analyses by chisquare and Mantel-Haenszel showed, generally, that the strongest influences on health-related behaviour were age and social class. For example, parental status was less strongly associated with levels of alcohol consumption than age. Re-administration of the adult survey to a matched sample identified changes in health-related behaviour, for example, there was a reduction in the frequency of egg consumption and younger people were more likely to have increased their frequency of drinking skimmed milk than older groups. The role of a survey in facilitating community participation is less well understood. Two crucial elements were therefore introduced and tested in the survey. These may be seen as early stages of community participation and contained key elements of "radical" survey methodology. First, the feasibility of surveying a range of non-representative "hard to reach" community groups was assessed. Of the 52 groups contacted 50 (96%) agreed to participate, with response being achieved from 47 (94%). Response rates from groups collectively was low (16%) but varied greatly between groups, reaching 86% in one instance. Groups producing the highest responses were social in nature, with a membership of 10 - 100. The study showed that many types of community groups will readily assist in the distribution and collection of questionnaires to group members. Secondly, extensive feedback from and about the survey to lay and professional individuals and groups was tested. Results showed that there was considerable lay interest in feedback. 62% of respondents selected, on average, three of the ten items offered. The summary of survey findings (38%) and healthy eating (36%) were of most interest, making up 40% of all feedback. Those often thought to be least interested in health, such as the unemployed, were just as likely to ask for information as others, although women requested 63% of all feedback. Information requested appeared to relate to the individual's circumstances with, for example, males in the "at risk" age group for heart disease asking for that leaflet. The impact of the CHPS on individual respondents and the lay community was measured. The study showed that awareness of the survey was raised amongst 40% of the community. Women (51%) were more likely to have heard about it than men (33%). The survey's ability to stimulate social networks was assessed. Friendships were shown to be the most important channels of information about the CHPS (37%). The family was of equal importance to posters (16%) in disseminating information about the survey. There was some evidence that, in a few groups, awareness of health issues had been raised and some activity had been generated. This appeared to be greater where contacts with a health promotion officer had been established. A surprising, and tentative, finding is that, in itself, the CHPS may have stimulated some change in a small number of individual respondents. Follow-through by professionals that builds on the surveying process and feedback may lead to more intensive levels of community participation. Practical opportunities for follow-through were identified, for example, systematic feedback about their own patients and school pupils to General Practitioners and teachers and feedback of a group's data to a participating community group. Response from health promotion professionals to follow-through opportunities were examined and found to be generally disappointing. The use of the method by policy makers, planners and practitioners was explored. Their dissemination of findings to other professionals and setting targets for changes in the population's health-related behaviour was similar to that observed elsewhere. However, practitioners' response to the implications of research for practice was negligible. It is recommended that health-related behaviour should continue to be seen as one limited but appropriate intermediate indicator for health promotion. The limitations of postal survey data need be recognised, for example, measurements often under-represent the health-related behaviour of some population groups, such as males and the elderly. Resulting bias in data are important considerations when using data in policy and planning, for example, setting targets for health promotion and monitoring population changes in health-related behaviour. Methods for increasing postal response from those known to be poorer responders are suggested, such as personalisation of postal contacts, telephone reminders and complementary data collection methods, including interviewing the elderly in their usual meeting places. It is recommended that, at a national level, reliable, standardised questions should be developed for use in postal surveys to facilitate comparison of data between populations. In terms of community participation in health it is proposed that, based on the CHPS experience, surveys in small areas to further examine their potential to promote participation in health should be carried out. Such studies should focus on examining ways in which surveys may activate social networks and innovative routes for feedback. Emphasis should be given to the use of data by practitioners and to identifying, carrying out and assessing the impact on the lay community of follow-through activities. It is recommended that training for health promotion staff in both research methods and community participation is required to underpin professional practice in community participation in health. The study demonstrated that a survey to measure health and, at the same time, promote participation in health was a feasible, coherent activity that was acceptable to the community. It may therefore be considered as one strategy by health promotion staff seeking economic and innovative methods for practice.

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Park, Woo Sung. "A survey of pastors regarding their physical health /." Free full text is available to ORU patrons only; click to view:, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1014315091&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=456&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2005.
Includes abstract and vita. Translated from Korean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-185).

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Fish, Julie. "Lesbians and health care : a national survey of lesbians' health behaviour and experiences." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2002. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/11768.

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This is the first systematic large-scale study of lesbian health that has been conducted in the U.K. Its purpose is to provide data about lesbians' breast and cervical screening behaviour and experiences of health care. Comparable studies in the U.S.A. suggest that lesbians do not attend for routine screening tests and are less likely, than heterosexual women, to practise breast self examination. A questionnaire (the Lesbians and Health Care Survey) was distributed to 1066 lesbians in the UK. Four follow-up focus groups (n = 30) were used to explore some of the issues arising from the survey. The major quantitative survey findings include: 12 per cent of lesbians have never attended for a cervical smear; 20 per cent have never practised BSE, and only 11 per cent attend for a mammogram every three years. The qualitative survey data were content analysed in order to identify the reasons given by lesbians for their healthcare behaviour. In the follow-up focus groups, breast health is taken as a case study. This thesis contributes to defining a lesbian feminist health agenda by its valuing of lesbians' own perspectives; by providing alternative conceptions of lesbians' health that do not rely on biomedical, disease models; and it locates lesbians' health experiences within a socio-political framework. By providing a range of data about-lesbians' health, the findings may help to inform the understanding of health providers about lesbians' health needs, improve the practice of health care delivery for lesbians and be of value to lesbians in making decisions about their health care behaviour.

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Belle-Isle, Lynne M. C. "Health and the environment: Risk perception survey in Cornwall." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10210.

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One objective of the 'Ecosystem Recovery on the St. Lawrence" project is to assess the community's perception of the impact of contamination of the St Lawrence River on their quality of life. More precisely, the Health Sciences component of the project has been assigned the task of evaluating the public's perception of health risks associated with contamination of the St. Lawrence River. The survey presented in this paper was designed to evaluate the perception of residents of Cornwall regarding various environmental health risks associated with the Cornwall area and the St. Lawrence River; compare their perception of certain environmental health risks to the perception of the general Canadian population found in the Health-Risk Perception in Canada report; identify their main sources of information on environmental health risks and compare them to those of the Canadian population; evaluate the level of confidence in various sources of information regarding environmental health risks and compare it to the Canadian population: obtaining a general idea of their attitudes and opinions concerning a variety of environmental health risk perception issues; gather data on behaviours related to health risks, and collect personal and demographic data. To obtain this information, a random sample telephone survey was conducted on 497 adults living in Cornwall. The results reveal that the respondents are significantly more concerned about health risks to themselves and their family from river water, air pollution, chemical pollution, PCB or dioxin, and tap water, than to the Canadian public in general. A significantly lower percentage of the respondents perceive chemical pollution, PCB or dioxin, pesticides in food and bottled water to be a high health risk to the Canadian public than in the "Health-Risk Perception in Canada" survey concluded across Canada. The most important source of information regarding health issues and risk is the media, but the greatest confidence is to medical doctors. In general, the respondents feel that Cornwall is an unhealthy place to live, are concerned about the health risks from chemicals, but feel they have very little control over the risks to their health. The majority of respondents do not eat sportfish from the St. Lawrence River mainly because of concern about water pollution. The respondents that do eat sportfish mostly consume yellow perch. In addition, about three-quarters of respondents do not swim in the St. Lawrence River for various reasons. The most common reported medical conditions are asthma, arthritis, allergies, heart conditions, diabetes and hypertension. Multivariate analyses reveal that the less educated, older sportfish consumers who have been living in Cornwall for several years are less likely to associate environmental pollution with health problems. This survey identifies the major concerns of the residents of Cornwall and is useful to direct risk communication. Recommendations are made based on the results of this survey.

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Terry, Allan Keith 1952. "National survey of hospital drug-use evaluation programs." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291364.

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A self-administered, mail questionnaire was used to assess the current state of hospital drug-use evaluation (DUE) programs within short-term, general U.S. hospitals. During February-March 1992, two mailings were sent to pharmacy directors at 491 randomly selected institutions. A net response rate of 66.6% (327/491) was achieved. The level of pharmacist participation in DUE program activities was found to be very high and to have a significant, positive correlation with the rated effectiveness of current DUE programs and the rated importance of pharmacist participation in DUE program activities. Pharmacists were members on 97.9% of responders' DUE (sub)committees, while 65.5% of pharmacist members held voting privileges. Pharmacists devoted an average of 11.27 hours per week to DUE-related tasks. Wide variation was demonstrated in rationale used to select DUE study drugs, interventions employed, use of DUE study results, and methods selected to evaluate DUE program effectiveness.

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Vaxvick, Gordon M. "Developing a survey to assess organizational health and culture." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0019/MQ49199.pdf.

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Ahmed, Misbah Uddin Pimonpan Isarabhakdi. "Married female adolescents' reproductive health behavior in Bangladesh : evidence from Demography and Health Survey /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd393/4838752.pdf.

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Taylor, A. "Consumer perceptions of maternity care in one health district." Thesis, University of Bath, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383618.

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Jeffs, Lianne Patricia. "Content validity assessment of the University Student Health Survey Instrument." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0026/MQ34071.pdf.

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Nelson, Kristin Elizabeth. "Children With Special Needs Oral Health Quality of Life Survey." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1796.

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Smart, Joseph Ruben. "Reported Mental Health Issues and Marital Quality: A Statewide Survey." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/197.

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This study included a representative random sample of 886 married individuals in Utah. This sample was surveyed to discover the relationship between demographic variables, reported mental health issues, and marital quality. In addition, this study sought to discover models, using demographic variables and reported mental health issues, to predict for separate dimensions of marital quality. This survey was a replication of a study completed primarily in Oklahoma, with the addition of questions about the participants' mental health. Spearman's rho, Pearson's R, and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. The results of the study show that: religious beliefs had a statistically significant relationship with commitment/satisfaction, with stability, and negative interactions. Religious activity had a statistically significant relationship with commitment/satisfaction, and negative interactions. The duration of marriage had a statistically significant relationship with stability, negative interactions, and age at time of current marriage. The models found for predicting the separate dimensions of marital quality including commitment and satisfaction, stability, and negative interactions were all robust. Implications and recommendations are discussed.

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Irwin, Gail Rosamund. "A respiratory health survey within a brewery in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10810.

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A brewery worker developed work-related asthma associated with exposure to malt and other grain dust allergens in a brewery over a period. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of work-related respiratory symptoms and associated risk factors, within this brewery in South Africa.

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Abie, Zogoe Herve-Brice. "Farm workers in Stellenbosch : a survey of factors affecting health." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13442.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54).
The study was done to establish a profile of farm workers' health; and to investigate the extent to which the health of farm workers may be impaired by identified factors, both environmental and non-environmental.

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Zhang, Min. "Health-related knowledge and behaviors associated with levels of obesity among Manitobans, analysis of the 1990 Manitoba Heart Health Survey." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ57014.pdf.

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Taylor, Candace Regina. "A longitudinal survey of household factors in childhood injury : the national maternal and infant health survey 1988-1991 /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488193272068374.

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Wilson, R. J. "A life course assessment of health management in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1574539/.

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As the UK population expands and adverse health increases with the ageing population, health care services are under pressure to meet demands. Thus, it is necessary to understand how individuals manage their health at different stages in adulthood and identify the health and social factors across life associated with different approaches to health management. Data from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, a British birth cohort study following 5362 individuals from birth to 68 years, were used to measure health management across adult life. Measures of health professional consultation at age 43, women’s management of symptoms and general health in midlife and health check attendance at age 68 were developed from the rich data archive. Associations were tested between health and social factors from childhood and adulthood (socioeconomic position, health, health care utilisation, lifestyle, personality and family support) and health management outcomes using multivariable regression models and structural equation modelling. Associations between measures of health management from earlier, mid and later adulthood were tested to explore patterns of health management across adult life. Childhood serious illness was associated with higher consultation at age 43 and with lower self-management in midlife and lower health check attendance in later life in women, although these associations largely operated through adult factors. Worse health in adulthood and more health care utilisation were associated with a higher likelihood of proactive health management approaches. Higher social class across life was associated with lower consultation, higher self-management and attending more health checks. Positive health behaviours were associated with higher levels of self-management and higher health check attendance. The correlates of health management differed between health challenges and life course stage. Proactive management of one health challenge was sometimes associated with the proactive management of another at a later stage in the life course. This suggests that whilst some individuals may have a greater propensity to proactively manage their health throughout adulthood by various means, other individuals may take little or no action when responding to health challenges; this group should be encouraged to better engage with proactive health management.

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Irlam, James. "A household survey of maternal and child health in the Mount Frere Health District, Eastern Cape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26987.

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A cross-sectional household survey of maternal and child health was conducted in the Mount Frere health district of the Eastern Cape in August / September 1997. The aim was to describe key aspects of maternal and child health to inform the planning activities of the District Health Management Team (DHMT). A participatory process was followed, in order to develop research capacity within the district, and to facilitate interaction between health workers and the community. Methods: Structured questionnaires were used by local research trainees to gather data from each household on: • household demographics; • deaths in household since April 1994; • household access to water and sanitation; • children under five years; • children aged 5 to 15 years; • deliveries in the past 12 months; • knowledge of prevention and transmission of HIV/AIDS. Focus group discussions around the key findings were conducted with community members and clinic nurses to provide a qualitative component. Results: A high proportion of children under the age of 16, high household density, high unemployment, migrant labour, and absent mothers, are some of the defining demographic characteristics which affect the status of maternal and child health in the district. Access to health services is constrained by distance, lack of transport, and poor roads. Registration of births and deaths is poor, and the crude birth and death rates were found to be significantly higher than the " official" provincial rates. Tuberculosis, diarrhoea, trauma and homicide are notable features of the overall mortality profile, although the majority of deaths were classified "ill-defined / unknown". Diarrhoea and pneumonia accounted for half of all infant deaths. Eight out of ten deaths due to diarrhoea in under-fives occurred at home, but knowledge and use of oral rehydration solution is poor. Access to clean drinking water and sanitation is a major concern, with almost three quarters of homes using unprotected sources, a third more than 30 minutes' walk from the nearest source, and a half having no toilet. Areas of the district with particularly poor environmental health indicators were identified. Immunisation coverage among children 1-4 years is poor. Coverage for all vaccines except BCG falls well short of the national target of 90%, and fewer than 1 in 3 children was fully immunised with valid doses at the age of one year. Long intervals between doses and a high "dropout" rate between subsequent doses was observed. The road to health card (RTHC) could be produced for just over a half of under-five children. The proportion of home deliveries is high (45%), and traditional birth attendants (TBAs) therefore play an important role in this community. Nine out of ten mothers had attended antenatal clinic at least once, but almost half reported receiving no tetanus toxoid and no WR test for syphilis during their antenatal visits. More than a half of all mothers was using no family planning method at the time of the survey. Almost all 15-49 year-olds had heard about HIV/AIDS, but one in five did not know how HIV is transmitted, and a third did not know how it could be prevented. Recommendations: A detailed set of recommendations with action points for the DHMT was developed in a district workshop around the following key issues: 1. Improving access to health care, including road access, mobile clinic coverage, and waiting facilities for expectant mothers. 2. Promoting health in the community, by means of integration of health promotion into all health programmes, and more involvement of communities. 3. Improving the quality of care in the existing health facilities and services, including minimising missed opportunities for immunisation, and promoting home-made oral rehydration (sugar-salt) solution. 4. Improving the district health information system, especially the registration of vital events, and the provision of feedback to district health managers. 5. Identifying areas of further research, including the reasons for home deliveries, management of diarrhoea at home, and the use of traditional healers. Conclusion: The participatory research process that was used has helped to build research capacity in the district, to provide a deeper insight into community health problems, to highlight the value of health workers listening to the people they serve, to further collaboration between the disciplines, and to develop specific action plans. This is a process that should be followed in all research conducted in health districts.

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Wellage, Lynn C. "Headache in children : data from the 1988 child health supplement to the national health interview survey /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487947501137045.

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Sharif, Fatima. "Public Health Officials' Perspectives on the Determinants of Health: Implications of Health Frames on Policy Implementation in State Health Departments." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73500.

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Recent public health scholarship finds that health outcomes are explained by the social and individual determinants of health rather than the individual-level determinants alone. The individualistic perspective has dominated the 20th century institutionalization of public health in the United States where the public health system has tended to focus largely, if not exclusively, on individual factors. This persistent orientation lies in contrast to another set of perspectives that have also persisted, focused on social causes, which are currently dominant in contemporary public health academic literature and in major, international health organizations. Whether the orientation within the United States is due to a prevailing paradigm among public health officials or is the result of new ideas about health causation being dampened under organizational weight is unknown. Despite public health being central to decreasing morbidity and mortality in the 20th century, significant gaps remain in researchers' understanding of what influences practice in the American public health system. My dissertation research investigates the broad outlines of the determinants of health as understood by state public health administrators. I study how the understanding of the determinants of health affects the practice of public health through analyzing how the ideas of state public health administrators interact with the organizational dynamics of the public health organizations they lead. This mixed-methods dissertation uses survey research and in-depth interviews and quantitative and qualitative analysis. I find that state public health officials' professionalization, length of tenure, level of education, and gender affect the perspective of health causation to which they adhere. I also find that the state public health officials with a social health frame more commonly report they are situated in organizations that are learning environments. Both organizational and ideational factors influence public health practice. The interview data expand this finding to paint a complex picture of organizational and ideational factors influencing one another as well as resulting practices. This research reveals that state public health officials often have strong health frames that are only able to shape the edges of their practice due to the political and organizational dynamics interacting with state public health departments.
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Svedberg, Petra, Bodil Ivarsson, Ulrica G. Nilsson, Åsa Roxberg, Amir Baigi, David Brunt, Margareta Brännström, et al. "Psychometric evaluation of a Swedish version of Krantz Health Opinion Survey." Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, HV, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-22376.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psy- chometric properties of a Swedish version of The Krantz Health Opinion Survey (KHOS). A conven- ience sample of 79 persons (47 men and 32 women) was recruited from The Heart and Lung Patients’ National Association at ten local meeting places in different areas in Sweden. The questionnaire was examined for face and content validity, internal con-sistency and test-retest reliability. The findings showed that the Swedish version of KHOS is accept- able in terms of face and content validity, internal consistency and test-retest reliability over time among 79 individuals >65 years of age and with a cardiac disease. In conclusion, wider evaluations of the psy- chometric use of KHOS for other populations and settings are recommended.
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Rogers, Hazel Lynn. "A survey of the travel health experiences of international business travellers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0008/MQ31327.pdf.

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Lawson, Beverley J. "Evaluation of nonresponse bias in the Nova Scotia Health Survey 1995." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0019/MQ49387.pdf.

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Van, Ineveld Cornelia. "Reliability and validity of the Predicting Health Needs of Seniors Survey." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0017/MQ53237.pdf.

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Nilses, Carin. "Health in Women of Reproductive Age : A Survey in Rural Zimbabwe." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2000. http://publications.uu.se/theses/91-554-4893-3/.

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Khatun, Mohsina. "Contraceptive use dynamics : application to the Bangladesh demographic and health survey." Amsterdam : Dutch University Press, 2005. http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/faculties/rw/2005/m.khatun/.

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Arneill-Py, Ann. "Measurement invariance of the Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program Consumer Survey /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Piombo, Sara <1969&gt. "Multilevel Analysis in Household Survey: An Application to Health Condition Data." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/5220/.

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The aim of this thesis is to apply multilevel regression model in context of household surveys. Hierarchical structure in this type of data is characterized by many small groups. In last years comparative and multilevel analysis in the field of perceived health have grown in size. The purpose of this thesis is to develop a multilevel analysis with three level of hierarchy for Physical Component Summary outcome to: evaluate magnitude of within and between variance at each level (individual, household and municipality); explore which covariates affect on perceived physical health at each level; compare model-based and design-based approach in order to establish informativeness of sampling design; estimate a quantile regression for hierarchical data. The target population are the Italian residents aged 18 years and older. Our study shows a high degree of homogeneity within level 1 units belonging from the same group, with an intraclass correlation of 27% in a level-2 null model. Almost all variance is explained by level 1 covariates. In fact, in our model the explanatory variables having more impact on the outcome are disability, unable to work, age and chronic diseases (18 pathologies). An additional analysis are performed by using novel procedure of analysis :"Linear Quantile Mixed Model", named "Multilevel Linear Quantile Regression", estimate. This give us the possibility to describe more generally the conditional distribution of the response through the estimation of its quantiles, while accounting for the dependence among the observations. This has represented a great advantage of our models with respect to classic multilevel regression. The median regression with random effects reveals to be more efficient than the mean regression in representation of the outcome central tendency. A more detailed analysis of the conditional distribution of the response on other quantiles highlighted a differential effect of some covariate along the distribution.
Lo scopo di questa tesi è quello di applicare il modello di regressione multilivello nel contesto di indagini sulle famiglie. La struttura gerarchica in questo tipo di dati è caratterizzato da numerosi piccoli gruppi. Negli ultimi anni analisi comparative e multilivello sullo stato di salute percepito sono aumentate molto. L’obiettivo di questa tesi è di applicare un'analisi multilivello a tre livelli per la variabile risposta Physical Component Summary allo scopo di: valutare entità all'interno e tra varianza ad ogni livello (individuale, familiare e comune); indagare quali covariate influiscono sulla percezione dello stato di salute fisica ogni livello; confrontare le analisi model-based e di design-based al fine di stabilire se i pesi campionari siano informativiti per il modello di interesse; stimare una regressione quantile per i dati gerarchici. La popolazione target sono i residenti italiani di età compresa tra 18 anni. Il nostro studio rileva un’elevata omogeneità tra le unità di livello 1 e una correlazione intraclasse del 27% nel modello nullo a 2livelli. Quasi tutta la varianza è spiegata dalle covariate di livello. Nel nostro modello le variabili esplicative hanno un impatto maggiore sulla variabile risposta sono la disabilità, inabilità al lavoro, l’età e le malattie croniche (18 patologie). Un'ulteriore analisi viene eseguita utilizzando una nuova procedura di analisi: "Regressione lineare quantile multilivello”. Questa analisi ci dà la possibilità di descrivere più in generale la distribuzione condizionata della variabile risposta attraverso la stima dei suoi quantili. Questo ha portato un grande vantaggio nei nostri modelli rispetto al classico modello di regressione multilivello. La regressione mediana con effetti casuali si rivela più efficiente del regressione media nella rappresentazione della tendenza centrale. Un'analisi più dettagliata della distribuzione condizionata della variabile risposta in corrispondenza di altri quantili ha evidenziato che certe covariate hanno un effetto diverso lungo la distribuzione.

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Tian, Haijun. "Caring for depression and comorbid pain evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey and the Healthcare for Communities Survey /." Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2006. http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgsd_issertations/RGSD204/.

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Ernsting, Clemens [Verfasser]. "Using Smartphones and Health Apps to Change and Manage Health Behaviors : A Population-Based Survey / Clemens Ernsting." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/121807793X/34.

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Sobiech, Kathleen L. "Unmet Need for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services| Results from the 2013 Liberia Demographic and Health Survey." Thesis, Indiana University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10605446.

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Although the association between poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and sociodemographic indicators has been explored in many resource-poor settings, limited information exists specific to Liberia. The two studies in this document seek to describe unmet need for SRH services using three critical indicators of SRH services: knowledge of HIV status (sexual health); use of skilled provider for antenatal care and delivery (reproductive health); and use of modern contraception when there is a desire to limit or space reproduction (family planning). Data from Liberia’s 2013 Demographic and Health Survey (LDHS) was used to summarize individual-level profiles according to key sociodemographic and sexual health characteristics for sexually active women and men aged 15-49 (N_women=7,787; N_men=3,426). Frequency distributions from log-binomial regressions show the prevalence of unmet need for sexual health services for women is 51.9% and 72.8% for men; 39.7% for reproductive services (women only); and prevalence of unmet need for family planning is 70.7% for women and 76.1% for men. Results show wide disparities in unmet need for sexual health services by wealth and educational attainment for both men and women. Differences in unmet need for reproductive services were disparate based on educational attainment, wealth, and urban/rural residence. Although the unmet need for family planning is high, the disparities among subgroups is not as dramatic as other unmet needs. Results indicate the need to evaluate the gaps between national policy and service utilization with special attention to subgroups with a high-burden of unmet need.

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Corrigall, Joanne. "Immunisation coverage of the Western Cape Province : household survey 2005." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9318.

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[Objective] To determine the routine immunisation coverage rates in children aged 12-23 months in the Western Cape and factors affecting immunisation coverage. [Design] Cross-sectional Household Survey using an adaptation of the '30x7' cluster survey technique (multi-stage sampling). [Setting] Households across the Western Cape. [Subjects] 3705 caregivers of children aged 12-23 months who had been living in the Western Cape for at least 6 months. [Outcome Measures] Vaccination Status (1=fully vaccinated, 0=partially vaccinated) as recorded on a Road to Health card or given by history. Factors affecting caregivers' vaccination behaviour established from a questionnaire. [Results] The immunisation coverage was 76.8% for vaccines due by 9 months and 53.2% for vaccines due by 18 months. The reasons given for not being imunised were clinic-related factors (47%), lack of information (27%), lack of information (27%), caregiver being unable to attend the clinic (23%) and lack of motivation (14%). Of clinic factors cited, the two commonest factors were missed opportunities (34%) and being told by clinic staff to come back another time (20%). Factors enhancing coverage included possession of a Road-to-Health card, caregiver knowledge about vaccines and perceived attitude of clinic staff. Certain racial inequities in coverage were also apparent, particularly in the Boland-Overberg Region. [Conclusion] While the coverage indicated that a lot of good work has been done, the coverage was insufficient to prevent outbreaks of measles and other common childhood conditions including polio. The coverage was too low to consider not running periodic mass campaigns for measles and polio. The reasons given by caregivers for their children not being immunized and factors associated with increased coverage are valuable pointers as to where interventions should be focused.

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Mulyono, Sigit. "Health risk behavior survey of school age children in two Indonesian villages /." Internet access available to MUN users only, 2003. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,165314.

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Khan, Sara. "Adiposity and Pulmonary Function: Analysis of the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS)." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23892.

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Adiposity has been linked to impaired respiratory function in adults but whether the distribution of adipose tissue has a differential effect on pulmonary function is still uncertain. Moreover, in children, the relationship between adiposity and lung dysfunction is not clearly understood. A two-stage multivariate analysis was conducted using data from 5604 Canadians aged 6 to 79 years who participated in the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS). The associations of various anthropometric and skinfold measures with lung function were examined separately in adults and children. After adjustment of covariates, waist circumference and subscapular skinfold thickness showed the strongest inverse associations with FVC and FEV1 in men. In women, BMI and sum of five skinfolds had the largest impact on pulmonary function. FVC and FEV1 in boys were most affected by waist-to-hip ratio and triceps skinfold. In girls, adiposity was not linked to the lung function testing variables. Adiposity measures have differing effects on respiratory function depending on age and sex group.

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Yan, Fengxia. "Racial Disparities Study in Diabetes-Related Complication Using National Health Survey Data." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_theses/90.

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The main aim of this study is to compare the prevalence of diabetes-related complications in white to the prevalence in other racial and ethnic groups in United States using 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). By constructing the logistic regression model, odds ratios (OR) were calculated to compare the prevalence of diabetes complications in white and other groups. Compared to white, the prevalence of hypertension and stroke in African Americans were higher, while the prevalence of heart attack and coronary heart disease were lower. The Asian Americans or Pacific Islanders, African Americans and Hispanics were more likely to develop retinopathy compared to white. The prevalence of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, heart attack, coronary heart disease, Stroke in Native Americans and “other” group were not significantly different from the prevalence in white. Asian or Pacific Islanders were less likely to experience stroke.

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Moreno, López Rosa. "Oral health Survey of a population living in nursing homes in Catalonia." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/283094.

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Successful ageing, which gives the highest autonomy possible for the elderly, is the one that everyone aspires to. It is based on this objective that the “Departament de Sanitat i Seguretat Social” of Generalitat de Catalunya on its publication: “L’atenció sociosanitària a Catalunya. Vida als anys”, aims for on their motto: “ageing, health and quality of life” stating that this should be one of the axis of welfare policies and research of the coming years. In the age range 75-80 years there is a rise on the physiological indicators of fragility, thus increasing the need for support and the use of health services. The dental requirements will also be different from what dentists are used to treating, as we will start to see patients with very heavily restored dentitions, with severe chronic periodontitis and multiple cases of severe tooth wear. The majority of elderly patients are partially or completely edentate. This may mean that they require new dentures or repairs to old dentures to improve the function of the denture and ability to eat properly again. Elderly patients may have bad oral hygiene, making them more susceptible to having periodontal disease. We need to use specific indices to be able to evaluate those differences, and we need to bear in mind their self-perception of oral health, as well as their cognitive impairments in order to plan an accurate treatment plan. The most recent studies carried out in Catalonia on oral health in institutionalized elders were more than 20 years ago. Together with other studies done in other regions of Spain where there was lack of homogeneity we believed that we needed to update the data we currently had following the new guidelines of WHO. In the 80s, there were similar studies done on primary schools to try to decrease the number of decayed teeth on children in Catalonia by introducing fluoride mouthwashes on a weekly basis. Thanks to these studies they contributed to raise awareness to the population, as well as politicians, so that better social healthcare decisions could be taken by the Generalitat de Catalunya. We aim that by providing new data on the oral health of people over 65 years in Catalonia living in nursing homes, as well as their treatment needs and their own perception of their oral health it will document and justify new political decisions in regards to preventive and health care programs for the elderly people.
El envejecimiento de la población es una de las transformaciones demográficas más importantes en nuestra sociedad. La creciente proporción de personas mayores de 65 años en la sociedad supone un desafío de consecuencias extraordinarias puesto que satisfacer sus demandas sociales, sanitarias, económicas y culturales implica un gran sobrecoste especialmente importante en los países industrializados. Estos cambios ocurridos sobre todo durante la última década han afectado o en particular a la distribución demográfica al aumentar espectacularmente el número de personas de más de 85 años, como consecuencia del aumento en la expectativa de vida, especialmente en el mundo occidental. Cataluña es una de las regiones más prósperas de España una en las que el número de personas de más de 65 años ha aumentado considerablemente. En 2010 su porcentaje fue de 16,49% y se estima que en 2041 llegarán al 26,63%. Del total de personas de más de 65 años, los que viven en residencias de ancianos en Cataluña son el 4,69%. Sin embargo, sólo el 13% de estas residencias son públicas. El perfil de usuario es de una mujer mayor de 80 (78%) y con algún tipo de dependencia al hacer las actividades básicas de la vida diaria2. En razón a estos cambios demográficos de los últimos años, el número de personas mayores aumentará en las consultas dentales, así como aquellos pacientes con algún tipo de dependencia. Además sus necesidades de tratamiento dental son en general diferentes debido a las características especiales de su salud oral. Por ejemplo, la mayoría de ellos son completamente o parcialmente edéntulos, requiriendo de nuevas dentaduras o de la reparación de las antiguas. En general suelen tener mala higiene bucal, haciéndolos más susceptibles a la enfermedad periodontal y a incrementar el riesgo de padecer cáncer oral. Necesitamos recurrir a índices específicos para poder evaluar esas diferencias y necesitamos prestar atención a su propia percepción de salud bucal, así como a su deterioro cognitivo para disponer de un plan de tratamiento acorde a sus necesidades específicas. La razón por la cual decidimos llevar a cabo una encuesta epidemiológica es investigar cual es la salud oral de las personas mayores de 65 años en Cataluña que viven en residencias de ancianos, al igual que cuáles son sus necesidades de tratamiento y cómo perciben su salud oral, mediante el uso del GOHAI (General Oral Health Assessment Index). Adicionalmente quisimos averiguar si el deterioro cognitivo de estos pacientes influenciaba su estado dental dado que hay muy pocos estudios que evalúen esta relación. Esperamos que el aporte de nuevos datos sobre la salud oral, necesidades de tratamiento y autopercepción de salud oral de los ancianos mayores de 65 años en Cataluña que viven en residencias, documente y justifique la creación de nuevas políticas sanitarias y preventivas hacia los ancianos.

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周古筠 and Ku-kwan Clara Chau. "The association of smoking and erectile dysfunction in the men's health survey." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31970412.

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Li, Kar-yan, and 李嘉恩. "Age-period-cohort analysis of sequential cross-sectional oral health survey data." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45159336.

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Chau, Ku-kwan Clara. "The association of smoking and erectile dysfunction in the men's health survey." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25100671.

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Stickney, Nicole. "Mental health provision to Hispanics in Idaho : findings from a provider survey /." [Boise, Idaho] : Boise State University, 2009. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/74/.

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Wells, Pamela Luann George Mary C. "An oral health survey of the Lumbee tribe in southeastern North Carolina." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1589.

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Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Education in the Department of Dental Ecology of the School of Dentistry." Discipline: Dental Ecology; Dental Hygiene Education; Department/School: Dentistry.

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Ogunleye, Olushola O., Bethesda J. O'Connell, Megan Quinn, Lea C. Florence, and Kaitlyn Shirely. "Pap Utilization Survey in Nueva Vida, Nicaragua: Professional and Health Promotoras Partnership." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6869.

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Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer affecting women in developing countries and accounted for 84% of the global incidence of cervical cancer in 2012. Nicaragua is one country illustrating this disparity, with an annual cervical cancer mortality six times the U.S. rate. This may be explained by lack and poor utilization of effective screening programs, especially the Papanicolaou, or Pap, smear. This study resulted from a partnership formed by faculty and students from two U.S. universities and a Nicaraguan nonprofit organization to conduct projects to benefit a community in Nicaragua. To promote a free Pap smear program provided by the local clinic, a community-wide survey regarding Pap smear utilization was conducted with local health promotoras (promoters). Of 1,117 women, 78.4% reported ever having a Pap smear, of whom 11.1% had not received their results, while results were reported as normal by 78.9%, and abnormal by 10%. The most common reasons for not having a Pap smear were refusal to test, fear, and pain. Proportions of women who ever had a Pap smear varied by etapa (stage/neighborhood, p < .001). Findings are useful for policy development to improve the clinic’s screening services and encourage full utilization of Pap smears.

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Pedneau, Emily. "Impact of Combat Stress on Mental Health Outcomes: BRFSS Survey Data 2006." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/942.

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Objectives: This study sought to determine the relationship between combat experience and mental health outcomes. The study sought to determine whether age was a significant factor in poor mental health outcomes. Methods: Multiple logistic regression (n = 195,048) and multiple linear regression (n = 264,154) were performed on the 2006 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey. Veteran status and a host of demographic and health status questions were analyzed in relation to diagnosis of anxiety or depressive disorder (multiple logistic regression) and to number of days poor mental health (multiple linear regression). Results: Diagnosis of anxiety or depression was not found to be associated with veteran status. Among both veterans and non-veterans, diagnosis was associated with age Conclusions: Contrary to expectations, veteran status was found to be a protective factor for poor mental health outcomes in this analysis. Younger age was found to be associated with poor mental health outcomes, but was an equal association in both veterans and non-veterans, suggesting that mental health outcomes have not been worsened by recent changes in combat characteristics. Denial of mental health status, stoicism within the military community, and limitations of the survey are proposed to explain the unexpected outcome of this analysis.

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