Indicated prevention

Violence in the healthcare workplace has been a global concern for over two decades, with a high prevalence of violence towards healthcare workers reported. Workplace violence has become a healthcare quality indicator and embedded in quality improvement initiatives of many healthcare organizations.

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The primary healthcare system in Pakistan focuses on providing episodic, disease-based care. Health care for low-middle income communities is largely through a fee-for-service model that ignores preventive and health-promotive services. The growing burden of cardiovascular illnesses requires restructuring of the primary health care system allowing a community-to-clinic model of care to improve patient- and community-level health indicators.

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Universal health visiting has been a cornerstone of preventative healthcare for children in the United Kingdom (UK) for over 100 years. In 2016, Scotland introduced a new Universal Health Visiting Pathway (UHVP), involving a greater number of contacts with a particular emphasis on the first year, visits within the home setting, and rigorous developmental assessment conducted by a qualified Health Visitor.

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Ebook Rules of thumb for maintenance and reliability engineers presents the following content: Understanding maintenance and reliability, the functional maintenance organization and its people, preventive maintenance program, predictive maintenance program, reliability processes, key performance indicators, total productive maintenance,…

314p zizaybay1103 29-05-2024 4 1   Download

This paper propose a framework to enhance the retail supply chain process of pharmaceutical distribution companies starting from forecasting the products of the next month ending with deliver the right amount of medicines to the right place and at the right time in addition to tracking the stock during the month by applying key performance indicator (KPIs). One of the challenges facing pharmaceutical distribution companies is how to control inventory levels in order to prevent costs of excessive inventory and prevent losing customers due to drug shortages.

15p longtimenosee07 29-03-2024 5 2   Download

Increasing women’s health literacy is the key to preventing cervical cancer, and various tools have been developed to assess women’s cancer health literacy. However, many of these tools come from other countries and have not been adapted to Chinese requirements.

8p vioracle 29-09-2023 4 2   Download

There is a need for biomarkers that improve accuracy compared with current demographic risk indices to detect individuals at the highest lung cancer risk. Improved risk determination will enable more effective lung cancer screening and better stratification of lung nodules into high or low-risk category.

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The results obtained in this work demonstrate a high prevalence of CHB/OBI in the region and indicate the need for further large-scale studies of HBV in order to improve strategies for disease control and prevention in the Vietnam.

8p vineville 08-02-2023 5 1   Download

In population ecology, the concept of reproductive potential denotes the most vital indicator of chances to produce and sustain a healthy descendant until his/her reproductive maturity under the best conditions.

17p vihagrid 30-01-2023 11 3   Download

This meta-review investigated the context-related implementation determinants from seven domains (geographical, epidemiological, sociocultural, economic, ethics-related, political, and legal) that were systematically indicated as occurring during the implementation of obesity prevention policies targeting a healthy diet and a physically active lifestyle.

17p viferrari 28-11-2022 11 2   Download

The reduction of stigma and discrimination in a population are important indicators of the success of programs that target HIV prevention and control. This study aimed to assess the level of HIV-related stigma and its determinants among sexually active Ethiopians.

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For assessing the HIV epidemic in Kenya, a series of independent HIV indicator household-based surveys of similar design can be used to investigate the trends in key indicators relevant to HIV prevention and control and to describe geographic and sociodemographic disparities, assess the impact of interventions, and develop strategies.

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Diet has long been hypothesized to play an important role in hyperuricemia, and weight gain is a factor that is strongly associated with the rise in serum urate. We aimed to clarify the mediating role of obesity in the relationship between diet and hyperuricemia and to determine whether a weight-loss diet is an effective way to prevent hyperuricemia.

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Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is one of the most common postsurgical complications. Palonosetron, a 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor antagonist, is effective for PONV prevention. Herein, we compared palonosetron and aprepitant (a neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist) for PONV prevention in patients indicated for laparoscopic gynaecologic surgery.

7p viisaacnewton 26-04-2022 8 2   Download

The visual observation and water permeability tests showed that bacterial mortar could repair the cracks and prevent the invasion of liquids and gases compared with the negative control. Besides, SEM and XRD analytical results indicated that the different carbonate polymorphs were formed inside the cracks. Additionally, the plate count method revealed that there were vegetative S. pasteurii cells in cracks even after 28 days, which means the bacterial mortar may have a long-lasting effect on the cement.

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Identifying practical and distinguished indicators and influencing factors of male aging may be useful in predicting subsequent aging trends, designing personalized prevention, and improving lifestyle and health.

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Clinical studies indicate that strength-balance training for active fall prevention can prevent fractures in older people. The present modelling study evaluates the cost-effectiveness of fall prevention exercise (FPE) provided to independently living older people compared to no intervention in Germany.

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Multidimensional frailty, including physical, psychological, and social components, is associated to disability, lower quality of life, increased healthcare utilization, and mortality. In order to prevent or delay frailty, more knowledge of its determinants is necessary; one of these determinants is lifestyle. The aim of this study is to determine the association between lifestyle factors smoking, alcohol use, nutrition, physical activity, and multidimensional frailty.

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Monitoring frailty indicators in elderly people is recommended to identify those who could benefit from disability prevention programs. To contribute to the understanding of the development of frailty in the elderly, we have created the FREEDOM-LNA cohort constituting an observational study of ageing in general population.

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Various intestinal morphological alterations have been reported in cultured fish fed diets with high contents of plant ingredients. Since 2000, salmon farmers have reported symptoms indicating an intestinal problem, which we suggest calling lipid malabsorption syndrome (LMS), characterized by pale and foamy appearance of the enterocytes of the pyloric caeca, the result of lipid accumulation.

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