One hundred seventy-seven social workers registered initially, of whom 154 workers (response rate, 87.0%) completed the immediate posttraining questionnaire, 151 workers (85.3%) responded at 3 months, 153 workers (86.4%) responded at 6 months, and 139 workers (78.5%) responded at 12 months. Table 1 summarizes the respondent profiles longitudinally. There was an initial large improvement in social workers knowledge (Fig 1, top left, a), attitude, and self-perceived competence (Fig 1, top…
Elderly persons who smoke tend to be long-term, heavy, and highly addicted smokers who are at the highest risk for smoking-attributable disease and mortality. Quitting smoking even at an older age can yield substantial benefits. However, individuals in this vulnerable group are less likely to receive smoking cessation interventions than younger people. Therefore, the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has actively promoted smoking cessation in the elderly….
The annual prevalence and incidence of CAO for population in the study cohort increased to the peak in 2 to 3 years after the launch of the universal health insurance, and the incidence declined afterward. But the prevalence of the disease was flattened on approximately similar level after the peak year. A study in the Netherlands for asthma prevalence in children also reported a reversing trend in the period of…
Case Characteristics In this study cohort, there were 4,568 patients with at least one claim of primary diagnosis as CAO services during the 7-year study period for the population aged > 40 years (Table 1). The overall average annual prevalence and incidence rates of CAO were 2.48% and 0.66%, respectively, for these age groups. There were more male than female patients, with male-to-female ratios ranged from 1.47 to 2.66 by…
Chronic pulmonary diseases (CPDs) are heterogeneous disorders of acute/chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, COPD, and chronic airway obstruction (CAO) not elsewhere classified. These diseases have attracted increasing attention because of the augmentation of prevalence and mortality, and the economic cost worldwide. Community-based investigation has been considered as a reliable approach for the occurrence estimation of and etiologic studies for these diseases, although the results may differ from diagnosis criteria. Population-based insurance…
Quality management strategies such as pay for performance or DM may ultimately prove to be effective in realizing an improved quality of care. Since asthma is a highly prevalent condition with clear clinical guidelines and known levers for achieving effective management, asthma outcomes are a popular choice when incentives are tied to specific clinical outcomes. In the absence of accountability structures that specifically address minority or lower income enrollees, however,…
From the earliest times fruit, fresh and dried up, made natural nutrition of the person. Being rich with nutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes they besides are easily digested. Fruit is not only a source of healthy nutrition, but also are used as the way of treatment in dietary nutrition. Fresh fruit and freshly cooked juice are successfully used for restoration of organism’s water balance. The insignificant content of sodium is…
Today there are so many different headache pills, but we do not know exactly what pill should be taken to achieve immediate effect. Headache is a common uncomfortable feeling which follow the majority of people that’s why it should be created drugs which will be able to relieve the pain in no time wasting. Despite a large number of headache pills names, conditionally they can be divided into three groups….
Jungle fever or calenture is a group of diseases which is caused by carrying in erythrocytes the single-celled microorganisms known as Plasmodium. Jungle fever means unclean air, earlier it was claimed that jungle fever was caused by this air. Jungle fever is widely spread on the territory of Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, North and South Caucasus. As you can see the area is rather wide to be anxious about…