... Socioeconomic position and health
in a population of Brazilian elderly:
the Bambuí Health and Aging Study (BHAS)
Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa,
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Sandhi M. Barreto,
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Josélia O. A. Firmo,
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and ... the
Bambuí Health and Aging Study
(BHAS). The BHAS is a population-
based cohort study of older adults car-
ried out in the town of...
... where there is a power imbalance, educational
imbalance, and where they are fearful of appearing stupid
and fearful of rejection or abandonme nt. As a result, they are
hesitant to admit that they ... managed care organization in the
United States, that 23% of the English-speaking and 34% of
the Spanish-speaking respondents could not adequately read
and comprehend m...
... 2008;2(1):42-45
Memory loss is one of the most common complaints
arising in consultations with elderly people, being reported
by 25% to 50% of these individuals.
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However, whether
these subjective memory complaints (SMC) are related to
objective memory deficits or to subsequent development
of dementia, remains a matter of debate.
A recent review found that SMCs are not consistently
a...
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memorials and back-to-school activities.
Make mental health services available,
including Employee Assistance Program,
if applicable. Practice active listening and
acknowledge pain and anxiety ...
your state or local area:
● Federal laws. The Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a
federal law that affects the release of
student information.
● State...
... divided into age classes in
order to assess aging induced changes.
Patients and Methods
We evaluated the lipid profile in an elderly
institutionalized population of 80 subjects (20
males and 60 females ... females divided into four age
classes) from the town of Catania (Table I).
Health state of our study series was evaluated
by anamnesis, clinical examination and...
... nificant factors (with eigenvalues
greater than unity) that are capable of explaining 94.5%
of the variance and thus most of the infor mation in the
original data set. The new “latent” factors are ... the same method for the remaining direct
variables we obtained the data shown in table VII.
This table shows the discriminating capacity of each
variable for differ...
... primary information sources. Initially, additional
information was sought from the databases of SADC and ECSA-HC
secretariats, and from human resources officials at the ministries of health
in various ... distance
learning, the decentralisation of operational management to promote
local decision-making and management of operational budgets, and a
disturbance allowa...
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number of cases and financial constraints.
Ethical Approval
The study was approved by the institutional
ethics committee of TN Medical College and
BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, India. ... similar
to ours. An increase in sensitivity can be
misleading as it may be accompanied by a
decrease in the true positivity, and an increase
in the relative numbe...
... being
made, but is unequal.
The situation of the interrelated areas of climate, environment and health is increasingly disquieting, jeopardizing
the quality of natural and vital resources and ... ill health due to feelings of isolation, and the traumas faced in their countries
of origin or on the journey. In Malta, migrants also concentrate in particular...