Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Gerontology Department and Frailty in Ageing Research Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Geriatrics, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: ivan.bautmans@vub.be.
Department of Human Movement Sciences, @AgeAmsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Department of Medicine and Aged Care, @AgeMelbourne, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore, Singapore; National University Health System, Singapore.
Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; Faculty of Sciences, Department of Exercise Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal, QC, Canada.
Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany.
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Many dynamic structural models that include health as a state variable use categorical self-reported health status (SRHS) as their sole empirical measure of health. Commonly, transition probabilities ...
Pregnancy is associated with physiological changes such as increased body mass index, postural changes, hormonal imbalance and changes in foot morphology. Due to an increased uterus and body mass, the...
A quantitative approach, using a descriptive cross-sectional study design was utilized and a validated foot health status questionnaire was used. Data was analysed using a Statistical Package for Soci...
All pregnant women had a poor foot health status in the area of vigour, particularly in the third trimester. In the third trimester, women's physical activity was diminished and they appeared to have ...
As a woman progresses in her pregnancy, her foot health status declined in the areas of footwear, physical activity and vigour....
Working in the field of endoscopy is associated with physical and psychological challenges, but we lack data as to whether it influences the health status of endoscopy personnel. The aim of the presen...
In 2019, a standardized questionnaire of Hogrefe Publishers and a self-designed SurveyMonkey questionnaire were sent online to doctors (n=326) and nursing staff (n=234) working in the field of gastroi...
Compared to a standard population of identical age and gender distribution, endoscopy personnel in Austria have more health-related complaints. Compared to doctors, nursing staff experience greater ad...
The results of the survey showed that persons working in endoscopy have slightly greater health problems than the standard population. Nursing staff are affected more severely than doctors. These data...
We investigate the impact of the Great Recession in Italy on the incidence of chronic diseases using new individual longitudinal data from Electronic Health Records. We exploit the exogenous shock in ...
Spirituality is a health protection factor recognised in the scientific literature. However, few studies have evaluated its impact on French-speaking populations, in secularised societies and even few...
Due to an increasing aging population, China has experienced a rapid expansion in its internal older migrant population who face greater health risks and who have a relatively high demand for health e...
This study analyzed the impact of public health education on the health of the older migrant population in China....
Based on data obtained from the National Migrant Population Health and Family Planning Dynamic Monitor Survey (2018), logistic models and propensity score matching were used to analyze the impact of p...
The self-assessed health of China's older migrant population was good, and the acceptance rate of public health education was 40.81%. The public health status of the older migrant population receiving...
Public health education positively affected the health status of the older migrant population. The characteristics and preferences of the older migrant population involving different genders, regions,...
The sustained growth of older people and the epidemiological shift from communicable to chronic health problems have attracted increased attention to geriatric wellbeing, including oral health....
To evaluate the oral health of urban community-dwelling older people and identify their priority oral health needs....
We recruited 352 adults aged ≥ 65 years in 2015 from social organizations and primary healthcare centres in Beirut and its suburbs. Older people underwent dental examination including the decayed, mis...
Missing teeth contributed most to high DMFT score. Mean PI and root caries indices were high. Mean FU scores were low, but higher in women and in complete denture wearers. Lower numbers of remaining m...
We observed poor oral health, particularly missing teeth and low FUs, in older people, warranting interventions to integrate oral health within the scope of geriatric general health....
This study investigated differences in unhealthy lifestyle behaviors (ULBs) between workers and nonworkers and demonstrated the association of ULBs with occupational characteristics among workers. Thi...
Dental caries in permanent teeth is one of the most common health issues-despite being preventable in early stages-due to inadequate regulation of preventive dental services in many countries. This st...
This mixed-method study analysed data from 19 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Oral health outcomes were measured using decayed missing and filled...
The most common preventive policy category is the availability of free dental services for children (78.95%), and the least common is policy mandating dental services for children (26.32%). The oral h...
A percentage increase in oral health expenditure is associated with a 4.42 reduction in DMFT. The existence of legal policy mandating dental care for children is associated with a 1.32 reduction in me...
Headache is an illness with high prevalence and adverse effects on quality of life. As oral or dental problems such as pain can trigger or aggravate it, we aimed to investigate and compare oral and de...
The present case-control study included 60 patients with chronic headaches (case) and 60 healthy individuals (control) in Rasht, Iran. The demographic characteristics and clinical examinations, includ...
The case group consisted of 25 men (41.7%) and 35 women (58.3%) with an average age of 32.55 ± 6.62 years, while the control group had 27 men (45%) and 33 women (55%) with an average age of 30.95 ± 6....
It seems that chronic headaches do not significantly affect the oral and dental health of the sufferers. Moreover, it appears that these patients are well aware of the role of oral and dental hygiene ...
