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Sources Of Air Pollution
Air pollutants are emitted and formed both outdoors and indoors, resulting in personal pollutant exposures that can greatly exceed levels measured by routine air measurements made at centra...
Diagnosis And Treatment Pathway
Ovarian cancer is notorious for its late presentation. It has been called ‘the silent killer’ because the majority of women with ovarian cancer present very late, that is, they already ...
Cholecystectomy And Cholelithiasis
A large number of studies have examined the association between gallbladder disease and gallbladder removal and pancreatic cancer, but findings have been inconsistent. As nonspecific gastro...
The Health-Care System And Patient Empowerment
It is unclear if, left to their own devices, the providers who run health systems would aim to promote or restrict patient empowerment. While all health-care systems strive for the good of ...
A Holistic Model Of Empowerment
Parallel to this recent rise in empowerment, a number of health-care systems have sought to become more patient-oriented. In the United States, a backlash against managed care and the growi...
Empowerment Principles In Health-Care Literature
A recent review of the English language medical literature between 1980 and 2005, summarized in Figure 1, found a range of applications of empowerment principles in health care (Loukanova a...
Classification Of Childhood Cancers
Cancer incidence data for people of all ages are usually presented according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). In the current, tenth revision of ICD, cancers other than...
Key Health Patterns/Issues Epidemiological And Demographic Transitions And Their Effects On Morbidity And Mortality Patterns
Gaziano (2007) notes that the region as a whole seems to be entering the third stage of the epidemiological transition characterized by degenerative and man-made diseases, although a number...
Occupational And Environmental Health Hazard Issues Pertaining To Mobilization And Deployment
Each mission and deployment scenario presents its own set of risks and hazards, not all of which are predictable. Certain missions may present with more obvious hazards (such as combat depl...
Environmental And Occupational Health Hazard Issues Surrounding Military Service During Peacetime Or Garrison Duty
As a population, military personnel in the United States tend to be younger than the U.S. working population and maintain a higher level of health and physical fitness due to combat readine...