scholarly journals Feeling angry about current health status: using a population survey to determine the association with demographic, health and social factors

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany K. Gill ◽  
K. Price ◽  
E. Dal Grande ◽  
A. Daly ◽  
A. W. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Current Health Status

scholarly journals WHO report: retrospective mortality survey among the internally displaced population, greater Darfur, Sudan, August 2004

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (38) ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Internally Displaced People ◽  
Current Health Status ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Internally Displaced Population ◽  
Mortality Survey

Summary of new report published by WHO, assessing the current health status of the internally displaced people in Darfur, Sudan,

Empirical analyses of dynamic categorical data

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Cai Hu
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Credit Rating ◽  
Cox Proportional Hazards Model ◽  
Retirement Decision ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Current Health Status ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health Deterioration

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Essay 1 analyzes the married couples' retirement decision using the PSID data. I employ the proportional hazard model to examine the factors that influence the retirement decision of husband and wife, and focus on examining the correlation of husband and wife's retirement status. This essay finds that an individual is more likely to retire if his or her spouse has retired. The retirement hazard is higher if an individual is in worse health. The worse health status also affects the spouse's retirement hazard, but the spouse effect is asymmetry. With the wife in worse health, the husband's retirement hazard decreases. With the husband in worse health, the wife's retirement hazard increases. I also find that the greater the social security income or pension, the higher the retirement hazard. But for the spouse effect, the husband's social security income or pension has impact on the retirement schedule of his wife, while I find no significant impact of wife's retirement benefit on husband's retirement timing. Essay 2 explores the transitions of health status using PSID data from 1984 to 2011 with the ordered logit model and the Cox proportional hazards model. The result shows that the impact of current health status on future health status is relatively large. A worse current health status would lead to a smaller probability for health deterioration, but it is less likely to be in a good health status in the future. There is strong health persistence. Social economics factors' impact on latent health status is also significant, although the magnitude is relatively small. Higher income level and education level would decrease the likelihood of health deterioration, and individuals with high income and high education would be more likely to be in better health status. When comparing different occupations, white-collar job is less associated with health deterioration, and this type of worker is more likely to be in better health status. Essay 3 applies the competing risks model to estimate the movement of corporate credit ratings using WRDS COMPUSTAT data. The credit rating variable is the Standard and Poor's long-term domestic issuer credit rating. The explanatory variables contain measures of leverage, liquidity, current profitability and future profitability. I estimate the impacts of these financial ratios on the upward and downward of credit rating. In addition, I estimate samples before and after the 2008 subprime crisis to study the influence of financial crisis on the credit rating. The result shows that firms with a higher liquidity are more likely to be upgraded and less likely to be downgraded. The impact of liquidity is weaker after the crisis. I find that when the current level of profitability increases, the firm is more likely to be upgraded than to be downgraded. The effect of current profitability is larger after the crisis. Firms with higher leverage ratio are more likely to be upgraded and less likely to be downgraded. And the effect of leverage is similar before and after the crisis.

Comparing the Current Health Status and Health Behaviors of Residents from Urban and Forested Areas

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Insook Lee ◽  
Kowoon Lee ◽  
Sung Jae Kim ◽  
Kyung Sook Bang ◽  
Hee Seung Choi
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Current Health Status ◽  
Forested Areas

scholarly journals Current Health Status and Care Practices among the Retired Elderly Professors of Tribhuvan University

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-152
Author(s):  
Bishnu G.C.
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Elderly Age ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Current Health Status ◽  
Wear And Tear ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study tries to find out the current health status and the care practices of the retired elderly Professors of Kathmandu. Descriptive research design has been followed and all together 30 male and 10 female retired professors were selected conveniently. Structured questionnaire was used to collect the data and information. This study reveals that, most of the respondents (around 50%) were from 60-69 years young-old age group. In most cases, economic condition (around 90% have their own pension), marital life (around 62.5% are currently married) and family support (more than 90%) of the respondents were satisfactory about their current health status. Their physical health seems good but they were still suffering from the backache (100%), poor eye sight (80%), pain around the waist (60%), gastritis (60%) and headache (40%) which was often in elderly age due to auto immune and wear and tear theory. It was found that some of them were suffering from different chronic and acute diseases but they were cared and supported by their family members in their hard time. They had practiced regular medical checkups due to satisfactory family life and economic status.

Preferences For Prolonging Life: A Prospect Theory Approach

2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laraine Winter ◽  
M. Powell Lawton ◽  
Katy Ruckdeschel
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Prospect Theory ◽  
Functional Ability ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Current Health Status ◽  
Healthy Participants

Kahneman and Tversky's (1979) Prospect theory was tested as a model of preferences for prolonging life under various hypothetical health statuses. A sample of 384 elderly people living in congregate housing (263 healthy, 131 frail) indicated how long (if at all) they would want to live under each of nine hypothetical health conditions (e.g., limited to bed or chair in a nursing home). Prospect theory, a decision model which takes into account the individual's point of reference, would predict that frail people would view prospective poorer health conditions as more tolerable and express preferences to live longer in worse health than would currently healthy people. In separate analyses of covariance, we evaluated preferences for continued life under four conditions of functional ability, four conditions of cognitive impairment, and three pain conditions—each as a function of participant's current health status (frail vs. healthy). The predicted interaction between frailty and declining prospective health status was obtained. Frail participants expressed preferences for longer life under more compromised health conditions than did healthy participants. The results imply that such preferences are malleable, changing as health deteriorates. They also help explain disparities between proxy decision-makers' and patients' own preferences as expressed in advance directives.

scholarly journals Disability-Adjusted Life Year attributable to unsafe water, sanitation and handwashing in 2015 for 15-49 year-old females

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najet Guefradj
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Global Burden ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Current Health Status ◽  
Disability Adjusted Life ◽  
Unsafe Water ◽  
Health Situation ◽  
Disability Adjusted Life Year ◽  
Old Females

This layer represents the percentage of total Disability-Adjusted Life Year attributable to unsafe water, sanitation and handwashing for 15-49 year-old females in 2015. One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy" life. The sum of DALYs across a population help to quantify the burden of disease, and to evaluate the gap between current health status and an ideal health situation. Estimates and additional related resources can be found in the Global Burden of Study here: http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2015 For more information, visit the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation website: http://www.healthdata.org/gbd Gender Health Youth

scholarly journals Patient satisfaction after Elective Major Gynaecological Surgery in 2 reference hospitals in Yaounde: A cross-sectional study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ojong Samuel AKOMBENG ◽  
Luchuo Engelbert Bain ◽  
Christiane Nsahlai ◽  
Elvis E. Tarkang ◽  
Ombaku Kingsley ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Phone Call ◽  
P Value ◽  
Gynaecological Surgery ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Current Health Status

Abstract Introduction Patient satisfaction is a quality of care measure and reveals patients’ appreciation of healthcare delivery. We sought to measure patient satisfaction following major gynaecological surgeries in 2 University Teaching Hospitals in Yaounde, Cameroon.Methods Ours was a cross-sectional, prospective study over 9 months (October 1 st 2018, to June 30 th 2018) at the Yaounde Gynaeco-Obstetric and Paediatric Hospital (YGOPH) and the Yaounde Central Hospital (YCH). By administering a modified Surgical Satisfaction Questionnaire (SSQ-8) via phone call 6 months after surgery we appreciated and scored key aspects linked to patient satisfaction, and obtained information on post-operative complications. Data was analysed using Microsoft Excel 18 and SPSS 21 setting significance at p<0.05.Results We recruited 72 patients aged 24 to 68 years. Our participants had a mean satisfaction score of 26 ± 7.854 (59.7% satisfied and 40.3% dissatisfied). All aspects tested on the SSQ-8 questionnaire influenced patient satisfaction. Patients who said they were satisfied with pain control after surgery (OR=0.207 CI=0.070–0.609, P=0,003), and with surgical results in the SSQ-8 questionnaire (OR=0.053, CI=0.011–0.254, P<0.001) achieved statistically significant post-operative satisfaction. Contrarily, patients who were dissatisfied with surgery results (OR=132.000, CI=15.256-114.131, P< 0.001) and those who developed complications (OR=7.922, CI=2.241 – 28.004, P<0.001) were significantly dissatisfied with surgery. Additionally, 47.2% declared a poor post-operative current health status versus 52.8% who claimed a good post-operative current health status. Following multivariate analysis, satisfaction with the results of surgery (aOR= 0.071, CI=0.008–0.657, P= 0.020) and the occurrence of complications (aOR=7.284, CI=1.146 – 46.273, P=0.035) were the main determinants of patient satisfaction. Patient current health status evolved similarly to patient satisfaction and especially by satisfaction with time taken to resume work (aOR=0.039, CI=0.004-0.398, P=0.006) and pre-operative exercise routine (aOR=0.038, CI=0.002–0.678, P-value=0026).Conclusion Patient satisfaction with elective gynaecological surgery is low and determined by post-operative experiences and the occurrence of complications. Also, patient self-reported current health status tends to evolve similarly to satisfaction following surgery.

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