scholarly journals Methodology for calculating adverse health effects in Latvia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihails Urbans ◽  
Jeļena Malahova ◽  
Vladimirs Jemeļjanovs
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Health Effect ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Value Of Life ◽  
Adverse Health Effect ◽  
The Public ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Adverse Health ◽  
Average Person ◽  
The Cost

Calculating the value of life and adverse health effect is necessary for developing public policyin providing compensation to families of victims of fatal accidents; it is also needed to create reasonablesafety measures for the public, and enable the functioning of life insurance and healthcare systems. Nomethods for assessing the value of life of a person have so far been developed in Latvia. The study wascarried out to determine how much an average person’s life costs in the event of an accident associatedwith the early death of a person, as well as the possible inpatient medical care for the victim in Latvia andsee the general adverse health effect calculation methods. The methods for estimating the value of life ofan average person are very different, that is why authors make a comparison of the estimated value of lifeand the cost of medical treatment.

scholarly journals Health Education; The Comparison Between With Leaflet and Video Using Local Language In Improving Teenager’s Knowledge of Adverse Health Effect of Smoking

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-51
Author(s):  
Abdullah Abdullah ◽  
Andan Firmansyah ◽  
Asri Aprilia Rohman ◽  
Nurisriani Najamuddin ◽  
Rahmayanti Puang Kuma
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Health Effect ◽  
Wilcoxon Test ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Adverse Health Effect ◽  
Local Language ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Adverse Health ◽  
The People

Smoking is a usual activity that we always find in our society, although most of the people know the danger of it, the habit of smoking still can be found in a big amount in our society, especially in the teenage area, whose stand in the biggest amount of smoker in Indonesia in this present. Health education changes attitude of young generation through knowledge, which is influence by several elements, such as delivered information, manner or props used, and language. The purpose of this research was to identify the comparison of leaflets and videos using local language to improve knowledge of the adverse health effects of smoking in the teenager. This research used the Quasi Experiment design with Pretest and Posttest Two Group of 120 respondents. The questionnaire used to examine the knowledge of respondents. The result using the Wilcoxon test showed that leaflet and video with local language are equally effective to increase knowledge of respondents of the health effects of smoking(p= -0.000), mean score after intervention by using the local language leaflet is 1.98, and mean score by using local language video is 2.32. So, local video is more effective to improve the knowledge of teenagers about the danger of smoking than the use of local language leaflets.

Pharmaceutical Promotion in Canada: Convince Them or Confuse Them

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Lexchin
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
The Public ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Drug Companies ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Pharmaceutical Promotion ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Come ◽  
Cost Of Drugs ◽  
The Cost

Currently, drug companies are spending in excess of $200 million annually on promoting their products to Canadian physicians. Although the industry has adopted a voluntary code of advertising practice, this has not prevented gross excesses in all forms of pharmaceutical promotion: drug-company sponsored continuing medical education, and promotion through the public media, detailers, direct mail, sampling, and journal advertising. Not only does advertising add to the cost of drugs, but physicians' reliance on information conveyed through advertising leads to poor prescribing and consequently to significant adverse health effects for patients. Reforms of promotional practices are possible, but the initiative is unlikely to come from either the medical profession or the government. Pressure applied through an emerging grass-roots movement is the best hope for change.

scholarly journals Increased lung cancer mortality rates in the Chinese population from 1973-1975 to 2004-2005: An adverse health effect from exposure to smoking

Cancer ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 121 (S17) ◽  
pp. 3107-3112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiu-Yi Zhi ◽  
Xiao-Nong Zou ◽  
Mu Hu ◽  
Yuan Jiang ◽  
Man-Man Jia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Cancer Mortality ◽  
Chinese Population ◽  
Health Effect ◽  
Lung Cancer Mortality ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Adverse Health Effect ◽  
Adverse Health
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