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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu…
Bruno Vieira Cortez, Constância Karyne da Silva Coêlho, Danylo Rafhael Costa Silva, Maria da Conceição Barros Oliveira, Giselle Borges Vieira Pires de Oliveira, Francisco Mayron de Sousa e Silva, Éric Heleno Freire Ferreira Frederico, Danúbia da Cunha de Sá-Caputo, Mario Bernardo-Filho, Janaína de Moraes Silva
Introduction: Mental exercise using the mirror therapy (MT) improves the retention of newly acquired skills and the performance of sequential motor skills in subjects with post-stroke hemiparesis. Objectives: The study aimed to analyze the mirror therapy effe…
Sydney Leibel, Nancy Fenton
Introduction: The objective of this study was to explore the experiences and perceptions of children with food allergies at summer camp. Methods: Qualitative draw-and-tell interviews were conducted with 14 food allergic individuals aged 5 - 12 years to captur…
Fernanda Jorge Guimarães, Monaliza Ribeiro Mariano, Lorita Marlena Freitag Pagliuca
This study aimed to analyze the evidence available in the literature about psychoactive substance use by persons with disabilities. We used integrative review of literature in SciELO, PubMed, SCOPUS, BDENF, and PsychINFO databases, with the descriptors: pesso…
Jasem Ramadan Al Kandari, Salman Mohammad, Ruqayyah Al-Hashem, Girma Telahoun, Mario Barac-Nieto
Aim: Evaluating climbing stairs for prescription and implementation of physical activity regimes. Methods: Healthy females (F, n = 14), and males (M, n = 15) participated. By climbing 100 steps of stairs with 0.173 m height, Heart rate (HR) and oxygen uptake…
Sareh Zhand, Ghassem Rostamian, Alijan Tabarraei, Abdolvahab Moradi
Introduction: More than 350 million people are chronic carriers of HBV and many of them develop progressive diseases, including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Many of those infected develop persistent disease and a proportion goes on to develop liver…
Kamila Soares, Irene Oliveira, Alexandra Esteves, Maria C. Fontes, Cristina Saraiva
This study was performed conducting surveys to assess the Knowledge Level (KL) and Self-Reported Attitudes (SRA) of Food Handlers (FH) in order to evaluate their food safety perception. Food handlers working in 5 cafes and 6 canteens in a university campus re…
Ibtissam Sabbah, Hala Sabbah, Sanaa Sabbah, Hussein Akoum, Nabil Droubi, 1 1
The original online version of this article (Sabbah, I., et al. (2013) Occupational exposures to blood and body fluids (BBF): Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice among health care workers in general hospitals in Lebanon. Health, 5, Article ID: 2652…
Luis Rendón-Torres, Bertha Cecilia Salazar-González, Esther Gallegos-Cabriales, Perla Lizeth Hernández-Cortés, Ernesto O. López-Ramirez, Marco Vinicio Gómez-Meza
Two motor-cognitive interventions were implemented to evaluate their efficacy in cognitive improvement in Mexican older adults 65 years and more. The intervention group received a dance video games plus a cognitive task (dual-task); the comparison group recei…
Jasmin Faber, Angelika A. Schlarb
Sleep quality, distress, and coping strategies differ between male and female students. However, effects of gender on their relation have not been evaluated. Therefore, the primary aim of this study was to confirm gender differences on sleep quality, chronic…
Jasem Ramadan Alkandari, Mario Barac Nieto
Introduction and Objective: We investigated the association of endo-, meso- and ecto-morphic components of somatotype with aerobic power, mid-trunk flexibility and grip strength. Methods: Healthy male (n = 226) and female (n = 86) subjects, aged 9 - 55 years,…
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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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