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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…
Benoît Sijobert, Mourad Benoussaad, Jennifer Denys, Roger Pissard-Gibollet, Christian Geny, Christine Azevedo Coste
As low cost and highly portable sensors, inertial measurements units (IMU) have become increas-ingly used in gait analysis, embodying an efficient alternative to motion capture systems. Mean-while, being able to compute reliably accurate spatial gait paramete…
Máguida Gomes da Silva, Ana Ruth Macêdo Monteiro, Katyuscia Morais Barros, Sarah Maria de Sousa Feitoza, Violante Augusta Batista Braga, Cristiana Brasil de Almeida Rebouças
This study was carried out in order to investigate the professionals’ feelings concerning the care in the Center for Children and Youth Psychosocial Care, as well as to evidence the advantages and difficulties of this work. This was a qualitative research gui…
Yong Joo Rhee, 1 1
Previous main body of research on end-life-care in South Korea has focused on developing services quality in hospital settings or service payment system in National Health Insurance Program. The delivery system of hospice and palliative care services has evol…
Hirohide Yokokawa, Motoyuki Yuasa, Hironobu Sanada, Teruhiko Hisaoka, Hiroshi Fukuda, 1 1
The study aimed to examine age- and sex-specific associations between health literacy (HL) and healthy lifestyle characteristics. The cross-sectional study was conducted to examine a total 1348 Japanese participants (613 male and 735 female) who took the heal…
Bryan Paul, Wai Liang Tham, 1 1, 1 1
Dengue cases in Malaysia are on the rise and have worsened since last decade, and this has generally been attributed to human actions. However, the effects of climate in this situation have been under-mentioned. We argue that climate also plays a role in spre…
Fereshteh Farzianpour, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Saeadeh Ansari Nosrati, Hamid Pourasghari, Zahra Khakdel Jelodar, Mohammad Bakhtiari
The purpose of this study was to investigate the dimensions and conditions caused by shifts in nurses who worked in constant shifts in non-governmental selective hospitals in Tehran in 2014. In this cross-sectional and applied research, the shifts standard qu…
Yongbum Lee, Mieko Uchiyama
Mammography is widely performed as a standardized procedure for breast cancer screening; however, women often feel some degree of pain during this procedure. Currently, there are limited options available for alleviating pain related to mammography. A non-med…
Thomas Adejoh, Idigo Felicitas Ugochinyere, Sobechukwu Warric Iwene Onwuzu, Nkubli Flavious Bobouin, Alhamdu Sila Moi
Purpose: To establish normal values of sonographically-quantified visceral adipose tissue (VAT) in an African population and to correlate results with biomarkers. Patients and Methods: 100 male and 150 female volunteers were scanned for intra-abdominal adipos…
Jesús Moo Estrella, Paulino Dzib Aguilar, Ricardo Castillo Ayuso, Rossana Cuevas Ferrera
Respiratory disorders during sleep have as a general characteristic the alteration of the respiratory cycle while sleeping. The most outstanding characteristic of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSA) is the partial (hypopnea) or total (apnea) obstruction of…
Paula Marciana Pinheiro de Oliveira, Monaliza Ribeiro Mariano, Lorita Marlena Freitag Pagliuca, Jacqueline Mota da Silva, Paulo Cesar de Almeida, Giselly Oseni Barbosa Oliveira
The objective was to compare the socioeconomic profile and the repercussions for effects on the health of people with physical, hearing and visual of the main Ceará state associations in Brazil. Quantitative study carried out from March to August 2012 through…
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