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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…
Fereshteh Farzianpour, Ali Reihani, Seyyed Mostafa Hosseini, Halea Saderzadeh Yaganeh, Seyead Shahab Hosseini
Introduction: Anthropometric indices are used for assessing the nutrition status of people and societies. The indices determine the growth of the child’s nutrition status, his socioeconomic status and his quality of life. This research aims to study the anthr…
Ibrahim I. Daud, Fredrick O. Opinya, David Midem, Moses Kigani, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Zipporah Ng’ang’a, Peter O. Sumba, Arlene Dent, Rosemary Rochford
In areas of sub-Saharan Africa where malaria is endemic, pregnant women are at a greater risk of malaria than non-pregnant women leading to significant adverse consequences including anemia, intrauterine growth retardation, low birth weight (LBW), and pre-ter…
Marie Veje Knudsen, Sussie Laustsen, Annemette Krintel Petersen, Sanne Angel
Lifestyle following heart disease is considered important to prevent and reduce cardiovascular risk factors. Thus, cardiac rehabilitation is focused on potential lifestyle changes. Further insight into patients’ perspective on lifestyle after cardiac rehabili…
Mohammad Azmal, Rohollah Kalhor, Nayeb Fadaei Dehcheshmeh, Salimeh Goharinezhad, Zohreh Asadollahi Heidari, Fereshteh Farzianpour
Hospitals have always been the focal point of social systems identity. Thus, they acte as the mirror of the community and should be responsible for it. Hospitals have been recognized as a significant source of contamination all around the world, therefore hel…
James McIntosh
The objective of this study is to determine the role that obesity plays in how often Canadians visit their family doctors or general practitioners. Doctor visits are analyzed using mixtures of ordered probability models applied to sample survey data from the…
Cynthia L. Murray, Sherrill A. Conroy
Low maternal, gestational weight gain is associated with preterm birth, intrauterine growth restriction, low birthweight, small-for-gestational-age infants, neural tube defects, infant death, failure to initiate breastfeeding, and childhood asthma. The advant…
Bassey Enya Bassey, Vaz Gama Rui, Alex Ntale Gasasira, Mkanda Pascal, Goitom Weldegbriel, Ticha Johnson Mulum, Sylvester T. Maleghemi, Emem Abasi Bassey
Background: Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) was adopted by World Health Organization (WHO) in 1988 as a key pillar used in monitoring progress towards the global polio eradication initiative. High quality AFP surveillance is essential to support this global ini…
Mansoure Rashidi, Ali Akbar Malekirad, Mohammad Abdollahi, Saied Habibollahi, Narges Dolatyari, Mehdi Narimani
Medicinal plants are considered as natural sources of antioxidant compounds which may protect organisms against oxidative stresses. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of Cinnamon and Melissa officinalis L. (Lemon balm) on the improvement of o…
Irina S. Boksha, Svetlana I. Gavrilova, Igor V. Kolykhalov, Iana B. Fedorova, Iaroslav B. Kalyn, Natalia D. Selezneva, Andrei V. Samorodov, Serge N. Miasoedov, Elizabeta B. Mukaetova-Ladinska
Objectives: Although people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) benefit from cerebrolysin treatment, some still develop dementia. The aim of the current study was to identify most informative clinical assessment tests to predict the therapy efficac…
Jong-Ho Kim, Larry A. McKenzie
This study aims at investigating the in-depth information regarding impacts of physical exercise on psychological well-being in university students with an emphasis on coping with stress in the context of leisure. A qualitative research, based on interview to…
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