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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…
Bekana Kebede, Gashaw Andargie, Abebaw Gebeyehu
Background: HIV-positive pregnant women are at an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. However, data on birth outcome among HIV-infected women are limited in Ethiopia. This study was conducted to identify the adverse birth outcomes and associated fac…
Marie G. Oscarsson, Anna Qvarnström, Tanja Tydén
Objectives: To explore attitudes to cervical cancer screening and sexual behaviour among human papillomavirus (HPV)-vaccinated young women in southern Sweden. Methods: Sixteen women aged 17-26 years who had received the HPV vaccine were submitted to an indivi…
Teet Seene, Priit Kaasik
Exercise training influences the function of skeletal muscle, modifying fibre structure, metabolism and promoting the release of growth factors and other signalling molecules. The number of satellite cells under the basal lamina of type I and type IIA muscle…
Leah Couzner, Maria Crotty, Ruth Walker, Julie Ratcliffe
Background: Quality in health care has traditionally been determined based on clinical or health outcomes. However, these factors may not be the only aspects of health care that are important to patients. Within rehabilitation factors related to the process o…
Natalya Arkhipova, Elena Popova, Aleksandr Ariev
As a result of research, high prevalence of arte rial hypertension has been identified in the group of patients with coronary heart disease aged 60 and older. Most often, occurring form of arterial hypertension among geriatric patients is isolated systolic ar…
Gian Pietro Emerenziani, Silvia Migliaccio, Maria Chiara Gallotta, Andrea Lenzi, Carlo Baldari, Laura Guidetti
Obesity is one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century. Overweight and obesity drastically increase a person’s risk of developing chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. Furthermore…
Gabrielle McHugh, Ian D. Swain
Objective: Major improvement has been made in the medical management of stroke in the UK between 2008 and 2010 based on the indicators measured in the National Sentinel Audit. However based on the same audit, no corresponding improvement has been effected to…
Tommasina Russo, Giorgio Felzani, Mario Giunta, Cristina Di Mascio, Carmine Marini
Our aim was to evaluate the reproducibility of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) scale when assessed by physical therapists in the routine setting of a Rehabilitation Hospital. We included a consecutive series of patients with spinal cord or cerebral…
Eleonora Marelli, Giuseppe Procino, Maria Cottino, Giorgio Previderè, Silvio Giorgi, Davide Dell’Acqua, Santina Bruno, Marco Cairati, Danila Ferrari, Rosella Capuano, Mauro Colombo
Self-rated health is a valuable outcome in geriatric rehabilitation besides objective results. The present work aims at measuring and analyzing overall health as it is perceived at admission into and at discharge from a geriatric rehabilitation ward. Overall…
Luca Collebrusco, Rita Lombardini
A simple treatment plan for manual therapists is presented based on current evidence-based literature, it is designed to lessen chronic pain and inflammation in the Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). A chronic continuous or intermittent gastrointestinal tract dy…
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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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