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Ross A Hammond, Ruth LevineEconomic Studies Program, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USAAbstract: Over the past several decades, obesity has grown into a major global epidemic. In the United States (US), more than two-thirds of adults are now overweight and one-third is obese. In this...
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On-the-spot diabetes detection tests are being made available this week to approximately 11,000 employes in 14 local … business and industrial firms.It is all part of the diabetes detection drive, being staged as part of the local observance of … National Diabetes Week.Tuesday, employes in several industries were lining up for the tests. After the tests were made, they …
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://www.jmir.org/2003/4/e29/ ] Background: Most existing tools for measuring the quality of Internet health information focus almost … performance-measurement system for evaluating the quality of Internet health information. Methods: Application of the quality …-of-care measurement paradigm to developing a conceptual framework for defining and evaluating the quality of diabetes consumer …
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health care decision-making and planning. A population-based risk prediction tool for Diabetes Mellitus (DM) can be … particularly valuable for public health given the significant burden of diabetes and its projected increase in the coming years ….This thesis addresses various aspects related to diabetes risk in addition to incorporating methodologies that advance the …
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, particularly for patients with diabetes who typically have more than one comorbidity that require drug therapy, and their health … individuals enrolled in large employer-sponsored health insurance plans aged 18 to 62 who were diagnosed with diabetes from 2000 …THE EFFECT OF CHANGES IN DRUG BENEFIT DESIGN AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH DIABETES IN LARGE EMPLOYER-SPONSORED INSURANCE …
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from the Demographic and Health Surveys, a new and comprehensive source of anthropometric data for Africa.What was the … to a nutritional or health crisis. Consequently, SSA represents an important exception to the secular trend usually found … reflect an unequal allocation of nutritional and health inputs. The socially induced variance is to be added to the biological …
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accounts for the majority of the sensory input required for driving), processing ability and cognition have been shown to … incident occurrence was minimised. Association between all visual tests, cognition and scores obtained for non … variation in vision, functional performance and cognition, these tests of cognition and information processing should be added …
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behaviour that stresses the significance of cognition and learning for innovation while making the connection between …). 'Cognition, learning and European regional growth: an agent-centred perspective on the 'new' economy', Economics of Innovation …
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