EXPLORING A NEW GENERATION OF ENIVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OUTCOME INDICATORS FOR ASTHMA

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-Ying Meng ◽  
Christina Lombardi ◽  
Michelle Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcome ◽  
Outcome Indicators ◽  
New Generation

scholarly journals A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON HEALTHY LONGEVITY PHENOTYPES BETWEEN CHINESE AND ITALIAN CENTENARIANS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S603-S603
Author(s):  
Huashuai Chen ◽  
Yi Zeng ◽  
Huashuai Chen ◽  
Yao Yao
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcome ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Outcome Indicators ◽  
Healthy Longevity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Living Children ◽  
Familial Longevity

Abstract This paper reviews and compares demographic, socioeconomic, behavioral (including diet) characteristics and heath phenotypes of centenarians in China and Italy. The results revealed that the interactions between familial longevity and any one of the three environmental factors (receipt of adequate medical care when ill as a child, number of living children, and household economic conditions) were significantly associated with the three health outcome indicators (IADL, self-rated life satisfaction, and anxiety-loneness) at old ages. We discovered that the effects of these environmental factors on the health outcome indicators were substantially stronger among elders who had no family history of longevity compared to centenarians’ children who likely carry genes and/or inherited healthy behavior and better lifestyle from long-lived parents.

OP134 Predictors Of Public Health Outcomes: A Case Study From Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. 62-63
Author(s):  
Songul Cinaroglu ◽  
Onur Baser
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Outcome ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Outcome Indicators ◽  
Random Forest Classification ◽  
Life Expectancy At Birth ◽  
Forest Classification ◽  
Province Level ◽  
Public Health Outcome

INTRODUCTION:In Turkey, there is a scarcity of knowledge about the predictors of health outcomes at a national level, and it is well known that there is a gap between rural and urban parts of developing countries in terms of the level of health outcomes. This study aims to find out predictor factors of the public health outcomes at a province level in Turkey.METHODS:Life expectancy at birth and mortality are used as public health outcome indicators. Logistic regression and Random Forest classification generated by using 50, 100, and 150 trees were used to compare prediction performance of health outcomes. The results of different prediction methods were recorded changing the “k” parameter from 3 to 20 in k-fold cross validation. The Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) was used as a measure of prediction accuracy. Prediction performance differences were tested using Kruskall-Wallis analysis and visualized on a heatmap. Finally, predictor variables of public health outcomes were shown on a decision tree.RESULTS:Study results revealed that Logistic regression outperformed Random Forest classification. The difference between all prediction methods to predict public health outcome indicators was statistically significant (p<.000). The heatmap shows that AUC values to predict mortality have superior performance when compared with life expectancy at birth. Decision tree graphs present that the most important predictor variables were total number of beds for mortality and percentage of higher education graduates for life expectancy at birth.CONCLUSIONS:The results of this study represent a preliminary attempt to determine public health outcome indicators. It is hoped that the results of this study serve as a basis to understand the determinants of health care outcomes at province level with focus on a developing country. This study illustrates that there is a need to spend extra effort for future studies to analyze public health outcomes to improve social welfare functions in health systems.

The asthma health outcome indicators study

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Smith ◽  
Stephen R. Leeder ◽  
Bin Jalaludin ◽  
Wayne T. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcome ◽  
Outcome Indicators

Differences of Health Outcome Indicators Including Mortality according to Potentially Inappropriate Drug Utilization in the Elderly Male

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 682-687
Author(s):  
Jinwon Cho ◽  
Young-Jin Jeong ◽  
Junyong Lee ◽  
Tae-Hee Jeon ◽  
Nayeon Moon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcome ◽  
Drug Utilization ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Inappropriate Drug ◽  
Elderly Male ◽  
Outcome Indicators

scholarly journals What do health authorities think of population based health outcome indicators?

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. McColl ◽  
P. Roderick ◽  
J. Gabbay ◽  
G. Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcome ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Outcome Indicators ◽  
Health Authorities

Finding the Right Problems: Some HREM Applications to Interfaces

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 376-379
Author(s):  
D. Cherns
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
High Resolution Electron Microscopy ◽  
Boundary Structure ◽  
Atomic Structures ◽  
Grain Boundary Structure ◽  
Resolution Electron ◽  
Point To Point ◽  
The Right ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Better Than

The use of high resolution electron microscopy (HREM) to determine the atomic structure of grain boundaries and interfaces is a topic of great current interest. Grain boundary structure has been considered for many years as central to an understanding of the mechanical and transport properties of materials. Some more recent attention has focussed on the atomic structures of metalsemiconductor interfaces which are believed to control electrical properties of contacts. The atomic structures of interfaces in semiconductor or metal multilayers is an area of growing interest for understanding the unusual electrical or mechanical properties which these new materials possess. However, although the point-to-point resolutions of currently available HREMs, ∼2-3Å, appear sufficient to solve many of these problems, few atomic models of grain boundaries and interfaces have been derived. Moreover, with a new generation of 300-400kV instruments promising resolutions in the 1.6-2.0 Å range, and resolutions better than 1.5Å expected from specialist instruments, it is an appropriate time to consider the usefulness of HREM for interface studies.

Total etch dentin bonding systems: scanning electron microscopy of the resin-dentin hybrid layer

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1092-1093
Author(s):  
Jorge Perdigao
Keyword(s):  
Composite Resin ◽  
Mechanical Interlocking ◽  
Hybrid Layer ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Dentin Bonding ◽  
Acid Agent ◽  
Bond Strengths ◽  
Main Component ◽  
Bonding Systems ◽  
New Generation

In 1955, Buonocore introduced the etching of enamel with phosphoric acid. Bonding to enamel was created by mechanical interlocking of resin tags with enamel prisms. Enamel is an inert tissue whose main component is hydroxyapatite (98% by weight). Conversely, dentin is a wet living tissue crossed by tubules containing cellular extensions of the dental pulp. Dentin consists of 18% of organic material, primarily collagen. Several generations of dentin bonding systems (DBS) have been studied in the last 20 years. The dentin bond strengths associated with these DBS have been constantly lower than the enamel bond strengths. Recently, a new generation of DBS has been described. They are applied in three steps: an acid agent on enamel and dentin (total etch technique), two mixed primers and a bonding agent based on a methacrylate resin. They are supposed to bond composite resin to wet dentin through dentin organic component, forming a peculiar blended structure that is part tooth and part resin: the hybrid layer.

Low-voltage, high-resolution scanning electron microscopy of polymers

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 466-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Krause ◽  
W.W. Adams ◽  
S. Kumar ◽  
T. Reilly ◽  
T. Suziki
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Chromatic Aberration ◽  
Image Resolution ◽  
Resolution Limit ◽  
Crossover Point ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Beam Damage ◽  
Scanning Electron

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of polymers at routine operating voltages of 15 to 25 keV can lead to beam damage and sample image distortion due to charging. Imaging polymer samples with low accelerating voltages (0.1 to 2.0 keV), at or near the “crossover point”, can reduce beam damage, eliminate charging, and improve contrast of surface detail. However, at low voltage, beam brightness is reduced and image resolution is degraded due to chromatic aberration. A new generation of instruments has improved brightness at low voltages, but a typical SEM with a tungsten hairpin filament will have a resolution limit of about 100nm at 1keV. Recently, a new field emission gun (FEG) SEM, the Hitachi S900, was introduced with a reported resolution of 0.8nm at 30keV and 5nm at 1keV. In this research we are reporting the results of imaging coated and uncoated polymer samples at accelerating voltages between 1keV and 30keV in a tungsten hairpin SEM and in the Hitachi S900 FEG SEM.

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