Reliability, Validity, and Scoring of the Health Status Questionnaire-12...

Journal of Nursing Measurement;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Measuring health status as an indicator of individual, population...test the psychometric properties of the Health Status Questionnaire-12 (HSQ-12) Version 2.0, a brief self-reported health status instrument available within the public...

Health status and income inequality: evidence from OECD...

Atlantic Economic Journal;  June 1, 2006 ;     477 words ......identify the main factors that affect health status in the Organization for Economic...why some countries enjoy a better health status than others and what factors account for differences in health status as measured by life expectancy...

How Health Status Affects Progress and Performance in School: A...

Canadian Journal of Public Health;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the effects of health status at birth and health status in the preschool years on educational outcomes...incorporating latent variables to represent Health Status at Birth, Major Illness and Minor Illness...

The relationship of cardiovascular and psychological impairments to the...

Physical Therapy;  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......expectations at the societal level disability).(2,3) Health status is a term commonly used for...most likely to experience disability. Moreover, determination of factors related to health status and knowledge of the relative...

Community, family, and race/ethnic differences in health status in rural...

Rural Sociology;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......medical care variables on self-reported health status among Hispanics, African Americans...important in explaining self-reported health status. These findings suggest that community...important in explaining differences in health status in rural areas. Introduction Throughout...

The determinants of health status in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

American Economist;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......efficient mechanism for improving the health status of society, (Schultz, 2004). Over the...quality of life for their citizens, the health status of SSA is still considerably low and...are some of the unique images of the health status of the African content. The World Bank...

Life expectancies in specific health states: Results from a joint model of...

Demography;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......STATES: RESULTS FROM A JOINT MODEL OF HEALTH STATUS AND MORTALITY OF OLDER PERSONS* With...older persons' health conditions: how health status develops as people age and how these...summarize the multidimensional concept of health status into a limited set of interpretable...

Longitudinal assessment of outcome, health status, and changes in...

JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......purpose of this study was to assess the health status, frequency of therapy-related symptoms...HPEN patients self-completed a general health status questionnaire (SF-36) and a lifestyle...study was 7.1 (1.6) years. Although health status as assessed by SF-36 scores was lower...

Health Status of Older Chinese in Canada

Canadian Journal of Public Health;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......is little research findings on their health status, particularly the aging adults. This...the knowledge gap by examining the health status of this population and comparing the health status between the Chinese aging population...

Health status measures: strategies and analytic methods for assessing...

Physical Therapy;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......measures to those of health status Leg, functional status, disability, health-related...comparison of health status among different...intended to assess disability and clinically...of changes ill health status measures that...

THE CORPORATE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND LONG-TERM HEALTH STATUS: FUTURE...

Research in Healthcare Financial Management;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......of corporate America and long-term health status of individuals and society inconsistent...performance rather than individual health status. In this theoretical examination, the...for-profit provider behavior and long-term health status. The purpose of this approach is to...

Cardiac function vs. depression on health status in CAD.(Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  February 1, 2004 ;     328 words ......is only marginally associated with health status. Ruo and colleagues sought to determine...depressive symptoms and cardiac function on health status, hypothesizing that depressive symptoms...enrolled in the Heart and Soul Study. Health status was assessed by measures of symptom...

Initial health status of patients at outpatient physical therapy clinics....

Physical Therapy;  December 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...[Mossberg KA, McFarland C Initial health status of patients at outpatient physical...Outcomes, SF-36, Survey. Patient-perceived health status is becoming more important due to demands...result, assessment of patient-oriented health status has recently received increased attention...

Subjective health status as a determinant of mortality among...

Journal of the National Medical Association;  December 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......marital status) and two objective health status indicators (bed days and doctor...simple and inexpensive indicator of health status that is typically measured by respondents' self-rating of health status on a scale ranging from excellent...

Health status and income: the impact of poverty on child health.

Journal of School Health;  August 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......comprehensive description of differences in the health status of poor and nonpoor children using...review includes several measures of health status obtained from physical examinations...interviews Included are measures of general health status, prevalence of conditions, disorders...