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Being healthy is typically regarded as an important goal in life. Correspondingly, many (potential) antecedents and correlates of health have been investigated. For instance, research has shown that ...

When decisions are driven by data, it matters what the data are and, more importantly, what they measure. The metric can become an organization’s mission, influence a policy’s objectives and goals, ...

Thirty Hispanic residents of La Plata County gathered Sunday at the Durango Community Recreation Center to brainstorm ideas to incorporate mental health into overall medical care. The meeting was one ...

When we want to understand or measure someone’s “health-related quality-of-life”, we typically ask them to describe the ...

Ellen-Marie Whelan and Marta Cook discuss how legislation under consideration in Congress measures up to Catholic social teachings. Rev. Philip Forlano and the Rev. Timothy C. Senior put ash on the ...

This paper evaluates the content focus of health education research as presented in the professional literature over a 6-year period (2000-2005). The majority of research (1365 papers) addresses the ...