Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
... to have large effects on health and environmental outcomes in the distant future." The authors assessed multiple strategies to reduce mortality as well as greenhouse gas emissions from household fuel sources. They gathered a large database of current fuel use in African nations. Using this as a baseline, th...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
... to have large effects on health and environmental outcomes in the distant future."The results of the study show that the best situation in Africa would be to transition from biomass fuels to petroleum-based fossil fuels such as kerosene and liquid propane gas, which can prevent between 1.3 and 3.7 million pr...Sexual lifestyles vary among ethnic groups in Britain
...ons in sexual behaviours and adverse sexual health outcomes among white, black Caribbean, black African, Indian and Pakistani groups. They found variations in the number of sexual partnerships by ethnic group and between men and women. Overall, Indian and Pakistani men and women reported fewer sexual partners...Study finds that coordinating care of chronically ill patients does not increase liability
...care coordination can substantially improve health outcomes and lower costs." Coordinating care can also reduce medial errors. "So it is important to remove any perceived barriers to better care coordination by physicians," he said. Physicians worry about liability because "coordinating care creates a bro...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...vidual studies measuring its impact on health care outcomes and cost have yielded conflicting results. In a critical review that synthesizes the findings of 41 research studies, researchers found a significant association between interpersonal continuity and improved preventive care and lower rates of hospita...Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
... also allow predicting positive nurse and patient outcomes in those settings," Flynn noted. From its headquarters at Rutgers Newark, Rutgers College of Nursing offers a broad range of academic programs on all three Rutgers campuses. The college offers a master's program with unique practitioner specialties ...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
...tology . The authors also found that traditional outcomes measured in patients, including liver histology an...gest. "For example, physicians can measure patient outcomes by administering the 6-item SF vitality scale during office visits. If a patient fails to achieve an...Hospital acquired infections present major problem for infants in developing countries
...een as institutions where children experience poor outcomes at great cost, people in communities in which they live are less likely to seek institutional care, even if advised." She adds: "Infection control in hospitals of developing countries must become part of the international agenda for health-systems im...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage
...umption, can lead to liver failure. At a time when outcomes for other diseases, such as cancers and heart trouble, have made dramatic gains, liver damage --described as the new plague of the 21st century --has yet to be understood and in turn, to become treatable. More women in the UK now die of liver failure...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
...diagnosed by a physician. "Optimal quality-of-life outcomes are assured if allergists continue to perform skin tests and if family and primary care physicians can provide specific IgE blood testing," Szeinbach said. "For more severe cases, these doctors could refer patients to an allergist or other specialist...Abuse and HIV status linked to suicide risk
...d depression. They also set out to learn how these outcomes differed based on women's HIV and abuse experiences. The women were all living in low-income, urban neighborhoods in Baltimore, Md. Of the 611 women interviewed, 31 percent reported having thought about suicide and 16 percent reported having attempte...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...ere patients receive similar care, to determine if outcomes remain poor for African-American women with endometrial cancer. The GOG is an NCI-funded national cooperative group that coordinates most of the large therapeutic gynecologic cancer studies in the U.S. In this study, the survival rates for 168 Afr...New self-help technology set to combat eating disorders
...miting is a good predictor of positive longer-term outcomes in the treatment of bulimia. Many patients with bulimia nervosa find it hard to access evidence based treatment such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). Although it is one of the preferred treatments for emotional and behavioural problems, CBT i...New technique shows promise for improved straightening of crooked nose
CHICAGO A surgical technique offers improved outcomes for straightening the middle third of the nose, a difficult to manage deformity, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Straightening the crooked middle third of the nose, ...Use of inhaled corticosteroid led to fewer hospitalizations for young children with asthma
...alation suspension), were associated with improved outcomes for children with asthma. The trial evaluated a total of 11,407 patients aged 12 months to four years who were diagnosed with asthma. Researchers evaluated exacerbation rates during a 12-month period following the first asthma medication prescripti...Pushy parents can be bad for their children's health
...Hospital for Children, London, analysed the health outcomes of 23 children, who had been referred between 1997 and 2001. The children, whose average age was 14, had all been diagnosed with severe abdominal pain, with no obvious organic (physical) cause, which had greatly disrupted their lives. They had been g...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...asal CPAP significantly reduces the cardiovascular outcomes associated with this medical condition. Simple snoring is not a significant cardiovascular risk factor."...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...t Nevertheless, the presentation, progression and outcomes of CVD in women do differ from those in men. As a result, it is important that medical professionals are equally trained in recognising women's risk profiles, disease onset and progression patterns as well as men's. Women's symptom profiles often va...Specialist care gives better rate of survival
...al stay for heart failure had significantly better outcomes if they received regular cardiovascular follow-up ...heart failure clinics where it has been shown that outcomes are improved. These clinics tend to be located in specialty academic centres, which can be difficult......whites. However, our data were limited to adverse outcomes that occurred prior to discharge, and we do not know the long-term implications of these disparities." Researchers considered possible reasons for these disparities in treatment, such as patient demographic and clinical characteristics, provider spe...