Educational Intervention Can Reduce Sexual Behaviors Known To Transmit HIV
...and 25 percent were Hispanic; most were single and unemployed and had beentreated previously for STDs, and all were engaging in behaviors that put them athigh risk for HIV. Most participants reported primarily heterosexual behavior,although 7 percent of male participants reported having sex with men during thet...Lack of private health insurance increases risk of dying, study finds
...s is stronger for the poor, the less educated, the unemployed and the uninsured than for the rich, the highly educated and the insured; for males rather than for females; for those who rarely attend religious services rather than for those who frequently attend; for those with mental and functional disorders an...Male unemployment levels affect birthweight
...fect the health of individuals associated with the unemployed person by both increasing the demands upon them an... California at Berkeley. The female partners of unemployed males commonly experience stress, which is also described as a mismatch between life's demands and a...Welfare to work does not improve mental health
...tly of single mothers with less education who were unemployed or had low-paying jobs, a group on whom little research has been done. "Prior to 1996, there was little research done on the effects of welfare," Kneipp said. "Since reform, few studies have focused on women's health compared to a multitude of st...People suffering from epilepsy continue to lack a good quality of life
...le with epilepsy are three times more likely to be unemployed than the national average. Almost half of these patients suffer from depression and believe that epilepsy has reduced their daily activities and their personal and professional goals for the future. Three-quarters of the epilepsy patients surveyed ...Multiple factors affect psoriasis treatment compliance
...loyed people, it was 68.9 percent (n=134), and for unemployed people, it was 43.9 percent (n=67). The average medication adherence for people who paid for their medication was 45.5 percent (n=102), and for those who did not pay, it was 76.2 percent (n=99). Medication adherence was greater for topical or combin...Emory study finds mental health and heart disease tightly linked
...he risk was higher among males, married adults and unemployed adults. Keyes is lead editor of "Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived," published in 2002 by the American Psychological Association, and is co-editor of "Well-Being: Positive Development Throughout the Life Course," published in ...Little evidence that breast cancer diagnosis leads to employment discrimination, study concludes
...omen in the comparison group (21% versus 15%) were unemployed at the end of the 3-year period. However, most women who were not working (84% of unemployed survivors and 76% of unemployed women in the comparison group) said that the decision to stop workin...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for December 2004 (second issue)
...f near-fatal asthma. For the most part, they were unemployed and unmarried. Asthma affects 15 to 20 million people in the U.S. Although effective medical therapies are available, the illness results in severe asthma exacerbations, causing 465,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths per year. Hospitalization an......e more flexible so that lone parents and long-term unemployed can carry part of their benefits with them into th... practice in the Republic of Ireland for long-term unemployed people for many years.......hers found that women who had become involuntarily unemployed experienced more high blood pressure and cardiovas...tal health," she said. "We are surmising that the unemployed women have more social stress in response to being laid off and not being able to locate a job." Whi...