Gender and Urbanity Group Comparisons of the Impact of a Health Risk Factor on Juvenile Recidivism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Dembo ◽  
James Schmeidler ◽  
Jennifer Wareham ◽  
Jessica Faber
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Juvenile Recidivism ◽  
Health Risk Factor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Group Comparisons

Pathologia religiosa: Medicine and the Anti-religious Movement in the Early Soviet Union

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 524-549
Author(s):  
Igor. J. Polianski
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
Health Risk Factor ◽  
The Impact

The interwar secularist-religious clashes across Europe were often perceived as a conflict between religious and scientific worldviews. The interactions and tensions between religion and science are analysed in this article through an examination of the impact of medicine on the secularist project of Russian communism. According to Marx, the religious consciousness was tantamount to the ‘sigh of the oppressed creature’. Soviet physicians diagnosed the believer as a sufferer, as someone plagued by chronic ‘religious feelings’. Small wonder then that a fixed association between religiosity and morbidity could arise. Under these premises Soviet physicians felt predestined to do direct battle with every form of ecclesiastically determined phenomenon as a health risk factor or manifestation of disease. By using various sources of specialist medical and atheist discourse, this contribution seeks to conceptually understand this confluence of health and atheist propaganda, secularization, and healing in terms of a ‘medicalization of religious faith’ in the early Soviet Union. It will address the various fields of discourse within the Soviet pathologia religiosa, that is, constructions of religion and religiosity as pathological phenomena particularly within psychiatry.

scholarly journals Overuse of Medical Tests: A New Health Risk Factor?

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Martins
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Practice Patterns ◽  
Medical Overuse ◽  
Risk Reduction Behavior ◽  
Reduction Behavior ◽  
Medical Tests ◽  
Health Risk Factor

Keywords: Medical Overuse; Practice Patterns, Physicians; Risk Factors; Risk Reduction Behavior.

Pesticide Contamination and Human Health Risk Factor

2017 ◽  
pp. 49-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngangbam Sarat Singh ◽  
Ranju Sharma ◽  
Talat Parween ◽  
P. K. Patanjali
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Human Health Risk ◽  
Pesticide Contamination ◽  
Health Risk Factor

Tobacco as Global Health Risk Factor

2021 ◽  
pp. 617-677
Author(s):  
Douglas Bettcher ◽  
Juliette McHardy ◽  
Hebe Gouda ◽  
Ranti Fayokun
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Health Risk Factor

Injuries as Global Health Risk Factor

2021 ◽  
pp. 823-854
Author(s):  
Jagnoor Jagnoor ◽  
Margie Peden
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Health Risk Factor

High BMI: an important health risk factor among older adults in Ghana

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
E Yorke ◽  
J Tetteh ◽  
Vincent Boima ◽  
AE Yawson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Prevalence Rate ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Risk Factor ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Objective: We examined BMI as a health risk factor for self-reported diabetes mellitus, angina, strokes and arthritis among older Ghanaians aged 50 years and above. Design: We analysed the individual-level data from the World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health Ghana Wave 2 (2014/2015). The influence of BMI on self-reported chronic conditions including diabetes, angina, stroke and arthritis was examined. Setting: Households from all the administrative regions of Ghana. Participants: Included 3350 adults aged 50 years and older. Results: The prevalence of overweight and obesity among participants was 22·8 % (95 % CI 20·6, 25·2) and 13·2 %, respectively (95 % CI 11·5, 15·1). With respect to individual chronic conditions, arthritis emerged with the highest prevalence rate of 7·3 (95 % CI 5·3, 9·9), while the prevalence rate of diabetes, angina and stroke was 2·8 % (95 % CI 2·0, 3·9), 1·7 % (95 % CI 1·1, 2·6) and 1·3 % (95 % CI 1·0, 1·8), respectively. The risk of diabetes among overweight and obesity was over three and two times, respectively, higher compared with participants with normal weights. Overweight and obesity were significantly more than two and three times likely to experience angina, respectively, compared with participants with normal weight. Obesity significantly influences arthritis with approximately two times increased odds compared with normal weight participants. Conclusion: Prevalence of obesity and overweight in Ghana is high and increasing, which poses a health risk at the individual and population levels. Inter-sectorial and multidisciplinary measures in line with the national non-communicable disease policies aimed at curbing this trend are imperative.

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