Health profile

Using this system, SC Johnson scores both raw materials and formulated products, tracks the score of all raw material purchases and measures the overall percentage of materials that fall into each rating category, that is considered Best or RUM . The scores are used to set company goals, as well as to reward the formulators and chemists who use the system to improve the environmental and human health profiles of individual products and product lines. 

Fishelson, L., A. Yawetz, A.S. Perry, Z. Zuk-Rimon, R. Manelis, and A. Dotan. 1994. The Environmental Health Profile (EHP) for the Acre Valley (Israel) xenobiotics in animals and physiological evidence of stress. Sci. Total Environ. 144 33-45. 

Sakurai, H., Omae, K. Minaguchi, H. (1990) Health profiles of workers exposed to acrylonitrile (Abstract). In Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Occupational Health, Montreal, Canada, September 22-28, 1990, p. 295... 

Grace Ziem and James McTamney www.mindfully.org/Health/Profile-Patients-MCS.htm... 

Flame-retardants that are preferable would have been evaluated in risk assessments to ensure acceptable environmental profiles, human health profiles, and risk management in place. The use of excellent product stewardship to keep flame-retardants out of the environment is a key to sustainability of the products and an important attribute of Green Solutions. ... 

Ministry of Public Hecilth. Thailand health profile 1994. Bangkok, Thailand. Erawan Printing Ltd., Part. 

Fig. 2 Health profiles for patients with four conditions. Dotted line indicates patients with no chronic conditions. GI, gastrointestinal disorder MI, myocardial infarction. (From Ref [45].)...

Parkerson, G. Gehlback, S. Wagner, E. James, S. Clapp, N. Muhlbaier, L. The Duke-UNC health profile An adult health status instrument for primary care. Med. Care 1981, 19, 806-828. 

The first modem health status questionnaires were very long, but their results were well validated. The Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) is an example of an early profile. It includes a physical dimension and a psychosocial dimen-sion. - A dimension is a quality or aspect that is a component of health. The SIP also includes five independent categories including sleep, rest, eating, work, and home management, as well as recreation and pastimes. More recently, shorter profiles have been developed such as the Nottingham Health Profile and the Medical Outcomes Study (MQS) 36-Item Health Survey (SF-36) (Appendix 4). 

Spot Detector Target Activation Cell health profiling... 

Fig. 5 Identification of subpopulation characteristics by the use of bio-application, Cell Health profiling. Panel cells were treated for 24 h with vehicle control (a—d), Staurosporine (e-h), or Triton X-100 (images not shown). Cells were stained with Hoechst 33342 to detect nuclei, TOTO-3 to detect necrotic cells, and Caspase 3/7 active cells were stained by Cell Event (Molecular Probes). The overlaid rings in the images represent the nuclei identified by Hoechst, by utilization of the bio-application Cell Health Profiling. By use of the subpopulation characterization tool from the bio-application, the number of necrotic cells (TOTO-3 positive), apoptotic (caspase 3/7 positive), and apo-necrotic cells (TOTO-3 and caspase 3/7 co-staining positive) were quantified...

Health profiles Preference-based measures Specific Instruments... 

Health profiles provide an array of scores representing individual dimensions or domains of HRQOL or health status. An advantage of a health profile is that it provides multiple outcome scores that may be useful to clinicians and/or researchers attempting to measure differential effects of a condition or its treatment on various QOL domains. 

Many HRQOL instruments are in the pubhc domain. However, although they can be used for no or little cosf there may be a fee associated with the purchase of a user s guide or scoring manual. The MOT (www.outcomes-trust.org) is a source for a number of instruments, including the Duke Health Profile, QWB, MOS-HIV Health Survey, Migraine Specific Quality of Life (MSQOL), and Sickness... 

HIV/AIDS human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome HUI Health Utilities Index HYEs healthy-year equivalents ICC intraclass correlation coefficient KDQOL Kidney Disease Quality of Life instrument MCS mental component summary scale of the SF-36 MOS-HTV Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey MOT Medical Outcomes Trust MSQOL Migraine Specific Quality of Life NHP Nottingham Health Profile PCS physical component summary scale of the SF-36 QALY quahty-adjusted hfe year QOL quahty of life QOLIE Quality of Life in Epilepsy QWB Quality of WeU-Being scale SF-36 MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey SIP Sickness Impact Profile VAS visual analog scale WY well year YHL years of healthy life... 

The above example is attractive in that it compares two forms of therapy. What it does not do is place a value on an extra year of life gained or indeed on the quality of life. Economists have worked hard at producing measures to quantify these two concepts. A number of indexes have been produced, the meaning of which is uncertain and discussion of which is beyond the scope of this chapter. They include the Nottingham Health Profile, the American Sickness Impact Profile and the Rosser Health Index." The Rosser Index has been used to produce a quality adjusted life year or QALY. Each year of life is discounted by a factor reflecting the disability and distress suffered during the year. The factor is obtained by asking people to estimate what number of years of perfect health would be equivalent to 10 years of life in a particular state of disability. 

We believe there is a strong possibility that a small group of sterols and steroids in a certain narrow concentration range would be observed only in sera of healthy individuals, regardless of their age, sex, diet and lifestyle. The composition, nature and concentration of such chemical species, when tabulated, would serve as health profiles of normal subjects. We anticipate these profiles should be very similar to one another. 

Comparison of these sets of health profiles with the ones of normal individuals should reveal significant differences in composition, nature, and concentrations. The analysis of the magnitude of differences may eventually lead to an estimate of the severity of pathogenic conditions. 

During the course of this investigation a very large number of health profiles of normal and diseased individuals will be compiled. When thus constructed health profiles of subjects with known medical histories are compared with the one of an incoming patient, the examining physician can derive certain specific knowledge of the patient s cardiovascular health state. 

The gold number of various fluids of our body presents a picture of our health profile and thus can be used for diagnostic purposes by a clinical chemist. 

A wide variety of LAB cultures can be used for the fermentation of either milk or grains for the preparation of the final fermented product. The fimction and characteristics of the LAB used will further define both the organoleptic and health profile of the end product. A broader health relevant grouping is probiotics and nonprobiotics (Christensen 2005). Probiotics are generally considered as LAB that can survive in the host environment (Fuller 1989) and can be defined as microbial cell preparations that have a beneficial effect on the health and wellbeing of the host, (Salminen et al. 1998). 

Crockett AJ, Cranston JM, Moss JR, et al. The MOS SF-36 health survey questiormaire in severe chronic airflow limitation comparison with the Nottingham Health Profile. Qual life Res 1996 5 330-338. 

Common examples to allow the reader to understand the context of the information and its relevance to maintaining a good safety and health profile in the chemical industry... 

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