Health status of population

Environment Factors external to the human host, including physical, chemical, biological, social, cultural, and economic factors — any or all of which can influence health status of populations. 

Milacic, S., Petrovic, D., Jovicic, D., et al, 2004. Examination of the health status of populations from depleted-uranium-contaminated regions. Environ. Res. 95, 2-10. 

Changes in perceived physical and mental health status of a schizophrenia patient population following initiation of a conventional or an atypical antipsychotic medication. Poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, June 1998. 

The allocation of a greater or lesser proportion of the total health expenditure to pharmaceuticals merely indicates that there are different ways of combining resources to produce health care. The superiority of one combination of resources over another can only be established by examining the aggregate results of the resources used on the health status of the population. 

The protein content of milk is primarily influenced by the breed of cow, the stage of lactation, type of diet being fed and the health status of the cow, and is important in processing because the protein (and specifically casein) content of milk determines its cheese yield. Milk provides a highly digestible source of protein for a large proportion of the world s population, either as raw milk or processed into dairy products. In addition to this basic nutrition, milk... 

The Ebro catchment is the largest river basin in Spain. It covers an area of 85,362 km2 (http //www.chebro.es) and receives the potential influence of three million people. It suffers a considerable ecological impact from different industrial activities located predominantly in the last third of its course. These activities result on the release to the Ebro River and to some of its tributaries of Tm quantities of chlorinated organic compounds, PBDE and other brominated flame retardants, mercury, and other metals. In addition, intensive agricultural practices, mainly concentrated in the last 30 km of the river course and in its Delta, imply the use of large quantity of pesticides and fertilizers. In this paper, we review physiological effects of these pollutants in resident fish and shellfish populations and provide a general picture of the health status of the low course of the Ebro River. 

This section of the Ebro River is under the direct impact of the Flix chlor-alkali plant and of its residue sediments. Contamination of Hg and OCs is maximal in these sediments, and there is evidence that it leaks downstream as far as at least to Xerta, 37 km away Flix ([8, 9], Fig. 4a, d). Fish populations in Flix show poorer condition and fecundity than their counterparts sampled in Riba-roja or the Delta [38]. In addition, HSI and CF in carps showed good correlation (positive and negative, respectively) with OC burden (Fig. 4c). These data indicate that the pollution by Flix residues and, specifically, by OCs, affects the growth and health status of fish from the low Ebro River. 

As part of an ongoing research project to document the dietaiy and health status of the prehistoric population of Easter Island, dental samples were analyzed to determine our ability to discern marine versus terrestrial dietaiy groups on this small island (12). As an extension of a previous project to determine archaeological signatures of migration using total biologically... 

Monitor Health Status to Identify and Solve Community Health Problems. This service includes accurate diagnosis of the community s health status identification of threats to health and assessment of health service needs timely collection, analysis, and publication of information pertaining to access, utilization, costs, and outcomes of personal health services attention to the vital statistics and health status of specific groups that are at higher risk than the total population and the management of integrated information systems in successful collaboration with private providers and health benefit plans. 

Ideally, one would like to know the number or proportion of voucher recipients whom the scheme protects from becoming impoverished or the reduction in income inequalities in health outcomes. This is known as poverty impact analysis. In practice, these outcomes can be very difficult to measure because of the need to simultaneously measure changes in the health status of subgroups within a population as well as within the population as a whole and to demonstrate that differences among subgroups were caused by the program. 

WHO (2004). Assessing the iron status of populations. Report of a joint World Health Organisation/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention technical consultation. 

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