What is the relationship between gender and health?

Modern societies' health problems involve a combination of policies, personal behavior, and choice. An examination of the ways men's and women's lives and physiology contribute to differences in their health demonstates the importance of integrating health implications into everyday decisions and actions.

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Outcome measures for effective teamwork in inpatient care: final report

This report presents the final results from the teamwork outcome measures study.

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Hospital quality reporting tools may lack important information

The Inpatient Quality Indicator mortality measures should include information about preexisting patient conditions.

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Proxy and proxy-assisted responses for Medicare beneficiaries should be viewed with caution

Proxy and proxy-assisted responses for Medicare beneficiaries should be viewed with caution. Proxies can provide inaccurate ratings of the health of Medicare beneficiaries; spouses may be more accurate.

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Alcohol availability and neighborhood characteristics

Community characteristics were matched with local alcohol outlet space, beverage price and type, frequency of store location, and other measures to determine the associations between them.

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Low-income women's diets are influenced by neighborhood composition

Neighborhood composition influences the dietary choices of low-income U.S. and foreign-born women.

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Body Mass Index for taller people is increasing

The BMI in taller people is increasing faster than the BMI in shorter people. This may be due to the ample supply of calories available in the U.S. and is a change from past trends in BMI-height relationships.

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Acupuncture is an economic substitute for some medical treatments

Acupuncture is an economic substitute for some medical services and pharmaceuticals, a finding of some importance to insurers, healthcare practitioners, and policy makers.

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Health professionals and the public unprepared to make use of genomic medicine for adults

Genetic testing can now help identify more than a thousand genes that increase the risk for a number of chronic and often fatal diseases. Advances in this field continue to expand rapidly. But a new study finds some healthcare workers are not ready to offer these services.

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