Rapid Review on the Concept of Positive Health and Its Implementation in Practice.

Positive health (PH) has been described as a promising transformative innovation to address the challenges of promoting well-being and reducing the burden of disease. For this study, we conducted a scientific literature review of the current state of knowledge about PH as introduced by Huber and colleagues, following the Cochrane Rapid Review recommendations. Three databases were searched (PubMed, Google Scholar, and CINAHL).

[Crucial role for healthcare providers in the PURE smoke-free campaign].

Smoking is still one of the leading causes of death in the Netherlands and worldwide. The current pandemic has made the importance of smoking cessation even more visible. With the smoking cessation campaign PURE smoke-free (in Dutch: PUUR rookvrij), the Dutch government aims to encourage smokers to quit smoking.

Systematic review of school-based interventions to prevent smoking for girls.

Background: The purpose of this review is to study the effect of school-based interventions on smoking prevention for girls.

Methods: We performed a systematic review of articles published since 1992 on school-based tobacco-control interventions in controlled trials for smoking prevention among children. We searched the databases of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, The Cochrane Databases, CINAHL, Social Science Abstracts, and PsycInfo.

[Gender and disparities: the example of tobacco smoking].

Smoking prevalence is globally five times higher among men compared to women but this gap tends to decrease. Regarding health consequences of smoking, women tend to be more vulnerable than men. They are namely more at risk to present certain lung cancers and die of cardiovascular disease.

Creating a roadmap for delivering gender-sensitive comprehensive care for women Veterans: results of a national expert panel.

Background: Women Veterans are a significant minority of users of the VA healthcare system, limiting provider and staff experience meeting their needs in environments historically designed for men. The VA is nonetheless committed to ensuring that women Veterans have access to comprehensive care in environments sensitive to their needs.

Objectives: We sought to determine what aspects of care need to be tailored to the needs of women Veterans in order for the VA to deliver gender-sensitive comprehensive care.

Selective prevention of cardiometabolic diseases in general practice: attitudes and working methods of male and female general practitioners before and after the introduction of the Prevention Consultation guideline in the Netherlands.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: In 2011 the module cardiometabolic risk of the Prevention Consultation guideline was introduced in the Netherlands in order to prevent cardiometabolic diseases. We aimed to compare attitudes and working methods of Dutch general practitioners (GPs) towards selective prevention of cardiometabolic diseases before and after the introduction of the guideline and to study the effect of GP gender on these attitudes and working methods.

Methods: We compared attitudes and working methods in prevention of cardiometabolic diseases in a cross-sectional survey among Dutch GPs in 2013 to the results of a comparable study performed in 2008.

Indicators for the total duration of premenopausal endogenous estrogen exposure in relation to BMD.

Background: Previous studies have shown that age at menopause is an important indicator of duration of endogenous estrogen exposure. The present study investigates whether combining more information on reproductive factors is useful in estimating individual total duration of exposure to endogenous estrogens.

Methods: Bone mineral density (BMD) was used as operational outcome.

Does the beneficial effect of HRT on endothelial function depend on lipid changes.

Objectives: To determine whether improvement in endothelial function of the brachial artery observed in women treated with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may be explained by changes in lipid profile or blood pressure, information was used obtained in a single-centre, randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Methods: Hundred-and-five healthy postmenopausal women, aged 50-65 years, were treated with 0.625 mg conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) combined with 2.

Intake of dietary phytoestrogens by Dutch women.

Higher consumption of phytoestrogens might be protective against certain chronic diseases. Accurate quantification of habitual phytoestrogen intake is important for assessing associations between phytoestrogens and risk for certain diseases. The aim of this study was to estimate dietary intake of phytoestrogens in Dutch middle-aged and elderly women and to describe their main sources.

Endogenous estrogen exposure and cardiovascular mortality risk in postmenopausal women.

In this study, the authors investigated whether combined information on reproductive factors has additive value to the single reproductive factor age at menopause for assessing endogenous estrogen exposure and cardiovascular mortality risk in postmenopausal women. They conducted a population-based cohort study that included 9,450 postmenopausal women from Nijmegen, the Netherlands, who were aged 35--65 years at enrollment in 1975, with a median follow-up of 20.5 years.

Dietary intake of phytoestrogens is associated with a favorable metabolic cardiovascular risk profile in postmenopausal U.S.women: the Framingham study.

Hypertension, central obesity and dyslipidemia are associated with high cardiovascular risk. Estrogen therapy in women has beneficial effects on some of these metabolic cardiovascular risk factors. It is not known whether dietary estrogens have similar effects, especially in Western populations.