Health is an essential part of any individual, and gains particular importance in youth, as a good health at this age is more likely to reduce health risks both in the short and long term. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of physical and contextual parameters on youths' perceived health. A total of 919 adolescents completed questionnaires on self-rated health status, electronic media use, leisure time and club physical activity, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and back pain, as well as performed the German Motor Performance Test. Participants with very good health had significantly higher physical fitness, leisure time exercise, and participated in sports clubs more often than those with poorer health. Electronic media use was significantly higher for those with poor/very poor health. Future intervention programs to improve youth health status should not only focus on active lifestyle but might also consider the impact of socioenvironmental factors, such as daily media use.
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Probl Radiac Med Radiobiol
December 2024
State Institution «National Research Center of Radiation Medicine, Hematology and Oncology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine», 53 Yuriia Illienka Str., Kyiv, 04050, Ukraine.
Objective: to study the level of psychosocial strain in the able-bodied population of the NPP surveillance zone (SZ) and factors that shape it under the wartime posture and possible terrorist acts.
Methods: sociological (population survey), psychosocial (psychodiagnostic testing), analytical, mathematical i.e.
Probl Radiac Med Radiobiol
December 2024
State Institution «National Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Hematology and Oncology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine», 53 Yuriia Illienka Str., Kyiv, 04050, Ukraine.
Objective: To assess the dynamics of changes in the number of deaths due to injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes and their structure among liquidators of the accident at the Chornobyl NPP (PACL) on the basis of the data of Ukraine's State Register of Persons Affected by the Chornobyl Disaster (SRU) for 2000-2020.
Materials And Methods: The study used information resources of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine for 2000-2020 regarding deaths among the PACL - databases of the SRU as a basis for monitoring their health status. Depersonalised information was selected for 2000-2020 regarding 5,124 deaths from injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (ICD codes S00-T98) among the PACL, who were monitored in healthcare facilitiesof the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
ASAIO J
October 2024
From the Division of Cardiovascular Critical Care, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
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December 2024
From the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI (Jacobson), the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Whitney), Department of Orthopedic Surgery (Mamdouhi and Ahn), Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (Janney), and Department of Family Medicine (Blaszczak), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, and the Department of Orthopaedics, Emory University and Grady Health, Atlanta, GA (Ahn).
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