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Needles from the whispering pine: verse ; a close to nature series
No full textDedication:
To the simple-living, home-loving people I meet and enjoy to be with; to the animals I know and pet and pat, and am rubbed and nosed by; to the birds that sing for me and with me; to the trees and flowers that give me of their balm and fragrance and inspire me; and to good old Maine, with her lakes and streams, hills and valleys, fresh air, blue skies, and sunshine, I affectionately dedicate what is between these covers.
Nathan Appleton Teffthttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1050/thumbnail.jp
Attitudes towards healthful, inexpensive and convenient foods in relation to multiple measures of diet quality among Seattle-King County adults, WA
No full textThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2013Background/Objectives: Socioeconomic disparities in diet quality are well established. Food-related attitudes may play an important role in this relationship. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of attitude towards healthful foods, in combination with attitude towards inexpensive and convenient foods, in predicting diet quality. Subjects/Methods: This was a secondary data analysis of the Seattle Obesity Study I (SOS I), a cross-sectional study of a representative sample of 2,001 male and female adult residents of King County, WA, conducted from 2008-2009. Detailed self-reported data on socio-demographic and attitude variables were collected via telephone survey. Dietary data was obtained using Food Frequency Questionnaires (FFQ). Diet quality outcome measures were Healthy Eating Index (HEI), as well as self-reported measure of meeting USDA recommended 5-A-Day servings of fruits and vegetables. Results: Positive attitudes towards the importance of food health were associated with higher total HEI scores, HEI2 (non-juice fruit) scores, HEI3 (vegetable) scores and proportion meeting 5-A-Day recommendations. Positive attitudes towards the importance of healthful food were associated with higher diet quality scores when inexpensive food was important versus when it was not. Positive attitudes towards the importance of healthful food were associated with mixed diet quality outcomes when convenient food was important versus when it was not. Conclusion: Food-related attitudes across socioeconomic strata play a significant role in determining diet quality. However, food-related attitudes do not work in isolation. Further research is needed to fully understand the role of various attitude variables in combination with each other in explaining socioeconomic disparities in diets and health
The Economics of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
No full textObesity is widely recognized as a chronic disease characterized by an elevated risk of adverse health conditions in association with excess body fat accumulation. Obesity prevalence reached epidemic proportions among adults in the developed world during the second half of the 20th century, and it has since become a major public health concern around the world, particularly among children and adolescents. The economics of childhood and adolescent obesity is a multi-faceted field of study that considers the numerous determinants, consequences, and interventions related to obesity in those populations.
The central economic framework for studying obesity is a life-cycle decision-making model of health investment. Health-promoting investments, such as nutritional food, healthcare, and physical activity, interact with genetic structure and risky health behaviors, such as unhealthy food consumption, to generate an accumulation or decumulation of excess body fat over time. Childhood and adolescence are the primary phases of physical and cognitive growth, so researchers study how obesity contributes to, and is affected by, the growth processes. The subdiscipline of behavioral economics offers an important complementary perspective on health investment decision processes, particularly for children and adolescents, because health investments and participation in risky health behaviors are not always undertaken rationally or consistently over time.
In addition to examining the proximate causes of obesity over the life cycle, economists study obesity’s economic context and resulting economic burden. For example, economists study how educational attainment, income, and labor market features, such as wage and work hours, affect childhood and adolescent obesity in a household. Once obesity has developed, its economic burden is typically measured in terms of excess healthcare costs associated with increased health risks due to higher obesity prevalence, such as earlier onset of, and more severe, diabetes. Obesity among children and adolescents can lead to even higher healthcare costs because of its early influence on the lifetime trajectory of health and its potential disruption of healthy development.
The formulation of effective policy responses to the obesity epidemic is informed by economic research. Economists evaluate whether steps to address childhood and adolescent obesity represent investments in health and well-being that yield private and social benefits, and they study whether existing market structures fail to appropriately motivate such investments. Potential policy interventions include taxation of, or restricting access to, obesogenic foods and other products, subsidization of educational programs about healthy foods and physical activity inside and outside of schools, ensuring health insurance coverage for obesity-related preventive and curative healthcare services, and investment in the development of new treatments and medical technologies.</p
Insights on unemployment, unemployment insurance, and mental health
No full textThis paper contributes to the growing literature on the relationship between business cycles and mental health. It is one of the first applications in the economics literature to incorporate data on web searches from Google Insights for Search, and these unique data allow the opportunity to estimate the association between weekly unemployment insurance (UI) claims, in addition to monthly unemployment rates, and search indexes for "depression" and "anxiety". Results from state fixed effects models yield (1) a positive relationship between the unemployment rate and the depression search index and (2) a negative relationship between initial UI claims on the one hand and the depression and anxiety search indexes on the other. A lag analysis also shows that an extended period of higher levels of continued UI claims is associated with a higher depression search index.Unemployment Fatal accidents Macroeconomic conditions Alcohol
Successful treatment of Corynebacterium urealyticum encrusting cystitis with systemic and intravesical antimicrobial therapy.
No full textA 6-year-old Saint Bernard dog was diagnosed with encrusting cystitis caused by Corynebacterium urealyticum. The infection persisted despite the prolonged use of antimicrobials and surgical debridement of the urinary bladder. Resolution occurred following intravenous vancomycin, urine acidification, and intravesical gentamicin. The challenges involved in the treatment of encrusting cystitis are described.journal article2015 Mayimporte
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