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Health and (Other) Asset Holdings

Julien Hugonnier, Pascal St-Amour, Florian Pelgrin

Despite clear evidence of correlations between financial and medical statuses and decisions, most models treat financial and health-related choices separately. This article bridges this gap by proposing a tractable dynamic framework for the joint determina ...

Oxford Univ Press2013

Spatial Dependence of Body Mass Index: Geneva, Switzerland

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Joël Chételat

Urban health (UH) is an emerging field, which explores the effect of urban environment and urbanization on health. Evidence suggests that urban environment can either positively influence health behaviors or be a health stressor. One key approach in UH is ...

2012

A fine scale analysis of socio-economic and landscape variables for the assessment of health status in Geneva

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Joël Chételat, Abram Pointet

Significant differences in health status between inhabitants of different commune types of the Geneva area have recently been established in a study relying on a large health database managed by the Unit of Population Epidemiology of the Hôpitaux Universit ...

2012

Barcoding Human Physical Activity to Assess Chronic Pain Conditions

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu

Background: Modern theories define chronic pain as a multidimensional experience - the result of complex interplay between physiological and psychological factors with significant impact on patients' physical, emotional and social functioning. The developm ...

Public Library of Science2012

Perceived efficiency impacts following electronic health record implementation: An exploratory study of an urban community health center network

Purpose: Faced with an increasingly complex patient population and growing demand for services, community health centers (CHCs) are recognizing that electronic health records (EHRs) may help their efforts to improve efficiency in care delivery. Yet little ...

2010

Gait analysis and WOMAC are complementary in assessing functional outcome in total hip replacement

Kamiar Aminian, Hooman Dejnabadi

Objective: To investigate the correlation between objective and subjective evaluation of patients with total hip replacement. Design: Prospective preliminary trial comparing the Western Ontario and McMaster University questionnaire ( WOMAC) and gait analys ...

2006

Identification of a high concentration of scyllo-inositol in the brain of a healthy human subject using 1H- and 13C-NMR

Rolf Gruetter

The peak at 3.35 ppm in the 1H-NMR spectrum characteristic for scyllo- inositol may be a marker for cerebral pathology, although it has a well- known constant concentration relative to myo-inositol. Such a peak was observed with an intensity at least 300% ...

1998

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