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Dried Blood Spot Collection of Health Biomarkers to Maximize Participation in Population Studies
Published on: January 28, 2014
Relationships matter in population health
1Concord Hospital Family Health Center at Concord Hospital.
Abstract:
This column notes that population health approaches have largely focused on the physical body outcomes and metrics, on disease registries, and on insurance claim information rather than measures that apply to whole person wellness (an integration of physical, mental, and spiritual health). There has been significant progress in recognizing that people's health is influenced by the context and systems in which they live. Parsing out the influence of context (social and behavioral determinants of health) and predominant physical disease processes is counter to the principles of systems thinking. It is only through examining and understanding the relationships between social and behavioral determinants of health, mental health, and physical health as three parts of a whole that meaningful gains might be achieved on an individual level as well as the population level. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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A pure substance is a form of matter that has a constant composition throughout with uniform properties. For example, any sample of sucrose has the same composition and same physical properties, such as melting point, color, and sweetness, regardless of the source from which it is isolated.
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