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Relationship between dental caries, eating habits, oral health behaviour, and body mass index among Filipino school-age children
(Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2019-02)
The global increase of dental caries among school-age children has become a significant concern in the public health field worldwide. This phenomenon is also present in the Philippines at a high prevalence. This problem ...
The Lived experiences of Filipino women with breast cancer
(Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2020-03)
In 2015, breast cancer ranked third among the leading new cancer deaths and had the highest incidence among cancer cases in the Philippines (International Agency for Research in Cancer [IARC], 2017; Laudico et al., 2015). ...
Valuation of complete health improvement program in the Philippines : an appreciative inquiry
(Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2018-03)
The prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD) are increasing rapidly in both developed and developing countries leading to unprecedented preventable deaths. Over 117 million people suffer from NCDs while 70% of deaths ...
Predictors of overweight and obesity among urban office workers in the Philippines
(Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2016-08)
In the Philippines, the epidemic of overweight and obesity noiselessly permeates the nation (Food and Nutrition Research Institute [FNRI], 2014). Among the multifactorial risk factors for the genesis of the problem, physical ...
Challenges, coping mechanisms, public health responses experienced by Taal volcano island families : a case study
(Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2021-06)
Knowledge of impacts resulting from volcanic eruptions is limited due to the many unreported or unknown volcanic events (Doocy, Daniels, Dooling, & Gorokhovich, 2013). The purpose of this study is to understand the impacts ...
Physical activity, sleep, cholesterol level and their relationship to blood pressure levels among members in the Tubuan Seventh-day Adventist church
(Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2016-05)
Lifestyle has become an important element in terms of health and well-being or
the risk of developing a chronic disease. One of these disease conditions is hypertension,
which is a real and huge epidemic around the world. ...
Effects of the Cranberry health program among adults on lifestyle knowledge, attitude, and practices
(Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2020-02)
Each day many Finnish people are struggling with health issues from common noncommunicable
diseases (NCDs). A comprehensive healthy lifestyle program that deals
with alcohol consumption, smoking, lack of exercise, poor ...
Relationship of dietary knowledge and dietary practices of breast cancer prevention
(Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2018-12)
Dietary knowledge and dietary practices are essentially important today especially in preventing lifestyle diseases such as breast cancer. The identified areas are timely and important to be addressed because of the rising ...
Physical activity, sleep, and their association with academic performance among graduate students
(Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2015-07)
Physical activity and adequate sleep have many health benefits. Improvement in cognition is one of the mental health benefits. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze physical activity, sleep, and their association ...
A Study of dietary practices, biomedical, and behavioral chronic disease risk factors among Adventist employees
(Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2017-09)
A healthy lifestyle promotes good health (Beezhold, Johnston, & Daigle, 2010; Orlich et al., 2013; Orlich & Fraser, 2014). Conversely, an unhealthy lifestyle provokes poor health with ailments such as chronic diseases ...