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With the increasing improvement of quality of life (QOL), health has become an item of concern. However, owing to Covid-19, most organizations cannot do annual health check-ups because they require contact with people and it is difficult to maintain social distance. Consequently, in an era of increasing epidemics, non-contact methods are paramount. In this paper, we present a non-contact breathing and heart rate measurement system integrated into an application using 24 GHz medical radar to support the health check work. In this system, we solve the problem of imbalance between the two signal channels of the radar to increase the accuracy of the breathing and heart rate extraction. © 2022 IEEE.
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The mobile health check device is an IoT based system that has been designed to play a vital role in checking people's health status. It has become very crucial to monitor people's health especially now with this COVID-19 pandemic. Through this device it will be possible for people to check for blood oxygen levels, temperature, blood pressure and heart beat rate without the use of sphygmomanometers at health care centres. Furthermore, the device is not only limited to COVID-19 symptoms detection, but it can also be used for monitoring pneumonia, asthma and other common critical conditions related to the stated parameters. The results of the device are displayed on an LCD screen and also sent to the cloud servers for storage and record keeping. The mobile device proofs to be a quick health screening device for different organisations and at different public places such as at airports, borders, shopping malls, industries, religious centres and educational institutions. © 2022 IEEE.
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The mobile health check device is an IoT based system that has been designed to play a vital role in checking people's health status. It has become very crucial to monitor people's health especially now with this COVID-19 pandemic. Through this device it will be possible for people to check for blood oxygen levels, temperature, blood pressure and heart beat rate without the use of sphygmomanometers at health care centres. Furthermore, the device is not only limited to COVID-19 symptoms detection, but it can also be used for monitoring pneumonia, asthma and other common critical conditions related to the stated parameters. The results of the device are displayed on an LCD screen and also sent to the cloud servers for storage and record keeping. The mobile device proofs to be a quick health screening device for different organisations and at different public places such as at airports, borders, shopping malls, industries, religious centres and educational institutions. © 2022 IEEE.
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In the Beginning of 2020, most of the countries were affected by COVID-19, especially India. Our government announced lockdown, this situation became worse to many people mainly pregnancy women who needed monthly health check-ups. Our solution for this problem is using IOT Based Pregnancy Woman Health Monitoring System which helps woman in monitoring the health and getting reports just sitting in home. The selected study issue presents an effective Monitoring System for increasing the confidentially of pregnancy women health or otherwise, since it is an essential emotional and psychological event a crucial component in the life of a married lady. This paper gives the survey about the difference we bring from various health monitoring systems developed in recent years. © 2022 IEEE.
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In 2021, over 100,000 people died prematurely from opioid overdoses. Neuropsychiatric and cognitive impairments are underreported comorbidities of reward dysregulation due to genetic antecedents and epigenetic insults. Recent genome-wide association studies involving millions of subjects revealed frequent comorbidity with substance use disorder (SUD) in a sizeable meta-analysis of depression. It found significant associations with the expression of NEGR1 in the hypothalamus and DRD2 in the nucleus accumbens, among others. However, despite the rise in SUD and neuropsychiatric illness, there are currently no standard objective brain assessments being performed on a routine basis. The rationale for encouraging a standard objective Brain Health Check (BHC) is to have extensive data available to treat clinical syndromes in psychiatric patients. The BHC would consist of a group of reliable, accurate, cost-effective, objective assessments involving the following domains: Memory, Attention, Neuropsychiatry, and Neurological Imaging. Utilizing primarily PUBMED, over 36 years of virtually all the computerized and written-based assessments of Memory, Attention, Psychiatric, and Neurological imaging were reviewed, and the following assessments are recommended for use in the BHC: Central Nervous System Vital Signs (Memory), Test of Variables of Attention (Attention), Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III (Neuropsychiatric), and Quantitative Electroencephalogram/P300/Evoked Potential (Neurological Imaging). Finally, we suggest continuing research into incorporating a new standard BHC coupled with qEEG/P300/Evoked Potentials and genetically guided precision induction of “dopamine homeostasis” to diagnose and treat reward dysregulation to prevent the consequences of dopamine dysregulation from being epigenetically passed on to generations of our children.
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BACKGROUND: In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were a number of factors affecting employees, employers, and consequently, both directly and indirectly, the occupational health service (OHS). The purpose of this publication is to analyze the activity of physicians and OHS units in this period in Poland. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The analysis of the number of physicians, OHS units and their activities was performed on the basis of the MZ-35 and MZ-35A statistical forms, which represent obligatory medical reporting. RESULTS: There were 6349 occupational medicine physicians in Poland, who are entitled to conduct prophylactic examinations of employees and provide preventive health care, necessary due to working conditions (less by 248 [3.8%] compared to 2019). At the same time, the number of OHS basic units decreased to 5784 (by 3.2%). In 2020, occupational health physicians reported 4 314 520 prophylactic examinations of employees and job applicants, what is over 1 million 231 thousand (22.2%) less than in the year preceding the pandemic. In addition, they reported the performance of 255 887 prophylactic examinations related to the practical vocational training of pupils, students, participants in qualification vocational training and Ph.D. candidates (less by 157 220 [38.1%]). In 2020, they performed 1 933 355 preliminary examinations (23.9% less), 1 924 929 periodic examinations (25.1% less) and 456 236 follow-up examinations (5.1% more). In 2020, there was also a significant decrease in the number of visits to entire workplaces (from 6437 to 3625) and individual positions (from 46 197 to 26 389) carried out by OHS units. Also in 2020, an almost threefold increase (to 2183) in the number of suspected occupational diseases was reported by OHS physicians. In 2019, the duty to submit an annual report regarding prophylactic activities on the MZ-35A form has been obeyed by only 3607 (56.8%) obliged physicians. CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected preventive activities carried out by occupational physicians. Med Pr. 2022;73(1):19-24.
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COVID-19 , Occupational Health Services , Occupational Health , Humans , Pandemics , Poland/epidemiology , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: In the United States, Hispanics are more likely to be diagnosed with cervical cancer compared to Non-Hispanic Whites. Annually, 250,000 to 1 million women are diagnosed with a precursor to CC. The aim of this study was to assess whether Hispanics have a higher prevalence of cervical dysplasia compared to Non-Hispanics Whites among a population of low-income women. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We analyzed the results of 10,911 cervical cytology tests administered between 2003 and 2016 that were funded through the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) program for low-income, uninsured women entitled the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP). In the state of Arizona, the program is called the Well Women HealthCheck Program (WWHP). Logistic regression was used to identify increased risk of dysplasia, including low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL) and high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL/ICC), and multinomial logistic regression was used to assess increased likelihood for LSIL and HSIL/ICC as separate categories. RESULTS: In the crude analysis, Hispanic ethnicity was modestly associated with higher prevalence of LSIL (odds ratio (OR)=1.39, 95% CI=1.01-1.91), but this association was not statistically significant after adjusting for confounders. However, in the final models, lower income was independently associated with LSIL (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]=1.55, 95% CI=1.30-1.44), while smoking (aOR=2.88, 95% CI=1.21-6.84) and no history of Pap test within five years (aOR=3.54, 95% CI=1.61-6.99) were independently associated with HSIL. CONCLUSION: After adjusting for confounding in a sample of low-income women with comparable Pap screening rates, ethnicity was not associated with greater prevalence of abnormal pap smears. However, other variables were independently associated with LSIL and HSIL. The higher proportion of LSIL cases among lower income individuals compared to those with higher incomes, and the higher proportion of HSIL cases observed among those screened least regularly stresses the importance of programs like WWHP: programs that target low-income, uninsured women. These programs help save lives.