News tagged with social outcome

Inequality in wealthy states rises, diseases decline: WHO

Social inequality in wealthy nations is increasing while in parts of the developing world many diseases are on the wane, Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization said Monday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study suggests flexible workplaces promote better health behavior and well-being

A flexible workplace initiative improved employees' health behavior and well-being, including a rise in the amount and quality of sleep and better health management, according to a new study by University of Minnesota sociology ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Training peers improves social outcomes for some kids with ASD

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who attend regular education classes may be more likely to improve their social skills if their typically developing peers are taught how to interact with them than if only the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Action needed to improve men's health in Europe

Policies aimed specifically at men are urgently needed to improve the health of Europe's men, say experts in the British Medical Journal today.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Early to bed and early to rise -- study suggests it's keeping kids leaner

Ben Franklin was right, at least on the healthy part. "Early to bed and early to rise" appears to have helped a cross-section of early-bird Australian youths keep slimmer and more physically active than their night-owl peers, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How courage can help students learn and achieve

Teaching students how to bring courage into their day-to-day school life can improve their learning, performance, and engagement at school.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Religion benefits traumatic brain injury victims, research finds

Brigid Waldron-Perrine, Ph.D., a recent graduate from Wayne State University, and her mentor, Lisa J. Rapport, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Wayne State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, found that if ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Losing your religion deemed unhealthy

(PhysOrg.com) -- People who leave strict religious groups are more likely to say their health is worse than members who remain in the group, according to a Penn State researcher.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Relationships improve your odds of survival by 50 percent

A new Brigham Young University study adds our social relationships to the "short list" of factors that predict a person's odds of living or dying.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Physicist gets buzz from better bee behaviour model

(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist at the University of Manchester has paved the way for better research into how honey bees choose where to live.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Half of Utahns with autism lead fulfilling lives, follow-up study shows

Twenty years after first being assessed in a long-term autism study, 41 Utahns with the disorder had a higher social outcome than those in similar studies, University of Utah psychiatry researchers have reported in the Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0