Generic QOL questionnaire and utility The EQ5D-VAS is a generic preference-based measure of health-related QOL that consists of two parts. The first part includes five domains (each divided in 3 ...

At the 77th World Health Assembly in 2024 governments made a unanimous and unprecedented commitment to put patients, people and communities with lived experience, and healthcare workers at the heart ...

A new study followed more than 7000 middle-aged and older Canadians for approximately three years to understand whether higher rates of social participation were associated with successful aging in ...

Despite the benefits of social participation for individuals and communities, little is known about how social participation varies over the life course. Drawing upon data collected between 1957 and ...

It is widely recognized that social connection plays a key role in longevity. People who are lonely or socially isolated experience more health problems and die younger. 1 A lack of social ...

Study objectives: To identify and quantify a hypothesised collective effect of the neighbourhood on individual use of anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs (AHD). To analyse the general impact of neighbourhood ...

We live in a democracy, but many Americans do not vote. Turnout in presidential election years hovers around 60 percent, and it can be much lower otherwise. What’s going on? Perhaps many voters do not ...

For the most recent study on the benefits of social participation, a team of researchers from Nara Medical University in Japan were curious to identify if participation in social activities could ...