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BACKGROUND: This study presents estimates of lifetime and 12-month prevalence of 14 DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders from the National Comorbidity Survey, the first survey to administer a structured psychiatric interview ...

Emotional intelligence has been shown to be a relevant resource associated with better personal and social adaptation. In older adults, it has been associated with constructs such as life satisfaction and resilience, whi...

BACKGROUND: In 1986, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) initiated a research program to develop an integrated, modular approach for evaluating the quality of life of patients participa...

Materias / palabras clave: Years of potential life lost; Disability-adjusted life year; Life expectancy; Medicine; Burden of disease; Quality-adjusted life year; Disease burden; Epidemiology; Demography; Disease; Global health; Poison control

BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes affects approximately 8 percent of adults in the United States. Some risk factors--elevated plasma glucose concentrations in the fasting state and after an oral glucose load, overweight, and a...

Maori and other indigenous people have always respected the sanctity and reciprocity of life. Patenting has no respect for life or the dignity for all life forms. There is no negotiation. In fact, there is a global choru...

In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitali...