The effects of gender and age on health related behaviors

Deeks, Amanda; Lombard, Catherine B; Michelmore, Janet; Teede, Helena

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-213

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“…This finding was in agreement with previous studies on health and mortality by marital status, which have consistently identified that unmarried individuals generally report less healthy behaviors and have a higher mortality risk than their married counterparts [19][20][21]. Younger age has been inversely associated with better health-related behavior [22,23]. Likewise, in this study, there was a nearly significant association between total control measures during haze days and age.…”

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Control Measures and Health Effects of Air Pollution: A Survey among Public Transportation Commuters in Malaysia

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This research aimed to investigate the control measures used by public transport commuters and their health (physical and psychological) effects due to exposure to air pollution during their daily commute and during haze days. From June to October 2016, 800 public transport commuters in urban cities in the heart of Selangor, Malaysia were interviewed. Of these, 25.4% reported sometimes/often wearing surgical masks during their daily commute, while 92.1% reported such use during haze days. The total control measure score against air pollutants during the daily commute was low; on a control measure scale of 0-18, the median rating during the daily commute was 8 (interquartile range (IQR) 6-10). During haze days, control measures improved slightly (median 14, IQR 12-16). Evidence of adverse health effects was present. During the daily commute under normal conditions, the three highest adverse health experiences were fatigue and weakness (35.5%), coughing (23.6%), and dizziness (18.2%). During haze days, the three highest adverse health experiences were headache (85%), coughing (84.8%), and breathing difficulties (84.5%). On a possible total adverse health (physical and psychological) experience scale of 0-22, the median rating during the daily commute was 1 (IQR 0-3). The median rating during haze days was intensified (median 11, IQR 9-13). Public transportation commuters should be encouraged to enhance various control measures against particulate air pollutants during their daily commute, particularly during haze days, to minimize the adverse health risks associated with air pollutants.

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Control Measures and Health Effects of Air Pollution: A Survey among Public Transportation Commuters in Malaysia

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“…Physical and cognitive conditions decline with age, and men tend to report better health statuses than women (Barrett and Buckley 2009). Men are more likely to engage in risky health behaviors such as smoking and drinking (Coutenay 2000;Deeks et al 2009). In spite of men's unhealthy lifestyles, women often report worse self-assessed health and suffer higher rates of morbidity over the life course (Green and Pope 1999).…”

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Buckley¹,

Hofmann²,

Minagawa³

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“…This social pattern of Twitter use might indicate a modification in attitudes toward mental diseases among these two generations. Furthermore, the age of the person affects his/her general interest in health-related matters [46]. Third, there are high rates of social media use by individuals who experience mental health problems [47,48].…”

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Increasing Interest of Mass Communication Media and the General Public in the Distribution of Tweets About Mental Disorders: Observational Study (Preprint)

Alvarez-Mon¹,

Barco²,

Lahera³

et al. 2017

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Background: The contents of classical communication media and new Internet social media reflect the interests of society. Barriers and a lack of attention for mental diseases have been previously observed. Objective: To measure the relevance given by the main American social communication media (ASCM) to psychiatric information and the interest generated in their Twitter followers. Methods: We investigated the tweets generated about mental health conditions and disease by 15 main United States of America (USA) general communication media from January 2007 to December 2016. Our study strategy focused on identifying several psychiatric terms of main interest. The number of retweets generated by the selected tweets was also investigated. For a control, we used tweets generated about the main causes of death in the USA, the main chronic neurological degenerative diseases and infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Results: In total, 13,119 tweets sent by the ASCM about mental health disorders show a heterogeneous distribution with preferential accumulation in a reduced number of conditions. Suicide and gender dysphoria accumulated half of the number of sent tweets. Variability in the number of tweets related to each control disease was also found (5,998). The number of tweets sent regarding each different psychiatric or organic disease analyzed was significantly correlated with the number of retweets generated by followers (1,030,974 and 424,813 responses to metal health disorders and organic diseases, respectively). However, the probability of a tweet being retweeted was statistically different between the conditions and diseases analyzed. Furthermore, the retweeted/tweet ratio was significantly higher in psychiatric diseases than in the control organic diseases (OR=1.11 [1.07-1.14], p<0.001). Conclusions: According to the use of Twitter, the ASCM and the general public demonstrate a preferential interest for psychiatric diseases. The heterogeneous weight given by the ASCM to the different mental health disorders and conditions is reflected in the response of Twitter followers.

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The effects of gender and age on health related behaviors

Cited by 262 publications

References 24 publications

Control Measures and Health Effects of Air Pollution: A Survey among Public Transportation Commuters in Malaysia

Control Measures and Health Effects of Air Pollution: A Survey among Public Transportation Commuters in Malaysia

Does nativity matter?

Increasing Interest of Mass Communication Media and the General Public in the Distribution of Tweets About Mental Disorders: Observational Study (Preprint)

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