(a.) Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
(a.) Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
(a.) Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition.
(a.) Well-disposed; favorable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(3) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(4) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(6) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(7) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(8) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(9) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(10) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(11) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(12) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(13) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(14) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(15) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(16) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(17) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
(18) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
(19) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(20) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(a.) Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
Example Sentences:
(1) The latter results demonstrate that methylprednisolone-sodium succinate is less effective than ibuprofen in inhibiting arachidonic acid metabolism and suggest other salutary actions.
(2) We conclude that dopamine results in a predominantly efferent glomerular vasodilation and, therefore, may be salutary in lowering intraglomerular hypertension.
(3) However, extensive research is needed to discriminate between the beneficial effects of increased attention to all aspects of patient care, including wound management, and the salutary effects of dressing materials.
(4) Nevertheless, the results of preliminary studies in experimental animal models and in human transplant recipients suggest that calcium antagonists exert salutary effects on renal function in clinical settings characterized by impaired renal hemodynamics.
(5) The salutary hemodynamic response to oral enoximone was sustained for 6 to 8 hours and was not associated with subacute drug tolerance.
(6) Protection from arrhythmias seems to be related to the combined presence of a noncompetitive adrenergic blockade associated with salutary effects on coronary circulation.
(7) A salutary effect on the kidney will remain high on the list of important characteristics to be considered in choosing one of these agents.
(8) The salutary response of atrial fibrillation to flecainide may be due to enhancement of drug action by the rapid atrial activation rates characteristic of this arrhythmia.
(9) This paper begins with an analysis of an important subset of these studies--those 27 which operationalize 'religiosity' as religious attendance--and which, taken as a whole, point to a consistent salutary effect for frequent attendance.
(10) These salutary effects of alginase in vivo were paralleled by the ability of the enzyme to remove the exopolysaccharide from the surface of mucoid pseudomonal cells within cardiac vegetations, as assessed by transmission electron microscopy.
(11) This data suggests that reducing the infiltrating glomerular and cortical interstitial macrophage burden with XI during acute PA nephrosis, unaccompanied by any hypolipidemic effect, produces not only early salutary effects on renal function but also a significant amelioration of the progressive glomerulopathic features of this model.
(12) The salutary effects of enalapril may have involved a reduction in delta P coupled to a nonhemodynamic action, possibly restriction of glomerular growth or lowering of serum cholesterol.
(13) The salutary effects of all drugs were reversed in the presence of the A1 receptor antagonist 1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine (0.5 microM).
(14) With exercise to ischemia, nicardipine preserved the salutary effects on left ventricular function seen at rest and significantly blunted the increase in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure observed in the control setting.
(15) Among all antihypertensive drugs, this class of agents, and especially prazosin, has produced the most consistently salutary lipid and metabolic effects.
(16) Norethandrolone (NE) and other androgenic steroids have been shown to be renotropic in various species and have also been reported to have salutary effects in patients with diminished renal function.
(17) Regression analyses considering contextual-motivational factors for drinking showed that at Time 1 quitters were less likely than controls to have consumed alcohol during evenings out (p = .008), in family-home settings (p = .013), or for salutary reasons (p = .084); conversely, they were more likely to have consumed alcohol to reduce negative affect (p = .011).
(18) However, it remains unknown whether such agents have any salutary effects on the depressed active hepatocellular function and hepatic blood flow in a nonheparinized model of trauma and hemorrhage.
(19) The possible mechanisms of the previously reported salutary benefits of high-dose i.v.
(20) Preliminary experimental studies indicate salutary effects of leukotriene inhibitors and antagonists in endotoxin shock and in models of acute pulmonary injury.