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Participation for mental health service development in China: Conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study analyzes a participatory project to develop peer support services for people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) in China. Drawing on interviews with psychiatrists, social workers, service users, and a family caregiver, it examines the conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes of participation in a paternalistic context ...
Zhiying Ma, Yu Fan, Xiyuan Chen, Lindsay Sheehan, Sang Qin, Aoxuan Cao, Liang Zhou   +6 more
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Practices and trends in clinical trial registration in the Pan African Clinical Trials Registry (PACTR): a descriptive analysis of registration data

BMJ Open, 2022
Duduzile Edith Ndwandwe, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Lindi Mathebula, Elizabeth Pienaar, Ameer Hohlfeld, Sinazo Runeyi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Globalization of Maternal Healthcare in Western Africa

, 2014
Maternal healthcare is one of the most important global issues in today’s world, reflected in its inclusion in the Millennium Development Goals. Globalization, through increased acceleration and movement, has improved maternal healthcare in Western ...
Magistrali, Maura T.
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The Concept of Beauty in African Philosophy [PDF]

, 2017
This article contributes to the ongoing discussion on African aesthetics by presenting concept of beauty or the beautiful as it evolved from the cultural conception of beauty to the philosophical shift in the concept.
Ibanga, Diana-Abasi
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Renewable Energy Issues in Africa Contexts [PDF]

, 2018
The relationship between energy and ethics is gaining attention in policy rooms around the world. How does one respond to the competing interests of the environment and posterity while also addressing the energy needs of the present human generation?
Ibanga, Diana-Abasi
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A Systematic Review of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Later Adult Life Measured With Second and Third‐Generation Epigenetic Clocks

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examined the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) in adulthood as measured by second and third generation epigenetic clocks by performing a systematic review of the literature. The electronic databases MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched on 17 July 2023.
Matthew Green, Laura Horsfall, Azam Saied   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Return to work rate of individuals after cardiac rehabilitation and the demographic and impairment factors that influence return to work in the Western Cape, South Africa [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

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Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) commonly affects individuals within the working age group, often resulting in unemployment, particularly in low- to middle-income countries.
Zakeera Ganie, Shaheed Soeker, Anthea Rhoda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

How well are families doing? A description of family well-being in South Africa

Family Medicine and Community Health, 2016
Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the well-being of a sample of families from low socioeconomic communities in the Western Cape South Africa in terms of family resilience, family satisfaction, parenting styles, family structure and ...
Nicolette Vanessa Roman, Serena Ann Isaacs, Charl Davids, Xin-Cheng Sui   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiology of Coxiella burnetii infection in Africa: a OneHealth systematic review [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Q fever is a common cause of febrile illness and community-acquired pneumonia in resource-limited settings. Coxiella burnetii, the causative pathogen, is transmitted among varied host species, but the epidemiology of the organism in Africa
A Benkirane, A Benslimani, A Corwin, A Omezzine-Letaief, A OmezzineLetaief, A Rekiki, A Znazen, AA Adesiyun, AA Adesiyun, AP Schutte, AR Kamga-Waladjo, B Adu-Addai, B Gummow, BD Perry, BP Mmbando, C Geiger, C Karema, D Schellenberg, E Angelakis, E Schelling, Elizabeth A. Reddy, EM Scrimgeour, F Scolamacchia, G Maartens, GA Ki-Zerbo, GM Blanc, H Tissot-Dupont, H Tissot-Dupont, HG Nahed, HT Dupont, J Domenech, J Julvez, JA Crump, JB Haumesser, JG Ayres, JH McQuiston, Jo E. B. Halliday, John A. Crump, L Epelboin, L Luoto, M Berri, M Georgiev, M Maurin, M Prabhu, M. Kariuki Njenga, Matthew P. Rubach, MO Hussien, N Kaabia, NM Anstey, P Brouqui, PE Fournier, R Gidel, R Gidel, R Kobbe, S Koulla-Shiro, S Koulla-Shiro, S Mazeri, Sarah Cleaveland, Sky Vanderburg, SMS Amal, SP Fiorillo, SR Manock, W van der Hoek, W van der Hoek, W van der Hoek, WF Amin, WP O'Meara, Y Maurice   +67 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source