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Supporting Survivor‐Centered Care Through Digital Health Integration

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Survivors of childhood cancer face barriers to receiving guideline‐based, long‐term follow‐up care. Two digital tools, Passport for Care (PFC) and Cancer SurvivorLink (SurvivorLink), address complementary gaps by enabling tailored survivorship care plan (SCP) generation, updating, storage, and sharing.
Jordan G. Marchak, Rebecca Williamson‐Lewis, Michael O'Connor, Michael Palgon, Yu‐Ra Kim, Michael Schuckenbrock, Paula Edwards, Abraham Mendoza, Anthony Adams, Brian Arriaga‐Solis, Justin Parker, Harry Tinoco‐Giraldo, Jason King, C. Michael Fordis, Karen E. Effinger, Maria Monica Gramatges   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community health workers and mobile technology: a systematic review of the literature.

PLoS ONE, 2013
IntroductionIn low-resource settings, community health workers are frontline providers who shoulder the health service delivery burden. Increasingly, mobile technologies are developed, tested, and deployed with community health workers to facilitate ...
Rebecca Braun, Caricia Catalani, Julian Wimbush, Dennis Israelski   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Changing Roles of Community Health Workers [PDF]

Health Services Research, 2017
ObjectiveTo examine what different types of employers value in hiring community health workers (CHWs) and determine what new competencies CHWs might need to meet workforce demands in the context of an evolving payment landscape and substantial literature suggesting that CHWs are uniquely qualified to address health disparities.Study DesignWe used a ...
Mary-Beth, Malcarney, Patricia, Pittman, Leo, Quigley, Katherine, Horton, Naomi, Seiler   +4 more
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Comparative Evaluation of Hemodiafiltration, Hemoperfusion, and Standard Hemodialysis on Efficacy, Inflammatory Control, Dialysis Adequacy, and Safety in End‐Stage Renal Disease: A Prospective Observational Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic micro‐inflammation in patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) is a significant driver of cardiovascular complications and diminished quality of life. While standard hemodialysis (SHD) effectively manages small‐molecule clearance, its ability to remove medium‐to‐large uremic toxins—the primary catalysts of systemic ...
Hongwei Zuo, Weisi Dai, Jie Mao, Mei Ye, Xingshan Lu, Xiaocui Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health Care Workers Communication on Diabetes Mellitus Management in Hospital and Community Health Center

KEMAS: Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat, 2018
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients require DM management for life. Research proved that good quality self-care behavior of DM patients in dr. Harjono Regional Public Hospital Ponorogo and in North Ponorogo Community Health Center were still low (28,6% in dr.
Sholihatul Maghfirah, Rohmadi Rohmadi
doaj   +1 more source

Contribution of community health workers to primary health care performance in Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2020
OBJECTIVE To associate the strength of community health workers interventions with primary health care strategies for women’s and children’s health, diabetes, and hypertension.
Alaneir de Fátima dos Santos, Hugo André da Rocha, Ângela Maria de Lourdes Dayrell de Lima, Daisy Maria Xavier de Abreu, Érica Araújo Silva, Lucas Henrique Lobato de Araújo, Isabela Cristina Carreiro Cavalcante, Antônio Thomaz Gonzaga da Matta-Machado   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Protein pyrophosphorylation by inositol pyrophosphates — detection, function, and regulation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Protein pyrophosphorylation is an unusual signaling mechanism that was discovered two decades ago. It can be driven by inositol pyrophosphate messengers and influences various cellular processes. Herein, we summarize the research progress and challenges of this field, covering pathways found to be regulated by this posttranslational modification as ...
Sarah Lampe, Tanmay Kumar Mohanty, Rashna Bhandari, Dorothea Fiedler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving health and well-being through community health champions: a thematic evaluation of a programme in Yorkshire and Humber.

, 2013
AIMS: The contribution that lay people can make to the public health agenda is being increasingly recognised in research and policy literature. This paper examines the role of lay workers (referred to as 'community health champions') involved in ...
White, J, South, J, Woodall, J
core   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating a community-based approach to non-communicable diseases care: a pilot programme in Bangladesh

The Lancet Global Health, 2022
Background: As the threat of non-communicable diseases grows in Bangladesh, BRAC, in partnership with Medtronic, launched a pilot programme in early 2020 to leverage community health workers to improve the health outcomes of patients with hypertension ...
Ariful Haque, MBBS, Anne Cameron, MSc, Asadur Rahman, MBBS, Nilima Mehta, MSPH, Nayanjeet Chaudhury, MD, Ariful Alam, MBBS, Morseda Chowdhury, PhD, Adam Schwartz, MD   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source