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Primary care consultations on emotional distress – a part of the acculturation process in patients with refugee backgrounds: a grounded theory approach

BMC Family Practice, 2021
Background Considering the global refugee crisis, there is an increasing demand on primary care physicians to be able to adequately assess and address the health care needs of individual refugees, including both the somatic and psychiatric spectra ...
Erica Rothlind, Uno Fors, Helena Salminen, Per Wändell, Solvig Ekblad   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building phenotypic character matrices for phylogenetic inference: exploration of 35 years of practice

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent methodological development in phylogenetic inference has focused predominantly on molecular data. However, renewed interest in other data types, particularly morphological data, has followed from the increased recognition of the power of total evidence and tip‐dating approaches, including fossil data, for inference of time‐scaled trees ...
Melanie J. Hopkins, Mark C. Nikolic, James D. Holmes, Daniela S. Monti, Ernesto E. Vargas‐Parra, Russell D.C. Bicknell, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Katherine Jordan‐Burmeister, John R. Paterson, Shravya Srivastava‐Losey   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Alessandro Tarullo, Marco Abbiati, Eugenio Fossi, Federica Costantini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

What does dementia mean to you? Perceptions of dementia and aging among Indigenous older adults living in a Pueblo community

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD) are a rapidly growing cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States, yet little is known about how these conditions are understood within American Indian (AI) communities.
Katherine Edwards, Tamar Ginossar, Steven P. Verney, Alfonso Cheromiah, Teresa Meehan, Malanie Garcia, Mallery Quetawki, Nicholas Shaff, Natalie Hoffman, Jillian Prestopnik, Gary Rosenberg, Annalise Rahman-Filipiak, Jessica D. Richardson, Vallabh Shah, Sephira Ryman   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Competence Perspectives From Nurses in Four Asian Countries: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

Journal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), 2020
Objective: This study aimed to describe the perception of cultural competence (CC) among nurses of four Asian countries.  Material and Methods:  A descriptive qualitative study was carried out, including fourteen nurses for in-depth interviews and 63 ...
Praneed Songwathana, Sopen Chunuan, Karnsunaphat Balthip, Shutiwan Purinthrapibal, Tao Hui, Kusman Ibrahim, Luu Thi Thuy   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The South African traditional belief scale as an instrument to aid culture-congruent health care

Health SA Gesondheid, 2005
Medical and psychological health care professionals are becoming increasingly aware that effective treatment in culturally diverse societies requires sensitivity to the patient’s cultural beliefs and customs (Davidhizar & Giger, 2001:2; Foley & Wurmser, 2004:2; Hickson & Christie, 1989:162; Mkize, 2003:4; Narayanasamy, 2003:1).
Johann Beuster, Gerhard Schwär
openaire   +4 more sources

ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the ESG Paradox: Strategic Pathways Between Innovation and Washing Under Stakeholder Scrutiny

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee, Anna Pak, Donghwi (Josh) Seo, Taewoo Roh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Death and dying in Ghana: Implications for palliative and end-of-life care

Palliative Care and Social Practice
In Ghana, death and dying are not simply biomedical endpoints but are deeply rooted in cultural, spiritual, and communal ideologies. These beliefs shape how individuals and families perceive terminal illness, respond to end-of-life (EoL) trajectories ...
Joshua Okyere
doaj   +1 more source

Green Is the New Gold: Redefining Opulent Lifestyle Through Organic Food Purchases

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior studies based on the Theory of Planned Behavior mostly examined the effects of health and environmental concerns on organic food consumption; however, few addressed the paradoxical relationships in the context of opulent or symbolic decorum.
Neha Sharma, Swati Singh, Agnieszka Kabalska, Ralf Wagner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source