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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Although significant progress has been made in childhood leukemia survival, healthcare providers, and caregivers often face challenges in explaining this disease to patients. Disease‐targeted storybooks have been proposed as a tool to facilitate the understanding of diagnoses and treatment.
Nutvipha Ummartyotin +6 more
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Maori demography in Aotearoa New Zealand: Fifty Years on [PDF]
, 2011 Writing in the Journal of the Polynesian Society fifty years ago, budding demographer Ian Pool asked: “When is a Maori a ‘Maori’”? His assertion that cultural self-identification was the only credible way to define Māori collectively in official ...
Kukutai, Tahu
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The influence of social mobility on fertility behaviour in the long run. An application of Diagonal Reference Models (DRM) to Historical Demography (Southern Sweden, 1870-2015) [PDF]
, 2022 Social science has always been interested in the effect of social mobility on fertility behavior, bringing mixed evidence. Part of this is due to an identification problem.
Brea-Martinez, Gabriel, +2 more
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Health disparities in Europe’s ageing population: the role of social network
Global Health Action, 2018 Background: Previous research suggests that the social network may play very different roles in relation to health in countries with differing welfare regimes.
Jenny Olofsson +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Childhood aplastic anemia (AA) is a rare disease, and both the disease itself and its treatment cause significant morbidity. We aimed to determine the contemporary incidence of childhood AA in Finland, to compare the clinical characteristics of AA against inherited bone marrow failure syndromes (IBMFS) and refractory cytopenia of ...
Lauri‐Matti Kulmala +8 more
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What kind of theory for anthropological demography? [PDF]
This paper argues that demographic anthropology has, for most part, imported rather than exported theory. Yet, the discipline has the potential to generate important rethinking of population, culture, and their interaction.
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
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Determining Parental Factors for Clinical Trial Attrition in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Despite high enrollment rates on Children's Oncology Group (COG) protocols, attrition after initial consent is challenging, introducing bias and prolonging trial completion. While adult oncology literature has identified predictors of withdrawal, little is known about caregiver decision‐making for child participation in ...
Kimberly L. Stathas +3 more
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Business Demography Dynamics in Portugal: A Non-Parametric Survival Analysis [PDF]
We address the post-entry performance of new Portuguese firms by investigating the structural characteristics of the hazard and survival functions, using non-parametric survival analysis.
Alcina Nunes, Elsa Sarmento
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Determinants of late malaria treatment among under-five children in West Africa
BMC PediatricsBackground The surge in malaria-related mortality among children under-five in African countries, mainly owing to late treatment, poses a major concern. The failure to effectually treat malaria early has mired efforts to reduce the disease burden in the ...
Sarafa B. Shittu +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Blinatumomab, a CD19xCD3 bispecific T‐cell engager, has become standard therapy for children with de novo B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL). This retrospective review describes the experience of blinatumomab administration in pediatric patients.
Julia M. Hurley +6 more
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