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“It’s just a perfect storm”: Exploring the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on overdose risk in British Columbia from the perspectives of people who use substances

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Despite the implementation and expansion of public health and harm reduction strategies aimed at preventing and reversing overdoses, rates of overdose-related events and fatalities continue to rise in British Columbia.
Annie Foreman-Mackey   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming Entrepreneurs of Connection: How community partnerships shape engagement across difference and anti-poverty commitments

open access: yesMichigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2023
This article contributes to the civic identity development literature by exploring how a scholarship program emphasizing entrepreneurship and economic revitalization can facilitate engagement across difference in pursuit of shared anti-poverty ...
Albert Benson Nylander   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The benefits of and barriers to using a social robot PARO in care settings: a scoping review

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2019
Background Given the complexity of providing dementia care in hospitals, integrating technology into practice is a high challenge and an important opportunity.
Lillian Hung   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life on a knife edge: using simulation to engage young people in issues surrounding knife crime

open access: yesAdvances in Simulation, 2018
Background Knife-related behaviour among young people is an increasing social concern with a total of 35 teenagers killed by knife attacks in England in 2017.
H C Tribe, A Harris, R Kneebone
doaj   +1 more source

4449 Building Capacity in the Flint Community in the Midst of the Ongoing Water Crisis

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2020
OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Examining the impact of the Building Capacity for Research and Action (BCRA) Award created by the Community Engagement (CE) Program at the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR)--a Clinical & Translational Science ...
Athena S. McKay   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Distributed Simulation as a modelling tool for the development of a simulation-based training programme for cardiovascular specialties

open access: yesAdvances in Simulation, 2017
Aims and background Distributed Simulation is the concept of portable, high-fidelity immersive simulation. Here, it is used for the development of a simulation-based training programme for cardiovascular specialities.
Tanika Kelay   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Youth Engagement—Engaging for a Change: Changing for Engagement

open access: yesJournal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2015
This paper documents the incentives for, processes of, and outcomes from our multi-year community-based research project on youth engagement. In line with the theme of the 15th Annual Conference of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC)—Engaging for Change: Changing for Engagement—this paper illustrates our project in terms of the conference’s ...
openaire   +3 more sources

A large database study of hospitalization charges and follow-up re-admissions in US lumbar fusion surgeries using a cellular bone allograft (CBA) versus recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2)

open access: yesJournal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2020
Background The objective of this study was to retrospectively compare initial procedure and 12-month follow-up hospitalization charges and resource utilization (lengths of stay; LOS) for lumbar fusion surgeries using either recombinant human bone ...
Bradley Wetzell   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

El alineamiento constructivo de un curso online de aprendizaje-servicio

open access: yesEdutec, 2021
Service-learning is gaining traction worldwide, including South Africa. This pedagogy requires a different approach to teaching and learning and few resources are available to provide such support.
Joana Bezerra, Sharli Paphitis
doaj   +1 more source

Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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