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Evolution and Complementarity? Traditional and Complementary Medicine as Part of the International Human Rights Law Right to Health [PDF]

, 2020
In International Human Rights Law, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights defines the right to health as the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
Carne, Greg, Doolan, Angela
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Sustainable bioplastics manufacturing from renewable sources

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Bioplastics are manufactured by using polymers from different bio‐based sources. These novel materials not only offer biodegradability but also possess various functional properties that make them suitable for diverse applications. Recent developments in the preparation of bioplastics are reported, highlighting the distinct properties of each type of ...
C. Valeria L. Giosafatto, Marika Avitabile, Michela Famiglietti, Talayeh Kordjazi, Marzieh Moosavi‐Nasab, Odile F. Restaino, Loredana Mariniello   +6 more
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Curbing the lifestyle disease pandemic: making progress on an interdisciplinary research agenda for law and policy interventions

BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2017
By 2030, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) will be the leading cause of death in every region in the world. While law and policy have an important role to play in curbing this pandemic, our current understanding of how they can most effectively be used is ...
Brigit Toebes, Marlies Hesselman, Jitse P. van Dijk, Joost Herman   +3 more
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Hospital Readmission After Traumatic Brain Injury Hospitalization in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the risk of hospital readmission after an index hospitalization for TBI in older adults. Methods Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, we used propensity score matching of individuals with an index TBI‐related hospitalization to individuals with (1) non‐TBI hospitalizations (primary analysis)
Rachel Thomas, Connor A. Law, Joan A. Casey, Thomas Mosley, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Ramon Diaz‐Arrastia, Holly Elser, Andrea L. C. Schneider   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Atmiyata, a community-led intervention to address common mental disorders: Study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Gujarat, India

Trials, 2020
Background While lay-health worker models for mental health care have proven to be effective in controlled trials, there is limited evidence on the effectiveness and scalability of these models in rural communities in low- and middle-income countries ...
Kaustubh Joag, Jasmine Kalha, Deepa Pandit, Susmita Chatterjee, Sadhvi Krishnamoorthy, Laura Shields-Zeeman, Soumitra Pathare   +6 more
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Imagining Global Health with Justice: In Defense of the Right to Health [PDF]

, 2015
The singular message in Global Health Law is that we must strive to achieve global health with justice—improved population health, with a fairer distribution of benefits of good health.
Friedman, Eric A., Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
wiley   +1 more source

Legal and Regulatory Barriers to Reverse Innovation

Annals of Global Health, 2017
BackgroundReverse innovation, or the importation of new, affordable, and efficacious models to high-income countries from the developing world, has emerged as a way to improve the health care system in the United States.
Virginia Rowthorn, Alexander J. Plum, John Zervos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tracking progress of tobacco control in Pakistan against the MPOWER package of interventions : challenges and opportunities [PDF]

, 2020
MPOWER is an evidence-based package of the six most effective demand reduction interventions to reduce tobacco use. Global evidence shows that introduction of this package has accelerated and strengthened tobacco control worldwide with over 5 billion ...
Gill, Paramjit, Masud, Haleema, Oyebode, Oyinlola, Sekalala, Sharifah   +3 more
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Fluid Biomarkers of Disease Burden and Cognitive Dysfunction in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Identifying objective biomarkers for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is crucial to improving diagnosis and establishing clinical trial and treatment endpoints. This study evaluated fluid biomarkers in PSP versus controls and their associations with regional 18F‐PI‐2620 tau‐PET, clinical, and cognitive outcomes.
Roxane Dilcher, Charles B. Malpas, Stuart J. McDonald, William T. O’Brien, Craig Despott, Kelly L. Bertram, Matthew P. Pase, Lukas Frontzkowski, Meng Law, Terence J. O’Brien, Lucy Vivash   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source