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Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic Many aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the public health response to it will undoubtedly contribute to widespread emotional distress and increased risk fo...
B. Pfefferbaum, C. North
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The outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus and its impact on global mental health
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2020 Background: The current outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus infection among humans in Wuhan (China) and its spreading around the globe is heavily impacting on the global health and mental health. Despite all resources employed to counteract the spreading of
J. Torales +3 more
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HEALTH CYCLES AND HEALTH TRANSITIONS [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2014 We study the dynamics of poverty and health in a model of endogenous growth and rational health behavior. Population health depends on the prevalence of infectious diseases that can be avoided through costly prevention. The incentive to do so comes from the negative effects of ill health on the quality and quantity of life.
Chakraborty, Shankha +2 more
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Definitions, 2018 The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a public agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The agency’s goal is to provide information about research and services available on substance use and ...
Bethany Figg
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Health literacy and health communication [PDF]
BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 2010 Health communication consists of interpersonal or mass communication activities focused on improving the health of individuals and populations. Skills in understanding and applying information about health issues are critical to this process and may have a substantial impact on health behaviors and health outcomes.
Takahiro Kiuchi, Hirono Ishikawa
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Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
Science, 2019 Racial bias in health algorithms The U.S. health care system uses commercial algorithms to guide health decisions. Obermeyer et al. find evidence of racial bias in one widely used algorithm, such that Black patients assigned the same level of risk by the
Z. Obermeyer +3 more
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Cell, 2021 Health is usually defined as the absence of pathology. Here, we endeavor to define health as a compendium of organizational and dynamic features that maintain physiology. The biological causes or hallmarks of health include features of spatial compartmentalization (integrity of barriers and containment of local perturbations), maintenance of ...
Carlos López-Otín +2 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2018 Scale development and validation are critical to much of the work in the health, social, and behavioral sciences. However, the constellation of techniques required for scale development and evaluation can be onerous, jargon-filled, unfamiliar, and ...
Godfred O Boateng +4 more
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Defining health and health inequalities [PDF]
Public Health, 2019 To examine existing definitions of health and health inequalities and to synthesise the most useful of these using explicit rationale and the most parsimonious text.Literature review and synthesis.Existing definitions of health and health inequalities were identified, and their normative properties were extracted and then critically appraised.
McCartney, G. +3 more
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