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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care [PDF]
, 2011 This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries inhealth outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007.
Badi H. Baltagi +2 more
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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
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Medical sociology as a heuristic instrument for medical tourism and cross-border healthcare Comment on “International patients on operation vacation – perspectives of patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatments” [PDF]
In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the
Mainil, Tomas
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Parents despite support networks? An intersectional analysis of disabled parenthood
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses an intersectional perspective that considers patriarchal and ableist mandates to understand how family and professional support networks impact the reproductive trajectories of disabled people. The study analyzes 16 semi‐structured interviews with disabled people and 1 with a non‐disabled support worker.
Laura Sanmiquel‐Molinero +2 more
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Indian Journal of Community MedicineBackground: Currently, most old age homes in India are completely occupied. Nowadays, nuclear families are more than joint families, and due to various factors such as urbanization, the elderly are deprived of essential care at home and are moved from ...
Sujitha Pandian +4 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores the emotional labor and self‐care strategies of feminist abortion acompañantes in Northern Mexico. Operating within restrictive legal environments, acompañantes provide crucial support for self‐managed medication abortions (SMAs), engaging in significant, often invisible, emotional labor.
Bruna Alvarez, Suzanne Veldhuis
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Clinical Practice Guidelines as a Medical Profession Government Technology in Medellín, Colombia
SocietiesClinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are essential for current medical professions since they prevent clinical practice from being based on personal opinions, bias, or individual experience.
Diego Alejandro Estrada-Mesa +2 more
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Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Teacher education should equip student teachers with scientific evidence and scientific theories as a resource for future pedagogical action. In opposition to this, student teachers tend to perceive a rather low utility value of scientific evidence and scientific theories for pedagogical action.
Michael Rochnia +4 more
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Head &Neck, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Disparities in thyroid cancer care are driven by demographic and socioeconomic factors such as insurance status, income, and access to specialized care. Methods Retrospective chart review. Demographic and clinical data from 281 adult patients who underwent thyroidectomy or hemithyroidectomy for papillary or follicular thyroid cancer
Breanna Dominguez +5 more
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Developing a Typology of Korean Women Leaders' Resistance to Their Token Status in the Workplace
Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite remarkable economic development in South Korea (Korea), there are only a few women leaders, and they face challenges in the gendered workplace where organizational constraints and traditional values coexist. In a reanalysis of narratives of Korean women leaders (KWLs), using an ideal‐type analysis as a novel qualitative research method,
Yonjoo Cho +4 more
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