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Narrating health. Literature and medicine

Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2021
Literature was, is, and will always continue to be a central element for the study of different semiotic representations of health and disease. There are two essential elements for this; first, the fact that activities related to health and disease ...
Antonio M. Bañón Hernández
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Sport and exercise medicine and the Olympic health legacy [PDF]

, 2012
London 2012 is the first Olympic and Paralympic Games to explicitly try and develop socioeconomic legacies for which success indicators are specified - the highest profile of which was to deliver a health legacy by getting two million more people more ...
Copeland, Robert, Tew, Garry, Till, Simon   +2 more
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Factors associated with self-care activities among adults in the United Kingdom: a systematic review [PDF]

, 2009
Background: The Government has promoted self-care. Our aim was to review evidence about who uses self-tests and other self-care activities (over-the-counter medicine, private sector,complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), home blood pressure ...
A Furnham, A Furnham, A Furnham, A Furnham, A Furnham, A Furnham, A Furnham, A Ryan, Aliki Taylor, Angela Ryan, B Boardman, C Featherstone, C Featherstone, C McGrath, C Mulvaney, C Ong, C Ong, C Paterson, C Propper, C Propper, C Vincent, C Vincent, CP Bradley, D King, Department of Health, Department of Health, E Ernst, F Cappuccio, FMC Sharples, FP Cappuccio, G Urquhart, G Wadlow, GJ Andrews, GJ Andrews, H Freymann, H MacPherson, J Murray, J Richardson, JC McElnay, K Payne, K Thomas, KA Vickers, KJ Thomas, M Emslie, M Wazaify, MJ Emslie, NJ Gray, P Trinder, RA Harrison, RJ McManus, S Kayne, S Reid, S Wilson, Sheila Greenfield, SM Greenfield, Sue Wilson, T Besley, T Cartwright, T Porteous   +58 more
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Calling for improved quality in the registration of traditional Chinese medicine during the public health emergency: a survey of trial registries for COVID-19, H1N1, and SARS

Trials, 2021
Objective To assess the registration quality of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinical trials for COVID-19, H1N1, and SARS. Method We searched for clinical trial registrations of TCM in the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
Zhuoran Kuang, Xiaoyan Li, Jianxiong Cai, Yaolong Chen, Xiaoyuan Qiu, Xiaojia Ni, on behalf of the Evidence-based Traditional and Integrative Medicine Working Group for Public Health Emergency   +6 more
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Social Media: A Review and Tutorial of Applications in Medicine and Health Care

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2014
Background Social media are dynamic and interactive computer-mediated communication tools that have high penetration rates in the general population in high-income and middle-income countries.
F. Grajales, S. Sheps, K. Ho, Helen Novak-Lauscher, G. Eysenbach   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparison of Medicine Availability Measurements at Health Facilities: Evidence from Service Provision Assessment Surveys in Five Sub-Saharan African Countries. [PDF]

, 2013
With growing emphasis on health systems strengthening in global health, various health facility assessment methods have been used increasingly to measure medicine and commodity availability.
A Cameron, A Demirchyan, AK Rowe, J Robertson, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Paul Ametepi, The Glbal Fund: Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, Yoonjoung Choi   +11 more
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Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?

The Lancet, 2019
The purpose of this Review is to provide evidence for why gender equality in science, medicine, and global health matters for health and health-related outcomes.
Geordan D Shannon, Melanie Jansen, Kate Williams, C. Caceres, Angélica Motta, A. Odhiambo, Alie Eleveld, J. Mannell   +7 more
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
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Guideline for the application of heart rate and heart rate variability in occupational medicine and occupational health science

Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology
This updated guideline replaces the “Guideline for the application of heart rate and heart rate variability in occupational medicine and occupational health science” first published in 2014.
Stefan Sammito, B. Thielmann, André Klussmann, Andreas Deußen, K. Braumann, I. Böckelmann   +5 more
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Digital Twins: From Personalised Medicine to Precision Public Health

Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2021
A digital twin is a virtual model of a physical entity, with dynamic, bi-directional links between the physical entity and its corresponding twin in the digital domain. Digital twins are increasingly used today in different industry sectors.
Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Peng Zhang
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