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Food Security, Gender and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households [PDF]

Rising urban poverty and food insecurity are serious concerns in developing countries today. Urban livelihoods and coping strategies remain poorly understood however.
Maria S. Floro, Ranjula Bali Swain
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Exploring evidence-based practice by occupational therapists when working with people with apraxia [PDF]

, 2008
Short Report Evidence in the literature supports a number of interventions that occupational therapists may utilise when working with people with apraxia, although there is no gold standard approach.
Roden, P, Tempest, S
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Climate Action Impacts on Steelmaking Emissions of Persistent Organic Pollutants Highlight a Gap Between the Paris Agreement and the Stockholm Convention

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Emissions of unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutants (UPOPs) and global warming are two major environmental challenges. But their governance has largely evolved in parallel, leaving the toxicity implications of climate‐driven industrial transitions poorly understood.
Yuxiang Sun, Qiuting Yang, Jianghui Yun, Yujue Yang, Junhao Tang, Qian Liu, Minghui Zheng, Guorui Liu   +7 more
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Occupational Therapy for Adults with Overweight and Obesity: Mapping Interventions Involving Occupational Therapists

Occupational Therapy International, 2018
Background. Worldwide obesity rates are increasing. The effectiveness of occupational therapy in overweight and obese adults has not yet been clarified. Objectives.
Svetlana Solgaard Nielsen, Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The joint impact of habitual exercise and glycemic control on the incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in middle-aged and older males

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2017
Background This retrospective study evaluated the influence of the joint impact of habitual exercise and glycemic control on the incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) during a 6-year follow-up period in middle-aged and older males.
Ryoma Michishita, Takuro Matsuda, Shotaro Kawakami, Satoshi Tanaka, Akira Kiyonaga, Hiroaki Tanaka, Natsumi Morito, Yasuki Higaki   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

An enhanced individual placement and support (IPS) intervention based on the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO); a prospective cohort study

BMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background Employment is good for physical and mental health, however people with severe mental illness (SMI) are often excluded from employment. Standard Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is effective in supporting around 55% of people with SMI ...
Susan Prior, Donald Maciver, Randi W. Aas, Bonnie Kirsh, Annika Lexen, Lana van Niekerk, Linda Irvine Fitzpatrick, Kirsty Forsyth   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Laser‐Induced Graphene‐Based Gas Sensors: From Sensing Mechanisms to Biomedical Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Laser‐induced graphene (LIG) provides a scalable, laser‐direct‐written route to porous graphene architecture with tunable chemistry and defect density. Through heterojunction engineering, catalytic functionalization, and intrinsic self‐heating, LIG achieves highly sensitive and selective detection of NOX, NH3, H2, and humidity, supporting next ...
Md Abu Sayeed Biswas, Ankan Dutta, Shuvendu Das, Abu Musa Abdullah, Wanqing Zhang, Fatema Tuz Zohra, Huanyu Cheng   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Paradigm of Ergotherapy in Rehabilitation and Professional Reglamentation

Reabilitacijos Mokslai: Slauga, Kineziterapija, Ergoterapija, 2020
Well-being is the greatest social and economical value. Due to this „International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health“ was published by WHO in 2001.
Aleksandras Kriščiūnas, Sigitas Mingaila, Daiva Petruševičienė, Jolita Rapolienė, Indrė Bikutė   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ostrich or eagle? Protection and professionalism in sport science and coaching [PDF]

, 2001
In this presentation I examine the processes of professionalisation and mutual development within and between two occupational groups in the UK - sport and exercise scientists and sports coaches. At the outset I acknowledge the ‘cultural turn’ in science
Brackenridge, CH
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Coping with chronic illness and disability through creative needlecraft [PDF]

, 1997
Chronic illness and impairment commonly restrict the individual's access to work and leisure activities. Furthermore, if increasingly dependent upon family care, the individual may experience loss of valued roles and self- esteem.
Reynolds, F
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