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Patient advocacy and arthritis: moving forward

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
Patient advocacy is based on the premise that people have the right to make their own choices about their health care. Personal advocacy is centred on the experiential expertise of the individual affected by the condition, whereas group advocacy is ...
Leong Amye L., Euller-Ziegler Liana
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B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné, Jill Hanley, Élise Bourgeois‐Guérin, Pénélope Boudreault   +3 more
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Amplifying the Future of Patient Voices and Cross-Disease Networking Through the Advocacy Exchange

Journal of Patient Experience
Patient advocacy is essential for progress in healthcare to improve clinical practice and treatments, but advocacy is neither well understood nor supported.
Brad Love PhD, Sheila Thorne BA, Laudy Robinson BA, Eileen Shannon MS, Katie Stout BS, David Craig MBA, Jasmine Greenamyer MPH   +6 more
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Immigrant mental health, safe work, discrimination, and state policies: From racism and xenophobia to health equity

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract An ecological model was developed to examine the pathways linking immigration state policies to physically safe work conditions and work volition, interpersonal discrimination, and mental health distress. The ecological framework was tested among two subsamples totaling 529 Latinx immigrant participants: (1) immigrants who resided in states ...
Germán A. Cadenas, Thanharat Silamongkol, H. Kenny Nienhusser, Fiorella L. Carlos Chavez, Cristalís Capielo Rosario, Lucas Torres, Oswaldo Moreno   +6 more
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Self-advocacy: a critical mediator between spousal disease communication and symptom perception in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy

Cancer Survivorship Research & Care
Objective To investigate the mediating role of self-advocacy in the relationship between spousal illness communication and symptom burden in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted using convenience ...
Jia-Zhu Liu, Li-Min Meng, Dong-Mei Lin, Rong Liu, Hui Li, Yun-Ping Qian, Zhe Jiang, Xiao-Bo Zhang, Bo-Wen Zhou   +8 more
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Master narratives as “colonial propaganda” and counternarratives as “refusal”: How African Australians reimagine racial dignity in Australia

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper utilizes the concept of “colonial master narratives” to examine how racial propaganda is mobilized in the Australian imaginary to “flatten” the stories of Blac/k people and how African Australians deploy counternarratives to reject these racialized projections.
Kathomi Gatwiri, Samara Kim
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NO NĀ PUA: Exploring the feasibility of culture‐based social prescribing on firefighters' wellbeing in Hawaiʻi

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda, Margary Martin, Misty Pacheco   +2 more
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Bladder Cancer Patient Advocacy: A Global Perspective

Bladder Cancer
Over the past 20 years, cancer patient advocacy groups have demonstrated that patient engagement in cancer care is essential to improving patient quality of life and outcomes.
Diane Zipursky Quale, Rick Bangs, Monica Smith, David Guttman, Tammy Northam, Andrew Winterbottom, Andrea Necchi, Edoardo Fiorini, Stephanie Demkiw   +8 more
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Navigating Asparaginase Treatment for Patients With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: US Consensus Panel Recommendations on the Role of Multidisciplinary Care

American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Asparaginase is a critical treatment component for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoblastic lymphoma (ALL/LBL). However, the successful delivery of asparaginase‐based therapy remains challenging across care settings due to its complex administration, distinct toxicity profile, prolonged treatment duration, and the need for ...
Amir Ali, Grace Elsey, Kayla Fulginiti, Zanette Kanani‐Bradley, Holly R. Kubaney, Sandra Kurtin, Theresa Nguyen, Jennifer Turchina, Charlotte B. Wagner   +8 more
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Targeting B‐Cell‐Activating Factor and Its Receptor in Immune Thrombocytopenia and Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia

American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current treatments for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia (wAIHA), rare autoimmune diseases in which autoreactive B cells play a major role, can lead to high response rates; however, for many patients these responses are not durable or maintained after treatment discontinuation.
Matthieu Mahévas, Nichola Cooper, Vickie McDonald, Karina Yazdanbakhsh, Wilma Barcellini   +4 more
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