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Psychosocial determinants of irritable bowel syndrome

World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2012
From a pure motor disorder of the bowel, in the past few years, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has become a multifactorial disease that implies visceral hypersensitivity, alterations at the level of nervous and humoral communications between the enteric nervous system and the central nervous system, alteration of the gut microflora, an increased ...
Teodora, Surdea-Blaga, Adriana, Băban, Dan L, Dumitrascu   +2 more
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Psychosocial determinants of health in social epidemiology [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2002
The current issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE) has several papers with a psychosocial theme. As its popularity has increased over the past decade, the use of the term ‘psychosocial’ has been very varied within health research including social epidemiology. A quick glance at Medline shows that it has been used in connection with at
Pekka, Martikainen, Mel, Bartley, Eero, Lahelma   +2 more
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Labor unions: a public health institution. [PDF]

, 2015
Using a social-ecological framework, we drew on a targeted literature review and historical and contemporary cases from the US labor movement to illustrate how unions address physical and psychosocial conditions of work and the underlying inequalities ...
Malinowski, Beth, Minkler, Meredith, Stock, Laura   +2 more
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Status, taste and distinction in consumer culture: acknowledging the symbolic dimensions of inequality [PDF]

, 2008
The relationship between social position and health has been the focus of extensive public health debate. In the UK and elsewhere, most researchers have focused on physical aspects of health, using indicators such as mortality and morbidity to draw a ...
Archer, Bartley, Bauman, Black, Bourdieu, Charlesworth, Davey Smith, Davey Smith, Eckersley, Eckersley, Featherstone, Featherstone, Freire, Frolich, Giddens, Gould, Hartmut, Krieger, Lupton, Lury, Marcus, Margaret Hannah, Marmot, Marmot, Marmot, McLeod, McLeod, Miller, Nesse, Phil Hanlon, Ransome, Sandra Carlisle, Scambler, Shilling, Slater, Sointu, Sullivan, Townsend, Wallerstein, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Williams, Williams   +46 more
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Risk and protective factors related to having a child with congenital heart diseases (CHD): a case-control study in Iran

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023
BackgroundThe heart is the first fully developed organ in early pregnancy, especially in the first trimester of pregnancy, so any factor that contributes to heart failure is life-threatening.
Mostafa Amini-Rarani, Salah Eddin Karimi, Neda SoleimanvandiAzar, Mehdi Nosratabadi   +3 more
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Measuring Intermediary Determinants of Early Childhood Health: A Composite Index Comparing Colombian Departments [PDF]

, 2013
In recent years there has been growing interest in composite indicators as an efficient tool of analysis and a method of prioritizing policies. This paper presents a composite index of intermediary determinants of child health using a multivariate ...
Alcañiz, Manuela, Bolancé Losilla, Catalina, Osorio Mejía, Ana María   +2 more
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Psychosocial factors partially explain gender differences in health‐related quality of life in heart failure patients

ESC Heart Failure, 2023
Aims There is little information about the influence of gender on quality of life (QoL) in heart failure. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the health‐related QoL gap between men and women can be explained by the interaction between ...
Javier Tapia, María Basalo, Cristina Enjuanes, Esther Calero, Nuria José, Marta Ruíz, Elena Calvo, Paloma Garcimartín, Pedro Moliner, Encarna Hidalgo, Sergi Yun, Alberto Garay, Santiago Jiménez‐Marrero, Alexandra Pons, Xavier Corbella, Josep Comín Colet   +15 more
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Determinants and outcomes of motivation in health professions education: a systematic review based on self-determination theory [PDF]

, 2016
Purpose: This study aimed at conducting a systematic review in health professions education of determinants, mediators and outcomes of students’ motivation to engage in academic activities based on the self-determination theory’s perspective.
Angell, Cesar Orsini, James, Kaufman, Orsini, Sarah L. Wilson, Vivian I. Binnie   +6 more
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Psychosocial determinants of corruption

, 2014
Psychosocial determinants of corruption was recommended in order to give emphasis that corruption is innate in nature in which discontentment and security takes place as a motivating factor; why a certain person committed corruption. The researchers used Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which determines the self-actualization as the higher needs of man or a
Nalzaro, Jonalyn G., Narra, Donald B., Nemenzo, Maguindah L.   +2 more
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Predictors of fatigue severity in early systemic sclerosis: a prospective longitudinal study of the GENISOS cohort. [PDF]

, 2011
ObjectivesLongitudinal studies examining the baseline predictors of fatigue in SSc have not been reported. Our objectives were to examine the course of fatigue severity over time and to identify baseline clinical, demographic, and psychosocial predictors
Assassi, Shervin, Fischbach, Michael, GENISOS Study Group, Gonzalez, Emilio B, Leyva, Astrud L, Mayes, Maureen D, McNearney, Terry A, Nair, Deepthi K, Nguyen, Ngan, Reveille, John D, Sharif, Roozbeh   +10 more
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