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Centralized and Decentralized Delivery of Transgender Health Care Services: A Systematic Review and a Global Expert Survey in 39 Countries

open access: yesFrontiers in Endocrinology, 2021
IntroductionTransgender health care is delivered in both centralized (by one interdisciplinary institution) and decentralized settings (by different medical institutions spread over several locations).
Andreas Koehler   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Considering how biological sex impacts immune responses and COVID-19 outcomes

open access: yesNature reviews. Immunology, 2020
A male bias in mortality has emerged in the COVID-19 pandemic, which is consistent with the pathogenesis of other viral infections. Biological sex differences may manifest themselves in susceptibility to infection, early pathogenesis, innate viral ...
E. Scully   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Method: Intention to claim a Medicare rebate among women receiving private Victorian pregnancy termination services

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2004
Objectives: To determine the proportion of women who have pregnancy terminations as private patients in Victoria who do not intend to claim a procedure fee rebate from Medicare, to compare characteristics of women who intend to submit a Medicare claim ...
Carolyn Nickson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of sex and gender on COVID-19 outcomes in Europe

open access: yesBiology of Sex Differences, 2020
Background Emerging evidence from China suggests that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is deadlier for infected men than women with a 2.8% fatality rate being reported in Chinese men versus 1.7% in women.
C. Gebhard   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hepatitis B knowledge and associated factors among people with chronic hepatitis B

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objective: To assess hepatitis B knowledge among people with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in Australia. Methods: People with CHB in three Australian jurisdictions completed a self‐administered questionaire, including 24 hepatitis B knowledge questions ...
Behzad Hajarizadeh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges in managing patients in Australia with chronic hepatitis B: the General Practitioners’ perspective

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2013
Objective: General Practitioners (GPs) are essential to reducing the impact of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) given their clinical management role where only 56% of people with the infection in Australia have been diagnosed.
Jack Wallace   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development and validation of PozQoL: a scale to assess quality of life of PLHIV

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2018
Background Advances in medical treatment for HIV are driving major changes in HIV policy and practice, including the encouragement of intake and adherence to HIV antiretroviral treatment (ART) by people living with HIV (PLHIV) for both personal and ...
Graham Brown   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Child sex tourism – prevalence of and risk factors for its use in a German community sample

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2017
Background To investigate the prevalence of child sex tourism (CST) in a large German community sample, and to compare those who made use of CST with other child sexual abusers regarding established characteristics and risk factors for child sexual abuse.
Thula Koops   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sex ratios [PDF]

open access: yesHeredity, 2002
Sex ratio theory attempts to explain variation at all levels (species, population, individual, brood) in the proportion of offspring that are male (the sex ratio). In many cases this work has been extremely successful, providing qualitative and even quantitative explanations of sex ratio variation.
West, Stuart A   +2 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Screened Out: Women with Disabilities and Preventive Health

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2007
This paper explores the lived experience of women with disabilities in relation to preventative health. It is based on qualitative research in Australia involving 25 individual interviews and 4 focus groups with women with disabilities about their ...
Kelley Johnson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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