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Assessment of short and long-term outcomes of diabetes patient education using the health education impact questionnaire (HeiQ)

BMC Research Notes, 2017
Background Type 2 diabetes is a progressive chronic illness that will affect more than 500 million people worldwide by 2030. It is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality.
Ditte Hjorth Laursen, Karl Bang Christensen, Ulla Christensen, Anne Frølich   +3 more
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Social Conditions and Health

American Journal of Public Health, 2009
An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses the interaction of social conditions and health, which she describes as the theme of the articles published within the issue.
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The value of comparative research in major day surgery

Gaceta Sanitaria, 2018
Objective: To measure time trends in major day surgery rates according to hospital ownership and other hospital characteristics among the providers of the public healthcare network of Catalonia, Spain.
Alba Llop-Gironés, Montse Vergara-Duarte, Josep Anton Sánchez, Gemma Tarafa, Joan Benach   +4 more
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The validity of diagnoses of non-affective psychotic disorder including schizophrenia in Swedish registers revisited – are the diagnoses valid for migrants and Swedish-born?

BMC Psychiatry
Background The first aim of the study was to assess the validity of non-affective psychosis diagnoses, including schizophrenia, for migrants and Swedish-born to determine if the registered diagnoses were of sufficient quality for epidemiological research.
Jens Falk, Lidija Pavlovic, Susanne Wicks, Christina Dalman, Anna-Clara Hollander   +4 more
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Prenatal maternal PTSD as a risk factor for offspring ADHD: A register-based Swedish cohort study of 553 766 children and their mothers

European Psychiatry
Background Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is highly heritable, though environmental factors also play a role. Prenatal maternal stress is suggested to be one such factor, including exposure to highly distressing events that could lead to
Michael Borgert, Amandah Melin, Anna-Clara Hollander, Syed Rahman   +3 more
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Evaluation of the mortality registry in Ecuador (2001–2013) – social and geographical inequalities in completeness and quality

Population Health Metrics, 2019
Background Mortality registries are an essential data source for public health surveillance and for planning and evaluating public policy. Nevertheless, there are still large inequalities in the completeness and quality of mortality registries between ...
Andrés Peralta, Joan Benach, Carme Borrell, Verónica Espinel-Flores, Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Bernardo L. Queiroz, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo   +6 more
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Resilience, Hardship and Social Conditions [PDF]

Journal of Social Policy, 2015
AbstractThis paper provides a critical assessment of the term ‘resilience’ – and its highly agent-centric conceptualisation – when applied to how individuals and households respond to hardship. We provide an argument for social conditions to be embedded into the framework of resilience analysis.
Dagdeviren, H, Donoghue, M, Promberger, M   +2 more
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
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Correction to: Evaluation of the mortality registry in Ecuador (2001–2013) – social and geographical inequalities in completeness and quality

Population Health Metrics, 2019
Following the publication of this article [1], the authors reported a typesetting error in Table 1 that caused the columns of the table to be ordered incorrectly, and a typographical error in a sentence in the Conclusions section.
Andrés Peralta, Joan Benach, Carme Borrell, Verónica Espinel-Flores, Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Bernardo L. Queiroz, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo   +6 more
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Health‐Related Social Needs in Children With Sickle Cell Disease Are Associated With Worse Health‐Related Quality of Life

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks, Molly Sonenklar, Cerelia Donald, Cecelia Valrie, Wally Smith, India Sisler   +5 more
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