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The “A to Z” of Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Culturally Diverse Populations

open access: yesFrontiers in Endocrinology, 2018
Type 2 diabetes affects racial/ethnic minorities at an alarming rate in the US and in many countries around the world. The quality of health care provided to these groups is often suboptimal, resulting in worse patient-related outcomes when compared to ...
A. Enrique Caballero
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation of the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in rural and urban Ghana: a history and systematic review of what works, for whom and why

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundDespite renewed emphasis on strengthening primary health care globally, the sector remains under-resourced across sub–Saharan Africa. Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) has been the foundation of Ghana's primary care system for
Helen Elsey   +13 more
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The measles outbreak in Israel in 2018-19: lessons for COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
During 2018–2019 Israel saw some 4300 measles cases in a country-wide epidemic. Increased measles incidence rates and considerable disease burden have been observed in under-vaccinated communities, predominantly Jewish ultraorthodox. The measles epidemic,
Chen Stein-Zamir, Hagai Levine
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A debate over the link between Salvador Allende, Max Westenhöfer, and Rudolf Virchow: contributions to the history of social medicine in Chile and internationally [PDF]

open access: yesHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2020
In the history of Latin American social medicine, numerous works have presented a harmonious link between Rudolf Virchow, Max Westenhöfer, and Salvador Allende, which establishes the origin of ideas of Latin American social medicine in a prestigious ...
Eric D. Carter, Marcelo Sánchez Delgado
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A school without railings: rural backgrounds, social medicine, and the circulation of public health material in Colombia, 1930-1946

open access: yesHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2021
Ambitious state hygiene education projects designed during liberal governments in Colombia (1930-1946) faced not just the poverty of rural populations, but also the reluctance of local political forces.
Natalia Botero-Tovar
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Somatização em migrantes de baixa renda no Brasil Somatization in Brazil's low-income migrants

open access: yesPsicologia & Sociedade, 2006
Este artigo tem por objetivo compreender o entrelaçamento da cultura com reações psicológicas de indivíduos expostos ao processo de migração e estabelecer relações entre o fenômeno da migração e adoecimento psicossomático.
Miguel Antônio de Mello Silva   +1 more
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At the edge of individual cognitive-behavioural policies: how to walk the public health path to effectively improve population health?

open access: yesSalud Pública de México, 2013
Most countries worldwide have recognised the significance of contextual social determinants of health (SDH) on population health. This essay challenges current public health views focused on individual risk-factors and motivates an  evidenceinformed ...
Baltica Cabieses
doaj   +1 more source

European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

open access: yesPediatric 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   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health‐Related Social Needs in Children With Sickle Cell Disease Are Associated With Worse Health‐Related Quality of Life

open access: yesPediatric 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   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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