Does an Intervention Designed to Improve Self-management, Social Support and Awareness of Palliative-care Address Needs of Persons with Heart Failure, Family Caregivers and Clinicians? [PDF]
, 2018 Aims and Objectives To conduct a formative evaluation of the iPad‐Enhanced Shared Care Intervention for Partners (iSCIP) among persons with heart failure (HF), family caregivers and clinicians. Together, persons with HF and family caregivers are referred
Garnier-Villarreal, Mauricio +4 more
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Hospital readmissions for COPD: a retrospective longitudinal study
npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 2017 Chronic lung disease: Lower risk of readmission for London-based patients A managed reduction of hospital readmissions for London-based chronic lung disease patients may not be needed.
Timothy H. Harries +5 more
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Evaluating clinical outcomes of routinely delivered task-shared care for depression in rural Haiti
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2021 Background There is a growing literature in support of the effectiveness of task-shared mental health interventions in resource-limited settings globally.
Alexandra L. Rose +11 more
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Social support, social control and health behavior change in spouses [PDF]
, 2010 Our work on support processes in intimate relationships has focused on how partners in committed relationships help one another contend with personal difficulties, and how partners elicit and provide support in their day-to-day interactions.
Bejanyan, Kathrine +3 more
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Availability, Costs and Stock-Outs of Essential NCD Drugs in Three Rural Rwandan Districts
Annals of Global Health, 2020 Background: To reduce the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) burden, the World Health Organization has set a target to reach 80% availability of the affordable essential medicines required to treat NCDs by 2025.
Jean Paul Mukundiyukuri +12 more
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Playful expressions of one-year-old chimpanzee infants in social and solitary play contexts [PDF]
, 2014 Knowledge of the context and development of playful expressions in chimpanzees is limited because research has tended to focus on social play, on older subjects, and on the communicative signaling function of expressions.
Bard, Kim A. +2 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background Caesarean sections account for roughly one third of all surgical procedures performed in low-income countries. Due to lack of standardised post-discharge follow-up protocols and practices, most of available data are extracted from clinical ...
Theoneste Nkurunziza +7 more
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Determining whether Community Health Workers are ‘Deployment Ready’ Using Standard Setting
Annals of Global Health, 2018 Background: Community Health Workers (CHWs) provide basic health screening and advice to members of their own communities. Although CHWs are trained, no CHW programmes have used a formal method to identify the level of achievement on post-training ...
Celia Taylor +5 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions in access to routine healthcare services worldwide, with a particularly high impact on chronic care patients and low and middle-income countries.
Dale A Barnhart +29 more
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The Association between Use of Online Social Networks to Find Sex Partners and Sexually Transmitted Infection Diagnosis among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women Living with HIV. [PDF]
, 2019 We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from the Adolescent Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions to examine the association between the use of social media sites to find sex partners and recent diagnosis of sexually transmitted ...
Hightow-Weidman, Lisa +4 more
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