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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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The impact of the Lesotho health reform in the re-structuring of the village health workers program

BMC Health Services Research
Background Community Health Workers locally known as Village Health Workers (VHW) in Lesotho are key members of the primary health workforce, and has been playing a significant role in building primary health systems in many countries and they can fill ...
Afom T. Andom, Hannah N. Gilbert, Courtney M. Yuen, Mapoho Mokoroane, Melino Ndayizigiye, Mpopo Tsoele, Masebeo Koto, Retsepile Tlali, Makena Ratsiu, Joia S. Mukherjee   +9 more
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Decentralized, primary-care delivered epilepsy services in Burera District, Rwanda: Service use, feasibility, and treatment

eNeurologicalSci, 2021
Background: Integrating epilepsy care into primary care settings could reduce the global burden of illness attributable to epilepsy. Since 2012, the Rwandan Ministry of Health and the international nonprofit Partners In Health have collaboratively used a
Beatha Nyirandagijimana, Alphonse Nshimyiryo, Hildegarde Mukasakindi, Jackline Odhiambo, Eugenie Uwimana, Valerie Mukamurenzi, Robert Bienvenu, Jean Sauveur Ndikubwimana, Clemence Uwamaliya, Priya Kundu, Paul H. Park, Tharcisse Mpunga, Giuseppe J. Raviola, Fredrick Kateera, Christian Rusangwa, Stephanie L. Smith   +15 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Raising awareness of anti-fat stigma in healthcare through lived experience education: a continuing professional development pilot study

BMC Medical Education
Background Anti-fat attitudes and weight-based discrimination are prevalent in healthcare settings and among healthcare practitioners and clinical trainees, and can result in immense harm to patients. There is increasing recognition that anti-fat bias in
Christine Heidebrecht, Dianne Fierheller, Sara Martel, Alex Andrews, Amanda Hollahan, Laura Griffin, Sonia Meerai, Raeden Lock, Helia Nabavian, Chelsea D’Silva, May Friedman, Ian Zenlea   +11 more
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THE ROLE OF THE EMPLOYEES’ REPRESENTATIVES IN THE LIGHT OF THE NEW ROMANIAN SOCIAL DIALOGUE LAW [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2012
In the environment of constant social and legislative changes, the field of labor law, as part of the private law domain, is always a subject of debates.
IULIA BADOI
doaj  

Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek, Lori Wiener, Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Donna Johnston, Fyeza Hasan, Adam Rapoport, Nathasha Datoo, Kimberley Widger, Sumit Gupta, Karen Fergus, Anthony K. C. Chan, Alisha Kassam, Emily McCullogh, Dave Lysecki   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use of predicted vital status to improve survival analysis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cohorts

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2018
Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cohorts often lack long-term survival data, and are summarized instead by initial treatment outcomes.
Meredith B. Brooks, Salmaan Keshavjee, Irina Gelmanova, Nataliya A. Zemlyanaya, Carole D. Mitnick, Justin Manjourides   +5 more
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Involvement of the Social Partners in the European Semester: 2016 Update [PDF]

, 2016
[Excerpt] The European Semester is a key component of economic governance in the European Union, aimed at coordinating the fiscal and economic policies of Member States.
Eurofound
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Two Faces of NOTCH1 in Childhood Lymphoblastic T‐Cell Neoplasia: Prognostic Divergence of Mutational and Structural Aberrations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In pediatric patients, T‐cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T‐LBL) survival exceeds 80%. Relapse remains associated with limited curative options. Frontline treatment is largely extrapolated from T‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T‐ALL) treatment, reflecting the ongoing debate, whether both entities represent distinct diseases or variants within ...
Marie C. Heider, Amelie Alfert, Marc Hotfilder, Birgit Burkardt, Marcel te Vrugt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source