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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
wiley   +1 more source

Designing and Validation of a Living Standards Questionnaire in Tehran’s Elderly Community

Sālmand, 2019
Objectives Considering the importance of assessing living standards in society, the present study aimed to design a living standards questionnaire.
Mina Jahanpour, Seyed Hossein Mohaqeqi Kamal, Samaneh Hosseinzadeh, Homeira Sajjadi, Mehdi Basakha   +4 more
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On the Economic Efficiency of the Combinatorial Clock Auction [PDF]

, 2015
Since the 1990s spectrum auctions have been implemented world-wide. This has provided for a practical examination of an assortment of auction mechanisms and, amongst these, two simultaneous ascending price auctions have proved to be extremely successful.
Bousquet, Nicolas, Cai, Yang, Hunkenschröder, Christoph, Vetta, Adrian   +3 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Insecurity among Elderly in Tehran: Prevalence, Risk and Protective Factors

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2020
Background and purpose: Food insecurity is a major public health problem, especially among older adults living in developing countries. The present study aimed at examining the prevalence, and risk and protective factors for severe food insecurity among ...
Mina Eghrari, Maryam Sharifian Sani, Seyed Hossein Mohaqeqi Kamal, Gholamreza Ghaedamini Harouni, Nasibeh Zanjari, Sina Ahmadi   +5 more
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Health‐Related Quality of Life and Symptom Severity Among Patients With PIK3CA‐Related Overgrowth Spectrum: A Mixed‐Methods Study to Understand Real‐World Experience With Alpelisib Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu, Kaitlin LaGasse, Cory D. Saucier, Kimberly Raymond, Miranda Lauher‐Charest, Lauren Crowder, Beilei Cai, Mary Lisha Paul, Denise Adams   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘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

Social Welfare

Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2013
This chapter examines the social welfare consequences of coordinated oligopolistic price elevation. From the outset, it is notable that none of the pertinent theory directly distinguishes between successful coordination due merely to recognized interdependence and that resulting from classic cartel behavior, or various cases in between.
Ielyzaveta Badanova, Ann Sofie Cloots
openaire   +2 more sources

Acceptance of Information and Communication Technology by the Elderly People Living in Tehran

Sālmand, 2019
Objectives Nowadays, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provides a potential opportunity for communities by changing the concept of distance.
Mehdi Basakha, Seyed Hossein Mohaqeqi Kamal, Hakimeh Pashazadeh   +2 more
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Measuring reliability and validity of Persian version of spirituality scale among elderly Iranian population [PDF]

Medicinski Glasnik Specijalne Bolnice za Bolesti Štitaste Žlezde i Bolesti Metabolizma "Zlatibor", 2014
Objective: The aim of this study was to measure the validity and reliability of Persian version of spirituality scale among elderly Iranian people. Methods: Based on the international quality of life assessment (IQOLA) project approach, Persian version ...
Hallaj Zahra, Rafiey Hasan, Momtaz Yadollah Abolfathi, Teimori Robab, Haroni Qholamreza Qaed Amini, Sahaf Robab   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source