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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor, Flora Hoodin, Michelle Byrd, Kristin A. Kullgren, Leah LaLonde, Lauren Benkoske, Patrick Smith, Dawn Carson, Karen MacDonald, Susumu Inoue, Brenda Kitchen, Kate Gowans, Gregory A. Yanik   +12 more
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A scoping review of social determinants of health curricula in post-graduate medical education

Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2019
Social determinants of health are responsible for 50% of ill health. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada CanMEDS role of “physician advocate” requires physicians to attain competency in this particular domain, but physician trainees ...
Kimberly Anne Hunter, Ben Thomson
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Tuberculosis treatment in a refugee and migrant population: 20 years of experience on the Thai-Burmese border. [PDF]

, 2010
Although tuberculosis (TB) is a curable disease, it remains a major global health problem and an important cause of morbidity and mortality among vulnerable populations, including refugees and ...
Bonnet, M, Camelique, O, Guerin, P J, Hewison, C, Hsa Thaw, K, Minetti, A, Pinoges, L, Swaddiwudhipong, W, Thi, S   +8 more
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Targeting vulnerable populations : a synthetic review on alcohol use and risky sexual behaviour among migrant populations [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Research has demonstrated a link between alcohol use and risky sexual behaviour among different types of migrant populations. Therefore, research investigating risk factors associated with alcohol consumption among them is a public health ...
Degomme, Olivier, Martins-Fonteyn, Emilia Maria Vaz, Meulemans, Herman, Raimundo, Ines, Sommerland, Nina, Wouters, Edwin   +5 more
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Pathogenic Germline PALB2 and RAD50 Variants in Patients With Relapsed Ewing Sarcoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Approximately 10% of patients with Ewing sarcoma (EwS) have pathogenic germline variants. Here, we report two cases: first, a novel germline pathogenic variant in partner and localizer of BRCA2 (PALB2) in a patient with a late EwS relapse. Its impact on homologous recombination is demonstrated, and breast cancer risk is discussed.
Molly Mack, A. Carolina Tufino, Mohd Azrin Jamalruddin, Sreya Dey, Yinghong Pan, Elina Mukherjee, Jessica D. Daley, Julia Meade, Mahmoud Aarabi, Lisa Maurer, James Cooper, Kara A. Bernstein, Kelly M. Bailey   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a capacity-building intervention for healthcare workers to improve communication skills and awareness of hard of hearing and D/deaf patients: results from a participatory action research study

BMC Health Services Research
Background Healthcare workers (HCWs) are commonly not prepared to properly communicate with D/deaf and hard of hearing (HoH) patients. The resulting communication challenges reinforce the existing barriers to accessing and benefiting from quality of care
Véronique S. Grazioli, Madison Graells, Elodie Schmutz, Odile Cantero, Tanya Sebaï, Vanessa Favre, Jessica Richème-Roos, Kevin Morisod, Michel Jeanneret, Pascal Singy, Patrick Bodenmann   +10 more
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Retailer perspectives on sugar-sweetened beverage taxes in the California Bay Area

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2020
The sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) industry has claimed that food and beverage retailers are opposed to SSB taxes. In 2018 and 2019, we formally evaluated retailers’ perceptions of SSB taxes using semi-structured interviews (including open- and closed ...
Julian Ponce, Haoxuan Yuan, Dean Schillinger, Hina Mahmood, Matthew Lee, Jen Falbe, Ryane Daniels, Kristine A. Madsen   +7 more
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Human Trafficking: Fighting the Hidden Crime of Modern-Day Slavery [PDF]

, 2014
The issue brief examines the link between economic insecurity in our community's most vulnerable populations and the prevalence of human trafficking.

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Developmental Disorders in Children Recently Diagnosed With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neurocognitive deficits in adult survivors of childhood cancer are well established, but less is known about developmental disorders (DD) arising shortly after cancer diagnosis. Using 2016–2019 linked Ohio cancer registry and Medicaid data, we compared DD among 324 children with cancer and 606,913 cancer‐free controls.
Jamie Shoag, Long Vu, Ritika Miryala, Jeffrey M. Albert, Molly McVoy, Siran M. Koroukian   +5 more
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Experiences of healthcare and administrative staff working with asylum seekers in the current polycrisis context: a qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research
Background Healthcare and administrative staff working with asylum seekers are at risk of burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization. Moreover, they face a series of crises, with the refugee crisis in 2015–2016, the Covid-19 pandemic, the ...
Léa Grosjean, Yann Sancosme, Kevin Morisod, Allison François, Rose Caitlin, Anne Jachmann, Véronique S. Grazioli, Patrick Bodenmann   +7 more
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