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Healthcare students’ perceptions about their role, confidence and competence to deliver brief public health interventions and advice

BMC Medical Education, 2018
Background Public health improvement has long been an important focus for the United Kingdom Department of Health. The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Federation has 84,000 members, such a large number of AHP professionals should play a role in public ...
Sionnadh McLean, Laura Charlesworth, Stephen May, Nick Pollard   +3 more
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Comparison of two different frailty measurements and risk of hospitalisation or death from COVID-19: findings from UK Biobank

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background Frailty has been associated with worse prognosis following COVID-19 infection. While several studies have reported the association between frailty and COVID-19 mortality or length of hospital stay, there have been no community-based studies on
Fanny Petermann-Rocha, Peter Hanlon, Stuart R. Gray, Paul Welsh, Jason M. R. Gill, Hamish Foster, S. Vittal Katikireddi, Donald Lyall, Daniel F. Mackay, Catherine A. O’Donnell, Naveed Sattar, Barbara I. Nicholl, Jill P. Pell, Bhautesh D. Jani, Frederick K. Ho, Frances S. Mair, Carlos Celis-Morales   +16 more
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Immigrant mental health, safe work, discrimination, and state policies: From racism and xenophobia to health equity

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract An ecological model was developed to examine the pathways linking immigration state policies to physically safe work conditions and work volition, interpersonal discrimination, and mental health distress. The ecological framework was tested among two subsamples totaling 529 Latinx immigrant participants: (1) immigrants who resided in states ...
Germán A. Cadenas, Thanharat Silamongkol, H. Kenny Nienhusser, Fiorella L. Carlos Chavez, Cristalís Capielo Rosario, Lucas Torres, Oswaldo Moreno   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Sensitivity of Wellbeing to Inequalities in Local Wellbeing [PDF]

, 2021
<p>Research points to a robust negative relationship between average levels of subjective wellbeing and the distribution of subjective wellbeing. The fact that our wellbeing falls as wellbeing distributions widen suggests we care about inequalities in the lives of others.
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NO NĀ PUA: Exploring the feasibility of culture‐based social prescribing on firefighters' wellbeing in Hawaiʻi

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda, Margary Martin, Misty Pacheco   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differential effects of health-promoting behaviors on wellbeing among adults

, 2017
As people age, identifying lifestyle choices that promote and support physical and emotional wellbeing becomes more important. Using the Reserve Capacity framework to explore psychosocial contributions to health disparities (Gallo, 2009), we examined the
Blake, Valerie K., Patrick, Julie Hicks, Nehrkorn, Abigail M.   +2 more
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Towards cross-modal pre-training and learning tempo-spatial characteristics for audio recognition with convolutional and recurrent neural networks

EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2020
In this paper, we investigate the performance of two deep learning paradigms for the audio-based tasks of acoustic scene, environmental sound and domestic activity classification.
Shahin Amiriparian, Maurice Gerczuk, Sandra Ottl, Lukas Stappen, Alice Baird, Lukas Koebe, Björn Schuller   +6 more
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Music & Wellbeing

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2016
Introduction: Scientific literature suggests that music may serve as therapeutic function among populations with different illnesses or disorders. Functional neuroimaging studies that incorporate music activity or music method shown an increase activation in several brain areas, with widespread bilateral hemodynamic responses in occipital lobe ...
Garrido, Gemma, Camps, Laia, Herrera, Isabel Herrera, Guillamat, Roser, Vallés, Vicenç, Sanz, Maite, Martínez, Joan   +6 more
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Exploring the Burden on Patients Living With and Receiving Treatment for Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP): Patient and Physician Perceptions From the ITP World Impact Survey (I‐WISh) 2.0

American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited data exist on how patients and physicians perceive immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) symptoms and treatment‐related burden. I‐WISh (ITP World Impact Survey) 2.0 surveyed 1018 patients and 431 physicians in 15 countries to characterize the impact of ITP and its treatments on patients.
Nichola Cooper, James Bussel, Waleed Ghanima, Drew Provan, Yoshiaki Tomiyama, Ming Hou, Donald M. Arnold, Cristina Santoro, Francesco Zaja, Barbara Lovrencic, Mervyn Morgan, Michal Winograd, Jennifer DiRaimo, Danielle Boyle, Olivera Rajkovic‐Hooley, Meritxell Vendranas, Susan Frade, Caroline Kruse   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subjective wellbeing: a primer for poverty analysts. [PDF]

, 2013
The article reviews the current theory and measurement of subjective wellbeing (SWB). The first two sections discuss growing efforts in many countries to measure and monitor national wellbeing, particularly in the United Kingdom.
Venkatapuram, Sridhar, Venkatapuram, Sridhar; id_orcid   +1 more
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