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Hyphenated mass spectrometry techniques for assessing medication adherence: advantages, challenges, clinical applications and future perspectives
(DE GRUYTER, 2020-01-11)
Nonadherence to prescribed pharmacotherapy is an understated public health problem globally and is costing many patients their chance to return to good health and healthcare systems billions. Clinicians need an accurate ...
Exploring the impacts of organisational structure, policy and practice on the health inequalities of marginalised communities: illustrative cases from the UK healthcare system
(Elseiver, 2020-01-16)
This paper explores how organisational structure, policies and practices in healthcare can inadvertently disadvantage
marginalised populations (e.g. individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds) and reinforce health ...
How might Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge (ITEK) inform ecopsychology?
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2019)
This article suggests several key lessons ecopsychology might learn from Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge (ITEK). For example, second generation ecopsychology sought to remove the political radicalism and so-called ...
Development of a training program to support health care professionals to deliver the SPACE for COPD self-management program
(Dove Press Ltd, 2017-06-07)
Background: With the growing burden of COPD and associated morbidity and mortality, a need for self-management has been identified. The Self-management Programme of Activity, Coping and Education for Chronic Obstructive ...
Indigenous knowledge and techno-scientific modernity: ‘hierarchical integration’ reconsidered
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2020)
With growing awareness of the urgent need for action on environmental problems, increasing attention is being given to how wisdom traditions and Indigenous cultures might usefully inform and engage with western scientific ...
Mental health outcomes among Chinese prenatal and postpartum women after the implementation of universal two-child policy
(Elsevier, 2019-12-11)
Background
Poor health status among both pregnant and postpartum women is commonly reported worldwide. The associations between mental health outcomes and giving birth to the second child since the implementation of China's ...
Uremic serum induced calcification of human aortic smooth muscle cells is a regulated process involving Klotho and RUNX2
(Portland Press, 2019-07-24)
Vascular calcification (VC) is common in subjects with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. It is an active process involving trans-differentiation of arterial smooth muscle ...
Change that Lasts is a Chance for Change
(University of Porto, 2019-10-06)
The adoption of the risk need and responsivity (RNR) model in offending behaviour work in the 1990’s in England and Wales in the UK saw risk assessment aligned with the allocation and intensity of the supervision and ...
Brain Responses to Emotional Faces in Natural Settings: A Wireless Mobile EEG Recording Study
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2018-10-25)
The detection of a human face in a visual field and correct reading of emotional
expression of faces are important elements in everyday social interactions, decision
making and emotional responses. Although brain correlates ...
The neural correlates of economic value and valuation context: An event-related potentials study
(American Physiological Society, 2018-05-15)
The value of environmental cues and internal
states is continuously evaluated by the human brain, and it is this
subjective value that largely guides decision making. The present
study aimed to investigate the initial ...