Public health qualifications, motivation, and experience of pharmacy professionals: exploratory cross-sectional surveys of pharmacy and public health professionals.

Background: Pharmacy professionals (pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; PPs) are recognised for delivering public health interventions (micro level). There is increased policy focus on population health management, but limited knowledge regarding the role of PPs within UK's public health meso and macro levels. This study aimed to explore UK PPs' public health qualifications, specialisations, and motivations and barriers to pursuing advanced public health practice.

A Quadriparametric Model to Describe the Diversity of Waves Applied to Hormonal Data.

Background: Even in normally cycling women, hormone level shapes may widely vary between cycles and between women. Over decades, finding ways to characterize and compare cycle hormone waves was difficult and most solutions, in particular polynomials or splines, do not correspond to physiologically meaningful parameters.

Objective: We present an original concept to characterize most hormone waves with only two parameters.

Natural conception rates in subfertile couples following fertility awareness training.

Purpose: To analyze cumulative pregnancy rates of subfertile couples after fertility awareness training.

Methods: A prospective observational cohort study followed 187 subfertile women, who had received training in self-observation of the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle with the Sensiplan method, for 8 months. The women, aged 21-47 years, had attempted to become pregnant for 3.

Flexible Bayesian Human Fecundity Models.

Human fecundity is an issue of considerable interest for both epidemiological and clinical audiences, and is dependent upon a couple's biologic capacity for reproduction coupled with behaviors that place a couple at risk for pregnancy. Bayesian hierarchical models have been proposed to better model the conception probabilities by accounting for the acts of intercourse around the day of ovulation, i.e.

Preconception stress and the secondary sex ratio: a prospective cohort study.

Objective: To study the association between salivary stress biomarkers and the secondary sex ratio.

Design: Prospective, longitudinal cohort study.

Setting: Community setting in the United Kingdom.