Purpose: Women with disabilities are more exposed to violence. The health sector has a key role in all three levels of prevention of violence against women. The objective of this paper was to review the interventions for preventing gender-based violence and reducing its impact on the mental health of women with any form of disability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The use of health surveys has been key in the scientific community to promptly communicate results about the health impact of COVID-19. But what information was collected, where, when and how, and who was the study population?
Objective: To describe the methodological characteristics used in large health surveys conducted in Spain early on in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Scoping review.
Background: Longer time intervals to diagnosis and treatment are associated with worse survival for various types of cancer. The patient, diagnostic, and treatment intervals are considered core indicators for early diagnosis and treatment. This review estimated the median duration of these intervals for various types of cancer and compared it across high- and lower-income countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To identify, appraise and synthesise the results of systematic reviews of the literature (SRLs) that examines the effectiveness of interventions to increase advance directive (AD) completion rate.
Methods: Narrative review of the literature-an overview of SRLs focused on interventions to improve patients' AD completion rate.
Results: Seven SRLs were located.