Publications by authors named "E McGill"

There is a crucial need to more deeply understand the impact and etiology of bias toward persons with developmental disabilities (PWDD). A largely unstudied area of concern and possible intervention is the portrayal of PWDD in medical education. Often, medical photographs portray PWDD with obscured faces, emotionless, and posed in an undignified way.

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Health outcomes are influenced by social and environmental determinants of health. As places where people work, live, meet and consume, high street retail environments are influential in shaping health. In recent decades, high streets have been in decline, prompting policies to revitalise retail environments and support local businesses, particularly in European and North American countries.

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  • * 81% of the 5,143 pediatric cases occurred during the Omicron period, with fewer children needing intensive care compared to pre-Omicron times (11% vs. 14%), but no notable difference in mortality rates was found.
  • * The findings emphasize that many hospitalized children had pre-existing health conditions and indicate a surge in healthcare-associated COVID-19 cases during Omicron, although overall disease severity appeared to decline.
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  • Young people's food environments greatly affect their health, and this study looked at their thoughts and suggestions for improving it.
  • The study included 39 young people aged 12-21 who discussed issues like too many fast food places and expensive healthy food in their areas.
  • They want to be more involved in decisions about their food environment and suggested policy changes like limiting fast food outlets and promoting healthier menus.
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Canopy gaps are foundational features of rainforest biodiversity and successional processes. The bais of Central Africa are among the world's largest natural forest clearings and thought to be critically important islands of open-canopy habitat in an ocean of closed-canopy rainforest. However, while frequently denoted as a conservation priority, there are no published studies on the abundance or distribution of bais across the landscape, nor on their biodiversity patterns, limiting our understanding of their ecological contribution to Congolese rainforests.

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