Theory in Action: Public Health and Community Power Building for Health Equity.

Context: Within the field of public health, there is growing awareness of how complex social conditions shape health outcomes and the role that power plays in driving health inequities. Despite public health frameworks lifting up the need to tackle power imbalances to advance equity, there is little guidance on how to accomplish this as an integral part of health promotion.

Objective: This article addresses the need for public health professionals to better understand power and identifies opportunities for shifting power to achieve more equitable outcomes.

Ammonia oxidation by novel " Nitrosacidococcus urinae" is sensitive to process disturbances at low pH and to iron limitation at neutral pH.

Acid-tolerant ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) can open the door to new applications, such as partial nitritation at low pH. However, they can also be problematic because chemical nitrite oxidation occurs at low pH, leading to the release of harmful nitrogen oxide gases. In this publication, the role of acid-tolerant AOB in urine treatment was explored.

Building power through reindigenization: Sharing the story of Menīkānaehkem.

Culture shapes and animates how community organizing is understood and carried out in specific contexts. Many frameworks for examining organizing, however, do not effectively attend to the influences of culture. Greater understanding of how culture can be imbued in organizing can help to ground it in the social realities of organizing participants and can advance approaches to organizing that honor the past and present of specific cultures.

What Do We Know About the Drivers of Health and Equity? A Narrative Review of Graphic Representations.

Frameworks can be influential tools for advancing health and equity, guiding population health researchers and practitioners. We reviewed frameworks with graphic representations that address the drivers of both health and equity. Our purpose was to summarize and discuss graphic representations of population health and equity and their implications for research and practice.

Channeling power across ecological systems: social regularities in community organizing.

Relational and social network perspectives provide opportunities for more holistic conceptualizations of phenomena of interest in community psychology, including power and empowerment. In this article, we apply these tools to build on multilevel frameworks of empowerment by proposing that networks of relationships between individuals constitute the connective spaces between ecological systems. Drawing on an example of a model for grassroots community organizing practiced by WISDOM—a statewide federation supporting local community organizing initiatives in Wisconsin—we identify social regularities (i.

Concepts for improved regioselective placement of O-sulfo, N-sulfo, N-acetyl, and N-carboxymethyl groups in chitosan derivatives.

In the present paper a new strategy has been studied to introduce solely or in combination N-sulfo, O-sulfo, N-acetyl, and N-carboxymethyl groups into chitosan with highest possible regioselectivity and completeness and defined distribution along the polymer chain. The aim was to generate compounds having lowest toxicity for determining the pharmacological structure function relationships among different backbone structures and differently arranged functional groups compared to those of heparin and heparan sulfate. The water-soluble starting material, chitosan, with a degree of acetylation (DA) of 0.

[Approaches to self-help of anxiety disorders without drugs].

Self-help is recommended for moderate variations of the mental state, i.e., anxiety equivalents, anxious reactions to excessive demands, constitutional anxiety, or justified but long lasting concerns.

[The depressive syndrome].

Depression is not like depression. For that it is important to divide the various impairs of emotional life: mood fluctuations--sorrow reactions--depressions. This provides specific knowledge about the versatile and so often misleading depressive syndrome--and not only at the doctors, but also at the concerned and especially the relatives, even friends, colleagues, neighbours and so on.

[Adult children of alcoholics. A new diagnostic group with reference to general practice and clinical aspects].

Unlabelled: FUNDAMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS: Adult children of alcoholics have, in recent years, become identified as a specific group with often characteristic patterns of health disorders.

Major Points: Those involved have a three- to four-fold greater risk of developing a dependence themselves than the general population. They are more likely to marry partners who are also dependent and have an above-average propensity toward separation and divorce.

[Diagnosis of mania. Disease picture and its psychological, physical and social sequelae].

While depression is a commonly discussed condition, mania is rarely mentioned. Subjectively, this disorder is associated with less incapacitating complaints, but it may have a more troublesome effect on the patient and the people around him than most mental illnesses. This article therefore presents a practice-oriented overview of the manic syndrome and its consequences: the term, its definition, age and sex distribution, mental and physical symptoms, psychosocial consequences, aspects of differential diagnosis, information for relatives and the family doctor, aspects of criminal and civil law, are discussed.

[The reaction of mental patients to medical diagnosis].

According to the results of a social psychiatric research on hand of reflected image transformulated questionnaire for clinical healthy persons and hospitalized patients the following result is: 9/10 of all registered laymen are afraid of dramatic scenes (manifold naming). In each second case such a situation however happens obviously extensive deactivated. More than five times of the shocked persons as healthy respondents refuse at these questions a comment.