Publications by authors named "L Magee"
Problem And Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was substantial reconfiguration of maternity care services, affecting both users and healthcare providers (HCPs), in the United Kingdom (UK) and globally.
Aim: To further our understanding of the impact of maternity service reconfigurations in the UK, from the perspective of maternity HCPs.
Methods: Scopus, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and the Cochrane COVID Study Register were searched for relevant studies reporting qualitative data from the UK, published in English between 01 June 2021 and 30 September 2023.
Background: Social determinants of health have been shown to influence individual mental health and overall well-being. Additionally, populations that experience stigma and/or discrimination because of race, class, gender, or another identity group experience disproportionately higher rates of mental health disorders than populations that do not experience such marginalization. One way to address upstream social determinants that influence mental health is through systems change initiatives.
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- Chronic or gestational hypertension affects about 7% of pregnancies, and the WILL Trial aimed to find the best timing for delivery to improve outcomes for mothers and babies.
- The trial involved women with hypertension at 36 to 37 weeks gestation who were randomly assigned to either an early delivery intervention at 38 weeks or usual care at term, analyzing maternal and neonatal outcomes.
- Despite aiming for 540 participants, the trial ended early with only 403 participants due to slow recruitment, showing no significant difference in poor maternal outcomes between the two groups, while deliveries in the intervention group occurred about 0.9 weeks earlier.
Conspecific density dependence (CDD) in plant populations is widespread, most likely caused by local-scale biotic interactions, and has potentially important implications for biodiversity, community composition, and ecosystem processes. However, progress in this important area of ecology has been hindered by differing viewpoints on CDD across subfields in ecology, lack of synthesis across CDD-related frameworks, and misunderstandings about how empirical measurements of local CDD fit within the context of broader ecological theories on community assembly and diversity maintenance. Here, we propose a conceptual synthesis of local-scale CDD and its causes, including species-specific antagonistic and mutualistic interactions.
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