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Soc Sci Med
December 2024
MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
Affordable housing is commonly described as an important determinant of health, but there are relatively few intervention studies of the effects of housing on health. In this paper, we describe the results of a quasi-experimental, longitudinal study investigating the impacts of receiving social housing among a cohort of 502 people on waitlists for social housing in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. Specifically, we sought to determine if adults who received housing were more likely than a control group to show improvements in depression, psychological distress, and self-rated mental health 6, 12 and 18 months after moving to housing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring development, the gastrointestinal tract undergoes patterning along its anterior-posterior axis to define regions with distinct organs and functions. A new paper in Development derives human intestinal organoids from an individual with duodenal defects and a compound heterozygous variant in the gene encoding the transcription factor RFX6. By studying these organoids, the authors identify novel roles for RFX6 in intestinal patterning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited blood disorders caused by a mutation in the beta subunit of hemoglobin (HbS). SCD will hereafter be referred to as sickle cell anemia (SCA) as this is the term our patients and their families prefer. There are approximately 5000 Canadians living with SCA including children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Psychol Med Settings
March 2024
Section of Community Behavioral Health, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA.
Data collected from pediatric primary care settings during the pandemic suggest an increase in internalizing symptoms and disparities in care based upon minoritized identity status(es). To inform care moving forward, the current study characterized the pandemic and related technology usage experiences of teenaged pediatric patients from communities with high hardship indexes. As part of a larger mixed-methods study, 17 teens (Mean age = 15.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCrit Care Nurse
June 2023
Renee C. B. Manworren is the Director of Nursing Research and Professional Practice and the Posy and Fred Love Chair in Nursing Research, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. She is an associate professor of pediatrics and Chair of the Women's Faculty Organization, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Background: Repeated exposure to death and dying increases health care professionals' risk for burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Pediatric critical care providers are at particularly high risk because the death and dying of children are associated with even greater psychological impact.
Local Problem: A charge nurse in the pediatric intensive care unit identified a need for additional staff support after critical patient events.
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