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BMC Public Health
December 2024
Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK.
Background: Inequalities in cancer, palliative, and end-of-life care services remain a significant challenge, particularly for ethnic minorities who face systemic barriers such as limited awareness, cultural stigmas, and language differences. These disparities hinder equitable access to essential services and contribute to poorer health outcomes for affected communities. Addressing these challenges requires targeted, culturally sensitive initiatives that promote both awareness and uptake of care.
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December 2024
Department of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA.
Dr H. Keith Sigmundson co-authored a seminal article (with the late Dr Milton Diamond) that revealed the truth about a highly controversial twin case. Specifically, the genitals of an infant male monozygotic twin were accidentally destroyed during a medical procedure performed to alleviate his difficult urination.
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November 2024
Kings Business School, Kings College London, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG, UK.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore Allied Health Professions (AHP) support worker perceptions of feeling valued and to understand what factors contribute to this feeling of "value".
Design: This was a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews undertaken virtually. The data were analysed using a process of thematic analysis in order to gain an in depth understanding of the factors that affect support workers feeling "valued".
Glob Health Action
December 2024
Faculty of Wellbeing and Language Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Background: Abortion stigma as reported globally has been inadequately documented empirically in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with a restrictive abortion law and a high rate of unsafe abortions.
Objective: The objectives of this study were to investigate the ways in which abortion stigma is experienced by Nigerian health professionals and how such experiences influence health professionals' practice of safe abortion and post-abortion care.
Methods: The study utilized qualitative research consisting of in-depth interviews with 10 abortion providers.
BMC Health Serv Res
October 2024
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK.
Background: Health and social care employees may be involved in professional regulatory proceedings because their alleged behaviour raises health or conduct concerns. Employees, patients or service users may also be involved in a regulatory tribunal as witnesses. This study is about the role of employers in supporting them in this process.
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