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BMC Public Health
March 2025
School of Health & Social Care, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK.
Background: Early years interventions are critical to children's health and development and are emerging as core to public health programmes in the UK and globally. Evaluating such interventions is complex. The study reported in this article evaluates a place-based public health initiative 'A Better Start Southend' (ABSS) aimed at facilitating early years' development specifically.
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March 2025
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Medical Biology Centre, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, UK.
Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a prevalent cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Nurses and nursing students are in an optimum role to assess, manage and promote lifestyle changes associated with CVD risk. Patients and service users are more likely to adopt these changes if the person delivering the information embodies this lifestyle themselves.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Integrated Longitudinal Clinical Clerkship (ILCC) is seen as an enabling learning space for medical students and empowering preceptors. The presence of ILCC students in hospitals contributes to delivering health services and sustained improvement in the quality of health services in those facilities. This study explored health professionals' perceptions of the impact of a South African medical university's ILCC on health professionals' workload and service delivery in district hospitals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer Nurs
March 2025
Author Affiliations: Xiangya School of Nursing (Ms Wang, and Drs Tong, Xiao, Ma, and Gu); Third Xiangya Hospital (Dr Tong), Central South University, Changsha; and The Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Dr Wong), China.
Background: Childhood leukemia critically disrupts family life, needing support for adaptation and resilience.
Objective: Having investigated the main factors influencing the adaptation of families with children with leukemia, we provide support for clinical nurses to develop effective interventions to promote the adaptation of families with children with leukemia in future clinical practice.
Method: This cross-sectional study surveyed 197 parents of children (≤14 years old) with acute leukemia from 4 hospitals in Changsha, China.
Glob Health Action
December 2025
Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Obesity is associated with multiple noncommunicable diseases and has increased rapidly worldwide. Population obesity in China grew fourfold between 1993 and 2015, increasing most rapidly among children and adolescents. Cost-effective policies and programs delivered over time and at scale are required to change this trajectory, yet application of methodologies to identify such interventions have been sparse.
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