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They do their utmost: promise and limits of palliative care in two refugee camps in Rwanda, a qualitative study.
Med Confl Surviv
June 2024
Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton Canada.
After often gruelling journeys, some refugees arrive at secure locations with severe injury or illness. Others find themselves shortly thereafter facing a life-limiting health condition. Palliative care has been the focus of recent research, and of academic and aid sector dialogue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe COVID-19 Pandemic and nursing challenges: A review of the early literature.
Work
June 2021
Department of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has put health systems under unprecedented pressure, challenging their workforce, especially nurses.
Objective: The current paper presented a review of the early literature concerning emerging nursing challenges during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: A systematic search of the published literature between January and May 2020 was carried out in Medline, Science Direct, and Google Scholar to identify relevant quantitative and qualitative studies.
A cross-sectional study was conducted with 605 practitioners of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) to test the hypothesis that high arousal rituals promote social cohesion, primarily through identity fusion. BJJ promotion rituals are rare, highly emotional ritual events that often feature gruelling belt-whipping gauntlets. We used the variation in such experiences to examine whether more gruelling rituals were associated with identity fusion and pro-group behaviour.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBig data: is clinical practice changing?
Eur Heart J Suppl
March 2019
Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM Care&Research.
The widespread diffusion of the digital culture and technology, involving both individual and population, together with the fast pacing digital globalization process (far surpassing 'political' globalization), is radically changing the world social landscape, including medicine and clinical research. The most significant change in clinical research is the ever more frequent acceptance of observational data, both through the use of registry of rare or common conditions and the implementation of capillary networks recording the daily clinical practice (Electronic Health Recording system). By becoming 'observational' clinical practice should change significantly: (i) record of different data (epidemiological, clinical, and administrative) in inter-operational database, producing a dynamic map of the health demands, either met or not, that allows a reconfiguration of the health systems capable to adapt to the shifting clinical needs.
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