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J Community Med Health Educ
November 2024
Homulus Foundation, Los Angeles, United States.
Background: Shortly after the detection of the COVID virus in January 2020 the US Government introduced and enforced a series of restrictions to protect the elderly from a "deadly virus" and the "pandemic of the century". Persons who disagreed were silenced and punished.
Objective: In the 15th month of COVID epidemic (April 2021), we have access to sufficient statistical data and methods to better understand the nature, origin of the COVID pandemic.
BMC Health Serv Res
November 2024
Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Introduction: The global burden of injury is huge, falling disproportionately on poorer populations. The benefits of qualitative research in injury care are recognised and its application is growing. We used a novel application of focus group discussions with photovoice to rapidly assess barriers at each of three delay stages; seeking (delay-1), reaching (delay-2) or receiving (delay-3) injury care in Northern Malawi.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFertil Steril
December 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Louisiana State University Health- Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi; Positive Steps Fertility, Madison, Mississippi.
We share experiences in advocating to defend in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Virginia, Missouri, and Mississippi; provide historical context on the "Personhood" anti-IVF movement; and discuss why "embryo donation" is a more accurate term than "embryo adoption." Some individuals and communities have a deeply held belief that a fertilized oocyte is a very early human life, and we will likely never change their minds. In the fertility community, most providers consider embryos to be an important part of the continuum between gametes (sperm and eggs) to live birth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed Decis Making
November 2024
Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Background: A theoretical interpretation of factors influencing time tradeoff (TTO) scores is lacking. In this conceptual study, we use a sociopsychological theory, terror management theory (TMT), to explain how death thoughts may play a role in the TTO method. TMT describes how respondents suppress death thoughts by invoking psychological defenses, such as self-esteem, and by bolstering cultural values.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWorld Psychiatry
October 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Psychiatry shares most ethical issues with other branches of medicine, but also faces special challenges. The Code of Ethics of the World Psychiatric Association offers guidance, but many mental health care professionals are unaware of it and the principles it supports. Furthermore, following codes of ethics is not always sufficient to address ethical dilemmas arising from possible clashes among their principles, and from continuing changes in knowledge, culture, attitudes, and socio-economic context.
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