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J Clin Orthop Trauma
February 2022
Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, Geeta Colony, Delhi, 110031, India.
Sensor based brace is a new technology driven initiative to address the adherence issues associated with clubfoot treatment. It encompasses various engineering fields (sensors, batteries, data transfer) to measure precise brace wear timings. Still in preliminary usage, yet they have lead to several significant findings; foremost being that caretakers tend to over report their brace usage.
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November 2017
School of Public Health, Dow University of Health Sciences, OJHA Campus, SUPARCO road, Gulzar e Hijri, Karachi, Pakistan.
Background: With 600 million people using betel quid (BQ) globally, and smokeless tobacco (SLT) use being more wide-spread; the duo is an uphill public health concern in South Asian countries. SLT and/or BQ use increases the risk for morbidity and mortality from oral cancer. Because SLT and/or BQ use is initiated during adolescence, it renders this group more vulnerable; and particular attention is needed to curb SLT and/or BQ use to reduce related disease burden.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMaine presents some daunting challenges when it comes to insurance coverage and health care costs because it's both the most rural state in the country and the one with the highest median age, two factors that drive up health spending.
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January 2013
Department of Community Health and Prevention, School of Public Health, Drexel University.
This interview study, the initial qualitative phase of a larger mixed methods HIV prevention study focused on Black heterosexual men, used intersectionality as a theoretical framework to explore: (1) How a sample of Black heterosexual men describe and experience the multiple intersections of race, gender, and SES; and (2) How these descriptions reflected interlocking systems of social inequality for Black men at the social-structural level. Participants were 30 predominantly low-income self-identified Black heterosexual men between the ages of 18 and 44. Analyses highlighted four themes that demonstrate how participants' individual-level experiences as Black men reflect macro social-structural inequality: (1) racial discrimination and microaggressions; (2) unemployment; (3) incarceration; and (4) police surveillance and harassment.
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