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Objective: To explore patients' perceptions and attitudes towards patient guidelines (PGs) and to identify specific factors related to PG content, design, presentation, and management that may influence patients' use or adoption of PGs.
Methods: An exploratory sequential mixed-methods design was employed. Initial semi-structured interviews were conducted with a diverse group of individuals, including people with diabetes or oncology, and clinicians.
Do community-based digital health inclusion programmes contribute to tackling health inequalities in disadvantaged population groups?: a qualitative study of experiences of a city-wide programme in the North of England.
BMC Public Health
January 2025
Research Department of Primary Care & Population Health, University College London, UCL Medical School (Royal Free Campus), Upper Third Floor, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK.
Background: Advances in digital healthcare and health information provide benefits to the public. However, lack of digital skills together with access, confidence, trust and motivation issues present seemingly insurmountable barriers for many. Such digital health exclusion exacerbates existing health inequalities experienced by older people, people with less income, less education or who don't have English as a first language.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffect of eHMI-equipped automated vehicles on pedestrian crossing behavior and safety: A focus on blind spot scenarios.
Accid Anal Prev
January 2025
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Nanjing 211189, China; School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China. Electronic address:
Blind spot collisions are a critical and often overlooked threat to pedestrian safety, frequently resulting in severe injuries. This study investigates the impact of automated vehicles equipped with external human-machine interfaces (eHMIs) on pedestrian crossing behavior and safety, focusing on scenarios where AVs create mutual blind spots between pedestrians and adjacent traffic. A virtual reality experiment with 51 participants simulated crossing situations in front of yielding trucks with obstructed pedestrian visibility, featuring three eHMIs: 'Walk,' 'Don't Walk,' and 'Caution! Blind Spots'.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDoes preservice teachers' contact with children with intellectual disabilities during their practicum impact their attitudes and teaching practices? "If you don't have the heart, you can't cope … ".
J Intellect Dev Disabil
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School of Education, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
Background: This study sought to explore the effects of preservice teachers' contact with children with intellectual disabilities on their attitudes. The study was conducted against the backdrop of the exclusion and discrimination experienced by children with intellectual disabilities in Ghanaian schools.
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Don't pretend COVID-19 didn't happen.
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January 2025
Maria D. Van Kerkhove is a director at the World Health Organization, leading the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management, and serves as the COVID-19 Technical Lead and Emergency Manager in the Health Emergencies Programme, Geneva, Switzerland.
Just over 5 years ago, on New Year's Eve 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) became aware of the first cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China. A massive global infectious disease storm was already brewing-one that would shut down the world, with profound economic, social, and political impacts that still reverberate today. It's understandable that governments and individuals may want to forget that the COVID-19 pandemic ever happened, but such collective amnesia prevents humanity from being ready for the next pandemic.
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