Insights from Indigenous health systems in Australia show why relational self-care is important for the wellbeing of people, communities, and the planet, argue Pat Dudgeon and colleagues
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JAMA Netw Open
January 2025
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.
Importance: For patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), the presence of kidney dysfunction can substantially shape prognosis and treatment options. Yet little is known about the lived experiences of these medically vulnerable patients.
Objective: To elicit accounts of the illness and care experiences of patients currently or recently hospitalized with ADHF and kidney dysfunction in order to identify potential opportunities to improve care.
Soc Sci Med
December 2024
University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TL, UK; The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK. Electronic address:
Despite the development of digital health infrastructure, female health inequalities have worsened during the pandemic. This transdisciplinary study, through health, feminist, and infrastructural geographical lens, examines how gender health inequalities may have emerged or worsened during Covid-19 in the UK. This study leverages a novel web archive collection, Python coding-powered data-handling text analysis (of over 0.
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December 2024
NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King's College London, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE, UK. Electronic address:
Home, as a physical place and psychological construct, is often thought of as being an important locus of ontological security across the life course. However, there is a growing awareness of a darker side to the home (see Gurney, 2021), and home-unmaking practices (see Baxter and Brickell, 2014) that challenge the assumptions of home being purely a place of shelter, comfort, and control and instead foreground the temporal, material, and spatial fluidity of the home, and tensions between privacy and the ability to engage in health-harming behaviours largely unnoticed. Here, a material gerontological approach enables a rethinking of how home, and the household objects contained within, can both promote and undermine well-being as we age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolitics as the exercise of power always influence public policies-which reflects the multifaceted nature of decision-making-but "using politics" as a motivation for self-serving interests of government leaders and their allies poses problems. This article reviews the impacts of COVID-19 on health systems of the Latin American and Caribbean region from a political lens. We highlight the overriding influence of politics in health policies, weak governance structures that became compromised, exacerbation of corruption, and breakdowns in the communication and trust between governments and their citizens.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCompr Child Adolesc Nurs
December 2024
School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
In Brazil, nasal irrigation is a common procedure for children hospitalized with respiratory conditions. However, it often causes stress for both the child and their family. Nurses need to rethink their approach to care, and the use of therapeutic play can be an ally in transforming the stressful context.
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