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Background: Dementia is the seventh leading cause of death worldwide, impacting cognitive abilities and memory loss among aging populations. With the increasing prevalence of dementia, it is crucial to understand the distinct barriers and possibilities in providing care. Although there have been significant studies on dementia care, there is a lack of research that primarily focuses on the perspectives and worldviews of healthcare professionals, especially in the northern and rural regions of Ontario.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlob Ment Health (Camb)
December 2024
Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, USA.
Youth living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have an increased vulnerability to mental illnesses, with many lacking access to adequate treatment. There has been a growing body of interventions using task sharing with trained peer leaders to address this mental health gap. This scoping review examines the characteristics, effectiveness, components of peer delivery and challenges of peer-led mental health interventions for youth aged 10-24 in LMICs.
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January 2025
Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Introduction: A number of papers have reported on stressors to students in the dental curriculum. This paper analyses perceptions of strategies to improve well-being among final-year dental students in a dental curriculum.
Methods: A literature review was performed to create a question guide to explore issues of wellness and stress in a dental curriculum.
Women Birth
January 2025
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research in the Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University Geelong, Victoria; Western Health, St Albans, Victoria. Electronic address:
Background: Evidence shows that birthing with a skilled birth provider improves maternal and neonatal health outcomes. However, whilst most women in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea seek skilled health care during pregnancy in a health facility, more than half give birth at home or in the village without a skilled birth provider.
Aim: To explore the factors influencing women's and men's decisions about place of birth in rural Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.
PLoS One
January 2025
Nursing Studies, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Background: Although home-based end-of-life care is more in line with the preferences of people living with dementia, operationalizing this ideal remains challenging. Many people living with dementia are still unable to die at home or receive end-of-life care at home. This review aims to apply meta-ethnography to synthesize existing qualitative studies, to identify the facilitators and barriers of home-based end-of-life care for people living with dementia.
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