This letter responds to the essay "Language Matters: The Semantics and Politics of 'Assisted Dying,'" by Anna M. Elsner, Charlotte E. Frank, Marc Keller, Jordan O. McCullough, and Vanessa Rampton, in the September-October 2024 issue of the Hastings Center Report.
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Hastings Cent Rep
November 2024
Presbyterian Living, Endeavor Health System.
This letter responds to the essay "Language Matters: The Semantics and Politics of 'Assisted Dying,'" by Anna M. Elsner, Charlotte E. Frank, Marc Keller, Jordan O.
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September 2021
The Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice, Victoria University of Wellington, 55 Lambton Quay, Wellington 6011, New Zealand.
INTRODUCTION The New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC) Act 1994 was designed to protect the rights of consumers and provide a fair, simple, speedy, and efficient resolution to complaints. No recent studies have been published about the health practitioner experience of HDC investigations following a patient complaint, and none that include nurses and midwives. AIM To use a restorative inquiry framework to understand the impacts and needs of health practitioners arising from an event that led to an investigation by the HDC during the last 10 years.
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September 2021
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Objectives: Vaccine hesitancy is a major hurdle for stopping the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, fear of vaccine side effects created widespread concern and paused global vaccination efforts. Many studies find that how medical risks are framed and communicated can influence individuals' perceptions and behavior, yet there is little evidence on how the communication of COVID-19 vaccine side-effect risks influences vaccine intentions.
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May 2018
Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg.
Research on trustworthiness indicates that non-native speakers are perceived as less trustworthy than native speakers. Research investigating whether people do indeed lie less well in a non-native language is, however, scarce and yielded inconsistent results. Two opposing predictions are possible.
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July 2017
Naval Health Research Center, 140 Sylvester Road, San Diego, CA 92106.
Background: The transient nature of military life coupled with environmental and psychosocial stressors increase the risk for alcohol misuse and abuse among active duty (AD) military service members and recent epidemiological studies demonstrate high rates of heavy drinking among AD personnel. Over the past decade, Department of Defense health care systems have observed increases in the utilization of substance use services among military personnel demobilizing from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Given the high rates of heavy drinking and increased use of substance use services in this population of AD personnel, the purpose of this study was to investigate how to best translate and implement an effective alcohol abuse prevention intervention tool (screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment [SBIRT]) used in civilian populations to a military emergency department (ED) setting.
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