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Service providers' perspectives and reproductive (in)justice among Roma women: a qualitative study in Spain.

Sex Reprod Health Matters

December 2024

Researcher, Biomedical Research Networking Center, Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; Professor, Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.

The main objective of this study is to identify the barriers that prevent Roma women and girls from accessing reproductive rights derived from reproductive justice by analysing the discourses of service providers as a facilitating source of information. A qualitative study including nine semi-structured in-person interviews with community service providers was conducted in April-June 2019. The interview script addressed intercultural competences, views on gender discrimination against Roma women, resources available to fight against this discrimination, knowledge and use of these resources in reproductive justice, as well as the networks of actors involved.

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Community-based youth mental health (YMH) platforms are challenging to evaluate. Using a multi-method approach, we examined the efficacy of an integrated YMH program in Hong Kong. The real-world outcomes of 1047 participants were compared with a propensity score (PS) matched control group randomly selected from the community (study 1).

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Introduction: We evaluated whether higher Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) scores were associated with increased incidence of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia over 22.3 years of follow-up in the community-based Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort.

Methods: One thousand four hundred eighty-seven participants (mean ± standard deviation, age in years 69 ± 6) completed food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) and had incident all-cause dementia and AD surveillance data available.

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Change is not possible unless it is feasible: Dr Brian Hutchison reflects on how to improve the health care system.

Can Fam Physician

January 2024

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, when this article was written. This article is being published posthumously.

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Objective: To evaluate health system use, health outcomes, and avoided costs when patients with chronic gastrointestinal (GI) conditions are managed in the medical home.

Design: A retrospective, observational cohort study was conducted through a single-point-of-entry referral system.

Setting: Calgary, Alta.

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Expansion of virtual care family medicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience with an innovative hybrid model at an Ontario clinic.

Can Fam Physician

January 2024

Family doctor and Medical Director of Get Well Clinic in North York, Ont. He is Assistant Professor at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at North York General Hospital, both in Ontario. He also serves as Primary Care Digital Co-lead with the North York Toronto Health Partners Ontario Health Team, Co-administrator of the OSCAR Ontario Facebook group, and a director on the board of Open OSP Service Cooperative. He is a clinical advisor for eHealth Centre for Excellence.

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Financial Barriers to Rural Graduate Medical Education: Medicare Funding Methods for Sole Community and Medicare-Dependent Hospitals.

Acad Med

December 2024

G.M. Holmes is professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and director, NC Rural Health Research Program, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Purpose: Policymakers are exploring options to address rural-urban physician maldistribution, including reducing rural residency training barriers. This study estimated Medicare graduate medical education (GME) reimbursement that sole community hospitals (SCHs) and Medicare-dependent hospitals (MDHs) are disqualified from receiving compared with hospitals under the Prospective Payment System (PPS) and calculated the GME reimbursement per resident for MDHs and SCHs under different scenarios.

Method: This simulation study used Healthcare Cost Report Information System data on hospitals that had been SCHs or MDHs between 2011 and 2021 and did not have any resident full-time equivalents (FTEs) in the most recent year.

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The Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) was created by the Canadian federal government through its health research funding agency, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), in 2014, as a response to the G7 initiative to fight dementia. Two five-year funding cycles (2014-2019; 2019-2024) have occurred following peer review, and a third cycle (Phase 3) has just begun. A unique construct was mandated, consisting of 20 national teams in Phase I and 19 teams in Phase II (with research topics spanning from basic to clinical science to health resource systems) along with cross-cutting programs to support them.

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  • * Data from 120 T2DM patients, aged 30-60, was analyzed over a year, showing that women taking 10 mg of Empagliflozin had a notable decrease in ALT levels when compared to men not on the medication.
  • * The findings suggest that starting SGLT2-I treatment can lower ALT levels in these patients, highlighting the potential benefit of early intervention along with lifestyle changes to improve liver health and reduce
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How the IHR (2005) Shaped the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: What Went Well and What Did Not.

Health Secur

December 2024

Mohamed Elhakim, MD, MSc, is a Technical Officer; Ramy Mohamed Ghazy, DrPH, is a Consultant; and Dalia Samhouri, PhD, MPH, is Regional Manager; all in the Country Health Emergency Preparedness and International Health Regulations Unit, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt. Ramy Mohamed Ghazy is also an Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, and a Lecturer, Tropical Health Department, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) in addressing global health emergencies. This review aims to improve healthcare system capabilities, future preparedness, and actions in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, particularly in low-resource areas. The IHR, established in 1969, initially focused on 6 diseases but has since expanded to include a wider range of public health threats.

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Combined telemedicine-first and direct primary care as a promising model of healthcare delivery.

J Telemed Telecare

December 2024

Associate Professor Family and Community Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Medical Director Virtual Primary Care, Penn State Health, Hershey, PA, USA.

Telemedicine is comparable in quality to in-person care, adequate for many primary care concerns, acceptable to patients, and can overcome barriers to care. However, patients are reluctant to pay the same for telemedicine as in-person care and uncertainty about future payor reimbursement makes it risky to base a clinical practice primarily on telemedicine. Physical exam-supported information collection and relationship-building are limited in telemedicine, but can be mitigated through remote patient monitoring and ample access to a provider and clinical team.

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Evaluation of a Cohort-Based Healthy Aging With HIV Wellness Pilot Intervention: "People Aging and Thriving With HIV" in Colorado.

J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care

December 2024

Erin Burk-Leaver, MPH, MA, is the Director of Community Engagement, Department of Community Engagement, Colorado Health Network, Inc., Denver, Colorado, USA.

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Implementing INTERACT in Veterans Health Administration Community Living Centers: A pragmatic randomized trial.

J Am Geriatr Soc

December 2024

Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.

Background: Hospital transfers from VA Community Living Centers (CLCs) are common. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of introducing the Intervention to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT) program into VA CLCs.

Methods: Cluster randomized trial involving 16 pair-matched VA CLCs.

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DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) is a response frequently exhibited by perpetrators of wrongdoing after being confronted or held accountable for their harmful behaviors. Consistent with the original conceptualization of DARVO as a strategy used by sex offenders to deflect blame and responsibility, sexual violence survivors report experiencing DARVO from their perpetrators following an assault. The purpose of the current study was to extend research on the connections between DARVO and sexual violence.

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Context: The global COVID-19 pandemic has universally impacted individuals, with lactating women being uniquely susceptible to severe infection. Vaccination plays a critical role in building population immunity, mitigating severe illness and curtailing the health crisis. However, data on adverse effects and vaccine safety in lactating women remains scarce.

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Unlabelled: Excessive and uncontrolled use of the Internet leads to Internet addiction and negatively affects the physical and mental health of adolescents. Normalization of the Internet and electronic gadgets during the COVID-19 pandemic increased the vulnerability of adolescents to developing behavioral dependency on Internet use. Intervention is needed to protect the formative years and to grow as responsible net users.

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Introduction: Undergraduate medical students often lack the soft skill of empathy which is considered as an important attribute for doctors. Hence, this study was conducted to improve the empathy skills among undergraduate students of a medical college in Kolkata.

Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted in the Rural Health Training Centre of a medical college in Kolkata among the undergraduate medical students during community medicine posting.

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The role of cognitive load on interlimb differences in motor coordination in older adults.

J Neurophysiol

January 2025

Division of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Although the dominant hand has been shown to have performance advantages over the nondominant hand, these interlimb differences have found to be dependent on task and biomechanical demands. The dynamic dominance hypothesis suggests that the left hemisphere is specialized for the control of intersegmental dynamics while the nondominant right hemisphere is specialized for postural control, in right-handers. In a real-world scenario, however, cognitive challenges might be expected to modulate these specialized behaviors.

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  • * Various smoking cessation methods exist, including nicotine replacement therapies and medications like varenicline and bupropion, with new options like cytisine and faster-acting NRTs being developed, enhancing choices for those trying to quit.
  • * Personalizing cessation strategies by assessing individual responses and preferences can lead to more effective treatment outcomes, including the potential use of combination therapies for those who need additional support.
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Introduction: The New Jersey Kids Study (NJKS) is a transdisciplinary statewide initiative to understand influences on child health, development, and disease. We conducted a mixed-methods study of project planning teams to investigate team effectiveness and relationships between team dynamics and quality of deliverables.

Methods: Ten theme-based working groups (WGs) (e.

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  • - Antisemitism has been increasing for decades, with a significant spike noted after October 7, 2023, particularly within the US medical community.
  • - A study analyzed healthcare professionals' publications and social media activity, revealing a more than fivefold increase in discussions about antisemitism, and a 2- to 4-fold increase in posts promoting antisemitic stereotypes.
  • - Approximately 75.4% of Jewish medical students and professionals reported experiencing antisemitism, indicating a troubling trend within the healthcare sector.
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Objective: The present study aimed to estimate the levels of phosphodiesterase (PDE), myeloperoxidase (MPO) and iron levels in patients with oral cancer.

Method: 50 patients reporting to the Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology A.B.

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The need for diagnosis in dementia.

N Z Med J

November 2024

Former Consultant Community Psychiatrist, St Lukes CMHC, Auckland District Health Care; Former Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, The University of Auckland.

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