Barriers to good health Language, culture can deter Asians from visiting doctor.(News)Abah, Betty
As communities worldwide face the growing threat of chronic disease, they must find a way to tackle these barriers to good health.Chronic diseases, also known as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), are one of the greatest challenges to global health, today and in the future. These diseases include...
SCD is concerned with the improvement of the oral health of individuals and groups in the society who have physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, medical, emotional or social impairment or disability. The importance of SCD as well as the barriers to oral health and the ways in reducing such...
–Eric Beane, VP of regulatory and government affairs, Unite Us –Zen Chu, managing partner, Hacking Medicine Venture Capital; faculty director, MIT Healthcare Ventures & Hacking Medicine Institute –Bay Gross, chief technical product officer; co-founder, Cityblock Health –Sylvie Leotin, Founder a...
Improving Access to Further and higher Education for Young People in Public Care : European Policy and Practice Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. This book pr......
Despite this, barriers to good sleep in hospital patients are poorly understood with most research to date conducted in an ICU setting. This pilot study aims to assess factors contributing to poor sleep in non鈥怚CU hospitalised patients. Methods: Two groups of 20 inpatients on a medical ...
attended scheduled check-ups, over 1 year, and who met the inclusion criteria (age above 18 years, spinal injury of traumatic aetiology, living in the community and having completed the rehabilitation) were consecutively included in a face-to-face interview using a self-constructed questionnaire. ...
39 older men were interviewed and completed questionnaires on health, food choice, dietary patterns and appetite. Few men managed to consume recommended levels of energy, essential trace elements or vitamins A and D. Age and BMI failed to predict patterns of intake, but men with good cooking ...
Barriers to Chronic Migraine Care: Results of the CaMEO (Chronic Migraine Epidemiology & Outcomes) Study (I9-1.004) OBJECTIVE: To describe respondent self-reported headache diagnosis rates and healthcare consultation patterns among individuals with chronic migraine (CM).\nBACKGROUND: CaMEO is a prospe...
The current study examined sexual victimization and two barriers to young women's sexual assertiveness: fear of sexual powerlessness and cognitive emotion dysregulation. College women (N = 499) responded to surveys and indicated that fear of sexual powerlessness and, to a lesser extent, cognitive emo...