Sentences with phrase «of social medicine»

Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, Supplement 4.

Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 26 (1), 18 - 25.

Author Affiliations: Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine (Drs Åsvold and Vatten), and Human Movement Science Programme (Dr Nilsen), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim (Dr Åsvold); Department of Medical Biochemistry, Rikshospitalet - Radiumhospitalet Medical Center, Oslo, Norway (Dr Bjøro); and Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England (Dr Gunnell).

The recipients, who were recognized September's Faculty Council meeting, include UNC School of Medicine's Mara Buchbinder, PhD, associate professor of social medicine, and Spencer Smith, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology.

He served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill from 1995 to 2006 and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University in 2007 - 2008.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

The reviewer is at the Department of Social Medicine and Department of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 - 7240, USA.

This is cheap to buy in the marketplace,» explains Ruth Kutalek of MedUni Vienna's Center for Public Health (Institute of Social Medicine).

«Of all racial groups, American Indian adolescents had the highest rates for using many substances of abuse, and for depression, suicidal thoughts, and attempted suicide,» said Subica, an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine.

We thank Debbie Lawlor (Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK), Maarike Harro (Dept Public Health, University of Talin, Estonia), Karsten Froberg (Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark), Caroline Fall and Clive Osmond (MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK), and Anita Ravelli (Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for kindly providing unpublished data for inclusion in the review.

Still another example is the field of social medicine, where more is done than simply care for those already ill.

Not exact matches

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

The project brings together scholars of media and communications, government and international relations, physics, philosophy, linguistics, and medicine, and is affiliated with the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC), the Sydney Environment Institute and the Sydney Democracy Network.

To come to this conclusion a team out of University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine surveyed 1,788 young Americans about both their social media habits and their sleep.

That system includes not just the providers of modern medicine — the people and institutions we mostly focus on — but also our families, friends, social networks, search engines, online communities, and more.

According to the American College of Sports Medicine «people stay interested -LCB- in group fitness -RCB- because of the social atmosphere provided by group exercise.»

She has published articles in several academic journals, including the Journal of Labor Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Social Science and Medicine, and the Review of Income and Wealth.

Last month, representatives from the California - based social networking company were negotiating a data - sharing agreement with health organizations such as the American College of Cardiology and the Stanford University School of Medicine in California.

If all scientists were constantly attempting to influence the results of their analyses, but had more opportunities to do so the «softer» the science, then we might expect that the social sciences have more papers that confirm a sought - after hypothesis than do the physical sciences, with medicine and biology somewhere in the middle.

Because this book indeed has been placed here to recruit you to join and serve a specific religious group, and because religious absolutism in all of its forms has been a significant impediment to rational thought, to advances in science and medicine, to social justice, and to world peace.

Applied science is sometimes called technics, but since it covers also a vast range of studies affecting human life, as in nutrition and dietetics, medicine and surgery, psychiatry, pedagogy, geriatrics, social casework, penology, and the like, it is hardly accurate to classify all of these under the heading of technology.

Another factor in the greater success of this approach is the eclectic spirit (as distinguished from the exclusivistic spirit of the mission) in which the resources of social work, psychiatry, medicine, and AA have been integrated with their basic evangelism.

The Emmanuel approach achieved an integration of the healing resources of medicine, psychology, social work, and religion.

In contrast, the Emmanuel workers saw medicine, psychology, and social work as integral parts of a total «religious» approach to healing.

The list of benefits attributed to regular Transcendental Meditation — 20 minutes with one's mantra, twice a day — is reminiscent of the labels on bottles of «snake oil» sold from medicine wagons in former days: improvements in metabolism and blood pressure, relaxation from anxiety, clearer and more creative consciousness, improved social relations.

Social ethicist Joseph Fletcher — author of Situation Ethics, Morals and Medicine and The Ethics of Genetic Control — is a visiting professor of medical ethics at the University of Virginia Medical School and at the Texas Medical Center's Institute of Religion and Human Development.

In his social group, rather than seek assistance from a group fueled by modern medicine, it is moral to adhere to their version of Christianity.

It may share a spectrum of functions with other helping professions engaged in social work, medicine, or psychological counseling, but no other profession is equipped to see to maturing in the Christian life.

His analysis calls for reintegration of the history of science with social, economic and political history just as his philosophical proposals call for integration with current reasons for making science, technology and medicine more accessible and accountable.

The lines between the other helping professions of medicine, psychiatry, social work, and psychology ceased to be walls.

Over the centuries, but particularly in the last two hundred years, two reductive steps have moved medicine away from the complex social, psychological, and personal dimensions of illness.

And indeed many praying people have contributed so much in the development and progress of education, medicine, science, law, social work, science, agriculture, and culture, to name a few.

«As health care providers dealing with concussions, we need to be aware that many concussed patients may be bullied or shamed on social media by friends or teammates who may not believe that they are experiencing concussion symptoms, or that those symptoms are lingering,» notes Mark Halstead, M.D., a sports medicine physician and Director of the Washington University Sports Concussion Clinic & Young Athlete Center.

Travis Bradley is the director of the Social Emotional Learning, Early Life Stress and Pediatric Anxiety Program at Stanford University's School of Medicine.

Bonuck, a professor of family and social medicine and of obstetrics & gynecology and women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, led the investmedicine and of obstetrics & gynecology and women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, led the investMedicine in New York City, led the investigation.

As far as fearing that your baby will somehow be less than perfectly healthy if you supplement with formula, a study in Social Science & Medicine found that many of the health benefits attributed to breastfeeding have been overstated.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Carol served as a guest editor of special issues on Childbirth Connection's Transforming Maternity Care project (Women's Health Issues, 2010), on The Nature and Management of Labor Pain (American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2002) and on medically unnecessary cesarean sections (Social Science & Medicine, 1993).

Medicine works best when parents, teachers, and therapists help kids learn any social, emotional, and behavioral skills that are lagging because of ADHD.

To list just some of the areas he influenced: agriculture, architecture, art, care of the dying, drama, economics, education, medicine, religion, science, and social organization.

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

I'd also say that the levels of social normalization of quack medicine are quite high.

Formerly a Coordinator for the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Sarah is able to use her language skills and interest for international health and social issues for community outreach, and to engage with French - speaking clSocial Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Sarah is able to use her language skills and interest for international health and social issues for community outreach, and to engage with French - speaking clsocial issues for community outreach, and to engage with French - speaking clients.

Estimating the Effects of Breastfeeding on Long - term Child Health and Wellbeing in the United States Using Sibling Comparisons» from The Social Science and Medicine Journal.

From 1988 - 1991, I collected interview data on the self - and body - images of 40 professional women and homebirthers in relation to their beliefs and choices about pregnancy and birth, and published that study in Social Science and Medicine and elsewhere.

This article appears in a special issue of Social Science and Medicine, called Reproduction Gone Awry, edited by Marcia Inhorn and Gwynne Jenkins, Vol.

1990 «The Role of American Obstetrics in the Resolution of Cultural Anomaly,» Social Science and Medicine 31 (2): 175 - 189.

This article appears in a special issue of Social Science and Medicine, called Reproduction...

Based on the research questions at hand, the Center draws from CHOP and University of Pennsylvania - based expertise in emergency medicine; pediatric trauma; surgery; nursing; social work; pediatric and adolescent medicine; epidemiology and biostatistics; bioengineering; computational engineering; psychology; behavioral science; communications; and health education.