Sentences with phrase «on social medicine»

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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?

That's because, as a new study notes, meeting patients» basic social needs — including for heating, electricity, food access, and medicines — can actually have a significant effect on basic health indicators like blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

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.

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.

As such he will derive greater rewards and satisfactions from his unique social contribution than his more specialized co-professionals in medicine, law, and so on can attain, despite the lucrative fees they command.

«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.

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).

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.

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.

Estimating the effects of breastfeeding on long term child health and well being in the United States using sibling comparison» (Colen CG, Ramey DM, Social Science and Medicine 2014), by Dr Felicity Savage (WABA Chairperson).

The ESRC Genomics Forum has a commitment to promote social research on the contemporary life sciences around issues including designer babies, synthetic blood, DNA profiling, identity politics, personalised medicine, stem cell research and synthetic biology.

His leadership and guidance led to the establishment of a world center that serves as a home for scholars and fellows, from both the humanities and the sciences, to pursue interests in education and research on ethical and policy issues in the life and social sciences, in medicine and in the professions.

«We have discovered a small molecule compound that shows a profound and prolonged effect on autism - like social deficits without obvious side effects, while many currently used compounds for treating a variety of psychiatric diseases have failed to exhibit the therapeutic efficacy for this core symptom of autism,» said Zhen Yan, PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, and senior author on the paper.

My job as a Referent (Senior Science Advisor) in the Ministry of Health and Social Security relies on the skills I have acquired in medical science, clinical medicine, and bioethics.

A tax on sugary drinks that depends on the number of calories or amount of sugar per liter could help fight obesity, suggests new research published in Social Science & Medicine.

But a small effect is not no effect, points out James Fowler, a professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Division of Social Sciences, and co-author of the 2007 The New England Journal of Medicine paper that described the influence of social ties on obesity Social Sciences, and co-author of the 2007 The New England Journal of Medicine paper that described the influence of social ties on obesity social ties on obesity rates.

In a recent study published by the journal Social Science & Medicine, Dartmouth researchers examined nearly 9,000 Facebook conversations to better understand how people seek and receive support on social networking Social Science & Medicine, Dartmouth researchers examined nearly 9,000 Facebook conversations to better understand how people seek and receive support on social networking social networking sites.

Although the CDC largely withdrew from funding research on gun violence more than 20 years ago (under intense congressional pressure), there are active research programs in medicine, public health, law, and the social sciences under way in universities and think tanks.

Lately I have met with faculty engaged in research on bullying, visual processing, criminology, molecular biology, dance medicine, gender and work, 20th century Canadian social history, labour, the homeless, and many others.

The findings, published in the November issue of Social Science & Medicine, indicate that neighborhood quality has significant and long - term effects on child and adolescent problem behaviors, findings that can help inform national, state, and local housing policy and community investment decisions.

Researchers from York's department of Social Policy and Social Work and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine brought together a global community of researchers and writers to produce the «Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility».

A report of the findings, published Dec. 4 in JAMA Internal Medicine, highlights the impact physicians» social networks may have on their adherence to nationally recognized breast cancer screening guidelines.

«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 lomedicine, 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 loMedicine, 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.

Dengue, in addition to inflicting pain and suffering, also extracts a significant social and economic toll on India,» said Alan Magill, MD, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which publishes the journal.

«While many employers are interested in making wellness efforts more social to increase engagement, based on our findings there is a significant opportunity to go further and improve outcomes by better designing these competitions,» said senior author David A. Asch, MD, MBA, a professor of Medicine and Health Care Management and director of the Penn Center for Health Care Innovation.

Older people were less likely to be depressed if their grown - up children were back at home — something that seemed to have a greater effect on depression than their daily activities did (Social Science and Medicine, doi.org/bqxc).

Following on from her 1987 award - winning The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, it establishes Martin as one of the world's most original and stimulating thinkers grappling with the cultural and social context of science and medicine today.

«Poverty and the many stresses that come with social disadvantage have long been linked to cardiovascular disease, but how we live, work, and play has a great impact on heart health for people from a broad range of economic and cultural backgrounds,» explains David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Research at The New York Academy of Medicine and Chair of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Council on Epidemiology and Prevention.

Offering a thorough introduction to the major theories, methods, models, and findings of research on social networks, Valente explores their current and potential applications to medicine and public health.

«With the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which expanded Medicaid coverage to many low - income Americans, it's important to gauge the impact it might have on low - income children and on associated social costs,» said lead author John Myers, PhD, MSPH, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

On 9 September, Cristian Dogaru, a Romanian health and social scientist studying pediatric respiratory epidemiology at the University of Bern's Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, launched an online petition «urging researchers to boycott the conference and thus send a message that the scientific community does not endorse (and has zero tolerance for) academic fraud,» he explains in an e-mail to ScienceInsocial scientist studying pediatric respiratory epidemiology at the University of Bern's Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, launched an online petition «urging researchers to boycott the conference and thus send a message that the scientific community does not endorse (and has zero tolerance for) academic fraud,» he explains in an e-mail to ScienceInSocial and Preventive Medicine, launched an online petition «urging researchers to boycott the conference and thus send a message that the scientific community does not endorse (and has zero tolerance for) academic fraud,» he explains in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

«These data suggest that the interplay between race and ethnicity as social constructs and genetic ancestry as a biological construct is more complex than we had realized,» said Noah Zaitlen, PhD, a UCSF assistant professor of medicine and co-senior author on the new study.

Palliative care is a team - based specialty (incorporating medicine, nursing, social work and chaplaincy) focused on improving quality of life for people with serious illnesses by adding a layer of support for patients, their families, and health care providers.

Logging on to social media sites frequently throughout the week or spending hours trolling various social feeds during the day is linked to a greater risk of young adults developing eating and body image concerns, a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine analysis discovered.

«By understanding the oxytocin system's dual role in triggering or reducing anxiety, depending on the social context, we can optimize oxytocin treatments that improve well - being instead of triggering negative reactions,» said Jelena Radulovic, the senior author of the study and the Dunbar Professsor of Bipolar Disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The National Institutes of Health — including the National Institute on Aging, the Office of Women's Health Research, the Office of AIDS Research, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research — and the McHugh Otolaryngology Research Fund, the American Geriatrics Society, and the Institute of Translational Medicine at the University of Chicago funded the study.

Researchers Todd Ahern, a graduate student in the Emory Neuroscience Program, and Larry Young, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory School of Medicine, compared pups raised by single mothers (SM) to pups raised by both parents (BP) to determine the effects of these types of early social environments on adult social behavior.

Diarmuid O'Donovan is Director of Public Health with the Irish Health Service Executive (West) and Senior Lecturer in Social and Preventive Medicine at the National University of Ireland Galway where he coordinates teaching on public health and on global health and development.

Laalitha Surapaneni, M.B.B.S., M.D., M.P.H., an instructor of medicine and a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, was recently added to the board of Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, which advocates on environmental and social justice issues in Maryland and VirSocial Responsibility, which advocates on environmental and social justice issues in Maryland and Virsocial justice issues in Maryland and Virginia.

Pioneering scientist, social activist, humanitarian — Mary - Claire King is also foremost a free spirit who for over four decades has marched to the beat of her own drummer, animated by the impulse to solve iconic scientific puzzles, a passion for victims of disease and social injustice, and a warm humility that belies her profound impacts on science, on medicine, and on society.

At the same time, technological advances have also impacted medicine: personal health information can be captured on smart devices, advanced computing power has made analysis of large amounts of information about individuals possible, and the Internet — especially social media — now makes it easy to communicate health information quickly to large networks of people.

Then replace your nightly Instagram - scrolling with meditation or a journaling session to improve your slumber: Reducing your overall usage of social media may help your sleep support lifelong peak performance, since those who spend the most time on social media have twice the risk for sleep disturbances, according to research from the journal Preventive Medicine.

The author of The Buddha Experience, Medicine Buddha, Enduring Love and Embracing Death, Not only is Robert Sachs a licensed Clinical Social Worker, a certified LifeLine Practitioner and an author, with Masters in Social Work at the University of Kentucky, Robert has long been a student of Tibetan Buddhist masters is now an expert on a study of Asian healing systems.

I am a National Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Foundation Ambassador and Mentor, a member of the Society for Participatory Medicine, am on the Pittsburgh Arthritis Foundation Advocacy and Mission Committee, I write for PsoStrong.com and am a Health Guide and Social Ambassador for HealthCentral.

People who use natural or complementary approaches to health often do it because they feel conventional medicine focuses too narrowly on one symptom or body system, with little integration of the body with other aspects of life, such as lifestyle, diet, and social factors.

«If What Works focused on mechanisms rather than programs — taking a lead from international development over medicine in the way we design RCTs — we could start to identify the human and social learning factors which are relevant across contexts, homing in on the most essential pieces that need to be in place to create powerful learning.»

As a result schools are popping up all over LA Unified with a focus on everything from gaming to applied medicine to entrepreneurship to social justice.

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