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Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"Ill health"”.
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The incidence of mental ill-health in adults with intellectual disabilities
… 2002; McConkey et al, 2006) but have very high health needs and thus make up a proportionally larger section of the population with illness. Although it has been demonstrated that adults with intellectual disabilities have a higher prevalence of mental ill-health when compared to that reported …
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Mental ill health in nursing and midwifery education. A critical discourse analysis
Students diagnosed with long-term mental health conditions have been the focus of policy development for over a decade. Student mental health is on the increase and universities are legally obliged to make reasonable adjustments for disabled students. Therefore it is crucial that nursing and …
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Gender and life-cycle differentials in the correlates of adult ill health in South Africa
… co-variates of adult self-evaluated ill health in South Africa using data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study wave 1 survey.
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The impact of Islam and Muslim identity on experiences and views of mental ill health among Muslim men in south Wales.
… and Muslim identity on experiences of mental ill health among Muslim men in south Wales?”. It conducted interviews with 21 Muslim men living in south Wales around their views and experiences of mental health, in relation to their gender and religion. Mental health is a topic of increasing …
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Allocating healthcare resources on the basis of personal responsibility for ill-health: what role (if any) should public opinion play? A socio-ethical analysis
The suggestion that individual responsibility for ill-health, and consequent healthcare need, should be a factor in healthcare priority-setting is increasingly debated. The adoption of such a principle within UK healthcare distribution policy would be both socially and ethically contentious. This …
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The Incurable Fanny Price: Disabled Perspective and Resistance to the Cure Narrative in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
… what happens when you introduce a chronically ill character like Fanny, who can’t ever be fully cured, into these curative plots? In order to better understand the ways Austen complicates curative discourse, this paper focuses on Fanny’s own perspective and embodied experience of chronic …
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Junior doctors : morale, job satisfaction, stress and their interrelationships
… of job satisfaction and mental and physical ill-health manifestations of stress, and follows one group over a period of eighteen months to determine whether morale improves over this time. Data collections was by modified postal questionnaire and consisted of self reported job satisfaction …
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Job characteristics, wellness and work-home interaction in the mining industry
… work and home, as well as contributing to health problems of employees. The objectives of this research were to test the construct validity, construct equivalence and reliability of a work-home interaction measuring instrument, the Survey Work-Home Interaction - Nijmegen (SWING), to …
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The effect on family life during the late Georgian period of indisposition, medication, treatments and the resultant outcomes.
… published scholarship relating to the effect of ill health upon the late Georgian family. While historians of medicine have failed to adequately address questions relating to the family, so family historians have not fully considered the effects that ill health had upon family life. To deal with …
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Personal Responsibility for Health; Should we Bear the Costs of our Risky Health Affecting Choices?
… any, the concept of personal responsibility for health should play in health policy is a burning question. Human beings have long known that their behaviour can cause ill-health, but it is only in the last century that we have come to understand that our behaviour is causally responsible for a …
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Class, Neoliberalism, and Mental Health: a case study of the Cardiff Health Area.
… between class, neoliberalism, and mental health in the Cardiff Health Area. Quantitative analyses reveal that class has a more statistically significant influence on the prevalence of mental ill-health than deprivation. Qualitative analyses situate phenomenological experiences of mental …
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Risk and Resilience: Exploring the Ecological Factors that Impact the Recovery of Sexual Assault Survivors at Two Centres in the Western Cape
… assaulted are at high risk of developing poor health outcomes, ranging from HIV to mental disorders. The high prevalence of sexual assault and the burden of poor health outcomes highlights a serious need for interventions for these women. However, it is common that survivors face many …
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Psychological distress and psychiatric symptoms in Edinburgh University medical students
Information regarding psychological ill health among student populations has been accumulating for some years. Much of the data obtained relates to the prevalence of serious psychiatric illness. Less is known about rates of minor psychological complaints which nonetheless may have important effects …
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Health and Environmental Benefits of Reduced Pesticide Use in Uganda: An Experimental Economics Analysis
… procedures are employed to value both health and environmental benefits from reducing pesticides in Uganda. The first experiment, an incentive compatible auction involves subjects with incomplete information placing bids to avoid consuming potentially contaminated groundnuts/water in a …
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A Pill for the Ill? : Depression, Medicalization and Public Health
… described as a growing burden to global public health. Critics argue, however, that the use of mental health surveys, underlying these descriptions, tends to overestimate the prevalence of mental disorders by not distinguishing everyday experiences of distress from pathological conditions. This …
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Ageing, health and retirement choices in a diverse workforce : a case study of a large private sector retail organisation
… to improve employees’ enjoyment of their work. Health is a key predictor of retirement. Good health acts as an enabler to extending working life. This research aims to explore the factors that enable or inhibit people to work for longer, post traditional retirement age, in a large UK based …
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Enacting recovery in an English NHS 'arts for mental health' service
… the emergence of recovery in/from serious mental health problems as a conceptual frame, and as a set of practices and policy orientations. I provide a specific empirical account of recovery in practice. “Recovery” has multiple meanings and is enmeshed in on-going challenges to the validity of …
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Patient case records of the Royal Free Hospital, 1902-1912
… the hospital as a part of the mixed economy of healthcare, making consumer-like decisions at periods of ill-health as to where best to seek medical aid. The lifecycle of ill-health of the patients and their families has been examined according to the histories contained in the records. The …
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The Determination of Health and Safety Performance and Compliance in Construction Industry
… sites are very prone to accidents, injuries, and ill health. The objective of this study was to determine compliance and performance of health and safety in the construction industry, focusing the contractors’ workplace sites. Researcher studied the stakeholders’ role in relation with contractors’ …
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Exploring the experience and meaning of therapeutic relationships for mothers in a Parent-Infant Mental Health Service with infants who have been at the edge of care: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… prevalence and consequences of perinatal mental ill health has attracted more attention as a public health issue in recent years. Much attention has focused on the deleterious effects that parental mental health problems can have on parents themselves, as well as on the quality of the …
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