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The influence of patriarchy on women's health

WEBBackground Patriarchy is a strong determinant of women’s health as it produces unequal living conditions which drive inequalities in health. Patriarchy impacts health and social outcomes through various factors like discriminatory values, norms, beliefs and practices, differential exposures and vulnerabilities to disease, disability and …

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Inpatient Screening for Social Determinants of Health: A Quality

WEBBackground: Social determinants of health (SDOH) can contribute to related health disparities and inequities that negatively impact health outcomes and healthcare utilization. Comprehensive screening is frequently overlooked as an integral component to inpatient clinical care. Purpose: The aims of the project were to evaluate the feasibility of …

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Health Systems Science in Medical Education: Unifying the …

WEBMedical education exists in the service of patients and communities and must continually calibrate its focus to ensure the achievement of these goals. To close gaps in U.S. health outcomes, medical education is steadily evolving to better prepare providers with the knowledge and skills to lead patient- and systems-level improvements. Systems …

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Solidarity and Public Health

WEBWe argue that an unqualifed use of the term solidarity in public health is not only equivocal but problematic toward the ends of public health. The term may be deployed normatively by public health advocates to strengthen the bonds among public health practitioners and refer to an ideal society in which the importance of interdependence …

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Family Health Development: A Theoretical Framework

WEBIn recognition of the family as central to health, the concept of family, rather than individual, health has been an important area of research and, increasingly, clinical practice. There is a need to leverage existing theories of family health to align with our evolving understanding of Life Course Health Development, including the opportunities …

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Data for "Change in College Student Health and Well

WEBThis dataset is made available for an article at PLoS ONE. Paper abstract: Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has potential for long-lasting effects on college students’ well-being. We examine changes from just before to during the pandemic in indicators of health and well-being and comprehensive profiles of health and well-being, …

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PAUSE For Your Health

WEBPAUSE For Your Health is a consumer health tool for the effective assessment of online health information. This slide deck is a simplified acronym-based tool used for assessing the quality of online health information. It is intended for use by both librarians and online seekers of health information. PAUSE For Your Health is intended …

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The unique challenges facing rural providers in the COVID-19 …

WEBRural health providers face numerous well-documented challenges in their efforts to manage population health. With unprecedented changes necessitated by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and resulting serious health complications from COVID-19, rural providers continue to face challenges that require carefully designed public …

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Creating Health Humanities Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges: …

WEBIn May 2022, Elizabethtown College and Penn State College of Medicine’s Department of Humanities sponsored a Health Humanities Conference highlighting programs and initiatives at liberal arts colleges in Central Pennsylvania. The idea was to create a network of interested faculty members, explore the development of curricula at …

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How Information Blocking And The 21st Century Cures Act Impact

WEBPolicies like 21st Century Cures Act aims to prevent health systems, electronic health record (EHR) vendors, and others from blocking the sharing of patient data that is necessary for clinical care. There is a huge amount of funding that goes into incentives to adopt EHR system and increase interoperability in these systems. The current study …

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Mental Health, The Workplace, and Death of a Salesman

WEBThis poster looks for the connections between mental health, the workplace, and the play A Death of a Salesman.

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Effects of Breastfeeding Versus Formula Feeding in

WEBThis is an evidence-based practice project designed to answer the PICOT question, “In infants, how does breastfeeding compared to formula feeding affect growth and development within the first year?” Databases including CINAHL, PubMed, and MeSH were utilized to synthesize primarily peer-reviewed journal articles using Penn State’s …

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Men’s Income Trajectories and Physical and Mental Health at Midlife

WEBUsing time-varying, prospectively measured income in a nationally representative sample of baby-boomer men (the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979), the authors identify eight group-based trajectories of income between ages 25 and 49 and use multinomial treatment models to describe the associations between group …

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Integrating structural control, health monitoring, and energy

WEBCities that are adopting innovative and technology-driven solutions to improve the city's efficiency are considered smart cities. With the increased attention on smart cities with self-driving vehicles, drones, and robots, designing smart infrastructure is only a natural extension. Smart infrastructures aim to self-diagnose, self-power, self-adapt, and self …

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Delaying, Debating, and Declining Motherhood

WEBTrends of delayed childbearing have accompanied declining birth rates and increasing numbers of childless adults in the USA. Women may postpone parenting in order to save money, find a partner, and get a ‘family-friendly’ job, but this reproductive strategy may not always be effective. This paper uses two waves of longitudinal data to track …

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Compassion Fatigue During the COVID-19 Pandemic

WEBThe purpose of this research was to explore the possibility of the COVID-19 pandemic leading to an increase in compassion fatigue in nurses. Compassion fatigue is a condition where the afflicted person is not able to empathize with the misfortunes of others, due to mental and physical exhaustion. This lack of compassion can be detrimental in …

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Retention in Care Among People Living with HIV: The

WEBIt has been over forty years since the first cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) were reported in 1981. Despite major progress in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment, prevention, care, and support services to mitigate the global impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, retention in HIV care (RIC), an important …

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Improving Authentication and Information Security Using …

WEBBlockchain technology, also known as distributed ledger technology, has increased in popularity since it was first used in 2008 and has applications in numerous business areas including finance, medical, and supply chain. Blockchain enables a trusted transaction among network participants who do not trust or even know one another. …

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