Socioeconomic status and health conditions associated with incidence of dental caries in Brazilian children
This study involved 753 schoolchildren, aged 3–15 years, of two socio-economic levels: a low level, in a public school and kindergarten; and a high level, in a private school. The mean decayed, missing and filled deciduous infant teeth (dmft) values in children age 6 years and decayed, missing, and filled permanent adult teeth (DMFT) at 12 years were similar between children in the public school (dmft, 1.53; DMFT, 0.56) and the private school (dmft, 1.53; DMFT, 0.28). A low DMFT is associated with the habit of cleaning teeth after eating sweet foods, when the fathers were employed at the time of the child’s birth an...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - August 4, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Digital photography assessment of 1,750 elementary and middle school student lunch meals demonstrates improved nutrition with increased exposure to hands-on cooking and gardening classes
This study suggests that such a curriculum is thus scalable through schools for improving child health. (Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person)
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - August 1, 2015 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Clinical research in a peripheral radiotherapy department: a feasibility analysis
AbstractThe aim of this analysis is to present the methodology used to promote clinical research in a peripheral Italian department of radiotherapy (RT) and the results in terms of scientific output. Internal treatment guidelines were developed, available on the computer network of the department, containing a schematic summary 1 –2 pages long of each protocol. Furthermore, a home-made database was designed to be used both as a medical record and for prospective data recording. Data entry was subjected to an “independent check” by a second radiation oncologist. Regular meetings were organized to update all staff on t...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - August 1, 2015 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Biting into integrated quality improvement: medical student and staff blinded taste test for sodium reduction improving medical education and care?
AbstractOver 90 % of Americans consume an excessive amount of sodium as a key salt ingredient, despite its contribution to morbidity and mortality. No known studies have analyzed the optimal salt reduction level for medical students and staff in characteristic restaurant recipes. Increased studies linking such qu ality improvement in medical education and care through lifestyle-based modifications with medical professionals in training may provide a promising model for competency-based medical education in the age of healthcare reform. A volunteer sample (n = 105) of medical students and staff was recruited over 3 wee...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - August 1, 2015 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The best time to talk about death
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Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - August 1, 2015 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Getting (human) value-based payments right: neuroeconomic personalism in Thomistic-influenced human rights and duties-based global bioethics (THRD-GB)
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Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - August 1, 2015 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The best time to talk about death
(Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person)
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - July 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Getting (human) value-based payments right: neuroeconomic personalism in Thomistic-influenced human rights and duties-based global bioethics (THRD-GB)
(Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person)
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - June 24, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Experience of group conversations in rehabilitation medicine: methodological approach and pilot study
Abstract
The restoring of equilibrium after a traumatic event makes it possible to give a new significance to patients’ existence, and healthcare professionals simultaneously find themselves very close to questions of pain and disability. For these reasons, we introduced weekly group meetings of healthcare professionals and patients suffering from vascular, traumatic or neurological accidents, and meetings of professionals only at the Neurocognitive Rehabilitation Day Hospital of the University of Milan Bicocca. The aim of this paper is to identify possible indicators of changes in patients’ existence...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - May 7, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
The meaning of everything: communication at the end of life
Abstract
Communication about end-of-life care is increasingly recognized as a core clinical skill, but doctors are often unprepared to have these conversations. Crisis situations at the end of life, such as when a hospitalized patient with a poor prognosis requests that “everything” be done, pose even greater communicative challenges. Such decisions are often regarded as a demand for care that may be burdensome or even harmful, rather than the start of an important conversation about values and goals. Situations such as this have prompted the development of prescriptive approaches to communicating wit...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - March 31, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
The ripples, post-pebble: phenomenological explorations of disability through narrative
Abstract
This narrative analysis about meaning making and disability addresses the potentials of transgressing rigid conceptions of bodies and minds, of identities and selves. This analysis demonstrates the potential of blurring boundaries between body, mind, and sense making narratives of the mind/body amalgamation and argues that approaching disability through a tolerance of ambiguity can enhance understandings of experiences of disability. Disability narratives like this shed light on the lasting, often detrimental influences that policing of artificial boundaries between falsely dichotomized categorie...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - March 5, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Clinical research in a peripheral radiotherapy department: a feasibility analysis
Abstract
The aim of this analysis is to present the methodology used to promote clinical research in a peripheral Italian department of radiotherapy (RT) and the results in terms of scientific output. Internal treatment guidelines were developed, available on the computer network of the department, containing a schematic summary 1–2 pages long of each protocol. Furthermore, a home-made database was designed to be used both as a medical record and for prospective data recording. Data entry was subjected to an “independent check” by a second radiation oncologist. Regular meetings were organized to upd...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - March 5, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Personalized medicine is the evidence based medicine saved in the right horizon
Abstract
A growing body of evidence indicates that effective medical treatment depends on personalized care. However, to focus on the person, to consider the other as a “person”, requires a special commitment, which corresponds to our expectations and it is mandatory for an effective medical approach, but it is not spontaneous and it does not hold automatically. The entire discussion on humanization of medicine relates to this question. At present, we are observing a cultural shift which risks destroying some essential aspects of the medical profession that contribute to high-quality health care. How ...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - March 5, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Digital photography assessment of 1,750 elementary and middle school student lunch meals demonstrates improved nutrition with increased exposure to hands-on cooking and gardening classes
This study suggests that such a curriculum is thus scalable through schools for improving child health. (Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person)
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - February 25, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
CHOP-International: an open access nutrition education tool for physicians, resident doctors, and medical and public health students
Abstract
Dietary diseases drive some of this century’s most pressing and costly global public health challenges, ranging from malnutrition-related infectious diseases such as HIV infection to overfeeding and linked chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease. We seek to create clinically meaningful and cost-effective education tools to help treat such conditions in a manner that is both population specific and evidence based. Tulane University School of Medicine’s Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine (GCCM), a medical school-based teaching kitchen and research laborat...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - January 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
