Justice system reform for health equity: a mixed methods examination of collaborating for equity and justice principles in a grassroots organizing coalition - Cooper DG, Christens BD.
This article reports results from a study of a...
Source: SafetyLit - September 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Community-Based Prevention Source Type: news

Returning to sexual stigma: post-trafficking lives - Richardson D, Laurie N.
This article is concerned with returning to sexual stigma in two key respects. First, it prompts a return to the conceptual understanding of sexual stigma and makes an important contribution to critiques of the individualized frameworks that have dominated...
Source: SafetyLit - September 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Women In Leadership: A Q & A with President Sahle-Work Zewde
By Katja IversenSep 20 2019 (IPS-Partners) Women Deliver President/CEO Katja Iversen discusses women in leadership and links between sexual and reproductive health and rights and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to advance gender equality with the first female President of Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde. Katja Iversen: You have had a remarkable career, breaking down barriers as the first woman to hold several leadership positions across the UN and now as President of Ethiopia. How did you find the strength, the power, and the resilience to pursue this pathway to change? President Sahle-Work Zewde: For me strength, resilience a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Katja Iversen Tags: Gender Health Women's Health Source Type: news

How Juul Hooked Kids and Ignited a Public Health Crisis
In the Scheetz household, back-to-school anxiety reached new heights this fall. Jami Scheetz’s 15-year-old son Devon, who has severe asthma, kicked a brutal vaping habit over the summer, with help from a nicotine patch. But as soon as school started and he was once again around kids vaping, his habit returned. On Sept. 12, Devon vaped at school and immediately began sweating and vomiting. Though Scheetz, who lives in Sellersville, Pa., says her son is now fine, she can’t shake thoughts of kids who have been hospitalized or died after using e-cigarettes. “Vaping scares me more [than smoking], because they ...
Source: TIME: Health - September 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized vaping Source Type: news

Tanzania: Dar Hospital Introduces Modern Eye Surgery
[Daily News] INTERNATIONAL Eye Hospital has introduced a modern eye surgery in Dar es Salaam. So, a person with a low vision condition can undergo surgery and regain vision and will no longer need spectacles during his life time.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 15, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Moving moral injury into the future with functional contextualism: a response to Nash's "Unpacking two models for understanding moral injury" (2019) - Farnsworth JK, Borges LM, Walser RD.
In his commentary on the Journal of Traumatic Stress special issue on moral injury (Vol. 32, Issue 3), Nash (2019) critiques both Farnsworth's (2019) descriptive-prescriptive framework for differentiating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from moral inj...
Source: SafetyLit - August 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news

End of glasses? Ground-breaking technology sees major trial success
A GROUND-BREAKING technique to correct poor eyesight could spell the end of spectacles for millions.
Source: Daily Express - Health - June 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Small glasses supplement – additional guidance
NHS England has published additional guidance providing details about the supplements payable on a GOS 3 spectacles voucher where the patient has a need for special changes to their spectacle frame.
Source: NHS Networks - June 11, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Bayes factor in one-sample tests of means with a sensitivity analysis: a discussion of separate prior distributions - Du H, Edwards MC, Zhang Z.
Due to some widely known critiques of traditional hypothesis testing, Bayesian hypothesis testing using the Bayes factor has been considered as a better alternative. Previous research about the influence of the prior focuses on the prior for the effect siz...
Source: SafetyLit - June 6, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

US$244 billion lost annually because people don't have spectacles to correct myopia
(Brien Holden Vision Institute) Vision impairment caused by uncorrected myopia cost the global economy an estimated US$244 billion in lost productivity in 2015, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Ophthalmology.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Evaluation of aircrew low-intensity threat laser eye protection - Reddix MD, Funke ME, Kinney MJ, Bradley JL, Irvin G, Rea EJ, Kunkle CK, McCann MB, Gomez J.
Prototype low-intensity threat laser eye protection (LIT-LEP) spectacles were evaluated for US Coast Guard (USCG) cockpits and night vision goggle compatibility. The impetus for interest in aviation LIT-LEP is driven in part by the fact that easily accessi...
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

Theranos documentary viewers reveal true feelings about Elizabeth Holmes
The harshest critiques of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes didn't come during the screening portion of the San Francisco premiere of HBO's documentary "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley," but rather during the post-film panel discussion. More than 15 years ago, while a student at Stanford University, Holmes pitched her idea to Dr. Phyllis Gardner, a professor of medicine there. Speaking at the documentary's screening at San Francisco's Letterman Digital Arts Center, Gardner recalled…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 13, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Rosellen "Rosie" Downey Source Type: news

Screening of HBO's Theranos documentary broadcasts participants' true feelings on Elizabeth Holmes
The harshest critiques of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes didn't come during the screening portion of last night's San Francisco premiere of HBO's upcoming documentary "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley," but rather during the post-film panel discussion. More than 15 years ago, while a student at Stanford University, Holmes pitched her idea to Dr. Phyllis Gardner, a professor of medicine there. Speaking at the documentary's screening at San Francisco's Letterman Digital Arts Center,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - March 12, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Rosellen "Rosie" Downey Source Type: news

Most Students Receiving Spectacles Wear Them at Follow-Up
FRIDAY, Feb. 1, 2019 -- Three-quarters of students aged 11 to 15 years from government schools in India receiving spectacles wear them at follow-up, according to a study published online Jan. 31 in JAMA Ophthalmology. Priya Morjaria, Ph.D., from the...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 1, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

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