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UKRI & NIHR Funding on Covid-19 risks and ethnic minorities in the UK
No full textUK Research Innovation (UKRI) and NIHR announced funding of over £5 million (6 projects) on 29th July 2020 to examine closely the risk factors associated with excess deaths of BME people including healthcare workers exposed to and afflicted with coronavirus. For further details of studies see: https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-covid-19-and-ethnicity-research
Ethnic minorities and urge for organ donations
No full textThe NHS revealed figures on how many people are currently waiting for an organ transplant, it has urged specifically BME communities to sign up for organ donations as there is a worrying amount of black and ethnic minorities on a patient list needing a matching donor from their own communities. Figures revealed that there is a significant gap in organ donations with this community compared to White British communities
UKRI & NIHR Six Projects Funding on Reducing Impact of COVID-19 on BAME people and healthcare professionals
No full textLive BBC News interview on government funding of over £6 million projects to identify underlying risks for higher mortality of ethnic minorities due to COVID-19 outbrea
Comparing the effectiveness of mother-focused interventions to that of mother-child focused interventions in improving maternal postpartum depression outcomes: A systematic review
Full text linkBackground: Most empirically researched interventions for postpartum depression (PPD) tend to target mothers\u27 depression alone. Harmful effects of PPD on physical and mental health of both mother and child has led researchers to investigate the impact of interventions on PPD and child outcomes together. So far, the evidence is limited regarding how these interventions compare with those focusing only on mothers\u27 depression. This review compares the effectiveness of PPD-improving interventions focusing only on mothers with those focusing on mother and child together.Methods: Nine electronic databases were searched. Thirty-seven studies evaluating mother-focused (n = 30) and mother-child focused interventions (n = 7) were included. Under each category, three theoretical approaches-psychological, psychosocial and mixed-were compared using standardized qualitative procedures. The review\u27s primary outcome was maternal PPD.Results: A higher proportion of mother-focussed interventions [20/30 (66.7%)] brought significant reduction in PPD outcomes as compared to a lower proportion of mother-child focused interventions [4/7 (57.14%)]. Mother-focused mixed approaches [3/3 (100%)] performed better in improving PPD than psychological [16/24 (67%)] or psychosocial approaches [1/3 (33.3%)] alone. Amongst mother-child focused interventions, psychosocial approaches performed well with two-thirds demonstrating positive effects on PPD.Conclusion: The evidence strongly favors mother-focused interventions for improving PPD with mixed interventions being more effective. Psychosocial approaches performed better with PPD once child-related elements were added, and also seemed best for child outcomes. Psychological approaches were most practiced and effective for PPD, irrespective of the intervention\u27s focus. Further trials are needed to unpack intervention components that improve PPD and increase uptake, especially in lower-and middle-income countries
Evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a smoking cessation service in Derbyshire: An interrupted time series analysis
Full text linkBackgroundData published early in the COVID-19 pandemic suggested that smokers infected with SARS-CoV-2 were more likely to need hospital treatment or die than non-smokers, and thus this was seen as a motivator to encourage smokers to make a quit attempt. Live Life Better Derbyshire (LLBD) is an integrated lifestyle service providing free support for residents Derbyshire, UK, who want to quit smoking. On 19 March 2020, LLBD converted from offering face-to-face cessation support to a smoking cessation service delivered remotely.MethodsInterrupted time series analysis to investigate the impact of COVID-19, and the shift to remote delivery of smoking cessation support, on the number of smokers who accessed cessation support with LLBD, set a quit date, and self-reported having quit at 4-week follow-up.Results11,393 episodes of smoking cessation support were opened with LLBD between 01 January 2018 and 31 December 2021. The weekly count of all outcomes was increasing prior to the date when LLBD converted to remote-only delivery. There was a 20% immediate drop in the number of episodes opened coinciding with this date (IRR 0.88, 95% CI 0.646–0.992) but no change in the number of quit dates set or 4-week quits or the underlying longer-term trends.ConclusionsThe COVID-19 pandemic, and associated shift to remote delivery of smoking cessation support by LLBD, had no substantial sustained overall impact on measures of smoking cessation service activity and success
COVID and BME communities
No full textHigher incidence and mortality in BAME population compared to white community due to COVID-19 in the U
Extending health insurance to the poor : some experiences from sewa scheme
No full textThis paper presents the health expenditure, morbidity pattern, demand for insurance and health seeking behaviour of low income households covered under ESIS, mediclaim and SEWA health insurance scheme. Survey reveals that share of direct medical costs was about two-thirds in the total costs in all groups and rural households invariably paid higher costs as compared to their urban counterparts. The per capita expenditure on treatment was much lower for ESIS households as compared to SEWA and non-insured households both in rural and urban areas. A majority of households indicated strong inclusions for any kind of health insurance scheme and demand for SEWA scheme was the highest among the non-insured. Both rural and urban households were willing to pay an annual per capita premium of Rs. 80 and Rs. 95 respectively for the coverage of services of hospitalisation, chronic ailment, specialist consultation and the like. The author strongly feels a need for health insurance among low-income households due to heavy burden of out-of-pocket expenses while seeking health care
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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