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Some suggestions for improving wider understanding of the work of population health
Full text link1. Harris-Roxas B. Some suggestions for improving wider understanding of the work of population health in Sweet M, Ward M. Acting on the social determinants of health – for a fairer distribution of health, Croakey: Sydney, p 111-114, 2016. (Collection of Croakey.org articles to coincide with the 2016 Boyer Lectures
Locational Disadvantage: Program Logic
Full text linkThis document sets out the program logic for the Locational Disadvantage program. It describes how it was developed, identifies the three streams of work and the activities to be conducted within those streams, and the short and long term outcomes
Understanding hotspots of health disadvantage: Challenges and opportunities [Workshop]
No full textHealth needs and health inequalities are not evenly geographically distributed. In order to address this health services and systems have to identify areas of greatest need, so they can respond proportionately and target prevention activities.
Broader changes such as migration, gentrification and social housing reforms mean that the distribution of health needs is also rapidly changing. Historical pockets of locational disadvantage may no longer be the areas that services should focus on. Without an accurate understanding of social needs, the preventable use of clinical services, and the decision-making context at local levels, investment may be mis-targeted.
This workshop will provide a brief overview of approaches to identifying hotspots of health disadvantage, based on case studies that:
profile locational health disadvantage at the suburb level
analyse potentially preventable hospitalisation data
describe experiences in identifying and tackling local needs from the Healthy Cities movement.
The workshop will focus on (i) establishing shared challenges to identifying hotspots, and (ii) identifying opportunities and potential solutions for health services and systems
Concepts, évolution de la démarche à l’international et évaluation des evaluation d’impact sur la santé
Full text linkA reciprocity formula from abelian BF and Turaev–Viro theories
No full textAbstractIn this article we show that the use of Deligne–Beilinson cohomology in the context of the U(1) BF theory on a closed 3-manifold M yields a discrete ZN BF theory whose partition function is an abelian TV invariant of M. By comparing the expectation values of the U(1) and ZN holonomies in both BF theories we obtain a reciprocity formula
The Bar BF Ranch
No full textThe area of investigation concerns the possible uses of the Bar BF Ranch in Smithville, Missouri. The business that will ultimately lead to the greatest growth potential is sought. Two possibilities are outlined. The major finding for a growth industry is that of breeding extremely rare straight Egyptian Arabian horses. They are unequaled in classic beauty and thus possess a high profit potential as a genetic pool for the Arabian market world wide. The alternate growth concept for the Bar BF Ranch would be as a quest ranch specializing in horseback riding. The site has been approved for this use by the Dude Ranchers Association of America. The author concludes that the breeding of straight Egyptian Arabian horses will be the primary objective of the Bar BF Ranch, based upon industry findings and return of investment potential
THE INFRARED SPECTRA OF BF CATION AND BFOH CATION TRAPPED IN SOLID NEON
No full textAuthor Institution: Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8441New, more detailed studies of the photoionization and Penning ionization of BF trapped in solid neon have confirmed the earlier{} infrared spectroscopic identification of BF and BF cation and have yielded a revised assignment for the infrared absorptions of BF cation. The position of the absorption attributed to of that molecule is consistent with the distortion of the ground-state cation from D symmetry because of strong vibronic interaction between levels of the \~{B} E state and E levels of the \~{X} A ground state, as predicted by Haller and co-workers.{ppel, L.~S.~Cederbaum, W.~von~Niessen, and G.~Bieri, J.~Chem.~Phys. 78, 1359 (1983).}} The facile reaction of BF with traces of HO desorbed from the walls of the vacuum system leads to the stabilization of sufficient BFOH for the identification of two vibrational fundamentals of BFOH cation
The speculated neurochemistry of psi and associated processes
No full textThis chapter speculates on the possible neurochemistry underlying a number of extraordinary experiences falling within the domain of parapsychology, namely telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance (known collectively as extrasensory perception [ESP]), as well as psychokinesis [PK], which together are subsumed under the umbrella terms “psychic” and “psi.” Related anomalous phenomena, such as out-of-body experiences (OBEs), near-death experiences (NDEs), and “encounter” experiences with alleged discarnate entities are also considered in this chapter
Evaluating the impact of therapeutic storywriting on childrens’ resilience and emotional and behavioural adjustment
No full textA range of different intervention programmes exist in schools in the UK to promote the learning and development of children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD). Surprisingly, there is little systematic evidence which has evaluated the effectiveness of these programmes at enhancing the protective processes associated with resilience. A systematic review of existing literature was conducted to examine the impact of both universal and targeted school-based intervention programmes on the resilience of children with SEBD. Results suggested that the most effective programmes for increasing the resilience of pupils with SEBD are those that explicitly teach new skills whilst also creating a safe and supportive environment. There was promising evidence suggesting that writing about feelings helps children to address the emotional issues underlying their behaviour (Lieberman et al. as cited in Macklem et al., 2011), however as yet there are very few studies which have evaluated the impact of interventions which use creative methods on the resilience of pupils with SEBD.The empirical paper evaluated whether Therapeutic Storywriting (TSW, Waters, 2004) can enhance resilience and emotional and behavioural adjustment in primary school pupils experiencing SEBD. Results showed that there was a significant increase in the emotional vocabulary and sense of belonging of pupils in the intervention group (N = 21) compared with those in the WLC group (N = 21). There were no significant differences between groups on measures of emotional literacy, self-concept and emotional and behavioural adjustment, at any time. The results indicate that TSW is an effective intervention for increasing two significant protective factors associated with pupil resilience, when delivered by trained school staff. Implications for future research and educational psychology practice are discussed
Low Complexity BF scheme for downlink MISO-NOMA systems
No full textIn this study, the authors investigate the user selection (US), beamforming (BF) and power allocation (PA) problems for the downlink multiple-input-single-output-based non-orthogonal multiple-access system. For the US problem, they matched the BF and PA schemes with different US schemes to achieve the best spectral efficiency performance. For the BF and PA problems, they derive a non-normalised BF scheme to accomplish the BF and PA problems jointly. The non-normalised BF scheme requires much lower computational complexity than the duality BF scheme. According to their simulation results, the non-normalised BF scheme can achieve the same or better spectral efficiency performance than the duality BF scheme. When the number of users sharing the same time-frequency resource is large, both the duality BF scheme and the singular value decomposition (SVD)-based BF scheme cannot obtain spectral efficiency advantage over the OMA scheme. However, the non-normalised BF scheme can maintain the advantage over the OMA scheme.SCI(E)ARTICLE101566-15731
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