Le volet environnemental de la loi ASAP, une régression
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Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundHere we present a systematic review of the existing research into gambling harms, in order to determine whether there are differences in the presentation of these across demographic groups such as age, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status, or gambling behaviour categories such as risk severity and participation frequency.Primary and ...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundBehavioural interventions for the early prevention of childhood obesity mostly focus on English-speaking populations in high-income countries. Cultural adaptation is an emerging strategy for implementing evidence-based interventions among different populations and regions. This paper describes the initial process of culturally adapting He...
Published in Nature
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.
Published in Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines
BackgroundBrucellosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Brucella spp., namely B. melitensis and B. abortus in humans. Culturing is the gold standard method for diagnosis; however, because Brucella is a slow-growing bacterium, which may delay diagnosis, other faster methods, such as serology, are used. Studies on the correlation between Brucella antib...
Published in BMC Medical Ethics
BackgroundRespect for patients’ autonomy is usually considered to be an important ethical principle in Western countries; privacy is one of the implications of such respect. Healthcare professionals frequently encounter ethical dilemmas during their practice. The past few decades have seen an increased use of courts to resolve intractable ethical d...
Published in Personality and Individual Differences
• Younger people reported more loneliness than the middle-aged. • The middle-aged reported more loneliness than older people. • Men reported more loneliness than women. • People in individualistic (vs. collectivist) countries reported more loneliness. • Age, gender, and culture interacted to predict loneliness.
Published in Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
The inclusion of diverse populations in clinical trial research is a social justice imperative. Creating the communicative tools that can support cancer patients across varied cultural backgrounds in processing complex clinical trial information, to achieve informed consent, has been a challenge. This study sought to evaluate specific clinical tria...
Published in Women and birth : journal of the Australian College of Midwives
Twinning collaborations, where two groups - from educational institutions, hospitals or towns - work together cross-culturally on joint goals, are increasingly common worldwide. Pairing up individuals, so-called twin pairs, is thought to contribute to successful collaboration in twinning projects, but as yet, there is no empirical evidence or theor...