Health | -An evaluation of Birmingham Own Health telephone care management service among patients with poorly controlled diabetes-

Abstract | An evaluation of Birmingham Own Health telephone care management service among patients with poorly controlled diabetes. A retrospective comparison with the General Practice Research Database.. This article is available freely via Open Access. Please click on the above link to view it fully. Abstract (provisional)   Background Telephone-based care management programmes have been [...]

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Public Health | -NSAID’s raise miscarriage risk-

A recently published study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal has concluded that women who take NSAIDs in the first trimester of pregnancy are more than twice as likely to have a miscarriage than women who do not. NSAIDs, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, are a very popular class of pain killers that many people use [...]

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Public Health | -Smoking, health risk, and addiction.

[K&C, and Marks et al Health Psychology] General household surveys in UK show decline in prevalence of smoking in early 90s, but more recent increase in prevalence. At present, 28% of men and women >=16 years old smoke, most common (40%) 16-34 age group, and it is in this age group that the increase has [...]

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Public Health | -Life and death in the office-

I blogged recently on a study linking workplace rudeness with lowered work performance. This study demonstrated that you didn’t need to be the actual victim of the rudeness, you only had to witness it happening to someone else and it affected the ability to perform higher order tasks. Well, hard on the heels of that [...]

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Public Health | -Treatment Compliance and Adherence-

[From Health Psychology, Marks et al, Communication: Messages and Meanings, p272] 3 approaches to study of doctor patient communication: ‘Deviant patient’, ‘authoritarian doctor’ or ‘interactive dyad’. Health communication is a means through which health promotion is achieved. Health psychologists involvement with health promotion has been primarily concerned with health communication, so from health psychologist point of [...]

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Public Health | -Chronic Disease Modules-

Early this week, I was given my official assignment to complete over the course of my next three months here in Bangladesh: I will be collaborating with the Public Health Science Department here at ICDDR, B in order to design community health modules for chronic disease patients, which are to be implemented at the Centre for Control [...]

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Poverty | -Definitions of Poverty-

The first book on my reading list is Jeffrey Sachs’ “End of Poverty”. The book is so far well-written and interesting. Sachs uses the World Bank definition of poverty. Extreme poverty is defined as having less than $1 per person per day and moderate poverty is defined as having between $1 and $2 per person [...]

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Poverty | -Help Starts Young-

Here’s another post for our Get Educated, One Topic At A Time blog series! This week you can learn about Child Poverty throughout the world and the efforts being made to help the fight against child poverty and child labor so that future generations can develop. You can also check out our past blog posts [...]

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