the definition of mental illness

Báo cáo y học: " The impact of mental illness on potentially preventable hospitalisations: a population-based cohort stu" ppt

Báo cáo y học: " The impact of mental illness on potentially preventable hospitalisations: a population-based cohort stu" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 16:20
... it was the same as that of their matched MHCs The start of follow-up (T0) was the entry date for both cohorts Variables and measurements Outcome variables The outcome measure was the rate of PPHs ... had the highest numbers of total bed days PPH medical conditions with the longest average length of stay were Table Characteristics of mental health clients (MHCs) and non-MHCs at the start of ... different types of attributable fraction in the exposed [26] In this study, the incidence density fraction of PPHs in MHCs attributable to their mental illness was 51.4%, based on an ARR of 2.06 (Table...
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Báo cáo y học: "A prospective observational study of the relationship of critical illness associated hyperglycaemia in medical ICU patients and subsequent development of type 2 diabetes"

Báo cáo y học: "A prospective observational study of the relationship of critical illness associated hyperglycaemia in medical ICU patients and subsequent development of type 2 diabetes"

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2012, 10:02
... is the cut-off value in the Recommendations of the American Heart Association [35] and the trigger for initiation of insulin treatment for ICU patients recommended by the American College of ... that are the root of hospital acquired hyperglycaemia and in the long term lead to development of diabetes Although the incidence of hospital acquired hyperglycaemia differed between the three ... important contributing factor The difference in the incidence of hyperglycaemia is probably a consequence of those differences and the differences in the severity of disease However, it seems...
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The Definition of Biotechnology

The Definition of Biotechnology

Ngày tải lên : 23/10/2013, 16:20
... other biotechnology applications Another method of compartmentalizing biotechnology is on the basis of the biological principles applied in the research or processes The accepted major kind of ... goes beyond the study of the genetic material and investigates proteins programmed by the DNA It is defined as the study of the structure and function of proteins, including the way they function ... out their functions inside of the cell Other enzymes are secreted and perform a variety of jobs in body fluids or outside of the body The categorization of an organism’s enzymes is called the...
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Evidence based Psychological Interventions in the Treatment of Mental Disorders A Literature Review

Evidence based Psychological Interventions in the Treatment of Mental Disorders A Literature Review

Ngày tải lên : 02/06/2014, 09:39
... summary of the implications of non-intervention factors to clinical outcomes is provided A criticism of the use of the RCT as a necessary measure of the success of an intervention has been that in the ... psychotherapy was significantly more effective than either of the short-term therapies There were no significant differences between the two short-term therapies 25 mental disorders: Adult Title of ... in the treatment of mental disorders background Disorders included in review An update of the 2006 systematic review of the literature examining the efficacy of a broad range of psychological...
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Báo cáo y học: "The prevalence of mental disorders in adults in different level general medical facilities in Kenya: a cross-sectional study" pot

Báo cáo y học: "The prevalence of mental disorders in adults in different level general medical facilities in Kenya: a cross-sectional study" pot

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 23:21
... medical personnel The health facilities to represent the above spectrum were selected on the basis of their proximity (within a 200 km radius) to Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya The different ... 1, the ages of the patients ranged from 18 to 92 years (mean age = 34.2 years) and more than half of the patients (52.4%) were aged 30 years or less Overall, 46.3% of the patients were male The ... using the BDI A score of ≥ 46 (severe depression) was recorded for 30.4% of the patients with tuberculosis (TB) and 0.3% of those with orthopaedic/soft tissue injury LSAD Between 30 and 40% of the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Conformal radiotherapy for lung cancer: interobservers'''' variability in the definition of gross tumor volume between radiologists and radiotherapists" pot

Báo cáo khoa học: "Conformal radiotherapy for lung cancer: interobservers'''' variability in the definition of gross tumor volume between radiologists and radiotherapists" pot

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 10:20
... Measurements of the radiotherapists and the graph by the Bland-Altman method Figure Altman method Measurements of the radiologists and the graph by the BlandMeasurements of the radiologists and the graph ... and the average of the measurements of the radiotherapists Figure represents the measurements of the radiologists and of the radiotherapists and the value of Pearson's correlation coefficient, ... radiologists and radiotherapists Analyzing the measurements of the radiotherapists, we can see represented in figure 1, the two measurements of the radiotherapists and the value of Pearson's correlation...
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báo cáo khoa học:" Development and validation of a short version of the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC) in Dutch Disease Management Programs" doc

báo cáo khoa học:" Development and validation of a short version of the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC) in Dutch Disease Management Programs" doc

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 01:22
... providers to implement the DMP is time-consuming on the part of the project leaders and the health care providers Training the GPs, overseeing the implementation of the DMP at the provider level, ... missing values with the mean of each DMP team as scored by the other professionals of the same DMP team, resulting in N = 218, or the total sample Internal consistency of the subscales was assessed ... of each professional participating in the DMPs The testing of theoretical associations between constructs can be analysed at the team level taking into account the hierarchical structure of the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Correction: A prospective observational study of the relationship of critical illness associated hyperglycaemia in medical ICU patients and subsequent development of type 2 diabetes" pdf

Báo cáo y học: "Correction: A prospective observational study of the relationship of critical illness associated hyperglycaemia in medical ICU patients and subsequent development of type 2 diabetes" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 21:21
... 193 47 IGF / IFG 33 DM 113 normoglycaemic Figure Flow diagram showing the loss of patients from initial screening to the end of five-year follow-up ... Critical Care 2010, 14:444 http://ccforum.com/content/14/5/444 Page of 2207 patients admitted to medical ICU 385 with a history of DM, IFG or IGT 1822 274 died in hospital 1548 screened 443 excluded...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Collaborative planning approach to inform the implementation of a healthcare manager intervention for hispanics with serious mental illness: a study protocol" pptx

báo cáo khoa học: "Collaborative planning approach to inform the implementation of a healthcare manager intervention for hispanics with serious mental illness: a study protocol" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 11:20
... code the rest of the data Additional analyses will include identification of subthemes and descriptions of the range and salience of themes Established procedures to enhance the trustworthiness of ... of error of an estimated rate to assess the precision that can be achieved by the proposed sample size Margin of error is half the width of a confidence interval of an estimator The smaller the ... permit us to test the efficacy of the modified healthcare manager intervention or to identify mechanisms of change We plan to use the results of the pilot study to inform the design of a more rigorous...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana" pptx

báo cáo khoa học: "Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 14:21
... with mental illness and their family members questions focused on the history of the person's illness, the symptoms and course of the illness, possible causes, the impact of the illness on the ... on the healers' view of mental illness, including possible causes, the methods of treatment provided and the ideology/theology on which they were based, the efficacy of the treatment and the ... year also saw the relaunch of the Ghana Mental Health Association, drawing together interested parties in supporting mental health in the country In recognition of the burden of mental disorders...
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Báo cáo y học: "The burden of adverse mental health outcomes in critical illness survivors" pdf

Báo cáo y học: "The burden of adverse mental health outcomes in critical illness survivors" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 20:21
... fully understand the role that these and other critical illness/ ICU-related exposures could have in adversely affecting the mental health of ICU survivors Myhren and colleagues’ study of PTSD, general ... influence the development of psychopathology in critical illness survivors Since millions of patients are admitted annually to ICUs worldwide for the treatment of life-threatening critical illnesses, ... disorder Page of Acknowledgements The present work was supported by grant NRSA-T32/MH20021-11 from the National Institute of Mental Health Competing interests The author declares that they have no...
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental content

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental content

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 07:20
... that these notions can then be used, without circularity, as the basis of a naturalistic account of the origin of mental content.16 The key idea here is to appeal to the biological theory of evolution ... contribute to the causal explanation of behaviour? Can the contents of mental states be assigned to them independently of the environmental circumstances in which the subjects of those states ... we forget that the theory is also beset by other problems The problem of the specificity of content is one of these, which afflicts proposal (2) quite as much as proposal (1) (Another problem is...
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental states

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental states

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 07:20
... family of views rather than a single doctrine, some of its proponents regarding it more as an account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory of the nature of mental states themselves ... characterised in terms of their rela- Mental states 47 tions to the computer’s ‘inputs’, other software states of the computer, and the computer’s ‘outputs’ By a ‘software’ state of a computer, I mean, ... outright denial of the existence of ‘qualia’ altogether.8 Some may contend that the hypothesis of spectrum inversion is not even intelligible, on the grounds that we could, in the nature of the case,...
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Tài liệu Community Approaches to Child Health in Malawi: Applying the Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (C-IMCI) Framework docx

Tài liệu Community Approaches to Child Health in Malawi: Applying the Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (C-IMCI) Framework docx

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 12:20
... local staff of the MOH and other government officers within their supervision area The total number of staff, therefore, varies with the coverage of the project, but the ideal ratio of staff to ... shopkeepers Together, their practices often surpass the formal health system in terms of patient volume because they may be the most accessible sources of care at the community level These workers ... comprised of all the social, economic and environmental factors that facilitate or hinder the full health of children The adoption of key family practices does not assure the health of children...
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Tài liệu Psychometric properties of the quality of life scale Child Health and Illness Profile-Child Edition in a combined analysis of five atomoxetine trials pdf

Tài liệu Psychometric properties of the quality of life scale Child Health and Illness Profile-Child Edition in a combined analysis of five atomoxetine trials pdf

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 19:20
... use the sub-domains rather than the domains of the CHIPCE when evaluating ADHD patients This is supported by the factor analysis based on the sub-domains and the correlation analysis of the sub-domains, ... QoL and the core symptoms The influence of the QoL of the parents or the parents’ diseases (such as ADHD) could not be assessed because these data were not obtained Conclusions The strength of this ... smaller The RA and the PA sub-domains had lower correlations with their domains than most of the other domains at baseline, at endpoint, and Psychometric properties of the CHIP-CE also for the change...
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Tài liệu A sociology of mental health and illness Third edition pptx

Tài liệu A sociology of mental health and illness Third edition pptx

Ngày tải lên : 15/02/2014, 02:20
... discussion Further reading The organization of mental health work Chapter overview The sociology of the hospital The rise of the asylum The crisis of the asylum Responses to the crisis The ‘pharmacological ... post-structuralism The neo-Weberian approach Symbolic interactionism The influence of the sociology of deviance The influence of the sociology of knowledge The influence of feminist sociology The impact of legislative ... x A sociology of mental health and illness The mental health professions Chapter overview Theoretical frameworks in the sociology of the professions The neo-Durkheimian framework The neo-Weberian...
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Tài liệu Mental Health in the Workplace Tackling the effects of stress pdf

Tài liệu Mental Health in the Workplace Tackling the effects of stress pdf

Ngày tải lên : 15/02/2014, 02:20
... considered that the mental health of staff should be part of company policy Despite their concerns, however, less than in 10 of these companies had an official policy on mental health The aims of this ... on the demands of their job, the conditions in which they work, and their individual susceptibility, which can be increased by problems outside of the workplace In a recent research survey of ... References Bird L The Fundamental Facts all the latest facts and figures on mental illness London: The Mental Health Foundation, 1999 Cooper C, Cartwright S Mental health and stress in the workplace:...
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Tài liệu Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Caring for Newborns and Children in the Community doc

Tài liệu Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Caring for Newborns and Children in the Community doc

Ngày tải lên : 21/02/2014, 14:20
... employed and the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any ... However, the published material is being distributed without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied The responsibility for the interpretation and use of the material lies with the reader ... referred: Ask the caregiver to continue to give the child ORS solution on the way to the health facility, if the child can drink Also, if the child is breastfed, continue to breastfeed on the way For...
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Tài liệu ‘Unheard voices’: listening to Refugees and Asylum seekers in the planning and delivery of mental health service provision in London. pptx

Tài liệu ‘Unheard voices’: listening to Refugees and Asylum seekers in the planning and delivery of mental health service provision in London. pptx

Ngày tải lên : 24/02/2014, 18:20
... and the introductory section of the Good Practice Guide Context EXPLANATIONS OF KEY CONCEPTS AND ISSUES Mental Illness Mental illness is a general term for a group of illnesses A mental illness ... form of mental health problem Only one of the interviewees indicated that their problem was not current The nature of these problems is recorded in the table below We have used the words of the ... couples There is a lot of pressure on the couple relationship…Children become more dominant because they learn the language and the mother and the father lose their roles The boundaries and the hierarchies...
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The Handbook of Training and Practice in Infant and Preschool Mental Health potx

The Handbook of Training and Practice in Infant and Preschool Mental Health potx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 01:20
... substantiated reports of abuse or neglect All of these factors raise red flags and suggest that the supportive presence of an infant mental health therapist may reduce the risk of rejection of the new baby, ... with the infant mental health practitioner The practitioner thinks about the meaning of the parent’s resistance, addresses it with the family, and is often able to reduce the parent’s worry as they ... 1987; Weatherston & Tableman, 2002) What is the nature of their interaction with each other? Is there a sense of reciprocity between them? How much pleasure does there seem to be? Are they emotionally...
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