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Achieving Health Equity for All
WEBAchieving Health Equity for All. January 2, 2019 Nancy Beam Conferences Interviews. At the recent American Public Health Association (APHA) conference in San Diego, California, more than 12,000 public health professionals gathered to present their research, discuss policy, and prepare to eliminate health disparities in their communities.
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Introducing the Maternal & Child Health and Nutrition …
WEBThe Maternal and Infant Nutritional Assessment (MINA) study reported by Abdulmalik and colleagues [1] describes maternal weight, sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics and birth outcomes in a small and select birth cohort of 341 pregnant women from Lebanon and Qatar. The study reports that high maternal weight is common with …
Introducing the Health and Healthcare in Gender Diverse …
WEBWe are delighted to announce our Collection on Health and Healthcare in Gender Diverse Communities, curated by our Guest Editors Dr. Asa Radix, Dr. Ayden Scheim, and Dr. Jae Sevelius.The collection includes a diverse group of articles investigating influences on mental and physical health, experiences accessing …
Introducing the Health and Healthcare in Gender Diverse …
WEBPLOS ONE recently launched a call for papers on Health and Health Care in Gender Diverse Communities with the goal of encouraging and emphasizing research addressing prior challenges associated with sampling, study design, and cultural competence, and overcoming previous limitations. This is an exciting time for health …
Applying Health Literacy Principles to Your Research
WEBI have been fortunate to work alongside and learn from the best in this field including Prof. Joanne Protheroe, who was Chair of Health Literacy UK group, and has done a lot of work conducting research into the impact of low health literacy on health outcomes, raised awareness, as well as paved the way for clinicians to consider the …
The Benefits of Person-Centered Healthcare: Interview …
WEBContinuing our series on health literacy, this week we interview PLOS ONE Author Prof. Sandra van Dulmen, whose paper about patient communication in palliative care settings was featured in our research highlights on health literacy and cancer. Here she tells us about the importance of improving clinical awareness of limited health …
How Health Literacy Research Can Address Health …
WEBHow Health Literacy Research Can Address Health Disparities. October is Health Literacy Month. To celebrate, we will be posting a series of research highlights and interviews discussing health literacy research and practices throughout the month. Health literacy relates to people’s knowledge of issues relating to their health and well-being
Health Literacy In The Context Of Cancer Awareness and …
WEBWoods-Townsend and colleagues attempted to increase health literacy in the next generation, engaging nearly 3000 13–14-year-old UK secondary school pupils in a trial focused on “Me, my health and my children’s health”. At 12 months after the LifeLab educational intervention, the standardized total theoretical health literacy score of the …
Informing Policy to Close the Cancer Care Gap
WEBTo celebrate World Cancer Day 2024, the final year focused on the theme “Close the Care Gap”, we are highlighting some of our favorite articles related to this years theme, including building awareness and informing future policies.. Reduced availability, affordability, and access to healthcare services, including screening, contribute to gaps …
Understanding Plastic Pollution: The potential health effects
WEBPLOS ONE recently published a new Collection of research entitled Recent Advances in Understanding Plastic Pollution.Given the broad scope of this collection, and the potential implications this research has on both humans the rest of the biosphere globally, we are digging deeper into the findings with some of the authors from papers …
Health Literacy and Infectious Diseases: Interview with PLOS ONE
WEBDr. Enrique Castro-Sanchez is the Senior Lecturer in Planetary Health at the BASc Global Challenges programme at Brunel University London (UK), a position he combines with an honorary lectureship at Imperial College London (UK), and visiting posts at University of Balearic Islands (Spain), and Shifa university (Pakistan).
Urban Ecology: where the wild meets the city
WEBA final area of importance to both urban ecology- and biodiversity research overall- is how people interact with and perceive species in urban areas. For many people, urban wildlife plays a key role in shaping their views of nature as a whole. Hosaka and colleagues demonstrate how early experiences with species affect individuals’ …
Closing the Cancer Care Gap – Research Highlights from PLOS ONE
WEBTo celebrate World Cancer Day 2022, we are highlighting some of our favorite articles on this year’s theme, “Close the Care Gap”. Our Call for Papers on Cancer and Social Inequity also spotlights this topic, and is open for submission until March 8 th.. Gaps in cancer care may result from reduced availability, affordability, and access to …
Introducing the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Disease
WEBThe aim of this collection is to bring together different disciplines such as mathematics, biology, medicine and physics in order to shed light on the important topic of how mathematical models can help us understand infectious disease dynamics, and to present this research to the broad readership of these three journals and beyond.
Infectious disease modeling in a time of COVID-19
WEBIn February 2020, PLOS published a Collection entitled “Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics” which includes papers from PLOS ONE, PLOS Biology and PLOS Computational Biology, on a variety of topics relevant to the modeling of infectious disease, such as disease spread, vaccination strategies and parameter …
Educating Medical Students on Antimicrobial Resistance
WEBThe threat of antibiotic or antimicrobial resistance has been associated with antibiotics from the very beginning. Within a few years of their introduction, bacteria became resistant to sulfonamides (a group of antibiotics). Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health and development threat and is included among the top ten threats facing
World AIDS Day – An interview with Section Editor Professor Limin …
WEBDr. Mao is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia. She has extensive research experience in the following domains: the promotion of better clinical and self-management for people living with chronic infections and co-morbidity; the adaptation of established behavioral surveillance …
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