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Open Access“Echoes of a dark past” is a history of maternal childhood maltreatment a perinatal risk factor for pregnancy and postpartum trauma experiences? A longitudinal study
Although associations between maternal exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and perinatal anxiety and depression are established, there is a paucity of information about the associations between AC...
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Perceptions and experiences of appetite awareness training among African-American women who binge eat
Binge eating may contribute to the prevalence of obesity in African-American women. Yet, there has been scant intervention research on the treatment of binge eating in this population. We tested the feasibilit...
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The Taliban revival
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Community-Level Interventions
Around the world, community-level interventions play an important role in preventing drownings. Conducting targeted awareness-raising on drowning has been shown to be a promising strategy according to the WHO ...
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Future Research Questions
Arguably, aside from the clinical area of resuscitation, drowning prevention today is still more art than science. Much of what is known and done is based on opinion, albeit held by experts. Very little labell...
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Summary and Recommendations
This section summarises the current state of the art in drowning prevention using evidence that has become available since the first edition was published in 2006. Three levels or ‘tiers’ of evidence provide a...
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Physical Barriers
Physical barriers separate a child from a water hazard to reduce drowning risk. The chapter presents the various physical barrier types according to the level of development of the country the barrier is used ...
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Open AccessImpact, distress and HRQoL among Malaysian men and women with a mobility impairment
Although non-communicable and chronic disease now accounts for 47% of the global burden of disease, little is known of the everyday experiences and social aspects of disability and disablement in middle and lo...
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Open AccessMeasuring the impact and distress of health problems from the individual's perspective: development of the Perceived Impact of Problem Profile (PIPP)
The aim of this study was to develop and conduct preliminary validation of the Perceived Impact of Problem Profile (PIPP). Based on the biopsychosocial model of health and functioning, the PIPP was intended as...
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The Challenge of Managing Small-scale Fisheries with Reference to Poverty Alleviation
The objective of this paper is to address the following question: “what are the challenges of managing fisheries with reference to poverty alleviation within the specific context of West African small-scale fi...
