Sometimes it takes a crisis to develop new solutions to intractable challenges. Right now in Scotland we have not one but several crises – a national housing emergency coupled with social care and health services under severe strain, with ever-growing waiting lists. We urgently need fresh thinking if we are to find a way forward and create a better, more sustainable and equitable future in which our housing stock and our health and care services are fit for purpose.
Archive for August 2024
Time for joined-up solutions on accessible housing and social care crises
Evaluating the Understandability and Actionability of Online Information on Anemia in Japanese
Victorian Youth Homelessness Snapshot
Promoting Charitable Donations and Volunteering Through Nudge Tools From the Perspective of Behavioral Economics: A Systematic Review
NSW Health disability inclusion action plan 2016–2019: Snapshot 2021–2023
Managing political stress
Top takeaways:
> Politics is increasingly recognized as a significant source of chronic stress, affecting both mental and physical health negatively across a broad swath of the population.
> Political anxiety is distinctly different from psychological conditions such as general anxiety, with its unique impact on emotional well-being and societal cohesion.
> Effective coping strategies include regulating exposure to political information and fostering positive social connections.
Anxiety and Depression Among Gendarmes Posted to French Guiana (TAD-GENDGF)
Association of frailty with adverse outcomes in surgically treated geriatric patients with hip fracture: A meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis
The present situation of and challenges in research ethics and integrity promotion: Experiences in East Asia
The Grief Cycle: Investigating the Influence of Cycling on Grief Outcomes in Individuals who have Experienced a Bereavement
Misinterpretation of statistical nonsignificance as a sign of potential bias: Hydroxychloroquine as a case study
Using co-creation methods for research integrity guideline development – how, what, why and when?
Gender and Racial Justice in SNAP
Australia: 2024 National Carer Survey – call for participants (Closes 31 July)
Dimensions of Depressive Symptoms in Young Children: Factor Analysis of the Preschool Feelings Checklist–Scale
Clusters of long COVID among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in New York City
Videoconference-based Creativity Workshops for mental health staff during the COVID-19 pandemic
“I Will Die by My Own Hand”: Understanding the Development of Suicide Capability in the Narratives of Individuals Who Have Attempted Suicide
The experience of visual art for people living with mild-to-moderate vision loss
Economic Overlords Are Destroying Democracy — and Our Lives
Economic power is political power. We spoke with Peter Phillips, author of Titans of Capital, about how the capitalist class is subverting democracy and controlling the lives of billions through massive investments in everything from food to war.
American Coal: Russell Lee Portraits
In 1946 the Truman administration made a promise to striking coal miners: as part of a deal to resume work, the government would sponsor a nationwide survey of health and labor conditions in mining camps. One instrumental member of the survey team was photographer Russell Lee. Lee had made his name during the Depression, when, alongside Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, he used his camera to document agrarian life for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Now he trained his lens on miners and their families to show their difficult circumstances despite their essential contributions to the nation’s first wave of postwar growth.
Visual representations of coping with body dysmorphic disorder: a multimodal hermeneutic phenomenological approach
Obsessive-Compulsive Visual Search: A Reexamination of Presence–Absence Asymmetries
2023 Medicaid & CHIP – Beneficiaries at a Glance
Social worker adds to services at Hoboken Public Library
Emily Dalton became a part-time social worker at Hoboken Public Library while finishing her master’s at Rutgers School of Social Work in 2022; she transitioned to full-time work at the library in 2023.
The impact on anxiety and depression of a whole school approach to health promotion: evidence from a Canadian comprehensive school health (CSH) initiative
The Student Check-Up: effects of paraprofessional-delivered Motivational Interviewing on academic outcomes
Psychometric properties of the Fraboni scale of ageism (FSA) applied to long-term caregivers in nursing homes
Grief is a Sneaky Bitch: An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss
When social worker Lisa Keefauver became a widow in 2011, she was alarmed to discover that even though 100 percent of us experience loss, we’re living in a grief illiterate world. In her work as a therapist, and in her search for help in the wake of her own loss, Keefauver began to see how the misguided stories we consume about grief lead to unnecessary suffering.
Main highlights on Income of families and individuals: Subprovincial data from the T1 Family File, 2022
Illicit drug use at licensed premises and the potential for prevention: A qualitative interview study of stakeholders
Aging effects on extrapersonal (far-space) attention: cancellation and line bisection performance from 179 healthy adults
Title IV-E Student Recruitment
Examining cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between multidomain physical fitness metrics, education, and cognition in Black older adults
UK Riots Have Their Roots in a History of Hate
Far-right activists hold an “Enough is Enough” protest on August 2 in Sunderland, England. After the murders of three girls in Southport earlier this week, misinformation spread via social media and fueled acts of violent rioting from far-right actors across England.
The 2024 Olympic Games: end the health hypocrisy
What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic
Development and evaluation of health education resources for culturally and linguistically diverse populations: a systematic review
Exploring Strategies to Improve Access to Behavioral Health Care Services Through Medicare and Medicaid: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief
Functional social isolation mediates the association between depression and executive function in older women: findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging Comprehensive cohort
Dementia patients in palliative care according to data from the German National Hospice and Palliative Care Register (2009–2021)
For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach
Data snapshots of the access and participation of ‘women’ academics in UK universities: Questioning continued gendered, racialised and geopolitical inequalities
Influence of aerobic exercise on depression in young people: a meta-analysis
Racial differences in the effect of verbal and nonverbal memory on concrete planning for future care needs among older adults: a multi-group structural equation modeling approach
Inspector General’s Office Warns: Hybrid Scams on the Rise
Scammers are compounding tactics by using fake Amazon or PayPal tech support emails and text messages to get you to connect with an imposter Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who will try to convince you that your Social Security number (SSN) or record is compromised.