All but the poorest pensioners will no longer receive the winter fuel allowance after MPs voted to make cuts to the payments. After a Conservative motion to prevent the change was defeated by 348 votes to 228, only those in receipt of benefits such as pension credit, universal credit or income support will receive the £200-300 payment to help with their heating bills.
Archive for September 2024
‘They’ve robbed us’: UK pensioners on losing the winter fuel payment
Predictors of condom use intention among senior high school students in the Hohoe Municipality, Ghana using the theory of planned behaviour
Understanding female sex workers’ acceptance of secret Facebook group for HIV prevention in Cameroon
“You Need to be Able to Stand Up for What is Right”: MTV Shuga Naija’s Transformative Impact on Youth Attitudes Toward Sexual Violence in Nigeria
Development and initial validation of the me and my child interview to assess parental acceptance–rejection
Introduction to the Special Issue on the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies: Scalable strategies to address the impact of trauma worldwide
Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2023
After the Laffer curve: taxing the rich, at last
It’s time finally to jettison the convenient claim that taxing the rich more would only reduce tax revenue. Above: The consumption patterns of the 1 per cent contribute disproportionately to greenhouse-gas emissions
Approving the Prosecution of Young Children in China: A Dangerous Choice?
Social services needs 55,000 professionals, says Minister Tolashe
Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe, has called for urgent employment of 55,000 social services professionals to tackle the ongoing problem of gender-based violence, poverty, and crime due to rising social services demands in the country.
Remember to “Flatten” PDF Files Before Submitting to NIH! A New Resource Explains How
What is the prevalence of anabolic‐androgenic steroid use among women? A systematic review
Improving Transparency in Service Delivery to Fight Corruption? Mapping Multi-Stakeholder Voices on Digitization in the Indian Public Healthcare Sector
Evaluating the Efficacy of Psycho-Behavioral Interventions for Cardiovascular Risk among People Living with HIV: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Experiencing COVID-19 on the spectrum: perceptions of healthcare access among autistic adults during a global pandemic and implications for social workers
Positive Feedback vs. No-Feedback Games for Behavioral Change
“Hey, where’s my low-key sexist objectification?”: A blind woman’s reflections on being banished and liberated from normative femininity and the gaze
CfP: Compassion and Care: Addressing the Unique End-of-Life Needs of Veterans
A qualitative exploration of the experience and personal and professional impact of psychodynamic and integrative counselling training on adoptee counsellors
Cognitive enhancement through technology: A review of transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) interventions in children and adolescents with specific learning disabilities
Improving Public Health Emergency Communication Along the U.S. Southern Border: Insights From a COVID-19 Pilot Campaign With Truck Drivers
Stronger kinship diversion policies are needed to protect families
A Disputed Hegemony: Negotiating Neurosurgical Patient Care in the Netherlands, 1930–1952
The emergence of the neurosurgical patient as a novel clinical entity in the Netherlands was marked by a lingering conflict between neurologists and neurosurgeons, in which both types of specialists sought to assume the clinical and institutional leadership of neurosurgical patient care. In the 1920s and 1930s, neurologists had facilitated the establishment of the first generation of neurosurgeons in the country, and in the process, had managed to clinically and institutionally subordinate neurosurgery to neurology. As the demand for neurosurgical patient care grew, the neurosurgeons began to challenge this hegemonic relationship. The neurologists, however, were unwilling to give up their control, fearing that they would be bypassed in the diagnosis of patients eligible to neurosurgery. These conflicting aims and interests resulted in an intricate demarcation battle, in which the boundary work between neurologists and neurosurgeons was directly played out at the local workplace and at the meetings of the Study Club for Neuro-Surgery, and indirectly at various other sites of contestation, such as medical journals and academic lecture halls, as both parties sought to rally external stakeholders to their cause. During these negotiations, local, national, and international forces increasingly intertwined to shape the particular organization of Dutch neurosurgery in the middle of the twentieth century. By analyzing this multilayered demarcation process, this article draws attention to the complexity of medical boundary work, and to the way in which, despite pervasive international influences, specialist practice was ultimately negotiated at the local and national levels.
Rethinking pubertal research: Embracing intersectionality
Examining implementation determinants of a culturally grounded, school-based prevention curriculum in rural Hawai‘i: A test development and validation study
Strong cultural connectedness buffers urban American Indian children from the negative effects of stress on mental health
The Urban Gardens Where Gender and Climate Justice Grow
In Ecuador, urban farms have long been a way to create sustainable access to food. But they’re also helping women flourish as gardeners and entrepreneurs. Above: Maria Achiña and Alegria Irua are part of a group of local women who till the land beside the neighborhood’s health clinic.
Median Income of Non-Hispanic White Households Increased While Asian, Black and Hispanic Median Household Income Did Not Change
Change in Depression Severity Among Depressed Older Crime Victims
Stay mindful of alcohol’s adverse effects on health this fall
For college freshmen, the first 6 weeks of the school year are typically a vulnerable time for underage drinking due to social pressures, increased freedom, and other factors. Underage and binge drinking are both serious public health problems and are common on many college campuses and in the surrounding neighborhoods. Binge-drinking rates are higher among college students than their noncollege peers.
Health, depression, and marital processes as they relate to sexual satisfaction and harmonious sexual passion: a biopsychosocial model
Ingredients of successful therapeutic relationships with foster youth according to key stakeholders in child welfare: A grounded theory analysis
Gender in Post-Pandemic Research: The Potentials of Grounded Theory to Explicitly Guide Gender-Sensitive Inquiry on Discrimination and Violence
The relationships between obesity and epilepsy: A systematic review with meta-analysis
Bridging the digital divide for individuals with intellectual disabilities: Implications for well‐being and inclusion
The Sick Trans Person: Negotiations, Healthcare, and the Tension of Demedicalization
Older Black men are disproportionately affected by the overdose crisis
Sexual dysfunction in relationship obsessive compulsive disorder
“It feels terrible that people are making decisions for me”: Reflections and experiences of individuals with psychiatric disability who have substitute decision makers for treatment.
My secret summer retreat
Lost Patients Live: First-Person Stories from Seattle’s Mental Health Crisis
Feasibility of a self-management intervention to improve mobility in the community after stroke (SIMS): A mixed-methods pilot study
Laypeople’s Perceptions of Sexuality Education with Young Children Insights from a Convenient Sample of the Greek Orthodox Community
Protecting the Mental Health of Offshore Workers
From science to action: Leveraging scientific knowledge and solutions for advancing sustainable and resilient development
How to defeat miscarriage stigma: from ‘breaking the silence’ to Reproductive Justice
Most teens didn’t use a condom the last time they had sex. That worries health officials
During the pandemic, myths and misconceptions about sex flourished, said Jessica Wood, who conducts research about those aged 18 to 24 for the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada. Youth turned to each other for information, Wood said, when classes stopped, sexual and reproductive health clinics closed (new window) and school nurses or social workers weren’t available.