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Norfidah Mohamad,Zamzaliza Abdul Mulud,Maznah Ibrahim,Nur Farzana Damanhuri
Pág. 73 - 78
Self-efficacy plays an essential role in increasing health-promoting behaviour among older adults with chronic illness. Chronic illness requires high self-efficacy to manage the disease appropriately. Hence, the purpose of this study is to identify the r...
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Aparna Nair
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Employing an analytical autoethnographic methodology, this paper examines how the polysemic meanings and punctuated character of epilepsy produces social and corporeal vulnerabilities in an Indian childhood. The paper further establishes the importance o...
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Subhashisa Swain, Shreeporna Bhattacharya, Ambarish Dutta, Sanghamitra Pati and Lipika Nanda
Background: Extreme heat and heat illness are becoming very frequent in India. We aimed to identify the factors associated with heat illness and the coping practices among city dwellers of Odisha, India during the summer. Methods: A cross-sectional study...
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Soja Nazarov, Ulf Manuwald, Matilde Leonardi, Fabiola Silvaggi, Jérôme Foucaud, Kristopher Lamore, Erika Guastafierro, Chiara Scaratti, Jaana Lindström and Ulrike Rothe
The increase of chronic diseases worldwide impact quality of life, cause economic and medical costs, and make it necessary to look for strategies and solutions that allow people with chronic diseases (PwCDs) to lead an active working life. As part of the...
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Shahd Alshammari
Pág. 262 - 270
When illness and disability strike, it can seem as though one?s very being is threatened. We tend to consider illness a temporary situation, a phase, a phase that will be done with, sooner or later, and the victim of the attack will be rectified, and wil...
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Anqi Li, Yeliang Shi, Xue Yang and Zhonghua Wang
Background: China fully implemented the critical illness insurance (CII) program in 2016 to alleviate the economic burden of diseases and reduce catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). With an aging society, it is necessary to analyze the extent of CHE am...
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Wenwen Wu, Wenru Wang, Zhuangzhuang Dong, Yaofei Xie, Yaohua Gu, Yuting Zhang, Mengying Li and Xiaodong Tan
Background: There is limited population-based research focusing on sleep quality among low-income Chinese adults in rural areas. This study aimed to assess sleep quality among low-income adults in a rural area in China and identify the association betwee...
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Leslie Collins, Deborah McGregor, Stephanie Allen, Craig Murray and Chris Metcalfe
After the Walkerton tragedy in 2000, where drinking water contamination left seven people dead and many suffering from chronic illness, the Province of Ontario, Canada implemented policies to develop Source Water Protection (SWP) plans. Under the Clean W...
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Azliyana Azizan,Maria Justine,Noor Amiera Alias
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Active participation in exercise may help to improve physical and psychological functions for older people. Regretfully, most of them do not engage in long term exercise due to several barriers. This puts them at high risk of may chronic illness that wil...
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Michael J. Prince
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In this article, practices of Canadian electoral management bodies at federal provincial and territorial levels are examined, especially those methods designed to assist electors with disabilities with voting. Different models of disability co-exist with...
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