Properties of Evidence-Based Probiotics for Human Health

2005 ◽  
pp. 109-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne McFarland ◽  
Gary Elmer
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Evidence Based

scholarly journals Evidence-Based Landscape Architecture for Human Health and Well-Being

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Brown ◽  
Robert C. Corry
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
The People ◽  
Outdoor Environments ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Health And Well Being

More than 80% of the people in the USA and Canada live in cities. Urban development replaces natural environments with built environments resulting in limited access to outdoor environments which are critical to human health and well-being. In addition, many urban open spaces are unused because of poor design. This paper describes case studies where traditional landscape architectural design approaches would have compromised design success, while evidence-based landscape architecture (EBLA) resulted in a successful product. Examples range from school-yard design that provides safe levels of solar radiation for children, to neighborhood parks and sidewalks that encourage people to walk and enjoy nearby nature. Common characteristics for integrating EBLA into private, public, and academic landscape architecture practice are outlined along with a discussion of some of the opportunities and barriers to implementation.

scholarly journals ‘Green podiatry’ - reducing our carbon footprints. Lessons from a sustainability panel

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Margaret Evans
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Weather Extremes ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Carbon Footprints ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Concerted Activity

Abstract Background The eyes of the world will be on COP26 as it meets in Glasgow in November, 2021. Our planet is displaying weather extremes due to climate change which cannot be ignored, and which are deleterious for people’s health. Ironically, healthcare contributes to climate change, contributing approximately 5% of carbon emissions globally. Climate change due to global warming is ‘the biggest global health threat of the 21st century’. Main body The Australian Podiatry Association conference held a sustainability panel, hearing perspectives of industry and science, medicine and sport, fashion, and retail. Content unified a broad planet and human health message, which is highly relevant for podiatrists. Key themes included waste as a resource, exercise as evidence-based intervention, responsibility and circular economy recycling principles for end-of-life product (footwear) purchases, and wider ethical considerations of footwear and clothing. The Anthropocene origin of climate change requires humanity to collaborate and to live more sustainably. Innovation is essential for better energy modes, cleaner air, human health and earth care. Green Podiatry joins the concerted activity of medical and health groups within Australia. The UK’s NHS is an exemplar in this area, having already reduced healthcare emissions by 35%, and aiming for net zero by 2045, and perhaps sooner. Conclusion People are increasingly concerned about climate change, and COP26 is an important and imminent meeting for human and planet health. This commentary on Green Podiatry directs us all to lighten our carbon footprint. A final, and forthcoming commentary will outline practical ways of positively incorporating climate change communication into the clinical setting.

Implementation Science

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts ◽  
Heather Schacht Reisinger
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Implementation Science ◽  
Real World ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Forthcoming Article ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods

This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Please check back later for the full article. Research has produced a substantial body of knowledge that has the significant possibility to improve human health and well-being. Much of that knowledge is published, yet read only by other researchers. Alternatively, this research becomes “evidence-based practice,” (EBP) knowledge obtained under specific controlled conditions that is meant to improve some aspect of human health or wellbeing. The world where humans live their everyday lives tends to be complex and messy. These EBP’s, when employed in the scientifically uncontrolled world, are frequently ineffective. Implementation science (IS) is a relatively new but rapidly growing field intended to remedy this situation. IS was established to study the most effective strategies to integrate evidence-based interventions into public and community health and health care delivery. IS asks whether an intervention can be effectively delivered in a specific local context, that is, “under what conditions and in what contexts can any change-oriented action be effective in the real world?” Anthropology has contributed significantly to implementation science, yet it can contribute much more. Well-equipped to answer many of the questions posed by IS, anthropology’s theory and methods allow us to understand and broker both emic and etic perspectives and to represent the richness, fluidity, and complexity of context. Both anthropology and IS recognize the importance of context and locality, are real-world oriented, and embrace complexity and non-linearity. Both are comfortable with the emergent nature of research-produced knowledge, and both employ both qualitative and quantitative methods. Beyond these congruencies in perspectives and approaches, the rationale for having more anthropology in implementation science is not only because it’s a good fit. Anthropology attends to power structures and differentials, phenomena that, while sometimes included in IS, are not frequently critiqued. Anthropology can furnish a questioning, critical perspective of the object of study and how it’s studied, a perspective that is lacking in much IS work. Indeed, this is something that anthropology does best, and it is integral to anthropology’s conceptual orientation.

scholarly journals An Invisible Virus Has Made Visible Many Underestimated Problems in Medical Education and Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Mladenova Georgieva ◽  
Boryana Veselinova Borisova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modern Technologies

In days of Global and national stress-tragedies, when what we considered to be a stable value is shaken, our eyes turn to a critical rethinking of the past. Today’s reality needs more than ever not only urgent practical procedures, restrictions, etc., but a very deep and unified concept and strategy based on sound philosophy and analyses. Evidence-based practical action is the philosophy of our behavior today. But do we have enough evidence and what are they? This is the question that still has no definite answers. Medicine is rightly proud of many of its achievements. But today, her pride is overshadowed by her inability to defeat a microscopic invisible enemy of human health. We must be honest: it turned out that medicine is strong in new modern technologies, but it is powerless to manage an invisible enemy, massively threatening the health of the Planet. It turned out that medicine is poorly prepared for surprises – not only to meet them, but also to anticipate them. Medicine is an art of probability and it must permanently prove the most probable predictions and the most effective actions. Now, by accident, the means used are mainly from the middle of the twentieth Century, from this classic epidemiology that we had forgotten. But now we are not the twentieth Century, and the media constantly suggests to us as fateful paths “social distance” and “social isolation”.

Evidence-based Choices: Conscious Caring for Mother Earth

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
Barbara Sattler
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
The State ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Mother Earth ◽  
Over Time

In healthcare, we ascribe to evidence-based practice to best serve our patients. Evidence of harm is now mounting about the state of our environment and its associated impact on human health. Our relationship to nature has evolved over time, particularly in modern cultures, and our relationship to Mother Earth is now sufficiently strained to preclude us from properly caring for her. This article explores evidence of harm to Mother Earth and its impact on humans, as well as a framework for caring for Mother Earth in an integrated and comprehensive way.

Interventions of Unani medicine for maintenance of health with special reference to air quality: an evidence-based review

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaheen Akhlaq ◽  
Shabnam Anjum Ara ◽  
Bilal Ahmad ◽  
Mohammad Fazil ◽  
Usama Akram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Air Purification ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Unani Medicine ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Pharmacologically Active ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Objectives This article aims to discuss the impact of air quality on human health, measures to achieve the goal of good indoor air quality and proposed benefits of interventions of Unani Medicine with an evidence-based approach. Content The significance of air quality on the health of the community cannot be denied. Recent evidences from WHO illustrated data on severe air pollutants and their impacts on human health ranges from minor upper respiratory irritation to chronic respiratory ailments including lung carcinoma and heart disease associated with premature mortality and reduced life expectancy. In Unani Medicine, air has been included in the list of factors, which are six in number and play the central role in prevention of diseases and maintenance of health. Air is considered as the medium of most of the extrinsic factors such as chemical and biological pollutants affecting health and their exposure results in short and long-term health issues. The literature of Unani Medicine proposes many simple and effective measures, which help to improve indoor and outdoor air quality. The goal of outdoor clean air is achieved through implementation of measures to tackle the source of pollution, while indoor clean air is attained through various means e.g., fumigation with herbal drugs. Hence, an extensive literature survey on Unani reserve was conducted to collect information about the concept of air discussed under the heading of six essential factors and its implication in prevention of diseases and maintenance of health. Further, research databases such as Pub Med, Google Scholar, and Science-Direct were broadly searched for evidence on the efficacy of herbals mentioned in Unani literature for the indoor air purification and subsequent air quality improvement. Summary and outlook Recent studies showed good air quality leads to decrease in mortality, particularly of respiratory and cardiovascular deaths whereas poor air quality results in a variety of diseases. Unani scholars prescribed several regimens such as Bukhoor (Fumigation), Sa’oot (Nasal instillation) and use of Abeer (Perfumes) and Nadd (Incense) for the improvement of air quality. Likewise various herbal fumigants and sprays containing drugs like mī’a sā’ila (Liquidambar orientalis Mill.), mastagi (Pistacia lentiscus L.), mushk (Moschus moschiferus L.), loban (Styrax benzoides W. G. Craib), ābnoos (Diospyros ebenum J. Koenig ex Retz), zā’fran (Crocus sativus L.) and sirka (vinegar) etc. has been well explained and used exclusively for air purification and improvement of AQI. Therefore, in the present scenario of altered air quality, we forward certain measures described in Unani system of medicine for health promotion and protection. Scientific evidence on several drugs reveal the presence of a number of pharmacologically active substances, which may provide a new approach into the purification of air.

scholarly journals Conflict between Science and Superstition in Medical and Dental Practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed S. Razzaque ◽  
Donat Uwayezu ◽  
Eustache Ntigura ◽  
Agnes Gatarayiha ◽  
Sarah Erem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
The World ◽  
Dental Practices ◽  
The Many

Superstition is a belief that is not based on scientific knowledge. Traditional healers usually use superstition in their practices to manage human health problems and diseases; such practices create a conflict with the medical profession and its evidence-based practices. Medical professionals confirm that this kind of practice is not safe to human health as it is done by untrained people (e.g., tradition healers) utilizing unsterilized instruments within unhygienic environments. Most of the cases eventually develop a variety of complications, which are sometimes fatal. Female genital mutilation, uvulectomy, oral mutilation (tooth bud extraction to cure “Ibyinyo”), and eyebrow incisions are examples of the many different types of superstitious practices which occur commonly in different parts of the world. We described how these traditional practices of superstition have been and continue to be performed in various parts of the world, their complications on oral and general health, and the ways such practices hinder modern medical practices. This paper aims to increase the awareness of these superstition-driven traditional and potentially harmful practices by promoting the importance of evidence-based medical practices.

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