scholarly journals «Health - disease» Conceptual Sphere: Cultural Code

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 848-874
Author(s):  
Tatyana V. Markelova ◽  
Marina L. Novikova
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Attitude To Health ◽  
Environment Pollution ◽  
A Value ◽  
Image Characteristics ◽  
Disease Concepts ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Cultural Code ◽  
Internal And External Factors

The research is focused on the conceptual, figurative and value features of health - disease concepts due to their permanently growing importance, reflected in the language mindset. These processes are caused by various trends leading to the increasing danger to human health: epidemics, human-induced disasters, environment pollution. Due to the relevance of the issues, the authors aim to analyse the health - disease conceptual sphere as a strategy to changehuman mentality and the attitude to health as a norm and a value as well as to disease as a deviation from normal life, which implies observation of values and image characteristics of concepts, revealing and describing the cultural semantics of signs. The research is designed according to the original perceptive image that every concept is based on. This image represents a vector basis in a configuration of meanings inherent in the whole conceptual sphere. The analysis of the conceptual sphere using the corpus analysis tools allowed the authors comes to the conclusion that they vary and differ within cultural functionality determined by the conceptual characteristics. Actualization of a negative or positive attitude to health and disease caused by internal and external factors reveals the dominance of the signs motivated by the external events, such as the formation of the new human health-oriented mentality and the creation of a specified conceptual sphere. The description of ambivalent concepts provided in the axiological perspective provides an opportunity to learn more about complicated conceptual spheres and explore linguistic experience objectivation, experienced knowledge quantum as well as social and group specifics in the health - disease conceptual sphere.

scholarly journals The Role of Family Myths in Forming the Internal Picture of Health of Student Youth

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-72
Author(s):  
Eleonora Valerievna Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Attitude To Health ◽  
Health It ◽  
Psychological Determinants ◽  
A Value ◽  
Practical Recommendations

The paper considers the role of family myths in forming the internal picture of human health. It is revealed what types of family myths about health are common among students. For science the “internal picture of health” construct is a tool for exploring the mechanisms for interaction between personality and social institution for health as well as for mak-ing practical recommendations. In the empirical study it was found that most often students show such types of family myths about health as «Psy-chological attitude to health» and «Diseases preven-tion», while the myths that form a value attitude to health, the willingness to take specific actions to maintain it are mentioned by students quite rarely. The revealed facts are explained both by the age characteristics of students and the possible specif-ics of the attitude to the health of modern families. The ways of further research of the problems of the internal picture of health and its socio-psychological determinants are outlined.

scholarly journals Plant-Derived Extracellular Vesicles: Current Findings,Challenges, and Future Applications

Membranes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Nader Kameli ◽  
Anya Dragojlovic-Kerkache ◽  
Paul Savelkoul ◽  
Frank R. Stassen
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Extracellular Vesicles ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
In Vivo Experiments ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Protocol Standardization ◽  
Insight Into

In recent years, plant-derived extracellular vesicles (PDEVs) have gained the interest of many experts in fields such as microbiology and immunology, and research in this field has exponentially increased. These nano-sized particles have provided researchers with a number of interesting findings, making their application in human health and disease very promising. Both in vitro and in vivo experiments have shown that PDEVs can exhibit a multitude of effects, suggesting that these vesicles may have many potential future applications, including therapeutics and nano-delivery of compounds. While the preliminary results are promising, there are still some challenges to face, such as a lack of protocol standardization, as well as knowledge gaps that need to be filled. This review aims to discuss various aspects of PDEV knowledge, including their preliminary findings, challenges, and future uses, giving insight into the complexity of conducting research in this field.

scholarly journals Science for the Next Century: Deep Phenotyping

2021 ◽  
pp. 002203452110018
Author(s):  
J.T. Wright ◽  
M.C. Herzberg
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Omic Data ◽  
Precision Health ◽  
Deep Phenotyping

Our ability to unravel the mysteries of human health and disease have changed dramatically over the past 2 decades. Decoding health and disease has been facilitated by the recent availability of high-throughput genomics and multi-omics analyses and the companion tools of advanced informatics and computational science. Understanding of the human genome and its influence on phenotype continues to advance through genotyping large populations and using “light phenotyping” approaches in combination with smaller subsets of the population being evaluated using “deep phenotyping” approaches. Using our capability to integrate and jointly analyze genomic data with other multi-omic data, the knowledge of genotype-phenotype relationships and associated genetic pathways and functions is being advanced. Understanding genotype-phenotype relationships that discriminate human health from disease is speculated to facilitate predictive, precision health care and change modes of health care delivery. The American Association for Dental Research Fall Focused Symposium assembled experts to discuss how studies of genotype-phenotype relationships are illuminating the pathophysiology of craniofacial diseases and developmental biology. Although the breadth of the topic did not allow all areas of dental, oral, and craniofacial research to be addressed (e.g., cancer), the importance and power of integrating genomic, phenomic, and other -omic data are illustrated using a variety of examples. The 8 Fall Focused talks presented different methodological approaches for ascertaining study populations and evaluating population variance and phenotyping approaches. These advances are reviewed in this summary.

scholarly journals Vitamin C in Human Health and Disease

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1595
Author(s):  
Dariusz Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Citrus Fruit ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Vitamin Supplement ◽  
Vitamin C Deficiency ◽  
Health And Disease

Although the symptoms related to vitamin C deficiency were known in ancient Egypt and eighteenth century Scottish surgeon James Lind found that scurvy (a disease resulting from insufficient dietary ingestion of vitamin C) could be effectively treated with citrus fruit, this vitamin was discovered only in the year 1912 and then after 21 years it was chemically synthetized and introduced to the market as the first vitamin supplement [...]

scholarly journals Propionibacterium acnesin Human Health and Disease

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew McDowell ◽  
Sheila Patrick ◽  
Yoshinobu Eishi ◽  
Peter Lambert ◽  
Anne Eady
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Health And Disease
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