scholarly journals State Involvement in LGBT+ Health and Social Support Issues in Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 7314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick J. Mulé
Keyword(s):  
Health Issues ◽  
Lgbt Health ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
State Involvement ◽  
Critical Content ◽  
Political Approach ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
First Time

For the first time, the broad health issues, needs and concerns of LGBT+ people in Canada were taken up by the federal government’s Standing Committee on Health in 2019. The findings of their consultations with LGBT+ Canadians produced a report that at once captures the breadth of input received, and provides an opportunity for accountable state response to LGBT+ health needs in the form of research, education, policy, funding and programming, yet questions arise as to the socio-political approach that will ultimately be taken. This focus on the health of LGBT+ Canadians follows decades of grassroots and sometimes state-funded research on this very issue. This study undertook a critical content analysis, premised on the queer liberation theory of The Health of LGBTQIA2 Communities in Canada report issued by the Standing Committee on Health. Although the report, for the most part, covers a breadth of broad LGBT+ health issues (a noted shift from the predominance of HIV/AIDS), the depth to which the Standing Committee took up and absorbed such issues is far less apparent. The heavy emphasis on entry-level recommendations by which to take up important LGBT+ health issues undermines a more progressive, liberationist approach that would more effectively address these concerns.

scholarly journals Lifestyle Medicine for Women: The Time Is Now!

2021 ◽  
pp. 155982762110042
Author(s):  
Cynthia Geyer ◽  
John McHugh ◽  
Michelle Tollefson
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Medical Conditions ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Lifestyle Medicine ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Representation Of Women

As the founders of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Women’s Health Member Interest Group, we welcome this issue focused on the important issues facing women, their providers, and researchers in this field. Women’s health extends beyond sex-specific reproductive health issues, by also encompassing the medical conditions that are more prevalent in women as well as conditions that are expressed differently in women. Inadequate representation of women in clinical research has contributed to poorer outcomes. As lifestyle medicine forms the foundation of true health, the time is now to recognize and address these issues with research, education, and advocacy.

scholarly journals Molecular diversity of bacteria in commercially available “Spirulina” food supplements

PeerJ ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. e1610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Vardaka ◽  
Konstantinos A. Kormas ◽  
Matina Katsiapi ◽  
Savvas Genitsaris ◽  
Maria Moustaka-Gouni
Keyword(s):  
Natural Product ◽  
454 Pyrosequencing ◽  
Molecular Diversity ◽  
Arthrospira Platensis ◽  
Food Supplements ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Operational Taxonomic Units ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
First Time ◽  
Pyrosequencing Analysis

The cyanobacteriumArthrospirais among the most well-known food supplements worldwide known as “Spirulina.” While it is a widely recognized health-promoting natural product, there are no reports on the molecular diversity of commercially available brands of “Spirulina” supplements and the occurrence of other cyanobacterial and heterotrophic bacterial microorganisms in these products. In this study, 454-pyrosequencing analysis of the total bacterial occurrence in 31 brands of “Spirulina” dietary supplements from the Greek market was applied for the first time. In all samples, operational taxonomic units (OTUs) ofArthrospira platensiswere the predominant cyanobacteria. Some products contained additional cyanobacterial OTUs including a few known potentially toxic taxa. Moreover, 469 OTUs were detected in all 31 products collectively, with most of them being related to the Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria and Verrucomicrobia. All samples included heterotrophic bacterial OTUs, ranging from 9–157 per product. Among the most common OTUs were ones closely related to taxa known for causing health issues (i.e.,Pseudomonas,Flavobacterium,Vibrio,Aeromonas,Clostridium,Bacillus,Fusobacterium,Enterococcus). The observed high cyanobacterial and heterotrophic bacterial OTUs richness in the final product is a point for further research on the growth and processing ofArthrospirabiomass for commercial purposes.

scholarly journals Book Review: Urban Health Issues: Exploring the Impacts of Big-City Living

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Tracy Carr
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Health ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
First Century ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Accessible Volume ◽  
Big City ◽  
First Time

Due to poverty, climate change, and other factors, the world’s populations are becoming more urban. While “urban” is relative to various countries, the shift from rural to urban is happening worldwide. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world’s populations became, for the first time, evenly split between urban and rural. By midcentury, the prediction is that most populations will live in urban areas. It follows that where there are more people, there are also more health concerns. Richard V. Crume’s Urban Health Issues: Exploring the Impacts of Big-City Living is an eminently readable, accessible volume that addresses these health concerns.

scholarly journals ENTRY-LEVEL ENTREPRENEURS AND THE CHOICE-OF-ENTITY CHALLENGE

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Ann Satterthwaite
Keyword(s):  
Real Option ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Option Value ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Deliberation Process ◽  
New Business ◽  
Tax Savings ◽  
First Time ◽  
Real Option Value ◽  
Future Growth

For first-time, lower-income and credit-constrained entrepreneurs (“entry-level entrepreneurs”), the employment tax savings proffered by a longstanding tax shelter known as the “Sub-S Shelter” can be particularly salient. Such hypersalience is problematic from a policy perspective. It not only increases the costs and complexity of the entry-level entrepreneur’s deliberation process concerning the appropriate entity for her business, but it distorts her incentives to choose the entity that best supports her business’s future growth. I argue that because the hypersalience of the Sub-Shelter is likely to be more pronounced for entry-level entrepreneurs than for entrepreneurs with more experience or better access to capital, the burdens of the shelter are distributionally regressive. As an alternative to full-scale reforms that would eliminate the demand for the Sub-S Shelter but may be politically infeasible, I suggest that the shelter’s regressive hypersalience can be addressed by government measures to provide choice-of-entity information tailored to the needs and concerns of entry-level entrepreneurs. Such targeted information can mitigate the hypersalience of the Sub-S Shelter by underscoring the risks of relying on it, while highlighting the real option value of choosing a more flexible business entity such as an LLC. By nudging entry-level entrepreneurs towards neutrality in regard to their choice-of-entity decisions, this approach has the potential to improve both the efficiency and the equity of a key step in formalizing a new business. 

Biomedical Engineering Design Education at King Saud University: A First of Its Kind Approach

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harcharan Singh Ranu ◽  
Aman Sweet Bhullar
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Engineering Design Education ◽  
Established Firms ◽  
First Time

Biomedical Engineering in the Millennium is building the future of biology and medicine. New products, from biotechnology and novel devices for diagnosis and treatment, are marketed through interactions between universities, medical centers, small start-up companies, and large, more established firms. The role of biomedical engineering in the 21st century has already been highlighted by Ranu as far as research, education and space age technologies are concerned. Therefore, educating the modern biomedical engineering students in design processes is extremely important. This paper highlights how biomedical engineering design is taught for the first time to King Saud University students in Saudi Arabia. The conclusion drawn from this is that for the first time an innovative design course has been developed to teach the biomedical engineering students at King Saud University to meet the needs of tomorrow’s biomedical engineers.

scholarly journals Mental health issues and discrimination among older LGBTI people

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 1411-1416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Tinney ◽  
Briony Dow ◽  
Phillip Maude ◽  
Rachel Purchase ◽  
Carolyn Whyte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Lgbt People

LGBT is an acronym used to describe people from diverse sexual orientation or gender identity, people that are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. LGBT people do not constitute a single group nor does each individual “group” constitute a homogeneous unity. However, as higher rates of depression and/or anxiety have been observed in older LGBT people, compared to their heterosexual counterparts (Guasp, 2011) there is a need to raise the profile of mental health issues amongst these groups. The additional letter I is also often included in the acronym LGBTI as intersex people are often included as another gender diverse group. However, there is very little research that includes intersex people and none on older intersex people's mental health so this editorial is restricted to consideration of older LGBT people.

scholarly journals Emerging diseases in Chiroptera: why bats?

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 438-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gudrun Wibbelt ◽  
Marianne S. Moore ◽  
Tony Schountz ◽  
Christian C. Voigt
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Human Health ◽  
North American ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Viral Diseases ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Associated Diseases ◽  
White Nose Syndrome ◽  
First Time

A conference entitled ‘2nd International Berlin Bat Meeting: Bat Biology and Infectious Diseases’ was held between the 19 and 21 of February 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Researchers from two major disciplines, bat biologists and disease specialists, met for the first time in an interdisciplinary event to share their knowledge about bat-associated diseases. The focus of the meeting was to understand why in particular bats are the hosts of so many of the most virulent diseases globally. During several sessions, key note speakers and participants discussed infectious diseases associated with bats, including viral diseases caused by Henipa-, Filo-, Corona- and Lyssaviruses, the spread of white-nose syndrome in North American bats, bat immunology/immunogenetics, bat parasites, and finally, conservation and human health issues.

scholarly journals SingleCellSignalR: Inference of intercellular networks from single-cell transcriptomics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Cabello-Aguilar ◽  
Fabien Kon Sun Tack ◽  
Mélissa Alame ◽  
Caroline Fau ◽  
Matthieu Lacroix ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Cell ◽  
Cellular Networks ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
R Package ◽  
Communication Structure ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Receptor Interactions ◽  
Scoring Schemes ◽  
Intracellular Pathways ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACTSingle-cell transcriptomics offers unprecedented opportunities to infer the ligand-receptor interactions underlying cellular networks. We introduce a new, curated ligand-receptor database and a novel regularized score to perform such inferences. For the first time, we try to assess the confidence in predicted ligand-receptor interactions and show that our regularized score outperforms other scoring schemes while controlling false positives. SingleCellSignalR is implemented as an open-access R package accessible to entry-level users and available from https://github.com/SCA-IRCM. Analysis results come in a variety of tabular and graphical formats. For instance, we provide a unique network view integrating all the intercellular interactions, and a function relating receptors to expressed intracellular pathways. A detailed comparison with related tools is conducted. Among various examples, we demonstrate SingleCellSignalR on mouse epidermis data and discover an oriented communication structure from external to basal layers.

scholarly journals Facilitating LGBT Medical, Health and Social Care Content in Higher Education Teaching

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zowie Davy ◽  
Sarah Amsler ◽  
Karen Duncombe
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Lgbt Health ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Tertiary Healthcare ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Important Quality ◽  
Medical Health ◽  
Medical And Healthcare

<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Increasingly, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) health care is becoming an important quality assurance feature of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare in Britain. While acknowledging these very positive developments, teaching LGBT curricula content is contingent upon having educators understand the complexity of LGBT lives. The study adopted a qualitative mixed method approach. The study investigated how and in what ways barriers and facilitators of providing LGBT medical, health and social care curricula content figure in the accreditation policies and within undergraduate and postgraduate medical and healthcare teaching. This paper illustrates opposing views about curricula inclusion. The evidence presented suggests that LGBT content teaching is often challenged at various points in its delivery. In this respect, we will focus on a number of resistances that sometimes prevents teachers from engaging with and providing the complexities of LGBT curricula content. These include the lack of collegiate, colleague and student cooperation. By investing some time on these often neglected areas of resistance, the difficulties and good practice met by educators will be explored. This focus will make visible how to support medical, health and social care students become aware and confident in tackling contemporaneous health issues for LGBT patients.</span>

scholarly journals Global Financial Crisis, Smart Lockdown Strategies, and the COVID-19 Spillover Impacts: A Global Perspective Implications From Southeast Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunlei Wang ◽  
Dake Wang ◽  
Jaffar Abbas ◽  
Kaifeng Duan ◽  
Riaqa Mubeen
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Positivity Ratio ◽  
First Time

This present study primarily emphasizes to seek the COVID-19 adverse impacts posing health challenges and global economic crisis. The pandemic (COVID-19) continues to hit the global economies adversely. Pakistan is the 5th-most-populous nation, and recorded positive cases with the third-highest positivity ratio in South Asia, and 26th-highest deaths toll of 21,450 and 29th number of most COVID-19 positive cases with 933,750 worldwide, as of June 6, 2021. The first wave appeared at the end of May 2020, and mid of June reported its peak, which ended by mid-July 2020. Early November 2020 witnessed the second wave with low intensity reached the climax by mid-December. The COVID-19's third wave severely affected the country during mid-March 2021. It exhibited the highest positivity rate, around 20%. New positive patients and deaths toll commenced to skyrocket and reported peak by April 15, 2021. Then situation gradually improved with effective measures and restrictions. The pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected 220 territories, regions, and countries and resulted in more than 174.116 million infections, deaths, 3.75 million, and 157.157 million positive cases fully recovered from this infectious disease, as of June 7, 2021. The pandemic has caused a severe crisis of healthcare facilities and economic challenges worldwide. Pakistani economy reported GPD's negative growth (–0.05) for the first time over the last 60 years in 2020, which caused a massive financial crisis. The Government's relief package intervened to reduce public mental stress and improve the quality of their lives. IMF reported that Pakistan's GPD bounced back at 4% growth by June 2021. This article determines that economic instability and health burden happened in Pakistan for a longer time than financial disequilibrium that occurred globally. Pakistan encountered this crisis due to its feeble healthcare systems and fragile economy. This study explores adverse health issues and spillover consequences on the economic crisis in Pakistan with global implications. It recommends smart lockdown restrictions in most affected areas to reopen the economic cycle with strict preventive measures to minimize the COVD-19 adverse consequences.

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