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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
In 2019 in the UK, an estimated 885,000 people were living with dementia. Although people can still live well with dementia, exercise is one of the approaches that can help both with the management of...
With healthcare facing increasing demands and scarce resources, the hospital at home (HaH) concept is an innovative care strategy, providing eligible patients with specialised care at home. In this...
PH affects at least 1% of the world's population, with low-income and middleincome countries shouldering most of the burden. In all its manifestations, PH is associated with adverse vascular...
Preconception care (PCC) describes interventions that identify and modify behavioural, biomedical, and social risks among reproductive-aged women. Although PCC aims to enhance healthy pregnancy...
Each year globally, burns cause the deaths of around 96 000 people aged under 20 years, with children especially susceptible. This is cited by van Balen et al (2023), whose review considers the...
In this ethical consideration of capacity, Astrachan et al (2023) introduce a philosophical aspect which is relevant to many health professionals who deal with patients. The presumption of capacity is...
Incivility at work includes rudeness, demeaning attitudes, exclusion, and hurtful words, but as Graso (2023) notes in this commentary, while civility should be promoted, ‘[t]he unexamined pursuit of...
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease, with type 2 diabetes (T2D) a major predictor, and NAFLD can range from simple steatosis (non-alcoholic fatty...
Dementia due to brain diseases such as Alzheimer's affects 55 million people, and in the year 2019 alone, represented a cost of US $1.3 trillion globally. This is cited by Daly (2023), who focuses in...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that adults perform ≥150min/week of moderate-intensity equivalent aerobic physical activity and ≥2 episodes/week of muscle-strengthening activities....
Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes functional, psychological, and socioeconomic losses, with long-term secondary complications such as bowel management playing an important role in the maintenance of...
Worldwide, the annual costs of mental health disorders are an estimated $2.5 trillion (USD), a sum which is projected to rise to $6 trillion by 2030. This is cited by Singh et al (2023), who note that...
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