• A community sample of 480 adult residents of Panama completed a survey that included sociodemographic questions, COVID-19 related questions (e.g., health concerns regarding the virus, knowledge and behaviors in biosafety) and scales of stress, anxiety, depression, prosocial behavior, resilience, perceived social support, and insomnia. (frontiersin.org)
  • Social dominance orientation (SDO), defined as the general individual orientation toward unequal and dominant/subordinate relationships, might represent a valuable construct to explore to better understand the association between psychopathic traits, externalizing problems, and prosocial behavior. (apc.it)
  • Results showed that SDO mediated the relationship between psychopathic traits and externalizing problems and between psychopathic traits and prosocial behavior only in the clinical sample. (apc.it)
  • The impact of discrimination-related stress can also be longitudinal, as shown by a study on Black adolescents that found perceived discrimination between age 16-18 to predict stress hormone levels, blood pressure, inflammation, and BMI at age 20. (wikipedia.org)
  • This study examined perceived parent-adolescent relationships and depressed mood among 173 early adolescents and 297 college students, all of European or Asian American background. (escholarship.org)
  • Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A): Psychometric properties in a Spanish-speaking population. (revistacomunicar.com)
  • Direct observational methodology (video recordings) was used to investigate the social abilities of a group of ten adolescents with Down's syndrome. (scielo.br)
  • Chandra A, Batada A. relied on different individuals, depending on the source of Exploring stress and coping among urban African the stress -- friends for romantic relationship stress and American adolescents: the Shifting the Lens study. (cdc.gov)
  • Discrimination is consistently associated with poor health outcomes and health disparities, including for perinatal health, yet few studies address intersectional discrimination. (cdc.gov)
  • We evaluated discrimination based on multiple social identities and assessed differential associations with adverse perinatal health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Perceived discrimination in pregnancy can be associated with adverse perinatal health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Previous research links perceived discrimination with worsened health outcomes yet is limited by a focus on racial discrimination in isolation. (cdc.gov)
  • We applied an intersectional approach to the study of discrimination to examine the association with adverse perinatal health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Perceived discrimination was assessed via the Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS) and perinatal health outcomes collected via electronic medical record review. (cdc.gov)
  • Latent class analysis was used to identify subgroups of discrimination based on EDS item response and the rate of adverse perinatal health outcomes compared between subgroups using a Bolck, Croon and Hagenaars 3-step approach. (cdc.gov)
  • More research applying an intersectional lens to the study of discrimination and perinatal health outcomes is needed. (cdc.gov)
  • A large and growing body of research demonstrates the negative effect of perceived discrimination on health (7) and suggests that discrimination is a risk factor for adverse perinatal health outcomes (APHOs) including preterm birth (PTB), low birthweight (LBW), small for gestational age, and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (8). (cdc.gov)
  • Research on the relation between discrimination and health became a topic of interest in the 1990s, when researchers proposed that persisting racial/ethnic disparities in health outcomes could potentially be explained by racial/ethnic differences in experiences with discrimination. (wikipedia.org)
  • A stress and coping framework is often applied to investigate how discrimination influences health outcomes in racial, gender, and sexual minorities, as well as on immigrants and indigenous populations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some postulate that the chronic stress documented to occur in some communities near hazardous waste sites could possibly lead to an array of biopsychosocial effects, including physical health effects from chronic stress (possible health outcomes affected by stress include cardiovascular, gastrointestinal disorders, and skin), increases in the prevalence of certain psychological disorders, and social disruption. (cdc.gov)
  • Her research incorporates sociohistorical and biopsychosocial perspectives to investigate how stress and coping strategies contribute to stress-related psychological and physical health outcomes. (unc.edu)
  • outcomes related to ethical perceptions, behavior, or awareness. (philpapers.org)
  • The main aim of the present study was to examine the relations among maternal depression, responsive parenting behaviors and children's social-emotional outcomes (i.e., social competence, regulatory problems, externalizing behaviors) during toddlerhood. (bogazici.edu.tr)
  • In contrast, health outcomes of people with higher incomes may be related to increased social participation and control and access to safe neighborhoods, healthy foods, education, health care, and clean air (2). (cdc.gov)
  • Observational evidence supports the finding that financial burden and distress are underrecognized but highly prevalent among patients with chronic liver disease and their caregivers and are associated with poor health outcomes. (emot-econ.org)
  • Further, as treatment effects may differ across sociocultural factors, perceived discrimination, social support, and socioeconomic status (SES) will be evaluated as potential moderators of treatment effects on the primary outcomes. (researchprotocols.org)
  • The overarching aim of the Coronavirus Chronic Conditions and Disabilities Awareness (CICADA) project, building on this understanding, is to improve pandemic and longer-term support networks, and access to and experiences of care, services, and resources for these underserved groups, both during the pandemic and longer term, thereby reducing inequities and enhancing social, health, and well-being outcomes. (researchprotocols.org)
  • The basal ganglia support learning to exploit decisions that have yielded positive outcomes in the past. (dericbownds.net)
  • The psychological impact of discrimination on health refers to the cognitive pathways through which discrimination impacts mental and physical health in members of marginalized, subordinate, and low-status groups (e.g. racial and sexual minorities). (wikipedia.org)
  • In experimental studies, stress in response to discrimination has been measured using a range of both psychological (e.g. perceived stress) and physiological (e.g. cardiovascular reactivity) measures, and evidence indicates that this heightened stress response is associated with poorer mental and physical health and impaired decision-making when it comes to health-related behaviors such as substance use or visits to the emergency department. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are important differences between technologic and natural disasters that are believed to affect the psychological and social responses to technological disasters. (cdc.gov)
  • Baum and colleagues (18) found indicators of psychophysiological effects from stress, including elevated levels of psychological distress, perceived threat, subclinical anxiety disorders, and depression in many of the community members they surveyed at TMI as compared with controls. (cdc.gov)
  • These psychological manifestations are associated with personal, social, behavioral and cognitive variables that, taken together, encompass psychosocial determinants of how people respond to menacing situations ( 8 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Research has shown that the social determinants related to worse psychological responses to the pandemic include being female, age, previous mental health diagnosis, lower income, racial and ethnic disparities, poor subjective and objective health status, and being a healthcare worker ( 10 - 13 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Furthermore, the rise in psychological and psychiatric symptoms is also a result of COVID-19 related deaths and illnesses as well as social unrest and economic crises ( 14 , 15 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • The Minister of Solidarity provides psychological care, guidance, and administrative and legal support through their Social Action and Solidarity Departments (DASS) teams, which are in all the country's provinces. (state.gov)
  • However, the psychological distress associated with the COVID-19 health crisis and the contingency measures (e.g., social isolation) can be severe and long-lasting and should not be disregarded at this moment (Brooks et al. (bvsalud.org)
  • Its consequences may result in physical, psychological, or social issues, or even in disability or death2. (bvsalud.org)
  • Self-perceived social isolation was positively associated with depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. (frontiersin.org)
  • To prevent the propagation of the virus, many countries adopted different mitigation strategies such as quarantines, rigorous lockdowns, mobility restrictions, closure of schools and the isolation of vulnerable populations ( 1 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • In sociology literature on social isolation, one study asked an important question: how do individuals living in our modern society, where opportunities for making connections with others are ubiquitous, become socially isolated [1] ? (researchgate.net)
  • The latter process is the new face of social isolation. (researchgate.net)
  • Using data from the General Social Survey, we investigate whether political views increase the risk of social isolation for Black and White Americans. (researchgate.net)
  • Our findings reveal an increase in conservative political views differently shaping social isolation patterns for Black and White Americans. (researchgate.net)
  • Natural mentors may be a means for college students, especially those from oppressed groups, to cope with the isolation and stress of 2020. (gjcpp.org)
  • The material was analyzed using Gilmore and Somerville's (1994) four processes of stigmatizing responses: the definition of the problem HIV/AIDS, identification of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), linking HIV/AIDS to immorality and other negative characteristics, and finally behavioural consequences of stigma (distancing, isolation, discrimination in care). (hindawi.com)
  • The population health model underpinning the rankings reflects a multiple determinants of health perspective, with emphasis on health behaviors, socioeconomic status, health care, and the physical environment. (cdc.gov)
  • Models of pain behavior that interrelate biologic, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral variables form the basis for cognitive-behavioral and operant-behavioral approaches to adult pain management. (medscape.com)
  • Children need emotional support and cognitive stimulation by caregivers to grow, learn and adjust to social life. (bogazici.edu.tr)
  • Virtual environments have been increasingly used in conjunction with traditional cognitive behavioral treatments for disorders, such as posttraumatic stress disorder and social anxiety disorder. (researchgate.net)
  • Despite the significance of social-cognition in everyday life, the cognitive and cultural origins of such processes leave many questions unanswered. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Indeed, children provide a unique window into understanding the cognitive foundations of intergroup cognition (e.g., the extent to which prejudice and discrimination is an automatic feature of how the mind processes information). (psychologicalscience.org)
  • I believe that the study of social cognitive development will pave the way for producing real change in adult behavior, especially in the domain of intergroup cognition where attitudes and stereotypes are known to have a profound influence. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Similarly, I plan to identify the cognitive mechanisms underlying the acquisition of intergroup attitudes and stereotypes in early childhood, and how such representations interface with infants' burgeoning understanding of the social world. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • The scale has been built on the basis of a cognitive model of PAD and characteristics of a typical affective dependent person (Saver, Unworthy, Traumatic, and Mixed). (apc.it)
  • For example, meat is often perceived as food for men and salad as food preferred by women. (custom-writing.org)
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder is often perceived as a childhood disorder. (rutgers.edu)
  • Self-perceived health status and self-perceived social support were negatively associated with depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. (frontiersin.org)
  • The data were obtained using the Group Environment Questionnaire(GEQ), the Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE), and the Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT). (thesportjournal.org)
  • In sports settings, competitive trait anxiety is a critical subject for athletic performance (26, 11, 21), which is defined as a personality disposition reflecting an individual tendency to perceive threat in sport competition (20, 21). (thesportjournal.org)
  • Mothers filled out a demographic form, the Brief Infant-Toddler Social-Emotional Assessment (Briggs-Gowan & Carter, 2006), and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scales (Zigmond & Snaith, 1983). (bogazici.edu.tr)
  • To examine the prevalence and correlates of social anxiety disorder (SAD) in veterans, 733 veterans from four VA primary care clinics were evaluated using self-report questionnaires, telephone interviews, and a 12-month retrospective review of primary care charts. (researchgate.net)
  • They also may use drugs or alcohol to control feelings of discomfort and anxiety, resulting in potentially risktaking behavior and deleterious personal relationships (Gros et al. (researchgate.net)
  • The current qualitative study compares the experiences of veterans with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and social anxiety disorder as they interact with a virtual grocery store environment. (researchgate.net)
  • The commonly used mental health assessment tools were the Patient Health Questionnaire (41.7%), Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (36%), 21-item Depression, Anxiety, and Stress (13.9%), Impact of Event Scale (12.5%), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (9.7%), Symptom Checklist and the General Health Questionnaire (6.9% each). (bvsalud.org)
  • and inflammation) and accelerated aging, as well as through altered engagement in health behaviors (increased participation in unhealthy behaviors and nonparticipation in healthy behaviors) (5,6). (cdc.gov)
  • Findings indicate that experiences of discrimination tend to translate into worse physical and mental health and lead to increased participation in unhealthy behaviors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Discrimination also impacts health by inducing negative emotions and lowering self-control, which in turn increases participation in unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, alcohol and substance use, reduced physical activity, and overeating. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research also finds evidence that discrimination lowers participation in preventative care behaviors, such as cancer screening, diabetes management, and condom use, that could help maintain good health. (wikipedia.org)
  • In light of these trends, it is fundamental to focus on the human rights of key populations (KPs)-especially to health, non-discrimination, access to information, and to equal and meaningful participation in political and public affairs-by placing them at the center of the global HIV response. (hhrjournal.org)
  • Such rights, and the demand for more transparency, accountability, and participation (TAP), have been recognized as both a necessary social justice imperative, and as a way to build more responsive, inclusive, and sustainable health systems. (hhrjournal.org)
  • [4] Along these lines, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), underscore that beyond overcoming stigma and discrimination against KPs, their engagement and participation is critical to a successful HIV response everywhere, since they are both key to the epidemic and key players in the response. (hhrjournal.org)
  • Results: Participation in the workshops had large effects upon depression (d = 1.63 and d = 1.68), social/role activities limitations (d =1.15), health distress (d = 1.13 and d = 0.78), fatigue (d = 1.03), pain (d = 0.96), and lupus self-efficacy (d = 0.85). (scirp.org)
  • Poverty is thought to affect health through material deprivation, decreased social participation, and decreased control over one's life (2). (cdc.gov)
  • Thematic analysis of the comments shared by the specialists revealed three overarching themes: the touch-seeking and touch-avoiding behavior of autistic children, their individual differences and customization needs, and the roles that a touch-perceiving robot could play in such interactions. (degruyter.com)
  • Here we examine neurogenetic contributions to individual differences in these distinct aspects of motivated human behavior, using a temporal decision-making task and computational analysis. (dericbownds.net)
  • These social determinants of the pandemic have impacted individual emotional distress ( 9 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Potential mechanisms that account for this difference may include three aspects: covariation between estrogen levels and the incidence peak of female depression, gender differences in coping style (e.g., comparative emotional inexpressiveness and non-help-seeking in males), and gender differences in symptom phenotypes (e.g., atypical symptoms in male depression). (frontiersin.org)
  • Child dysregulation was positively associated with maternal depression, and negatively with emotional support of mothers. (bogazici.edu.tr)
  • 10 independent raters assessed the emotional content of the memories on visual-analogical scales. (apc.it)
  • In behavioral health, "stigma" is defined as a level of shame, prejudice, or discrimination toward people with mental-health or substance-use conditions. (mckinsey.com)
  • Stigma affects everything from interpersonal interactions to social norms to organizational structures, including access to treatment and reimbursement for costs. (mckinsey.com)
  • Public stigma (which is sometimes referred to as social stigma) is the negative attitude of society toward a particular group of people. (mckinsey.com)
  • Structural stigma (including workplace stigma) refers to system-level discrimination-such as cultural norms, institutional practices, and healthcare policies not at parity with other health conditions-that constrains resources and opportunities and therefore impairs well-being. (mckinsey.com)
  • and intervention strategies to reduce health-related stigma and/or the negative health and life course developmental impacts of stigma. (nih.gov)
  • Stigma refers to the process by which certain human characteristics are labeled as socially undesirable and linked with negative stereotypes about a class of individuals, resulting in social distance from or discrimination towards labeled individuals. (nih.gov)
  • The global fight against HIV/AIDS continues to pose challenges: infection rates are on the rise in many settings, stigma and discrimination remain rampant, and the global response is under increasing financial pressure. (hhrjournal.org)
  • Stigma prevents the delivery of effective social and medical care (including taking antiretroviral therapy) and also enhances the number of HIV infections. (hindawi.com)
  • Although the reaction to PLWHA varies, with some PLWHA receiving support which positively affects them, HIV/AIDS stigma negatively affects seeking HIV testing, seeking care after diagnosis, quality of care given to HIV patients, and finally the negative perception and treatment of PLWHA by their communities and families, including partners [ 4 , 5 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • It is being increasingly acknowledged, however, that effective treatment and care strategies require an understanding of the cultural context [ 6 , 8 ] in which stigma exists. (hindawi.com)
  • Although the bulk of the research tend to focus on the interactions between interpersonal discrimination and health, researchers studying discrimination and health in the United States have proposed that institutional discrimination and cultural racism also give rise to conditions that contribute to persisting racial and economic health disparities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Studies assessing the link between interpersonal discrimination and health have been both experimental and observational in nature. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2015) Past research has found that lack of time, low motivation, tiredness/fatigue, caregiving responsibilities and lack of social support are major barriers to physical activity among African American women. (sc.edu)
  • [3] Additionally, because of social barriers, stigmatizing policies, and punitive laws that keep KPs away from services-different forms of violence, discrimination, criminalization, and marginalization-they are most likely to be exposed to HIV and to remain excluded from participating in, and benefiting from, the policies that should address their needs. (hhrjournal.org)
  • First, I will continue to unpack the mechanisms involved in the development of intergroup cognition with a particular focus on identifying the building blocks of social categorization in infancy and early toddlerhood. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • We found that Black and White participants exposed to general discrimination were more likely to experience symptoms of postpartum depression and that White participants delivered more low birthweight infants relative to those who experienced no discrimination. (cdc.gov)
  • Experiencing general discrimination was associated with postpartum depression symptoms when compared with experiencing no discrimination among Black (9% vs 5%, P = . 04) and White participants (18% vs 9%, P = . 01). (cdc.gov)
  • This systematic review aims to scope entirely web-based interventions that provided screening and signposting for treatment, including self-management strategies, for people with CMDs or subthreshold symptoms. (jmir.org)
  • For effective diagnoses and timely treatment of male depression, it is critical to incorporate symptoms of depression in males into the relevant diagnostic criteria, encourage males to express negative emotions, and increase awareness of suicidal behavior in males. (frontiersin.org)
  • Mentored youth are more civically engaged during adulthood, suggesting that the positive impacts of NMRs are longstanding and cascade into broader social systems (Hagler & Rhodes, 2018). (gjcpp.org)
  • Conclusion: Results highlight global implications for community practitioners as they support young adults' civic engagement in divisive sociopolitical climates, especially as elections become increasingly polarizing on a global scale. (gjcpp.org)
  • One explanation for the origin of these disparities is the increased burden of stress associated with exposure to persistent discrimination experienced over the life course. (cdc.gov)
  • Research conceptualizes instances of discrimination as situations which are likely to cause stress and have downstream consequences on mental and physical health, as well as health behaviors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some researchers also argue that everyday experiences with discrimination can cause chronic and cumulative stress that contributes to the "wear and tear" of the body. (wikipedia.org)
  • Instances of discrimination also tend to be ambiguous and unpredictable, which research linking stress and health indicate could be particularly harmful. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evidence from this line of research shows that anticipating discrimination, experiencing stress as a result of hypervigilance and worry, and ruminating over the experience of discrimination can aggravate and prolong the adverse impacts of discrimination on health. (wikipedia.org)
  • Several scales have been developed to capture different types of discrimination, with over 90% of scales designed by researchers in the U.S. Racism, for example, is most often measured using the Perceived Racism Scale, the Schedule of Racists Events, the Index of Race Related Stress, and the Racism and Life Experiences Scale. (wikipedia.org)
  • Traditional techniques to help these children cope with stress and overstimulation must be administered by a trained adult [ 4 ]. (degruyter.com)
  • Aims: This study examines college students' access to natural mentors during the contentious 2020 U.S. presidential election and considers the role of natural mentors as protective factors in relation to coping and sociopolitical stress. (gjcpp.org)
  • T-tests examined differences in sociopolitical stress and coping between those with and without mentors, and multivariable regressions examined whether relationship characteristics influenced these associations. (gjcpp.org)
  • The current study explored college students' access to natural mentors during the fall of 2020, as well as whether mentors promoted coping or protected against sociopolitical stress during a divisive presidential election within the U.S. We aim to better understand how adults support young people's involvement with social and political systems. (gjcpp.org)
  • Methods: The Balancing Lupus Experiences with Stress Strategies (BLESS) study piloted the validated "Better Choices, Better Health" Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) in 30 African-American lupus patients participating in the SLE Clinic Database Project at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). (scirp.org)
  • Measures of psychosocial and biological indicators of stress were collected in all of the patients in each of the study conditions before and after intervention activities, as well as four months' post-intervention, to assess the effectiveness of the program in reducing perceived and biological indicators of stress. (scirp.org)
  • Investigators have found that particularly daily stress with social relationships and social duties may be factors related to the course of disease activity [6]. (scirp.org)
  • Income inequality is associated with low levels of trust and social capital, mental illness, teenage birth rates, low social mobility, homicide rates, obesity, poor educational performance, and mortality (5), and may alter biologic functioning via stress processes (6,7). (cdc.gov)
  • These disparities were independent of subjects' current SES, lifestyle practices, and perceived stress. (dericbownds.net)
  • It appears not a day goes by that doesn't present another headline, article, social media post, or blog describing the tremendous stress and daily pressures of being in the classroom. (ecis.org)
  • Abstract one group of teens perceives and copes with stress. (cdc.gov)
  • The purpose of the Shifting the Lens study ings, such as a youth-produced video and a resource guide was to explore perceptions of stress, sources of social sup- for youth service providers, were implemented. (cdc.gov)
  • Stress emerges for young people as they pile-sort activities, and personal social support network enter adolescence, a transition that brings rapid socioemo- maps. (cdc.gov)
  • Since my early years as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan working with Drs. Oscar Ybarra and Eugene Burnstein, I have been fascinated with understanding the psychology of social-cognition. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • We used geophysical and individual-level mobile-phone data (mobile-apps, telecommunications, and Web usage) of 157,358 victims of the 2013 Ya'an earthquake to diagnose the effects of the disaster and investigate how experiencing real risk (at different levels of intensity) changes behavior. (stanford.edu)
  • Addressing intersectional discrimination exposure may promote perinatal health. (cdc.gov)
  • Perceived discrimination may play an influential role in shaping perinatal health. (cdc.gov)
  • Evidence of the inverse link between discrimination and health has been consistent across multiple population groups and various cultural and national contexts. (wikipedia.org)
  • A meta-analysis of 138 studies shows consistent evidence of the relationship between discrimination and health behaviors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Experiments investigating the link between discrimination and health have manipulated perceptions of discrimination in a number of ways, including exposing participants to racist film clips, asking them to write about their prior experiences with discrimination, and providing them with articles detailing discrimination against their ingroup. (wikipedia.org)
  • Observational studies make use of large datasets such as the National Survey of Black Americans and the New Zealand Health Survey to make deductions about the relationship between discrimination and health. (wikipedia.org)
  • Across all studies, we find the strongest and most consistent evidence for the negative impact of discrimination on mental health and health-related behaviors, but a meta-analysis of 134 samples also shows evidence of an inverse link between discrimination and physical health. (wikipedia.org)
  • There is substantial evidence supporting the positive effects physical activity has on one's health (Lee et al. (sc.edu)
  • Today, as the world moves toward the end of the pandemic, almost one billion people have a mental-health or substance-use disorder 1 "World Mental Health Day: An opportunity to kick-start a massive scale-up in investment in mental health," WHO, August 27, 2020, who.int. -collectively referred to as behavioral-health conditions. (mckinsey.com)
  • As companies prepare for a postpandemic return to the workplace, identifying behavioral-health conditions and offering the necessary support for employees affected by them should be a top C-suite priority. (mckinsey.com)
  • Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) show that Black and Mexican children, compared to Whites at all levels of family income, receive lower scores on subtests of an IQ scale and on reading and writing achievement tests ( Figure 12-1 ) (Kramer et al. (nationalacademies.org)
  • A review of current approaches used to help children and parents cope with health care procedures. (mcmaster.ca)
  • Accumulation of economic hardship and health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Social causation or selection? (mcmaster.ca)
  • She earned MA and PhD degrees in social and health psychology from Stony Brook University and a MSN from the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner/clinical nurse specialist program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (unc.edu)
  • Identify appropriate mechanisms to develop and operationalize the existing and new strategies for sexual health through multi-sectoral collaboration and translate them into action. (who.int)
  • Share information and experiences on existing national programmes, strategies and approaches designed to address sexual health issues in countries of the Region. (who.int)
  • In resolution WHA53.14 the Health Assembly requested the Director-General to develop a global health-sector strategy for responding to the epidemics of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections. (who.int)
  • In 2003, the Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA56.30, taking note of the global health-sector strategy for HIV/AIDS,1 and the next year, in resolution WHA57.12, endorsed the strategy to accelerate progress towards the attainment of international development goals and targets related to reproductive health. (who.int)
  • The draft strategy was developed through an inclusive and broad consultative process in all regions with representatives from health ministries, nongovernmental organizations, partners in the United Nations system, the private health sector and other key stakeholders. (who.int)
  • The final draft has taken into account the comments received and complements the global health-sector strategy for HIV/AIDS. (who.int)
  • It recognizes that prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections are core aspects of sexual and reproductive health, as stated in the strategy to accelerate progress towards the attainment of international development goals and targets related to reproductive health. (who.int)
  • Understanding how human populations naturally respond to and cope with risk is important for fields ranging from psychology to public health. (stanford.edu)
  • This perspective implies that health improvement and disparity reduction will require a balanced investment strategy across multiple determinants of health. (cdc.gov)
  • Data from this study may be used to support an implementation and dissemination trial of EASE within real-world behavioral health and social service settings. (researchprotocols.org)
  • Our exploration of the social determinants of health and well-being is framed by the social ecological model. (researchprotocols.org)
  • The CICADA project was funded by the Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme of the United Kingdom (UK) National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) in March 2021 and began in May 2021. (researchprotocols.org)
  • The argument here is that there is a curious parallel in the discourse -- to the extent that there is any -- between the remedial strategies of 'allopathic remedies' and those of 'alternative remedies', whether in the case of the global financial system or in the case of global approaches to individual health care. (laetusinpraesens.org)
  • Liberia is now experiencing the double burden of malnutrition compelling the fragile health system to cope with the high cost of treating diet- related non-communicable diseases and at the same time fighting undernutrition and the traditional communicable diseases. (who.int)
  • These include long term strategies such as those to improve household food security and short quick routes such as health and nutrition education, micronutrient supplementation and care of pregnant women and children. (who.int)
  • One of the main objectives for the study is to measure the prevalence and incidence of gambling problems in Sweden, and to examine how these co-vary with gambling patterns with regard to social, health and economic contexts. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • in this qualitative study based on the Theory of Social Representations, conducted in 2019, the participants were 150 users of the Family Health Strategy in the city of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul. (bvsalud.org)
  • A study showed that primary health care should be better organized to help people cope with violence, since professionals who work in this setting have direct and continuous contact with users3. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Family Health Strategy (FHS) favors the working process by increasing solvability and, consequently, the impact on individual and collective health. (bvsalud.org)
  • Data were collected through interviews using an instrument to obtain sociodemographic data and health conditions and the Pleasure and Suffering Indicators at Work Scale (PSIWS). (bvs.br)
  • White participants experiencing general discrimination gave birth to low birthweight infants at a higher rate than those experiencing no discrimination (11% vs 6%, P = . 04). (cdc.gov)
  • METHOD: 259 participants completed three validated self-report screening questionnaires for ADHD: the Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS), the Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Self-Report Screening Scale for DSM-5 (ASRS-5), and the Conners' adult ADHD rating scale (CAARS). (bvsalud.org)
  • The phenomenon of female preponderance in depression has been well-reported, which has been challenged by higher rates of suicide and addictive behaviors in males, and a longer life-span in females. (frontiersin.org)
  • Although women evidently tend to report depression more than men ( 3 , 4 ), several observations raise questions as to the root cause of this, e.g., the higher suicide rate in males ( 22 ), longer life-span in females ( 23 ), and greater rates of alcoholism and other addictive behaviors in males ( 24 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • For support, they being, leading to illnesses such as depression (1-4). (cdc.gov)
  • As anticipated, perceived parent-adolescent relationships accounted for more of the variance in depressed mood in early adolescence than in late adolescence: 44% to 51 % for the junior high samples and about 10% for the college samples. (escholarship.org)
  • Combining mobile data with a field survey (N = 2,000) completed 1 week after the earthquake, we use an instrumental-variable approach to show that only increases in hedonic behavior reduced perceived risk. (stanford.edu)
  • This study seeks to further understand the factors that support or undermine engagement in physical activity among African American women. (sc.edu)
  • As per the Environmental and Social Standard ESS 10 Stakeholder Engagement and Information Disclosure, the WHO Country office in Iran is responsible for collecting the grievances and registering them in a log which was designed in the parent project and will reflect the feedback along with suggested corrective action plans to MOHME for further follow up and required actions. (who.int)
  • An intersectionality framework recognizes individuals as simultaneously inhabiting multiple intersecting social identities embedded within systems of disadvantage and privilege. (cdc.gov)
  • The ICERP (parent project and AF) is being prepared under the World Bank's Environment and Social Framework (ESF). (who.int)
  • This type of oppression-which may also be referred to as "weight bias"-basically refers to the stigmatization, bullying, prejudice, and discrimination against people in larger bodies. (80767y.com)
  • All interventions offered algorithm-driven screening with measures to assess symptom levels and to assign treatment options including automatic web-based psychoeducation, self-care strategies, and signposting to existing services. (jmir.org)
  • During the last United Nations (UN) General Assembly High Level Meeting on Ending AIDS in 2016, then-UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon presented a report requesting that the international community strengthen its support for human rights-based interventions as fundamental components of the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. (hhrjournal.org)
  • Most of the subjects showed deficit in the coping responses, suggesting the need of educational and preventive interventions which contribute to improve the performance in situations with such demands. (scielo.br)
  • To take just one example, the poverty rate of elderly households fell extraordinarily rapidly as Social Security spending rose in the mid-20th century. (epi.org)
  • Unless policies are developed and priorities changed, the scale of the problem will preclude the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and our objectives for poverty reduction. (who.int)
  • En 2019 participaron 150 usuarios de las Estrategias de Salud de la Familia de la ciudad de Rio Grande / RS. (bvsalud.org)
  • Thus, hedonic behavior could potentially serve as a population-scale coping and recovery strategy that is often missing in risk management and policy considerations. (stanford.edu)
  • By following social norms, individuals benefit from the knowledge a given society or culture has accumulated in its interactions with the natural world and management of social relations. (escholarship.org)
  • This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, behavior, psychology, and politics - as well as random curious stuff. (dericbownds.net)
  • The program of research of the Social and Organizational Psychology Research Lab investigates the process by which people regulate and control their social interaction with others at home and at work. (rutgers.edu)
  • Evolutionistic explanations of this link posit that disgust evolved to indicate the presence of a threat to the integrity of the individual not only in the physical domain but also in the social and moral domain. (apc.it)
  • We recommend that future studies incorporate economic analysis and process evaluation to assess the mechanisms of action and cost-effectiveness to aid scaling of the implementation. (jmir.org)
  • As the rate of autism diagnosis continues to rise [ 5 ], and as the relative supply of caregivers, therapists, and paraeducators dwindles, there is an urgent need for new mechanisms to help children with autism learn to cope with stressful or unfamiliar situations. (degruyter.com)
  • Pro-social performance prevailed in the repertory of the individuals as compared to the coping responses presented. (scielo.br)
  • A large and growing body of literature finds that a lack of social connection can have profound social and economic consequences across varied populations [1] . (researchgate.net)
  • So what is a good basis for finding ways to support people in the moment and develop them over time? (learnlets.com)
  • Such a question begs serious examination of social structures that connect people, especially during our time when social media plays critical roles in making those connections. (researchgate.net)
  • People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) face not only medical problems but also social problems associated with the disease. (hindawi.com)
  • In these trainings, it is also suggested that therapists encourage LGBTQIAP+ people to seek support groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the present effort, a new ethics training course was developed that stresses the importance of the strategies people apply to make sense of ethical problems. (philpapers.org)
  • Given possible parallels in inequities for disabled people and people from minoritized ethnic backgrounds, their existence before the pandemic and increase since, and the discriminations that each group faces, our interest is in understanding the interplay between being disabled AND being from a minoritized ethnic group. (researchprotocols.org)
  • Yet, those people are still treated as if they don't deserve to exist or have the same opportunities and support. (80767y.com)
  • There's a bad news orientation in the media and, to some extent, in our political discourse, in which people tend to be quite skeptical about social change. (upenn.edu)
  • Creating options and choices for people, then produces the kinds of roles they want to create with the support that they need. (upenn.edu)
  • Social norms play an important role in guiding individuals' behavior in society. (escholarship.org)
  • It was found that the cultural construction of HIV/AIDS, based on beliefs about contamination, sexuality, and religion, plays a crucial role and contributes to the strength of distancing reactions and discrimination in society. (hindawi.com)
  • The policy recommends a number of strategies for achieving our goal of improving nutrition in Liberia and recognizes the crucial role of nutrition as a fundamental component of any national development plan. (who.int)
  • Through the examination of the close and powerful relationship between Eros and Thanatos in the tragedy Erophile , light will be shed on women's inferior social role and their intense potentiality to victimhood through forced and arranged marriages. (lu.se)
  • and individual attractions to the group-social (ATG-Social), the feelings of a group members about personal involvement with the social aspect of the group. (thesportjournal.org)
  • Through exogamy men "continuously circulated their most important assets, their wives and daughters" in order to strengthen alliances or attain superiority over another social group. (lu.se)
  • and qualitative insights from over 200 semistructured interviews, including social network/map/photo elicitation methods and two subsequent sets of remote participatory research workshops. (researchprotocols.org)
  • The over-arching purpose of the project is to develop knowledge that in turn will be used to develop methods and strategies for the prevention of gambling problems. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • In this paper, we will discuss the clinical research supporting these claims and offer some practical advice for treating young children with Ph- MPN daily. (bvsalud.org)
  • The biological residue of low early life social class. (dericbownds.net)
  • One mechanistic hypothesis for this phenomenon suggests that social adversity in early life programs biological systems in a manner that persists across decades and thereby accentuates vulnerability to disease. (dericbownds.net)
  • Oncologists and clinical provider teams are multidisciplinary partners who can support optimal FT management in the context of their clinical roles. (emot-econ.org)
  • In addition, Mahzarin was particularly influential as a model for her commitment to social justice education and the translation of science through community outreach. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Children with autism need innovative solutions that help them learn to master everyday experiences and cope with stressful situations. (degruyter.com)
  • Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that socio-economic status of (SES) families significantly predicted child dysregulation in contrast to responsive parenting behaviors. (bogazici.edu.tr)
  • By supporting mentees across domains, mentors provide opportunities for learning and development (Rhodes et al. (gjcpp.org)
  • Dr. Giscombé is particularly grateful for her immediate family (husband, Kessonga and two daughters, Zuri and Zola) her extended family, friends, and mentors who support and inspire her both professionally and personally. (unc.edu)
  • I was incredibly lucky to have both of them serve as mentors during my graduate studies at Harvard and their support has been invaluable to my growth as an intellectual, a scientist, a teacher, and a person. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • We will take a strengths and assets-based approach, underpinned by the social model of disability and by intersectional considerations to challenge discrimination. (researchprotocols.org)
  • What I can't do here is solve the very specific issues that teachers face-less pandemic-related classroom support from paraprofessionals and parents, the balance between in-person and virtual teaching, students who have fallen behind, frequently changing guidance and decision-making, lack of substitute teachers, the politicization of K-12 education, and much more. (ecis.org)
  • Financial navigation uses comprehensive assessment of patients' risk factors for FT, guidance toward support resources, and referrals to assist patient financial needs during cancer care. (emot-econ.org)
  • Vassilios Sabatakakis whose guidance and support has been vital to my work. (lu.se)
  • ordinary Americans, across a very broad spectrum of demographic and social categories, support the idea that gender, in fact, should not be the primary driver of who does what, at work or in the home. (upenn.edu)