Search

...health care resources in these unprecedented times. In general terms, clinicians will balance the benefits of the cancer treatment over the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection to decide whether a cancer treatment should go ahead or be postponed. Treatment risks regarding COVID-19 include: How the cancer treatments affect a patient´s immune system – patients are more at risk...

...health. Here are just six key players...The contribution of women as scientists in the areas of chemistry, the environment and health are hugely significant and far-reaching. Here are just a few examples which illustrate the breadth of their previous and continuing contributions. 1: Marie Curie [portrait of Marie Curie] Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize...

...Health & justice, 9, pp.1-19. Foti, T.R., Cragun, D., Mackie, J., Agu, N., Bell, M. and Marshall, J. (2023) 'Personas of pregnant and parenting women with substance use and their barriers and pathways to system engagement', Birth, 50(1), pp.99-108 Thomson, G., (2023) 'Evaluation of Birth Companions perinatal support in prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic', International...

...Health Service], say). But if concentrating on parts of the problem initially seems easier, it always ends in tears, adversely affecting the system as a whole, raising costs and making it harder and harder for managers to see the link between causes and effects (Caulkin, 2006). Clear systems thinking is one of the basic literacies of the modern world, not least because it...