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...health workers and the elderly and vulnerable can shop. However, this might also amplify the perception of scarcity. The perception that a norm has been violated is based on subjective judgement. Accurately assessing whether the availability of food and other items is threatened is difficult to do without more information. Images shared by trustworthy friends on social...

...ensure that we record the athlete’s menstruation. Having a period is a vital sign of health and in athletes it is a great indication that they are getting their fuelling right. If a female athlete doesn’t balance her training load with her nutritional intake then, over time, her body will shut down her menstrual cycle: the body will prioritise other physiological systems over and above getting pregnant (which is what the ......

...Health Commission on children’s pain, calls for parents/carers to be involved in decisions relating to pain management in their infants and children, so that their views and values are considered. Parent participants in Simons and Plowright Pepper’s study (2024) described hospitalisation as ‘stressful, bewildering, quite frustrating’ and that often ‘parents can...

...mental processes that have contributed to the ecological and climate crisis, and our responses and processes of adaptation to it. […] We draw on psychotherapeutic approaches, psychosocial studies, the arts, spiritual and philosophical thought, literature, systems thinking and ecopsychology, all in the service of unpicking our collective and individual responses to the...

...mental status or vital signs), dying (cardiopulmonary resuscitation and/or emergency intubation), and dead (pronouncements). My last name and pager number were plastered on the oncology floor, which increased the odds that pages I received would be about the dying or dead. The first one was. “I need you to pronounce,” said the nurse when I called her back. As a...