long-term illness
Local rules for national schemes : inequities in the administration of the Long Term Illness card scheme
... Ms Kelly first applied for a LTI card for her son, Sam, (not child’s real name), in June 2009. Sam was then seven years of age. Her application form contains certification from her GP that Sam was under his care for the ...
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Limiting long-term illness and subjective well-being in families
... limiting long-term ...limiting long-term illness (LLTI) was the measure of ...parents illness and youth SDQ total difficulties scores ...limiting illness of one family ...
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eHealth interventions for family carers of people with long term illness: A promising approach?
... have long term illness often experience physical and mental health morbidities, and ...of long term illness; dementia has been the most researched area, as reported in 40% of ...
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Mapping the information-coping trajectory of young people coping with long term illness: An evidence based approach
... approach uses what it describes as “cartographic” approaches as a platform for analysis in mapping the complexities that emerge from the data (Clarke, 2003: 553). There are three main mapping techniques used to promote ...
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Views on a brief mindfulness intervention among patients with long-term illness
... Chronic illness is the leading cause of death in the UK and ...chronic illness cope; more recently, the therapeutic benefits of mindfulness approaches have become evident for managing depression and other ...
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A multilevel analysis of the effects of rurality and social deprivation on premature limiting long term illness
... There are some important limitations to this study that must be borne in mind. Firstly, its coverage of only one region may mean the findings are not fully generalisable to other rural areas. The South West Region has a ...
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Exploring Spatial Variability in the Relationship between Long Term Limiting Illness and Area Level Deprivation at the City Level Using Geographically Weighted Regression
... Abstract: Ecological influences on health outcomes are associated with the spatial stratification of health. However, the majority of studies that seek to understand these ecological influences utilise aspatial methods. ...
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Transition of Severely Disabled Children From Hospital or Chronic Care Facilities to the Community
... Many children with severe disabilities or long- term illness require special services to support home rather than institutional care.. Transitional care may be defined as those services [r] ...
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Determining the parameters in a social welfare function using stated preference data: an application to health
... Despite concerns such as these, we believe that this study represents a distinct advance in terms of both the methodology used and usefulness for policy purposes. It suggests that differences in average life expectancy ...
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Are health inequalities between differently deprived areas evident at different ages? A longitudinal study of census records in England and Wales, 1991-2001.
... limiting long-term illness (LLTI) are lower in less deprived areas and higher in more deprived areas than they would have been if people had stayed in the same ...
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Changes in body weight, body composition and cardiovascular risk factors after long term nutritional intervention in patients with severe mental illness: an observational study
... longer term randomized controlled trials are needed to assess the effectiveness of the nutritional ...the long-term effectiveness of the intervention by means of weight maintenance as a fol- low-up ...
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The orphaning experience: descriptions from Ugandan youth who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS
... parental illness or death was a salient and concerning theme. The long- term impact of not completing education or some type of skills training is arguably of grave importance in a low-income country ...
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A decade of norovirus disease risk among older adults in upper middle and high income countries: a systematic review
... NoV-associated illness in all ages with the highest burden of severe NoV-associated outcomes occurring among older ...associated illness has on healthcare costs and institutional control efforts including a ...
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The Role of Illness Perceptions on Health Related Decision Making—A Focus Group Study of Patients with Long Term Conditions
... a long-term condition, the need to make health-related decisions may become a central part of their everyday ...of long-term conditions, unlimited access to information outside of the hospital ...
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CARE OF THE CHILD WITH A LONG-TERM, LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS: SOME PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
... CARE OF THE CHILD WITH A LONG-TERM, LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS:. Services[r] ...
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A Clinic-Based, Comprehensive Care Model for Studying Late Effects in Long-Term Survivors of Pediatric Illnesses
... for long- term survivors of childhood cancer that has served as the backbone to understand the impact of cancer and its treatment on individuals who live years beyond a cancer ...outcomes long after ...
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Nutrition therapy and critical illness: practical guidance for the ICU, post ICU, and long term convalescence phases
... critical illness, this phase is character- ized by inflammation, increased energy expenditure, insu- lin resistance, and a catabolic response leading to generation of energy from stores such as hepatic glycogen ...
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End of life care for long-term care residents with dementia, chronic illness and cancer: prospective staff survey
... In this study none of the sample with a primary diag- nosis of cancer were considered to have died unexpect- edly, compared to 7% of those with dementia and 8% of those with chronic illness. This finding relates ...
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phlp_entire.doc
... One of the concerns about antibiotic stewardship in the NH is that more residents will die as a result of untreated infectious illness. Only one study in this review, Loeb 2005, found that the intervention studied ...
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Economic inequalities in burden of illness, diagnosis and treatment of five long-term conditions in England: panel study.
... Little is known about pathways into poor health. The National Health Service provides medical care free at point-of-need to all UK residents, but there is scope for inequalities to occur in the pathway from identi fi ...
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