"Giving up smoking is easy I have done it a thousand times" is an adage that puts in perspective the difficulties in tobacco cessation. Tobacco is a global agent of death [1].
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Article Type: Research Article
A Theory-Based Intervention in Health Visiting Students in Order to Reduce Mental Illness Stigma: A Quasi-Experimental Study
Background: Stigma of mental illness is an important barrier to treatment and recovery of mental illness. Schizophrenia represents the most common mental disorder for the public and it is connected with the highest stigma due to misconceptions of dangerousness.
Open Access
Article Type: Research Article
Indoor Air Pollutants and Respiratory Problems among Dhaka City Dwellers
Background: Indoor air pollutants becoming a great concern for public health. Indoor air pollution can cause more harmful health impacts than that of outdoor air pollution.
Open Access
Article Type: Research Article
Exclusive Breastfeeding Practice and Associated Maternal Socio-Demographic Factors among Mothers Attending Imo State Specialist Hospital, Owerri, South-Eastern Nigeria
Introduction: Breast milk is unique and contains the entire nutritional requirement a new born infants needs for the first year of life.
Open Access
Article Type: Review Article
Transition Coach Program Implementation Associated with Thirty-Day Readmission Rates in a Community Hospital Setting
Background: With implementation of Medicare policies affecting reimbursement for readmissions, there has been increased emphasis on quality of care during transition from hospital to home.
Open Access
Article Type: Research Article
Injection Safety: Knowledge and Practices among Nursing Personnel in Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of Marathwada Region of Maharashtra, India
Background: Unsafe injection practices put patients and healthcare providers at risk of infectious and non-infectious adverse events, sound knowledge and skillful practices of nurses are vital to breaks the chain of blood borne diseases transmission caused by unsafe injection practices.
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Article Type: Research Article
Truly Integrated Care Centred on the Individual: My Personal Vision for Wales
This paper offers my personal vision of truly integrated health and social care centred on the individual for Wales. This vision of an integrated health and social care system is simple - a seamless and efficient service.
Open Access
Article Type: Research Article
Association between Perceived Stress and Asthma Symptoms in Adolescents
Background: Although the effect of psychological stress on asthma has long been suggested, there is little evidence regarding asthma symptoms such as wheezing in relation to perceived stress in adolescents.
Open Access
Article Type: Mini Review
Activities for Environmental Sustainability in Community Pharmacies and Universities
Sustainability could be considered a buzzword of current health care practice but finally it need develop activities having sustainability as goal [1].
Open Access
Article Type: Clinical Image
Ambulatory Monitoring of Blood Pressure in Occupational Hypertension
Stress is considered to have a strong impact on changes in blood pressure through overproduction of catecholamines during working hours [1,2].
Open Access
Article Type: Research Article
Life after Medicine: A Systematic Review of Studies of Physicians' Adjustment to Retirement
Background: A physician's decision to retire has personal and social consequences. While there has been growing interest in how individuals adjust to retirement, less is known about physicians' adjustment to retirement.
Objectives: To identify and examine: 1) factors that influence how well physicians adjust to retirement, 2) reasons physicians give for retiring; and 3) advice physicians give for a successful adjustment to retirement.
