This article reports on the first study to investigate interparent agreement when the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is used to assess school-aged children. It is also the first study conducted in China on agreement between parents reporting on their child. Both parents of 380 girls and 320 boys completed ...

Vitiligo and other autoimmune disorders are increasingly being reported in a background of immunosuppression. Viral-induced immune activation and molecular mimicry are the proposed mechanisms for the development of autoimmune diseases in individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). An association of vitiligo with Kaposi sarcoma (KS) rarely has been reported. ...

In this column the author describes the development of an instrument to measure internalized stigma of HIV/AIDS based on the self-concept adaptive mode of the Roy adaptation model. The Internalized Stigma of AIDS Tool is a 10-item instrument that is derived from the physical self (body sensation and image) and ...

A controversy of relevance to the study of biological form involves the concept of adaptation. This controversy is illustrated by the structure and function of the human hand. A review of the principal definitions of adaptation points to two main problems: (1) they are qualitative and make reference to the ...

Donor country initiatives for the prevention and mitigation of HIV/AIDS are not a matter of simple burden sharing. Instead, they have brought in their wake many of the complexities and unforeseen effects that have long been associated with more general overseas development assistance. In the case of funding directed toward ...

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Suicide is a global public health problem. In the UK suicide is the second most common cause of death in people aged 15-24 years. Self harm is one of the commonest reasons for medical admission in the UK. In the year following a suicide attempt the risk of ...

Over the last decade, Botswana has been identified as a model for countries fighting against annihilation from HIV/AIDS. The country had the highest rate of HIV infections in the world in 2000, but by the end of Festus G. Mogae's presidential term in 2008 Botswana's situation had improved significantly, as ...

Larsson, B. (2011). School competence and emotional/behavioral problems among Norwegian school children as rated by teachers on the Teacher Report Form. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. Of 1,409 eligible children aged 6-13 years in grades 1 to 7 who were randomly selected from a national sample of Norwegian schools, 858 participated in ...

We analyze a volumetric formulation of lattice Boltzmann for compressible thermal fluid flows. The velocity set is chosen with the desired accuracy, based on the Gauss-Hermite quadrature procedure, and tested against controlled problems in bounded and unbounded fluids. The method allows the simulation of thermohydrodyamical problems without the need to ...

Baxter v. Montana (2009 WL 5155363 [Mont. 2009]) is a recent decision from the Montana Supreme Court that provides new legal insight into the societal issue of aid in dying. This case involves interests of persons with terminal illness, medical practitioners, law enforcement, legislative and judicial bodies, as well as ...

While problem-solving courts may soon become permanent fixtures within the criminal justice system in Canada, little is actually known of their effectiveness in dealing with crime. The current paper will review the fundamental basis for these court models, with special attention on their arrival in Canada. The focus will be ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common hereditary heart disease associated with increased mortality. Disclosure of DNA test results may have social implications such as low access to insurance. In The Netherlands, insurance companies are restricted in the use of genetic information of their clients by the Medical Examination Act. A ...

BACKGROUND: As a response to concerns over the safety of patient care and quality of care provided by doctors, there has been an increasing interest in identifying the reasons for medical errors. METHODS: This paper reviews briefly the common neurocognitive causes for performance problems in doctors and provides an updated ...

Presents an obituary for Robert Lana. Lana, a professor for 39 years at Temple University, died on October 17, 2006, of respiratory and cardiac problems. A leading social psychologist, Bob had retired from Temple in 2005. Born in Union City, New Jersey, on August 9, 1932, he received his bachelor ...

Identification of poor performance is in an integral part of government policy. The suggested approach for the identification of such problems, advocated by the General Medical Council, is that of appraisal. However, traditionally, there has been a reluctance to deal with poor performers, as all doctors have made mistakes and ...

ECJ judgment on standing of a fishing company to bring an action in an EC court for annulment of EC fisheries regulations

OBJECTIVE: To explore the factors that may influence the progress of doctors who come from the Indian subcontinent to train in paediatrics in the UK. METHODS: Overseas doctors training in paediatrics in Rotherham, Sheffield and Doncaster participated in the study. Focus groups were used to collect data; two focus groups, ...

In November 2005, the UK Court of Appeals upheld deportation orders against four people with HIV who claimed that removal to their home countries, where they would be unable to obtain treatment, violated the rights to privacy and to be free from inhuman treatment under the European Convention on Human ...

In Germany, flood insurance is provided by private insurers as a supplement to building or contents insurance. This article presents the results of a survey of insurance companies with regard to eligibility conditions for flood insurance changes after August 2002, when a severe flood caused 1.8 billion euro of insured ...

PURPOSE: We investigated the prevalence, correlates, perception of overactive bladder syndrome (OAB) and doctor-consultation behavior among community adults. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This urological survey was part of a government-supported health utilization project conducted in Matsu, Taiwan. Participants (n = 1,827) completed a questionnaire collecting information on OAB, which was defined ...

In the Netherlands the total number of liability claims per year is about 2500, 100 of which are taken to court. Over the years these figures appear to be rather constant. It has been estimated that introducing a no-fault compensation system would lead to three to six times as many ...

Dr. Joseph Sonnabend was one of the earliest AIDS clinicians and researchers. He helped introduce the concept of safer sex and was a pioneer in establishing community-based research. He was mentor to many of the first generation of AIDS activists and is famous among patients for being the first doctor ...

In this essay, I analyze two memoirs--Rafael Campo's The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire and Abraham Verghese's My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS--which describe the effects of treating HIV/AIDS on each doctor's identity, ...

Aims: This paper is a review of the literature on problem-related drinking of alcohol among medical doctors, and it deals with the epidemiology and results. Methods: A search of computer literature databases - PubMed and ETOH - was performed to locate articles reporting problem-related drinking among doctors, using population-based samples ...

The Immigration and Refugee Board, Appeal Division (IRB) has granted the appeal related to an HIV-positive Zambian citizen refused admission to Canada based on "excessive demand" criteria found in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). The woman had made two applications for admission to Canada. At the time of ...

We investigated problems in obtaining insurance as reported by people with epilepsy who were members of a major United Kingdom patient organisation. Information was collected via questionnaires mailed to a random sample of the membership, 347 of whom replied. Overall, 62% of respondents reported experiencing a problem obtaining insurance coverage ...

Large plaques of the religious precepts generally known as the Ten Commandments were recently placed in official public spaces in several states. This practice has been successfully challenged in federal courts of appeals, and the challenge was upheld by the Supreme Court in April 2003. Yet there is another problem ...

In Delgadillo v Canada, the Federal Court of Canada upheld an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) decision to refuse refugee status to a Mexican gay male refugee claimant because he had an Internal Flight Alternative (IFA). Although the court reached this conclusion, it nevertheless agreed that Mr Delgadillo had a ...

OBJECTIVE: Nonpayment of claims by insurers may lead to major financial losses by physicians. These losses may far exceed the losses from late payment that we studied previously, although it is late payment that has been the primary focus of legislation enacted in 47 states. This article quantifies the loss ...

OBJECTIVES: Doctors are at higher risk of suicide than many other occupational groups. This study was conducted to investigate factors associated with suicide in doctors. METHOD: Psychological autopsy study of 38 working doctors who died by suicide in England and Wales between January 1991 and December 1993. RESULTS: Psychiatric illness ...

This article uses the records of criminal cases in the seigneurial courts of northern Burgundy in the late eighteenth century to analyse the relationship between village communities and the central state. In opposition to most historians of crime, who have argued that people resented the intervention of the judge in ...

According to Supreme Court rape is not only a crime against entire society, it destroyes the entire psychology of woman and pushes her into deep emotional crisis. The need at present is to mould and evolve the rape-law so as to make it more sensitive and responsive to the demands ...

This qualitative study aimed to examine cultural differences in knowledge, attitudes and practices related to erectile dysfunction (ED) utilizing focus group discussion. Six focus groups consisting of 66 men, 45-70-y-old were conducted-two Malay groups (n=18), two Chinese groups (n=25) and two Indian groups (n=23). Participants were purposely recruited from the ...

This paper presents the results and identifies problems in our experience concerning the development of Medinet sentinel dispensaries network in Romania. Medinet stations network consists in 100 computerized family doctors practices all around the country, where doctors collect primary care data and send it to the project central server through ...

In this article are salutory and awful stories, all based on true cases. They serve to illustrate how terrible the problems can be when travel insurance is not appropriately secured before a traveller becomes sick, or where the patient assumes the risk himself, without insurance, in the absence of a ...

This edition of Tips for Clinicans tackles a common patient complaint: side effects of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA). If perception is reality, patient compliance can be greatly enhanced by addressing perception of DMPA side effects proactively. As clinicians, we can educate teens on actual as well as perceived side effects, ...

OBJECTIVE: A patient-centered model of communication has often been advocated in preference to a doctor-centered model. The aim of the present study was to assess in an experimental setting how subjects' general level of anxiety affects their reactions to these two communication styles as measured by emotional reactions and satisfaction ...

In the year of 1805, Goethe almost died of urosepsis. His urological problems were not diseases arising from full health but a new variation in a life accompanied by illnesses. Some sources date the first colics he experienced to the year 1795 and others say 1805. The most dramatic period ...

The papers of Burley and Harris, and Draper and Chadwick, in this issue, raise a problem: what should doctors do when patients request an option which is not the best available? This commentary argues that doctors have a duty to offer that option which will result in the individual affected ...

Under certain circumstances, living wills or advance directives may carry legal force in the UK. This paper traces the development of advance directives, clarifies their current legal position and discusses potential problems with their use. Case histories are used to illustrate some of the common dilemmas which doctors may face.

BACKGROUND: Health-affecting psychosocial problems are inherent in general practice, present among one-third of the patients and constituting between 3 and 13% of reasons for encounter. Such problems are not always presented, and often overlooked by the doctors. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to describe the frequency of psychosocial problems presented to the ...

This article examines the extent to which people with HIV infection change their insurance and employment status over time and investigates the correlates of such changes. Data come from the AIDS Cost and Services Utilization Survey, which followed 1,949 HIV-infected adults over an 18-month period that began March 1, 1991. ...

Previous coding schemes used to assess doctor-patient interaction have been inadequate with respect to the scope of categories used to identify: (a) information exchange and relational communication, and (b) thematic topics of talk. Thirty-two doctor-patient interviews were analyzed with a new coding scheme that includes multiple categories of information exchange ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine current attitudes and knowledge of the community and medical practitioners in Queensland to end-of-life decisions. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey by postal questionnaire. PARTICIPANTS: 387 general practitioners and medical specialists and 910 community members from the Queensland electoral roll. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Responses to five questions about end-of-life decision-making, ...

BACKGROUND: In the period 1988 to the current, 44 AIDS claims were reviewed in order to assess the policies regarding AIDS testing. RESULTS: The average age of the applicant at time of issue was 30.5 years. 41 percent of the claims were for less than $5000, but this represented less ...

A doctor's personal credibility is the paramount factor in achieving success when testifying, especially as a defendant. Factors that aid credibility include a natural manner, sincerity, confidence, clarity and composure. Being argumentative, defensive, smug, flamboyant, or nervous undermines credibility. The authors offer advice to enhance the ophthalmologist's success in testifying.

Doctors are welcome members on mountaineering expeditions to remote areas, but practical advice on how to prepare and what kit to take can be difficult to find. This article is a ragbag of useful advice on diverse topics. It explains the necessary preparation, provides tips for a healthy expedition, and ...

The process and outcome of clinical tasks in an acute psychiatric unit were compared using four different communication modes: face to face, telephone, hands-free telephone, and a low-cost videoconferencing system. Six doctors and six patients took part in the study. Four assessment measures were used. The videoconferencing system was positively ...

The purpose of this study was to measure unmet needs and changes in insurance status for persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Thirty-six percent of the study's Boston-area respondents (n = 305) had a change in insurance coverage between AIDS diagnosis and interview. Medicaid coverage increased from 14% to 41%. ...