risk behaviours

Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C Infection Among Current and Former Injection Drug Users Within a Multidisciplinary Treatment Model at a Community Health Centre.

...  of 34 patients. Seventy per cent of study patients had no postsecondary education, 85% were unemployed and one-third were unstably housed. A majority of study patients self-reported mental health problems. Of the 14 patients who initiated antiviral treatment in… Continue reading

Neuroimaging of Brain Changes Associated With Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease.

...  heroin injectors’ perceptions of and responses to the overdose warning, including reasons for failing to adhere to risk reduction recommendations. FINDINGS: Although nearly all participants were aware of the warning, their recollections of the message and the timing of… Continue reading

A Rare Case of a Patient With a Foreign Body in the Esophagus for Two Years Which Perforated Into the Mediastinum.

...  HubMed – eating   Training practitioners to deliver opportunistic multiple behaviour change counselling in primary care: a cluster randomised trial. BMJ. 2013; 346: f1191Butler CC, Simpson SA, Hood K, Cohen D, Pickles T, Spanou C, McCambridge J, Moore L,… Continue reading

Code-51: Keeping Suicidal Veterans Safe in the Emergency Department.

...  sample of NZ secondary school students and to describe the health concerns and specific health issues for which young people had difficulty accessing health care.Random sample of 9107 NZ secondary school students participated in a 2007 health survey using… Continue reading

Eating Disorders: Predictors of Bovine TB Risk Behaviour Amongst Meat Handlers in Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Study Guided by the Health Belief Model.

...  of Bovine TB Risk Behaviour amongst Meat Handlers in Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Study Guided by the Health Belief Model. Filed under: Eating Disorders PLoS One. 2013; 8(2): e56091Hambolu D, Freeman J, Taddese HB Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) is still a… Continue reading