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Global Health in a Digital World
Published in Rui Nunes, Healthcare as a Universal Human Right, 2022
Global health is a worthwhile goal for different reasons. First, health is an essential good for the human condition. We must promote it universally so that all human beings can enjoy this right. Indeed, most developed societies recognize the existence of a basic right of access to healthcare of appropriate quality and consider it a positive welfare right (Nunes et al. 2017). Second, global health is important because globalization has allowed us to approach different people by stimulating interconnectivity, for example, through social networking. This implies that social and economic inequalities among people and even within each society are progressively less tolerated. Third, even in the absence of truly effective institutions of global governance, interdependence has become the keyword regarding relations between peoples (Jia and Wang 2019). Therefore, global health presents a win-win situation for all concerned parties.
Afterword
Published in Antonella Sansone, Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive, 2020
Our world is in crisis, overwhelmed by political, environmental and mental health issues and endless conflicts. The Earth was begging us to look at the pollution for a very long time and stop all the transport. All these problems are symptoms of the deeper issues of the human condition, so to heal the world, we have to heal the human condition. Much of human life that has characterised the indigenous ways of knowing and living and sustained well-being has to be brought back to life. The human condition is the most important frontier of the natural sciences. It originates from life before birth, before conception. The human condition solves all the problems at the source. It is the responsibility of every human now to understand it, starting from children’s basic needs as early as during life in the womb. A solution can be found in the training of the mind, heart and wisdom. This can create an enormous force and change through cooperation but also individual action.
Possession states and allied syndromes
Published in David Enoch, Basant K. Puri, Hadrian Ball, Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes, 2020
David Enoch, Basant K. Puri, Hadrian Ball
Furthermore, it is also accepted that there is (whatever its nature) a spiritual dimension to the human condition, and all human beings, to varying extents, have spiritual needs. It is not surprising, therefore, that the anguish and distress associated with severe mental illness on occasions is manifested in pathological thoughts, perceptions and other abnormal experiences which contain a diabolical content. It follows, therefore, that it is incumbent upon all practising psychiatrists to maintain some awareness of these aspects so as to ensure that the practitioner is always in a position to offer appropriate help to his/her patients.
A History of the Concept of Interpersonal Relations in Nursing Based on the Psychiatric Nursing Textbook Literature
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2023
… first, the nurse must possess a body of knowledge with the concomitant ability to use it, i.e., she must possess and use a disciplined intellectual approach to problems. … Throughout this work the operational use of concepts and principles is stressed, behavioural concepts being considered as experiences encountered and undergone by human beings – not mere dictionary definitions. The second requirement, necessary if the nurse is to establish and maintain helping relationships, is the ability to use oneself therapeutically. In order to do this it is necessary for the nurse to possess a profound understanding of the human condition. A basic assumption of this text is that the nurse’s beliefs about the nature of the human condition will profoundly affect her perceptions of self and others, and will affect her ability to achieve relatedness. An understanding of the human condition is necessary to establish a helping relationship (Travelbee, 1971, p. 1)
How women varsity athletes high in self-compassion experience unexpected stressors
Published in Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2022
Benjamin J. Sereda, Nick L. Holt, Amber D. Mosewich
Self-compassion has been positioned as a personal coping resource (Allen & Leary, 2010; Mosewich et al., 2019) and may aid athletes in managing unexpected stressors. Self-compassion involves relating to oneself in a way that promotes responding to challenges with kindness, openness, and connectedness to the larger human experience (Neff, 2003a). There are three positively valenced dimensions of the construct of self-compassion: self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness (Neff, 2003a). Self-kindness involves being warm and caring toward yourself during times of struggle as opposed to being overly harsh and self-critical. Common humanity consists of understanding that you are not alone in your experiences and involves accepting that setbacks, failures, imperfections, and inadequacies are part of the human condition that everyone experiences. Mindfulness includes acknowledging, as opposed to ignoring, your current thoughts, feelings, and emotions, keeping them in a balanced awareness and avoiding over-identifying with negative emotions. Although researchers do not yet fully understand the processes through which self-compassion impacts the stress and coping process, a self-compassionate perspective can be taught and is associated with many adaptive outcomes in sport, particularly in times of setback, challenge, and failure (Ferguson et al., 2014, 2015; Mosewich et al., 2013, 2019; Reis et al., 2015).
Preclinical target validation for non-addictive therapeutics development for pain
Published in Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets, 2022
Richard Hargreaves, Karen Akinsanya, Seena K. Ajit, Neel T. Dhruv, Jamie Driscoll, Peter Farina, Narender Gavva, Marie Gill, Andrea Houghton, Smriti Iyengar, Carrie Jones, Annemieke Kavelaars, Ajamete Kaykas, Walter J. Koroshetz, Pascal Laeng, Jennifer M. Laird, Donald C. Lo, Johan Luthman, Gordon Munro, Michael L. Oshinsky, G. Sitta Sittampalam, Sarah A. Woller, Amir P. Tamiz
Target validation requires assessment of a target’s strength based on a variety of evidence, including in vitro and in vivo data and human evidence. A rigorous target validation should carefully consider the relative weight that should be placed on any one piece of evidence. More precisely, the therapeutic discovery effort should prioritize investment in demonstrating proof of target engagement in relevant tissues and proof of relevant mechanism of action in humans. Genetic links between animal models and the human condition, such as the ability to genetically modify the target (e.g. knockouts), evidence from silencing experiments (e.g. RNAi, antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs)), and presence of multimodal biomarkers all increase confidence in the target. Utilizing appropriate biomarkers throughout the target validation process to help identify the pathophysiological subsets of pain populations and enhance the predictability of the analgesic efficacy of the therapeutic modality is another important approach to enhance translatability. Overall, targets with associated biomarkers or target engagement markers are often more successful than those without biomarkers [88].