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Why did some journals go behind paywalls?
Published in John Measey, How to Publish in Biological Sciences, 2023
The cost of accessing a single article comes at between 25 and 50 USD (Hagve, 2020). Any members of the public who wish to read the content must pay to access it, even though these may be the same tax payers that have paid for the work to be conducted, written and peer reviewed. This is why these publisher paywalls have been branded by some as ‘unethical’ (e.g. Logan, 2017).
Veterans’ Health
Published in James Matheson, John Patterson, Laura Neilson, Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities, 2020
In the UK, primary care information technology systems use Read codes to detail various conditions and information in a patient’s records. There are specific codes pertaining to previous military service. A study of over 40,000 patients at several primary care centres noted the prevalence of military veterans with a Read code in their records was 8.7%. After a period of brief training for staff at the practices using an online training module, and an advertising campaign to encourage veterans to make their status known, the number of veterans identified and coded increased nearly 200% [16]. The identification of veterans and knowledge of their specific health issues from increased awareness through staff training seeks to improve the overall health of service leavers. This principal has been crystallised in collaboration between the Royal College of General Practitioners and NHS England [17]. The scheme is called the Military Veteran Aware Accreditation and encourages primary care providers to identify a lead for veterans’ health. The lead will have received extra training in the health needs of veterans or may be a veteran themselves. The lead will encourage the identification and recording of veterans as well as acting as a link for patients and colleagues to access the various support services available.
Introduction
Published in Miho Ushiyama, Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK, 2019
The second factor is the information technology revolution, which allowed for the digitalisation of scientific journals. Academic journals were once only intended to be read by professionals who registered and paid a membership fee; however, now even ordinary patients are able to access this knowledge online. As a result, while doctors’ professional knowledge was once vastly superior to that of patients, it has become possible for patients to gain a high level of expertise on their own diseases.
Study of impacts of education, open-access medical publishing, and internet on women’s health in China
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2023
Asi and Williams showed that health information technologies, such as mobile health and telemedicine, have been used to support health care delivery systems worldwide (Asi & Williams, 2020). Cho et al. believed that how the level of health knowledge affects health status and utilization of health care services is still unclear (Cho et al., 2008). Fagerberg and Srholec deemed that it is often difficult to directly measure the impact of knowledge creation and dissemination on society (Fagerberg & Srholec, 2013). The full text of open access articles can be read freely, as publishing is funded through non-subscription. Carroll thought that people have higher and higher expectations for free and open access to information with the expansion of the Internet (Carroll et al., 2016). The author aims to investigate the impact of open-access medical research results published in academic journals on women’s health in this article.
“I’ve never seen a Black woman chaplain before:” From personal narratives to hypotheses
Published in Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 2023
Marilyn J. D. Barnes, Calvin Bradley, Lex Cade-White, Jaclyn P. Williams
My head recalls the words of Toni Morrison as they travel from the edges of my mind to a center point. “What happens to the writerly imagination of a black author who is at some level always conscious of representing one’s race to, or in spite of, a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal’ or race-free?” (Morrison, 1992). I add gender to Morrison’s query. An interpretation of Morrison’s quote in the context of this conversation means that the “black author” is an archetype for the black chaplain. The “readers” are translated as potential care receivers who have “read” my personhood in a glance. The “writerly imagination” is a conversation partner when investigating the effect of the “White gaze,” or any externally constructed paradigm, on pastoral imagination and facilitation. This helps me. It helps to have a translation partner.
The potential role of 2D-speckle tracking echocardiography for detecting left ventricular systolic dysfunction in patients with Parkinson’s disease: a case control study
Published in Acta Cardiologica, 2021
Mostafa Osama El Mokadem, Amr Hassan, Mona Hussein, Yousef Mohsen Mohamed
A case-control study was performed on 40 patients with PD (PD group) and 40 healthy controls (control group). Our patients were selected from the Neurology outpatient clinic of Beni-Suef University Hospital. The study was carried out between April 2019 and March 2020. Written consent to participate was obtained from all subjects involved in this study or their relatives. The study was approved by the Institutional Research Ethical Committee. We included patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease who were diagnosed based on British Brain Bank criteria [10]. Selected patients should have the capability to read, write. We had excluded patients with a past history of myocardial ischaemia, moderate to severe valvular heart disease, established heart failure diagnosis, those with poor echocardiographic views that interfere with accurate strain analysis (e.g. chronic obstructive airway disease, morbid obese patients), patients with rhythm disturbances, previous pacemaker implantation as well as patients with auditory or visual disorders interfering with the ability to complete their evaluation. We excluded also cases with secondary parkinsonism or atypical parkinsonism, patients with evidence of concomitant cerebrovascular stroke linked to the onset of the disease and cases with MRI brain showing structural lesion.