A NEGLECTED DIMENSION OF HEALTH CARE

spiritual care, neglected aspect of health

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Highlighting a valuable dimension in health care librarianship: A systematic review

Background: Educational role is one of the most important roles of librarians, which has taken on wider dimensions. A review of the literature on the training programs provided by librarians revealed an evolution of the ideas and trends in this area. This systematic review aimed at providing a clear image of the available educational programs, their target groups, and the way they are performed...

Horizontal Inequalities: A Neglected Dimension of Development

Current thinking about development places individuals firmly at the centre of concern for analysis and policy. This paper explores why groups are important for individual welfare and social stability, and argues that horizontal inequalities (i.e. inequalities between culturally formed groups) is a very important but neglected dimension of development. Most attention is focussed on inequality be...

Acceptability – a neglected dimension of access to health care: findings from a study on childhood convulsions in rural Tanzania

BACKGROUND Acceptability is a poorly conceptualized dimension of access to health care. Using a study on childhood convulsion in rural Tanzania, we examined social acceptability from a user perspective. The study design is based on the premise that a match between health providers' and clients' understanding of disease is an important dimension of social acceptability, especially in trans-cultu...

Mental health care in aboriginals is neglected.