Caring for Heroes

Unsung heroes who put their lives at risk? Informal caring, health and neighbourhood attachment.

BACKGROUND Previous studies have highlighted the effects of informal caring on mental health, but evidence for its wider impact remains scant. We explored associations between informal care and a range of health (and health-related) measures. We also considered previously neglected differences between informal care 'at home' and care elsewhere, along with neighbourhood attachment as a possible ...

Green Heroes

1 Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica, Sezione di Parassitologia, University of Rome-La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, 2 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Centre Medical Saint Camille, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 4 Kenya Medical Research Institute, Wellcome Trust Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Resea...

The Need for Heroes

In a play about Galileo, Bertold Brecht has one of his characters comment bitterly after Galileo's recantation that "unhappy is a land that breeds no heroes." The reply by Galileo is "unhappy is a land that needs heroes." This exchange was brought to mind by David Hartmann's comments [1] on Ralph Nader's call for whistle blowinc engineers. Hartmann points out the risks incurred by any engineer ...

Caring for Pressurized Tissues

زخم های فشاری، یکی از عوارض ناخواسته درمانی بوده و اکثراً با درک هوشیاری و مراقبت بموقع قابل پیشگیری است. امروزه زخم های فشاری یا زخم بستر یکی از مسائل بغرنج درمانی محسوب می شود و این مسئله تا حد زیادی مربوط به این واقعیت است که، تعداد بسیاری از بیماران سالخورده از بیماری های جدی و حاد جان سالم بدر برده ولی به علت سالخوردگی و پاتولوژی عوامل چندگانه بیشتر در معرض ابتلاء به زخم های بستر می باشند.

Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others.