Health topics for Parliament

Parliament

Disaster concentrates the mind wonderfully. The Shelton tragedy forced M.P.s to grapple with mental illness once more in Parliament's spring term after a long lull in which national economic troubles claimed their attention to the exclusion of almost all else. Mr. Kenneth Robinson, the Minister of Health, finally agreed ?and to be fair, without too much reluctance?to hold the Shelton inquiry in...

Core topics of health care ethics. The identification of core topics for interprofessional education.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this project was to identify core topics of health care ethics that could be taught through an inter-professional approach to undergraduate education. DESIGN Five nominal group technique workshops. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Teaching staff from different professional disciplines in our university (nursing branches, occupational therapy and physiotherapy). RESULTS Seven...

A free lung health check for the European Parliament: Healthy Lungs for Life.

Marcel Proust, the celebrated early twentieth century French writer, suffered from severe bronchial asthma his entire life, eventually succumbing to pneumonia. In 1900, he wrote: “An attack of asthma of unbelievable violence and tenacity – such is the depressing balance sheet of my night, which it obliged me to spend on my feet in spite of the early hour at which I got up yesterday.” In the twe...

A Model for Mining Public Health Topics from Twitter

We present the Ailment Topic Aspect Model (ATAM), a new topic model for Twitter that associates symptoms, treatments and general words with diseases (ailments). We train ATAM on a new collection of 1.6 million tweets discussing numerous health related topics. ATAM isolates more coherent ailments, such as influenza, infections, obesity, as compared to standard topic models. Furthermore, ATAM mat...

Mental Health Topics and Resources for Patients and Families