Recently, health policy in the UK has begun to engage with the concept of 'parity of esteem' between physical and mental healthcare. This has led one recent initiative to improve service provision for first episode psychosis, which aims to bring it into line with some of the principles underpinning good practice in cancer care. In this paper, we consider some of the metaphorical consequences of...

Collective MPI operations are an interesting research topic, since their implementation is complex and there are many different possible ways to improve their performance. It is not always obvious how much a given application will gain from such improvements and some of the methods to improve collective performance are costly and time-consuming to implement. In this paper we use a hybrid MPI si...

Few studies have examined the nature of microaggressions experienced by employees human service agencies. This exploratory study identified types that women and non-binary people color experience within their agency settings. Narrative data were collected using a web survey. The survey consisted two instruments, both developed researcher--a non-categorical demographic questionnaire asked partic...

This address was delivered by Margaret A. Powers, PhD, RD, CDE, President, Health Care & Education, of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), at the ADA's 76th Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, LA, on 11 June 2016. Dr. Powers conducts research and has a clinical practice as a registered dietitian and diabetes educator at the International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet in Minneapolis. Her...