INTRODUCTION There is increasing international interest in universal, health promoting services for pregnancy and the first three years of life and the concept of proportionate universalism. Drawing on a narrative review of literature, this paper explores mechanisms by which such services might contribute to health improvement and reducing health inequalities. OBJECTIVES Through a narrative r...

Piccoli GB, Soragna G, Rossetti M, Putaggio S, Perrotta L, Bonetto A, Magnano A, Vercellone F (2005) NonCompliance after a Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation – A Narrative CaseAnalysis Involving Different PatientPhysician Relationships and Ethical Frames. Tx Med 17: 107-114 Non-Compliance after a Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation – A Narrative Case-Analysis Involving Different Patient-Physician Rela...

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Social psychologists argue that people’s past weighs on their present (e.g. Liu and Hilton, 2005). The present chapter intends to show that language, particularly narrative language is an extremely useful device so as to trace the impact of past experiences on current psychological conditions. We will first review some basic tenets of narrative psychology. In the next section, we will contrast ...

Interactive narrative is a blossoming field, with new systems and approaches being developed each year. However, despite this burgeoning array of designs, little work has been done in empirically evaluating and comparing them (Weyhrauch 1997; Nelson and Mateas 2005; Magerko 2007). Such a comparison is complicated by the fact that different systems are used to create different narratives; it is ...

This paper deals with the question of relations between videogames and narrative. By reading many of the existing studies on this topic, opposite conclusions can be drawn about the link between interactivity and narrative. To help us clarify these opposite conclusions, we will first use a distinction between story and storytelling. We will then analyse a corpus of narrative videogames to identi...

The purpose of this research was to use narrative analysis to study final papers in a Social and Cultural Issues in Health Care course in order to understand how to improve nursing student learning about discrimination and oppression in health care. The study addressed two questions: a) What were the dimensions of diversity in the student population, including hidden dimensions such as social c...

Deficits in verbal working memory (vWM) have often been reported in children with Specific Language Impairments (SLIs) and might significantly contribute to their linguistic difficulties. The linguistic and narrative skills of a group of children with diagnosis of SLI were compared to those of a group of children with typical development. The linguistic assessment included a comprehensive analy...