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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu…
Patience Mbozi, 1 1, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Joseph Chaila
There is a significant unmet need for palliative care globally: of the 58 million people dying annually, it was estimated that at least 60% will have the prolonged advanced illness and dying and would benefit from palliative care. Zambia has a total populatio…
Jeffrey N. Lubin, Stephan Hendrick, Branden Thornhill-Miller, 1 1, Todd I. Lubart
A number of prominent solution-focused brief therapists have expressed the view that, to its detriment, this school of therapy tends to downplay emotion. Accordingly, we contend that, given that emotion is a primal binding force, the bonding component of the…
Patience Mbozi, Cathy Ratcliff
Appropriate adherence to World Health Organisation (WHO) pain management guidelines is vital in palliative care centres as it promotes the comfort of patients who are experiencing pain and it improves their quality of life. WHO (1996) highlighted the use of t…
Baïdy Sy Kane, Maïmouna Sow, Boundia Djiba, Awa Cheikh Ndao, Mohamed Dieng, Souhaibou Ndongo, Abdoulaye Pouye
Introduction: Hemorrhage by ruptured cerebral aneurysm is a rare and severe complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We reported a case of this complication. Observation: A 24-year-old woman black Senegalese patient was followed in our department s…
Sayuri M. Naruse, Mark Moss
Although positive psychology interventions are generally aimed at individuals, when considering couples, a dyadic approach may be more effective. In terms of a couples’ wellbeing, their relationship is one of the most important factors. As such, interventions…
Nozomu Mandai, Mayumi Watanabe, 1 1
Background: While public municipal hospitals in Japan are supported by public financing and are less likely to fail than private hospitals, more than half are in financial deficit. Hospitals running at a deficit may have poorer outcomes and less investment in…
Filipa Palha, 1 1, David L. Roberts
Social cognition is a promising treatment target in schizophrenia because of its close link to social functioning impairment. Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) has received support in efficacy trials, but its effectiveness in routine clinical c…
Maduike Chiehiura Onwubiko Ezeibe, Aniefiok Emerson Udom, Obiageli Favour Onyeachonam, Ijeoma Joy Ogbonna, Clara Amaka Akpan, Obianuju Nkiruka Okoroafor
To investigate sources of Salmonella pullorum infections that cause frequent outbreaks of bacillary white diarrhea in poultry and sporadic human food poisoning in Nigeria, prevalence of the infection among day-old-chicks in Akwa-Ibom State, south-south Nigeri…
TJ Robinson Moncatar, Keiko Nakamura, Mosiur Rahman, Kaoruko Seino
Background: Increase of elderly people living alone has been a concern even in the Philippines where filial piety is widely practiced with the support of large number of young people. Objectives of this study were to examine the relationships between living a…
Kiyomi Morimoto, 1 1
Objective: This study aimed to clarify the possible use of and points to improve a home-visit nursing interventional lymphedema care program (plan) we developed. Methods: The subjects were visiting nurses with at least three years of home-visit nursing experi…
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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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