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Personal Observations (personal + observation)

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Medical Sciences	66%

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Islands and beers: Toasting a discriminatory approach to small island manufacturing

ASIA PACIFIC VIEWPOINT, Issue 1 2010
Godfrey Baldacchino
Abstract This paper explores the relationship between beers and island development, using a global sweep but with a special reference to the insular Pacific. It adopts a discriminatory approach, touching upon the role and impact that niche and bouquet beer manufacturing can have on the socioeconomic development of small islands. It departs from a personal observation: many small island jurisdictions have their own brewery. Indeed, the brewery could also be the island territory's largest indigenous manufacturing concern. While small islands are associated with low manufacturing capacity and diseconomies of scale, nevertheless ,a local brewery' comes across, in many cases, as a profitable and glaring exception that speaks to the attractions and virtues of locality branding. [source]

Protection of the young child's brain: personal observations and thoughts in postwar stress syndrome and in natural catastrophes

ACTA PAEDIATRICA, Issue 4 2000
6 May 199, The Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Lecture at Uppsala University
This paper calls attention to the plight of children exposed to various traumas associated with wars and other natural disasters around the world. Little systematic attention has been paid to the mental health needs of child survivors of armed conflict. Our observations since 1968 and experiences around the world suggest that there are significant differences in the degree to which children have been prepared in anticipation of exposure to violence and in interventions applied after their exposure. It is the author's impression that prevention and intervention can be quite powerful when employed in these situations. [source]

Adopted Children: Core Issues and Unique Challenges

JOURNAL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC NURSING, Issue 4 2002
Eileen M. Smit MSN
TOPIC Psychological impact of adoption and resulting core issues for adopted children. PURPOSE To raise awareness of the psychological impact of adoption. SOURCES Published literature and personal observations. CONCLUSIONS Adoption raises unique issues and challenges for the child and adoptive parents. Resolving the issues of adoption is a lifelong process. Through an awareness of the issues inherent in adoption, nurses and parents can use strategies that will enhance childrens self-esteem and decrease their emotional vulnerability. [source]

Management of children with holoprosencephaly,

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS, Issue 1 2010
Eric B. Levey
Abstract Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is the most common malformation of the embryonic forebrain in humans. Although HPE occurs along a continuous spectrum, it has been categorized into four types from most severe to least severe: alobar, semilobar, lobar, and middle interhemispheric (MIH) variant. Facial malformations are often associated with HPE and usually correlate with the severity of brain malformation. With the most severely affected newborns, there is a high mortality rate in the first month of life, however, with milder forms of HPE, the majority survive beyond infancy. The Carter Centers for Brain Research in Holoprosencephaly and Related Malformations have enrolled 182 living children in a prospective research study. Based on previously published reports using this database, reports from other investigators, as well as our experience and personal observations, the range of developmental, neurological, and medical problems found in children with HPE is described in this article. Virtually all children with HPE have some developmental disability and the severity correlates with the severity of the brain malformation on neuroimaging. Common medical problems include hydrocephalus, seizures, motor impairment, oromotor dysfunction with risk of poor nutrition and aspiration, chronic lung disease, gastroesophageal reflux, constipation, hypothalamic dysfunction with disturbed sleep,wake cycles and temperature dysregulation, as well as endocrine dysfunction. Diabetes insipidus in particular is found in about 70% of children with classic HPE. Recommendations for management of these problems are given based on experiences of the authors and familiarity with the literature. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]

Reconciling pedagogy and health sciences to promote Indigenous health

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Issue 2 2000
Denise Main
Objectives: To increase knowledge and skills regarding Indigenous learning styles. To raise awareness within the tertiary education sector that Aboriginal students learn differently and that Indigenous cultures and pedagogy have validity and strength. To examine pedagogical strategies that assist both tertiary students capacity for learning and university lecturers' delivery and evaluation of teaching and learning strategies. Methods: A qualitative, ethnographic framework using personal observations, field and classroom experience, interviews and review of literature in the fields of education, public health and Indigenous cultural perspectives. Results: Aboriginal people are the receivers of services and programs that will be delivered, in the majority of cases, by university-educated, non-Aboriginal, professional health care providers. Indigenous students face specific challenges in obtaining an effective education for working in the Aboriginal and wider community in the field of public health; the challenges relate to culture, health paradigms and community. Conclusion: Lecturers in health and human science courses for Aboriginal students need to both examine and appreciate the cultural constraints on learning faced by their students within the context of mainstream curriculum, and to build on the large pool of knowledge and learning styles that Aboriginal society bequeaths to Aboriginal students. Implications: Academics can apply the cultural differences and knowledge base of the Indigenous community as a force to promote health through learning. [source]

Eye alignment in low birth weight and/or prematurity

ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA, Issue 2009
E ARING
To describe eye alignment in children with low birth weight and/or born prematurely. Through a review of published studies and personal observations, describe what we have learnt from the past for the future about eye alignment. This talk will focus on what we know about eye alignment in different levels of prematurity and body weight as well as describe eye alignment in different patient groups with high frequency of low birth weight and/or prematurity. [source]