Health inequality is not only about who reaches a health facility. It is also about what happens once patients are inside the consultation room.
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Medical volunteering can damage important relationships between health professionals and patients.
Each encounter that health-care students have with patients and families helps them understand real-world patient needs. That means all Canadians have a role in educating future health-care providers.
Health workers who picked their noses were more likely to contract COVID, according to a new study. But here’s what the study means for the rest of us.
Criminalisation of medical judgment may interfere with appropriate medical decision making.
Pharmacists develop basic mental health knowledge as part of their formal training. But they report a lack the confidence about raising mental health issues with patients.
Universities and the professions are changing in response to climate change. When will the advances in knowledge and practice we are already seeing prompt governments to act with the required urgency?
Involving senior health science students in the everyday practice helped address the workload in facilities, improved quality of patient care, and increased patient and staff satisfaction.
Professor Akinkugbe made significant contributions in hypertension and renal medicine research. He was widely acclaimed as the authority on hypertension in African people.
Gross negligence won’t be excused under any circumstances. But standards for reasonable medical care can’t be the same as in pre-COVID-19 times.
Changes in South Africa’s higher education sector have increased the number and intensity of roles academics take on. This has led to a spike in workload and associated stress.
How Whatsapp supports nurse students in Nigeria and helps them transition into the workplace.
Despite protective apology legislation across Canada, many doctors and other health-care professionals remain too afraid or ashamed to apologize after medical errors.
Can empathy be taught to students in the healthcare professions? A groundbreaking project is using visual art to ensure they pay attention to the whole person, not just the disease.
Spiritual engagement is losing out to efficiency when it comes to older age.
Throughout the medical profession, there is a culture of fear surrounding mental illness.
Skilled mid level health care workers can relieve the workload of other health care workers and can help make universal health care a reality for South Africans.
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Professor of Psychiatry for Older Adults, University of Huddersfield
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Professor, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Academic Programs Curator, Museums and Collections Department, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Military Psychology (Visiting), Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor in Health professions education, Stellenbosch University
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Director: Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health and Professor of Rural Health, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University
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Professor Emerita, Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Psychology, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, Nursing, MacEwan University
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Visiting Professor at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Collaborative care coordinator at Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health, Stellenbosch University
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Executive Director, Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success and Professor of Public Policy, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, Pharmacy Discipline, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Northern British Columbia
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Honorary lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand