The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's Tropical Disease Research Program: A 25-Year Retrospective Review 1976-1999

Documents and details the foundation's commitment to the program from its inception, and provides an analysis of its successes until the completion of the program in 1999

Prediction of Treatment Response in Chronic Pain Patients: The Relationship Between Illness Behavior and Self-Concept

This study investigated self-concepts held by chronic pain patients. It was hypothesized that self schemas of probable and ideal levels of control, dependence on medical care, physical vulnerability, affiliation and conflict with physicians would predict response to treatment. At intake into a three week in-patient program 72 pain patients were given a self perception scale which measured these five dimensions across three possible selves (now self, probable self and ideal self). Patients were also given at intake, and at follow-up (5 weeks after discharge), a battery of psychological and behavioral measures. Control, dependence on medical care, and vulnerability (CDV) were identified as the three most important constructs since patients rated themselves lower and identified themselves more frequently on these dimensions than they did on affiliation or conflict with physicians. Three types of analyses of outcome were conducted. (1) Follow-up measures were regressed upon the three CDV scales, a global measure of optimism and a measure of negative affectivity. Negative affectivity was found to be the measure most consistently related to changes in mood and pain; and Probable Self was found to be the best predictor of behavioral improvement. (2) Patients\u27 subjective estimates of improvement showed the strongest pattern of correlations with Self and Probable Self. (3) Differences in the intake scores of patients identified at follow-up as active (N = 23) and inactive (N = 33) were also examined Probable Self and Ideal Self discriminated between active and inactive patients. Now Self was marginally related to active status at follow-up. Negative affectivity, optimism, mood, self-esteem, pain and physical activities at intake were unrelated to active status at follow-up. Implications for the importance of a domain specific measure of a self-schema of future functioning are discussed

Aerospace Medicine and Biology. A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 151

This bibliography lists 195 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in January 1976

UWOMJ Volume 9, No 2, January 1939

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistryhttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/uwomj/1110/thumbnail.jp

World Alzheimer report 2015: the global impact of dementia

Today, over 46 million people live with dementia worldwide, more than the population of Spain. This number is estimated to increase to 131.5 million by 2050. Dementia also has a huge economic impact. Today, the total estimated worldwide cost of dementia is US $818 billion, and it will become a trillion dollar disease by 2018. This means that if dementia care were a country, it would be the world’s 18th largest economy, more than the market values of companies such as Apple (US$ 742 billion), Google (US$368 billion) and Exxon (US$ 357 billion). In many parts of the world, there is a growing awareness of dementia, but across the globe it remains the case that a diagnosis of dementia can bring with it stigma and social isolation. Today, we estimate that 94% of people living with dementia in low and middle income countries are cared for at home. These are regions where health and care systems often provide limited or no support to people living with dementia or to their families. The 2015 World Alzheimer Report updates data on the prevalence, incidence, cost and trends of dementia worldwide. It also estimates how these numbers will increase in the future, leaving us with no doubt that dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and other causes, is one of the biggest global public health and social care challenges facing people today and in the future. Authors Prof Martin Prince The Global Observatory for Ageing and Dementia Care, King’s College London, UK Prof Anders Wimo Department of Neurobiology, Care sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Dr Maëlenn Guerchet The Global Observatory for Ageing and Dementia Care, King’s College London, UK Miss Gemma-Claire Ali The Global Observatory for Ageing and Dementia Care, King’s College London, UK Dr Yu-Tzu Wu Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, UK Dr Matthew Prina The Global Observatory for Ageing and Dementia Care, King’s College London, UK Alzheimer\u27s Disease Internationa

UWOMJ Volume 1, No 1, October 1930

UWOMJ University of Western Ontario Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistryhttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/uwomj/1084/thumbnail.jp