Health, education, and social care provision after diagnosis of childhood visual disability

Aim: To investigate the health, education, and social care provision for children newly diagnosed with visual disability.Method: This was a national prospective study, the British Childhood Visual Impairment and Blindness Study 2 (BCVIS2), ascertaining new diagnoses of visual impairment or severe visual impairment and blindness (SVIBL), or equivalent vi-sion. Data collection was performed by managing clinicians up to 1-year follow-up, and included health and developmental needs, and health, education, and social care provision.Results: BCVIS2 identified 784 children newly diagnosed with visual impairment/SVIBL (313 with visual impairment, 471 with SVIBL). Most children had associated systemic disorders (559 [71%], 167 [54%] with visual impairment, and 392 [84%] with SVIBL). Care from multidisciplinary teams was provided for 549 children (70%). Two-thirds (515) had not received an Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP). Fewer children with visual impairment had seen a specialist teacher (SVIBL 35%, visual impairment 28%, χ2p < 0.001), or had an EHCP (11% vs 7%, χ2p < 0 . 01).Interpretation: Families need additional support from managing clinicians to access recommended complex interventions such as the use of multidisciplinary teams and educational support. This need is pressing, as the population of children with visual impairment/SVIBL is expected to grow in size and complexity.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

Barriers to HPV Vaccination

Despite the vast advances in health care and the technology that continues to simplify care for persons with maladies, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) [specifically human papilloma virus (HPV)] continue to plague the world. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in United States (Bratic, Seyferth, Bocchini Jr., & Bocchini, 2016). It affects roughly 79 million Americans, and there are about 14 million people at risk for contracting this disease every year. HPV does not discriminate and affects both men and women, as well as persons of all races, and all gender and sexual orientations including queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and heterosexual. HPV is so common that nearly all sexually active men and women will get the virus at some point in their lives. Approximately $8 billion is spent annually on the management of HPV infections, exceeding the economic burden of any other sexually transmitted infection except human immunodeficiency virus (Centers for Disease Control, 2016a). Clearly, HPV can affect all people in the United States in some way

Feast of Flowers

Jim Draper’s Feast of Flowers is a multi-disciplinary project that critically investigates new ways of understanding Florida’s history, environmental aesthetics and the human place within the natural order. It is comprised of a collection of original paintings along with a digital anthology of collected works that seek to explain Florida’s enigmatic environmental and social landscape. Essential in offering a unique perspective to the 500th anniversary of the naming of Florida, the curated document features responses from voices of various disciplines and serves as a cultural critique of our state, while Draper’s paintings explain a personal relationship with the unique Floridan ecosystem. “Juan Ponce de León is referenced in the collection as an archetype and is treated more as a concept than an individual; he’s certainly not celebrated as a hero. I think that he represents that part of our psyche that we hope we can overcome: the individual as possessor. I want to show an alternative path through which we can learn to live as an active participant within the natural order. So another way to look at this project would be Ponce vs. the Butterfly.

Feast of Flowers

Jim Draper’s Feast of Flowers is a multi-disciplinary project that critically investigates new ways of understanding Florida’s history, environmental aesthetics and the human place within the natural order. It is comprised of a collection of original paintings along with a digital anthology of collected works that seek to explain Florida’s enigmatic environmental and social landscape. Essential in offering a unique perspective to the 500th anniversary of the naming of Florida, the curated document features responses from voices of various disciplines and serves as a cultural critique of our state, while Draper’s paintings explain a personal relationship with the unique Floridan ecosystem. “Juan Ponce de León is referenced in the collection as an archetype and is treated more as a concept than an individual; he’s certainly not celebrated as a hero. I think that he represents that part of our psyche that we hope we can overcome: the individual as possessor. I want to show an alternative path through which we can learn to live as an active participant within the natural order. So another way to look at this project would be Ponce vs. the Butterfly.