Stigmatisation and shame – a qualitative study of living with obesity
Healthcare personnel should treat obese people with openness and without prejudice. By doing so, they can help them develop a resistance to shame.
Healthcare personnel should treat obese people with openness and without prejudice. By doing so, they can help them develop a resistance to shame.
Almost 84% of people over the age of 70 used a computer, smartphone or tablet to maintain contact with their friends and social networks. Only 8% used these media to contact healthcare personnel.
Norwegian health care personnel find the systematic follow-up of care pathways and the collaboration with the primary health service to be poorer than other organizational areas.
Course participants learn to shift their attention from disease to health, from a critical to an accepting attitude about themselves, and from despair to hope and belief in their own ability to cope.
It will be more difficult to observe patients and perform clinical assessments. Nor do all patients have sufficiently good digital skills or adequate health literacy.
Quality improvement measures led to midwives reducing the use of cardiotocography (CTG) on admission by 47 per cent. Nevertheless, they continued to use CTG more often than necessary.
Patients fail to turn up for their treatment in private institutions if they feel inadequately involved, suffer dwindling motivation or feel pressurised into accepting the treatment.
From 2000 to 2006, the number of planned vaginal deliveries fell; numbers started rising again nearer 2012. Practice was probably influenced by the Term Breech Trial.
The infection control measures may have impacted negatively on the breastfeeding assistance provided for first-time mothers in postnatal facilities. There was also a greater reliance on breast-milk substitutes than normal.