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"Community Conversations About COVID-19" was a multi-group program designed to address the need for culturally sensitive health information about COVID-19 for Latinx and Native American communities. Three medical librarians worked closely with Latinx and/or Spanish-speaking promotores, also known as community health workers (CHWs), and native patient navigators (NPNs) from Native American communities in Tucson, Arizona. In addition, the librarians collaborated with second-year medical students from the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix. The focus was to train the CHWs, NPNs, and students on how to access health information resources from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other reliable agencies. The second segment of the program provided the opportunity for the groups to learn from each other's experiences working with health information through this pandemic, which is especially important given the fact the CHWs and NPNs live in, care for, and were brought up in these communities.
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COVID-19 , Arizona , Community Health Workers/education , Humans , PandemicsABSTRACT
Health sciences libraries are often challenged to make decisions regarding physical space allocation without quantitative data to support specific user preferences. This multisite, longitudinal study sought to answer the following questions related to academic health sciences libraries: (1) Which library spaces are popular with health sciences patrons? (2) How does time of day and allocated seating space affect patron choices? (3) What similarities and differences occur in space usage across four different health sciences libraries? Results suggest health sciences libraries must develop a nuanced understanding of their patrons' preferences to best serve patrons' needs regarding space allocation. Libraries can benefit from these types of methodological studies that target specific populations, supporting more informed space allocation decision making.
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Consumer Behavior , Environment Design , Facility Design and Construction , Libraries, Dental/organization & administration , Libraries, Medical/organization & administration , Adult , Female , Humans , Kansas , Longitudinal Studies , Male , Middle Aged , United StatesABSTRACT
En el artículo se reflexiona sobre el cuidado de sí en salud como categoría de análisis en clave de la salud colectiva. Tal categoría posibilita comprender cómo los sujetos participan activamente en la promoción y el desarrollo de prácticas cotidianas que prodigan cuidado. En este marco, el cuidado de sí involucra la relación dialógica de los seres humanos consigo mismos, con sus cuerpos y con el entorno en el cual realizan sus actividades diarias. Una reflexión como la que se propone privilegia en la experiencia de los seres humanos lo micro, lo sociocultural, el mundo de la vida cotidiana como escenario de reproducción económica y social donde se concretan las interacciones y las relaciones intersubjetivas que posibilitan la emergencia de conocimiento socialmente construido con respecto al mantenimiento y al cuidado de la salud.
This article ponders about self care in health as a category of analysis related to collective health. Such category enables us to understand how subjects participate actively in the promotion and development of daily practices which provide care. Within this framework, self care involves the relation of inner dialogues of human beings with themselves, their bodies and the setting where they perform their daily activities. Such a reflection privileges the micro in human beings' experience, the socio-cultural background, the world of everyday life as scenery of economic and social reproduction where interactions become real. Such reflection also points out the intersubjective relations which enable the emergence of knowledge socially built regarding the maintenance and care of health.
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La meningoencefalitis chagásica se observaba, hasta hace poco tiempo, casi exclusivamenete en las formas congénitas de la enfermedad y en las formas agudas en menores de 4 años. Estando la infección controlada por mecanismos inmunes, el aumento de los pacientes con distintas causas de inmunodepresión, ha permitido ver manifestaciones neurológicas de la enfermedad de Chagas, ya sea por reactivaciones de infecciones latentes o en el curso de la infección aguda. El SIDA es una nueva causa de inmunodepresión en la que puede desarrollarse esta complicación de la que hay pocos casos documentados en la literatura
