Social factors in medical deprivation.

The impact of sleep deprivation on sleepiness, risk factors and professional performance in medical residents.

BACKGROUND Prolonged working hours and sleep deprivation can exert negative effects on professional performance and health. OBJECTIVES To assess the relationship between sleep deprivation, key metabolic markers, and professional performance in medical residents. METHODS We compared 35 residents working the in-house night shift with 35 senior year medical students in a cross-sectional cohort...

Environmental Quality and Social Deprivation

Motivating medical students for social accountability in medical schools

Introduction: As health professionals, physicians are accountablefor their professional practice. The aim of this study was to explainthe medical students’ motivation to attain social accountability inmedical schools, based on the experience of both students andfaculties.Methods: We conducted a qualitative conventional contentanalysis research in Shiraz Unive...

proficiency level and factors fostering reticence in efl learners

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...

Medical and social factors influencing admission to residential care.

The increasing number of people aged over 75 in Britain makes heavy demands on health and social services. To obtain accurate information for rational allocation of resources to domiciliary and residential services a group of 98 housebound women over 75 were compared with a group of 99 women of the same age in residential care. They had a similar range of physical disorders with the exception t...