Alterstice propose, depuis 10 ans maintenant, un espace inédit de production scientifique répondant à des questions socialement vives liées la prise en compte diversité inter-individuelle, sociale et sociétale. Le présent numéro thématique est lié création 2017 d’un axe au sein l’Association internationale pour recherche interculturelle (ARIC). Ce réseau a permis chercheurs chercheuses d’organi...

«Lost in Transition» – Comment s’est passé le passage des jeunes en situation de handicap la pédiatrie à médecine pour adultes? Le Docteur Sepp Holtz, directeur du cabinet formation zurichois «Kind im Zentrum» et médecin-chef ­pédiatrie développement au Kinderspital Zürich, travaille sur cette question depuis plus 20 ans. Lors congrès national Jeunes médecins premier recours Suisses (JHaS), il ...

Handicap is the result of a process of disablement whose origin is a pathological condition (disease). According to some definitions of health (e.g., a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being), the classical biomedical concept is too restrictive to cover all the consequences of disease. New models have been proposed: the impairment-disability-handicap model presented by WHO, th...

Current food supply is a major driver of timing breeding in income-breeding animals, likely because increased net energy balance directly increases reproductive hormones and advances breeding. In capital breeders, reserves, which eventually leads to improved readiness earlier To test the hypothesis that phenology birds independent we conducted an experiment on food-supplemented (“fed”) control ...

The audiometric and self-assessed handicap data of 180 elderly persons with presbyacusic-type hearing impairment were submitted to principal components analysis in order to study the factor structure underlying auditory processing. Audiometric data included pure-tone threshold sensitivity, speech understanding scores for monosyllabic words without competition, synthetic sentences within competi...

The evaluation of diagnostics and therapies includes more and more subjective, i.e. emotional and social aspects. Focussing on the handicap experienced by dysphonic patients, the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) has previously been found to be of significant clinical and scientific value for different voices. In this study the VHI questionnaire was applied to demonstrate the voice handicap of 20 male...

UNLABELLED Hearing impairment (HI) is characterized by unilateral hearing loss in one ear and can result in learning difficulties, language impairment and socio-emotional difficulties. To assess the perception of hearing handicap in adult subjects, patients with unilateral sensorineural HI, non-users of individual hearing aids. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prospective study with 52 adult subjects wi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) often requires patients to devote their time to complete the questionnaire than they expect. Given that it limits the effectiveness of THI in a busy clinical practice that desires a quick and easy assessment of tinnitus handicap, this study evaluated clinical usefulness of a Simplified version of Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI-S)...

In the context of sexual and natural selection, an allocation trade-off for carotenoid pigments may exist because of their obligate dietary origin and their role both in the antioxidant and immune systems and in the production of coloured signals in various taxa, particularly birds. When birds have expended large amounts of carotenoids to feather growth such as after autumn moult, bird health a...