PROBLEM Maternal mortality is particularly high among poor, indigenous women in rural Peru, and the use of facility care is low, partly due to cultural insensitivities of the health care system. APPROACH A culturally appropriate delivery care model was developed in poor and isolated rural communities, and implemented between 1999 and 2001 in cooperation with the Quechua indigenous communities...

Studying these exceptional people, however, is fraught with difficulty, controversy and the dangers of promoting bad science. The potential benefits of highlighting the unusual recoveries should be balanced against the risks, experts warn, including offering patients false hope, blaming those who succumb and encouraging alternative treatments in place of conventional methods that could prolong ...

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Many multinational companies have been blaming their deteriorating performance in China on the country’s economic doldrums. They expect their businesses to improve within a few years, when the economy rebounds. But China’s economic difficulties are masking a more fundamental problem: too many me-too strateg ies. Succeeding in China requires a more targeted, creative, and differentiated approach...

I’ve written before about rising demand for acute care in the United Kingdom, insufficient capacity in community services, delayed transfers of care, and the comparatively low number and high occupancy of hospital beds. But hospitals shouldn’t default to blaming other services. Some of the major variation in bed occupancy among hospitals might be explained by what happens there—our internal pro...

CONTEXT Proneness to overgeneralization of self-blame is a core part of cognitive vulnerability to major depressive disorder (MDD) and remains dormant after remission of symptoms. Current neuroanatomical models of MDD, however, assume general increases of negative emotions and are unable to explain biases toward emotions entailing self-blame (eg, guilt) relative to those associated with blaming...

In the last decade there has been an increased interest in (young) people’s sexting behaviour from academia, media and other institutions which lead to emergence of safety campaigns. Sexting campaigns are often built around notions dangers when images shared without consent person depicted. This feminist case study will critically assess discourses three UK educational ( Exposed, Sexting, Just ...