BACKGROUND A relationship between current socio-economic position and subjective quality of life has been demonstrated, using wellbeing, life and needs satisfaction approaches. Less is known regarding the influence of different life course socio-economic trajectories on later quality of life. Several conceptual models have been proposed to help explain potential life course effects on health, i...

Social and behavioral scientists have long been interested in cumulative, life course processes. This chapter reviews prototypical questions and methods from the life span approach in psychology as well as the life course approach in sociology. Their relevance for understanding the unfolding lives of those who suffer from skin disorders is then considered. Key themes extracted from these approa...

objective: to evaluate the effect of advance trauma life support (atls®) training on general surgery residents clinical reasoning skills using the national boards-style objective structured clinical examination (osce). methods: this cross-sectional single-center study was conducted in shiraz university of medical sciences including 51 surgery residents that participated in a mandatory national ...

Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. People with diabetes have twice the risk of death of people without diabetes of the same age, and complications from the disease can diminish the quality of life. However, people with diabetes can take steps to control the disease and minimize the risks of complications. Rhode Island tracks several Healthy People 2010 goals (H...