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A Critical Analysis of the Medical Model As Used in the Study of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Teijlingen, Edwin van - In: Sociological Research Online 10 (2005) 2
One key concept in medical sociology/anthropology for the analysis of approaches to health and illness is the medical model. However, this medical model is not only applied at the analytical level, i.e. as a sociological tool, but it also appeals to health service providers at a practical level...
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Balancing Food Risks and Food Benefits: the Coverage of Probiotics in the UK National Press
Nerlich, Brigitte; Koteyko, Nelya - In: Sociological Research Online 13 (2008) 3, pp. 1-1
The 1980s and 1990s were marked by a series of food crisis, environmental disasters and the emergence of so-called 'superbugs'. At the same time, social scientists, such as Ulrich Beck, began to study the rise of a modern \'risk society\'. The late 1990s and early years of this new millennium...
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Choreographies of sperm donations: Dilemmas of intimacy in lesbian couple donor conception
Nordqvist, Petra - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 11, pp. 1661-1668
Assisted conception involving donor insemination challenges cultural idioms of parenthood and family; there is now a growing body of work exploring how women and couples negotiate becoming a family in this way. But sperm donation also raises questions on the more intimate levels of sex,...
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Infertility, Women and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Madge, Varada - In: Indian Journal of Gender Studies 18 (2011) 1, pp. 1-26
might be described as the medicalisation of their problems. There is an obvious gap between the ‘created’ desire for a …
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A Research Framework for Investigating the Benefits of Technology in Treatment and Management of ADHD in Tertiary Students
Davey, Bill; Binhadyan, Bader - In: International Journal of Information Communication … 8 (2016) 2, pp. 1-15
management of ADHD. The framework incorporates a model based on a multimodal view of treatment options and is aimed at … investigating university students with ADHD. The framework includes four main factors: academic performance, symptoms, technology … address the significant problems of young people with ADHD when attempting to gain professional qualifications. …
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ICT-based Methodology for Fostering ADHD Students Inclusion in Classrooms
Valtolina, Stefano; Di Gaetano, Serena - In: International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge … 10 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
ADHD is a disorder of child and adolescent neuropsychological development which principal characteristics area … ecosystem of tools through which they can create teaching modules designed to make students with ADHD more involved. The result … activities. The idea is to demonstrate how solutions thought for including students with ADHD can improve all students in terms …
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The Youngest Get the Pill: ADHD Misdiagnosis and the Production of Education in Germany
Schwandt, Hannes; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2015
driving factor of high ADHD levels. Furthermore, the effects in Germany seem to be driven by teachers and parents in an …Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a leading diagnosed health condition among children in many … developed countries but the causes underlying these high levels of ADHD remain highly controversial. Recent research for the U …
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Costs and treatment patterns of incident ADHD patients: A comparative analysis before and after the initial diagnosis
Klora, Mike; Zeidler, Jan; Linder, Roland; Verheyen, Frank - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 40, pp. 1-9
Background and objectives: The costs and treatment patterns of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are …). Inclusion criteria consisted of patients with at least two secured outpatient or one inpatient ADHD diagnosis in 2007. Incidence … was ensured by defining a baseline period without ADHD-diagnosis in 2006. In addition to diseaserelated cost analyses …
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The educational burden of ADHD: Evidence from student achievement test scores
Dannemann, Bernhard C.; Gören, Erkan - 2018
This paper hypothesizes and empirically establishes the educational burden of the ADHD-related behavioral symptoms … important biomarker in the etiology of childhood ADHD. The main results show a negative and statistically significant …-country differences of estimated ADHD prevalence rates, confirming the reliability of the proposed biomarker for the measurement of ADHD …
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The Impact of Poor Health on Education: New Evidence Using Genetic Markers
Ding, Weili; Lehrer, Steven; Rosenquist, J. Niles; … - 2006
statistical properties for ADHD, depression and obesity. They help to reveal a new dynamism from poor health to lower academic …
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