Rare Diseases Day 2022 - and the FIVE domains

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"Learning from the rare disease community

Europe’s pharmaceutical entrepreneurs are taking the lessons learned from this community to develop health innovation which would not have been dreamt of a few decades ago."

 

Yes, they do! 

The sciences (all of them) are a vital domain, but as ever of course we must not let this limit the scope of our collective aspirations when it comes to rare diseases and innovation.

We need to take into account the four domains of Hodges' model plus the spiritual as we address local and global health with rare diseases and disability an intrinsic part of health systems and services whether in delivery or development.

In this way we also acknowledge the role of the social determinants of health and the SDGs.

RARE DISEASES DAY 2022

Image:
https://twitter.com/Parlimag/status/1497156923610836995?s=20&t=dvO5GlugrN185L3Z98k5PA

Previously:

'disease'

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=disease

'rare'

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=rare

'domain'

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=domain

Endurance: Trapped in the ice (and other thoughts ..?)

"'What the ice gets, the ice keeps,'^*

The Agulhas II frozen as fast — and in the same spot — as Endurance was in 1915

GETTY IMAGES

... said Ernest Shackleton of his ship Endurance as he saw it lost to the Antarctic. History came eerily close to repeating itself on Monday when the Endurance 22 expedition, which is searching for Shackleton's lost ship, became stuck in the Weddell Sea. The mission ran into trouble overnight when the SA Agulhas II, a South African icebreaker, became trapped and the temperature plummeted to minus 10C. The historian Dan Snow, who is on the expedition, said it happened on the spot where Shackleton's ship was last seen in 1915.

Unlike Endurance, which sank after months stuck in the ice, modern technology allowed Agulhas II to escape in hours. Its crane held a container full of aviation fuel over the side and swung it back and forth to wriggle the ship free.

It is late summer in Antarctica and winter is coming, meaning the team's time is limited. 'In a few weeks, it all starts freezing up,' said Mensun Bound, the director of exploration. 'In a few days we have to get our tails out of here.'" p.23.

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When person-centred, integrated, and holistic care is the mission; care that takes into account physical and mental health, demands additional degrees of freedom to assure success. If we get stuck, by a blank page, or too much information then swinging the axes into thought plus the dichotomies inherent in the health career model, can come to our rescue and facilitate creativity and progress.

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EAST - HUMANISTIC -----------------------------------  MECHANISTIC - WEST^{^}    

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Community - SOUTH - Population   

 

Previously:

'compass'

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=compass

'line [of sight]'

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=line+of+sight

'south'

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=south

My sources:

Image: The Times.

22 February 2022, BBC Radio 4, PM, 1743 Dan Snow interviewed by Evan Davis, Antarctica expedition to discover Endurance.

Plus: Blackburn, J. Shackleton quest stuck in ice that sank Endurance, The Times, 23 February, 2022, p.23. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/endurance-22-nearly-meets-same-fate-as-shackleton-ship-after-becoming-trapped-in-ice-wxmjbtxbk

^* Is climate change going to subvert many timeless quotations?
^{^} 'Proper' east and west in relation to Hodges' model [discuss]?

Report: "Memes, Magnets and Microchips: Narrative dynamics around COVID-19 vaccines"

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MEMES	magnets and microchips
[ ... MEMES - MEMES - MEMES ... ]	misinformation ignorance disinformation

 

See also:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=ignorance

My source: HIFA

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/02/24/curbing-spread-covid-19-vaccine-related-mis-disinformation/

image: @uwcip

Book: "In Search of Mary Seacole"

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Mary	In Search of Mary Seacole
Seacole "Known by the British Troops in Crimea as 'Mother Seacole', she was a nurse, pharmacist, humanitarian, businesswoman and patriot."	The Turkish Order of the Medjidie French Legion of Honour British Crimea Medal

 

Photo taken in Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, 19th February 2022.

Owolade, T. (2022) The myth of Mother Seacole, Culture, The Sunday Times, 13 February, p.22.

 

Book: "A Theory of Legal Personhood"

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person personhood (clinical / legal) Reflective Equilibrium extensional beliefs definitions interest [theory] will [theory] responsibility [mental] capacity	objects nature / natural 'West' - 'East' legal systems [ More to follow FROM here Re. BIOSPHERE ECOCIDE ... ] Whanganui River -
newborn children adults of sound mind slaves corporations foetuses nonhuman animals Orthodox View west - culture - east Social contract	agreement Legal personhood Jurist Hohfeldian understanding of rights (non-Hohfeldian?) non-incorporated organizations Corporation as artificial person

 

See also:

Law 'in' Hodges' model (Discuss?)

My source: @OUPAcademic

 

Paper: Florence Nightingale and J.S. Mill Debate Women's Rights

EVELYN L. PUGH

"In Florence Nightingale's correspondence a series of letters to and from
J.S. Mill treat a different subject than her usual correspondence with
government officials, health and sanitation reformers, and hospital
administrators in many parts of the world. Although it was never her
intention when she initiated the exchange of letters, she and Mill quickly
became involved in a controversy concerning the role of women.

Interwoven with some religious and philosophical matters, the
Nightingale-Mill correspondence which falls into two periods, 1860 and
1867, is essentially a debate on women's rights. One debate concerns
terminology and hinges on the entire validity of the question of publicity
for the women's movement, then in its infancy, as well as the opening of
the medical profession to women. The other focuses on differing percep-
tions of the role of women in political action. The exchange never became
public during the lifetime of the participants, emerging with little notice
only in the twentieth century with the complete publication of their
correspondence in the journal Hospitals in 1936.¹"

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Community - Group - Population

thought belief logic, philosophy, ethics 'duty' dichotomy of thought	action active-passive medicine scientific progress 'professions' theory of feminism
social and economic history social progress role expectations publicity public awareness	politics nascent political movement women's rights law 'duty'

 

¹"Florence Nightingale as a Leader in the Religious and Civic thought of her Times,"
Hospitals, X (July, 1936), 78-84. There are a total often letters, five from each, in the correspon-
dence. Three of Mill's letters to Nightingale, with some omissions and two of them identified
only as "To a Correspondent," were published in Hugh S. R. Elliot, Letters of John Stuart Mill,
(London, 1910). Some of her letters to him with portions of his replies were published in Sir
Edward Cook's official biography, Life of Florence Nightingale, (London, 1913). (The edition of
Cook used in this essay is the 1914 printing).

Pugh, E. L. (1982). Florence Nightingale and J.S. Mill Debate Women’s Rights. Journal of British Studies, 21(2), 118–138. http://www.jstor.org/stable/175536

 

Global Rare Disease Day Event - World Expo Dubai/ONLINE

The NGO Committee for Rare Diseases, Ågrenska
Foundation, Rare Diseases International (RDI), and
EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe invite you to the
2022 Global Rare Disease Day Event
"Rare Diseases: A Global Priority for Equity."

 

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lived experience as: PLWRD carer	300 million persons living with a rare disease (PLWRD) worldwide
families social care social care provision (globally)? public awareness	"PLWRD require immediate and urgent attention, under the auspices of innovative global, regional, and national policies that address their needs, respect their human rights, and lead to more inclusive, sustainable societies in line with the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals." "... explore roadmaps for rare diseases in low-and middleincome countries around the world."

 

"Being Horizontal: Vulnerability, Interdependence and Resistance" c/o Confabulations

The title of this event last week struck a cord ...

For those who missed "Being Horizontal: Vulnerability, Interdependence and Resistance" last week - which touched on topics as diverse as austerity, invisibility, repetition and rhythm - a recording of the live event is available until 24th February: https://t.co/WnGFdmkMqF

— Confabulations (@con_fabulations) February 13, 2022

 

From the website with some additions:

 

"Being Horizontal: Vulnerability, Interdependence and Resistance"

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sleep* ('in dreams') (found) un-consciousness (beware - risk?) intent non-verbal psychoanalysis patient personal vulnerability	gravity collapse position - posture horizontal - vertical human body, form 3D mobility, movement above - below look up/down angle - inclination clinical positions 'other' positions - sex birth, rest, deceased reclined nude "recline -
The 'games that people play', especially those seeking / in power. social customs dance - history - culture social hierarchies	is often associated with feminised and/or racialised powerlessness." fallen soldier (civilian?) choice*: of position look up/down to "Deliberately assuming a horizontal position in front of others can also, as the complex works grouped in this project reveal, challenge, subvert, and politicise dynamics of vulnerability and power."

 

"Personalized learning has a number of levels ..." c/o MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review

"... There's a difference between adaptive learning and personalized learning," says Chris Dede, a professor at Harvard University in the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program. Squirrel is doing adaptive learning, which is about "understanding exactly what students know and don't know."But it pays no attention to what they want to know or how they learn best. Personalized learning takes their interests and and needs into account to "orchestrate the motivation and time for each student so they are able to make progress."

Jutta Treviranus, a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University who pioneered personalized learning to improve inclusivity in education, breaks it down into further. "Personalized learning has a number of levels," she says: she calls them pace, path, and destination.

If the pace of learning is personalized, students with different abilities are allowed different amounts of time to learn the same material. If the path is personalized, students might be given different motivations to reach the same objectives ("Here's why statistics is relevant to your love of baseball") and offered the material in different formats (e.g., video versus text). If the destination is personalized, students can choose, for instance, whether to learn with a vocational school or university in mind.

"We need students to understand their own learning. We need them to determine what they want to learn, and we need them to learn to learn," Treviranus says. "Squirrel AI doesn't address those things at all. It only make it more efficient to bring all of the students to the same standardized place." pp.27-28.

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Community - Group - Population

path destination purpose	pace destination path process
pace destination path practice	pace destination path policy

 

In the first instance Treviranus's three P's are located in what I feel are the most pertinent domains in bold and underlined. 'Path' is placed in the intra- interpersonal domain because as explained the learning must have meaning, sufficient to motivate the student. This might be global, sharing this domain with 'destination' as an overall goal (personal ambition - aspiration). As ever, having my cake and eating it ... what is the rationale for the secondary... occurrences? Let's take 'destination', first, in the sciences and political domains this may relate to a student's particular interest in a subject, or course of study to enter a profession at a specific university. In the sociology domain, what are the other influences on choice for the student's 'destination'? 

Individual choice is a great gift but only when it can be exercised, can it stand chance of being realised. In the group context, socially and politically is the 'path' and 'destination' (truly) open? The skills of teachers and mentors are key to the secondary execution of 'path'. Knowledge of the subject, technology, and as described the student allied with the latest educational research are essential. A teacher in a subject may prove an inspiration for a student: helping to generate an educational fusion.

'Pace' was placed in the sciences domain, to denote process, sequence, time; a curriculum delivered. In an exam there is no greater enemy than lack of time, but without the facts, knowledge, and insight to answer a question, time can make a mockery of us. Our 'pace' can also be noticed by our peers, which can be positive or negative socially and personally. 'Pace', is invariably political, as the calendar flicks whether by an analogue or digital turn. Outcomes and reports ultimately count.

The 4P's which I associate with each of the model's domains are italicised at the bottom of each domain.

Karen Hao, Born in China, taught by AI. MIT Technology Review - Allow me to introduce my selves, The Youth Issue. Volume 123, Issue 1. Jan/Feb 2020. pp.24-29.

It is interesting to reflect on the State's intervention in 2021 into tutoring and EdTech companies in China since this issue was published.

c/o GPonline: "Social prescribing patients curate art exhibition at leading Cornish gallery"

"The ‘What Lies Behind’ exhibition, a recent display in Newlyn Art Gallery, saw 10 patients from Morrab Surgery in Penzance select works of art from Arts Council national collection of more than 8,000 pieces.

The group were asked to choose pieces that reflected their personal response to the pandemic. The works on display included textiles, sculpture, prints and paintings by artists including Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore and Chila Burman.

The project came about during lockdown after Morrab Surgery’s social prescribing link worker Ellie Moseley realised that many of the patients in the practice that she was working with had an interest in the arts." [ On GPonline ].

 

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Community - Group - Population

Personal expectations (care, medicine...) Emotional wellbeing Person-centred care Social prescribing as a care intervention	'What lies behind' exhibition, Newlyn Art Gallery
	Social prescribing as a care policy needs community resources (to match). Amid health policy calls for innovation and  sustainable healthcare systems and services; the community remains the sustainable resource (if not neglected). Funding - ... ££ $$ €€ ¥¥ ฿฿ ₫₫ ₴₴ ₪₪ ₽₽ ₹₹ ₩₩ ... local :: global health.

 

My source: @ActivateEurope

https://twitter.com/ActivateEurope/status/1491751271539351562?s=20&t=ZQHyHs2a9--xJpmJDzrdHQ

@GPonlinenews

6th International Conference on Disability and Development: Disability and COVID-19

We invite you to join the 6th International Conference on Disability and Development

The Conference will be hosted by the International Centre for Evidence in Disability

Date: 14 - 17 March 2022
Time: 10am – 12pm GMT each day
Venue: Virtual

COVID-19 has dominated global discourse for the last 18 months as the pandemic impacts everyone, everywhere. There is growing evidence that people with disabilities and their families are particularly at risk during the pandemic, in terms of:

1. Increased risk of death and hospitalization;
2. Exclusion from the COVID-19 response actions (e.g. information, vaccination);
3. Adverse consequences of COVID-19 control activities (e.g. lockdown and social distancing);
4. Negative impacts on health (e.g. reduction in rehabilitation care).

The Conference seeks to bring together people to discuss and debate Disability and COVID-19. The focus will be on new research findings, methodologies and tools and implications of evidence for policy and practice. The focus will include both low-, middle- and high-income settings as well as humanitarian contexts.

Who should attend? All those with a strong interest in disability and COVID-19 are very welcome to attend, and this may include researchers, policy activists, decision- makers and practitioners. People with disabilities are particularly encouraged to submit abstracts and attend.

Please visit our event page for more information 
and for more details about abstract submission.

Deadline for submissions: 10th February 2022

International sign language interpreters and live captioning will be available at the event. 

If other access needs are required, please email disabilitycentre AT lshtm.ac.uk.

South Sudan Medical Journal - #1 2022

Dear colleagues,

The first issue of the South Sudan Medical Journal for 2022 is on our website here and the contents are listed below.

In it, you will find articles covering seats for disabled people using pit latrines in Uganda, Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Ethiopia, extra-pulmonary TB in South Sudan, case reports on the double uterus, ossifying fibroma of the mandible, and our second Back-to-Basics paper on fever.

See also the Appeal for the Al Sabah Children’s Hospital Resource Centre.

Please share this issue with your social networks; encourage colleagues to join our mailing list and to submit manuscripts to southsudanmedicaljournal AT gmail.com.

South Sudan Medical Journal

We thank everyone who contributes to SSMJ including our editors and, especially, our anonymous peer reviewers. Let us know if you are willing to review or edit articles.

Visit our website to get covid-19 updates for South Sudan and to see our new Guidelines for preparing tables for SSMJ manuscripts.

You can follow us on Twitter@SSMedJournal and our Facebook Group, and find previous SSMJ articles on our website and at  African Journals Online (AJOL) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)


EDITORIAL

• The unmet need of pit latrine use by disabled people: a practical solution Eluzai Hakim

RESEARCH ARTICLES

• Determinant factors of immediate outcomes of Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Gondar, Ethiopia Yousif Abdalla Alzubair, Yohannes Hailu and Koku Sisay Tamirat
• One year’s experience of extra-pulmonary TB in a county/regional hospital in South Sudan Gadic Kot Apiu, Lina Sala, Rosario Iannetti, and J. Clarke McIntosh

MAIN ARTICLES

• Sanitation resources for disabled individuals in Uganda Harrison Schmachtenberger, Mei-Li Hey, and Mikaya LD Lumori
• Portable pit latrine seats to increase sanitation for disabled individuals in Lira, Uganda Mei-Li Hey, Harrison Schmachtenberger, and Mikaya LD Lumori

CASE REPORTS

• Double uterus in young women delivered by Caesarean Section: five cases from South Sudan and Ethiopia Jok Thikuiy Gang, Garang Dakjur Lueth and Onwar Otien Jwodh
• Giant ossifying fibroma of the mandible Ernesto Carmona Fernández

SUMMARY

• Back-to-basics: Fever is a syndrome and not just pyrexia Lucien Wasingya- Kasereka and John Kellett

SHORT ITEMS

• Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund (GMCTF) Applicants 2022/2023
• Snakebite cases on the rise as antivenom runs out in Warrap
• Al Sabah Children’s Hospital Resource Centre Appeal

BACK COVER

• The graphs showing South Sudan daily confirmed and cumulative COVID-19 deaths as of January 29, 2022

Kind regards,

The SSMJ team
Email: southsudanmedicaljournal AT gmail.com

n.b. I have reduced the number of links from the original email. PJ

"Room 5" BBC Radio 4

 

ROOM 5: BBC Radio 4

 

The Health Career Model has four obvious care (knowledge) domains,
but of course there is a 5th.

This is even clearer when 'health career' is seen as 'life chances'.

 

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Community - Group - Population

Personal meaning / sense-making Whatever your beliefs there is a spiritual domain. *Who exactly 'were' you before?	diagnosis (as category, classification, ...) prognosis (... TI:ME .... into the future ..?) pre-morbid*
What does this <diagnosis> mean to others?	school span work span healthspan lifespan What sense do governments make of the above?

 

Paper: c/o Rabiah-Mohammed et al. - Syrian Refugees’ Experiences of Housing Stability during the COVID-19 Pandemic

 

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Community - Group -  GLOBAL REFUGEES 

COVID-19 impact 'Just' mental health, stress, trauma, vulnerability lived experience stability identity PERSON-HOOD PSYCHE- PSYCHIATRY Spiritual - Beliefs - Hope - Sanctuary QUALITATIVE	COVID-19 impact housing stock: space/rooms/access stability 'just' [ in time ] - repeated displacement place, space, time, events, control systems GEO- Online 'life' education diet, food, cost QUANTITATIVE
SUBJECTIVE COVID-19 impact family size 'Just' (new) culture, language, customs Critical Social Theory social inequities, race, status, class... shared realities, narratives, interpretative discrimination, stigma, social isolation social justice, stability community, neighbourhoods family support, safety belonging SOCIO-	OBJECTIVE COVID-19 impact 'Just' policy housing markets government-assisted refugees power - [no] choice [beyond my control] Syrian refugees - forced migration housing instability low-income, affordability employment STATE-HOOD 'Re-settlement' - across this model? precarity -ECONOMIC

Fawziah Rabiah-Mohammed et al. (2022) Syrian Refugees’ Experiences of the Pandemic in Canada: Barriers to Integration and Just Solutions. Studies in Social Justice, 16,1, pp.9-32.

 

My source:
https://twitter.com/westernuNursing/status/1487161839922331651

Lewy Body Society - funding opportunity

Dear CHAIN member,

We would like to draw your attention to the following funding opportunity. Please pass on as appropriate. Thank you.
 ------------

Lewy Body Society

We are pleased to announce that the call for applications to our 2022 grant round is now open.

We welcome applications for projects that will increase our understanding of Lewy body dementia as well as improving care for people living with this condition and their families and carers.

Deadline for applications: Thursday 14h April 2022 at 12 noon

Decisions and Start Dates: Most funding decisions will likely be communicated in October 2022.

For more details please see: https://www.lewybody.org/research/lbs-research-strategy/

Regards,

Irina Johnston

CHAIN Administrative Assistant

My source:

CHAIN - Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network – is an online international network for people working in health and social care. For more information on CHAIN and joining the network please visit website: www.chain-network.org.uk

@CHAIN_Network

 

Carvalho - "The Paths to Narrow Identities" 2021

"The Dasgupta-Goyal Model of Narrow Identities"

Seeking the logic(s) in the 'health career' model

  

 

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"DG recognize that narrow identities form through social interactions and that groups play an important role in this process. This is a major advance. Because narrow identities are an equilibrium phenomenon they cannot be undone through individual will and right thinking alone. Specifically, DG’s model consists of a finite population of individuals, N, and two groups, A and B. Individuals and groups are ex ante identical. Individuals can choose to join one or both of the groups. Only the extensive margin (membership) is considered, not the time or effort devoted to each group. The payoff from joining group k ∈{A, B} is increasing in the size of group k and is also a function of the size of the other group k′ ≠ k. An individual i is said to have a narrow identity if i joins only one of the groups. Society can be said to have narrow identities when each individual i ∈ N joins exactly one group. Note that narrow identities can exist in a monomorphic equilibrium (where all individuals join one group) or a polymorphic equilibrium (where different individuals join different groups)." p.79.

 

Jean-Paul Carvalho. The Paths to Narrow Identities. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics,Volume 14, Issue 2,Winter 2021, pp. 77–86. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v14i2.615 

The above paper is part of an "ARTICLE SYMPOSIUM on “Narrow Identities”.

'health career' - life chances. 

My source: @PhilosL @LiverpoolPhilos

 

Webinar 3 February: An Investment Case to End FGM

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Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to a webinar to commemorate International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation: 

An Investment Case to End Female Genital Mutilation

Thursday 3 February 2022 at 8am EST/2pm CET/4pm EAT 

The webinar will bring together global stakeholders and experts to discuss the economic burden of FGM and the urgent action needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal target 5.3 on the abandonment of FGM. 

The webinar will coincide with the publication of the “Economic Burden of Female Genital Mutilation in 27 High-Prevalence Countries” by BMJ Global Health, a study, conducted by WHO, in collaboration with Triangulate Health Ltd. 

There will be live interpretation in French and Arabic. You can register here. 

Please join us and please share the link to the event with your networks.

Kind regards, 

Christina

Christina Pallitto, PhD
Scientist
Dept. of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research

Skype: cpallitto
Mail: pallittoc AT who.int

My source: GANM and IBPnetwork lists (and the images above).