Food is used to mark special occasions in culturally distinct and personally valuable ways. People love their food and celebrations, but they don’t love the consequences of lower-quality diets. Halloween can be a time of fun and festivities as well as a frenzy around sweet treats that can be quite unsavoury to parents. More...
Even with a concerted response to improve mental health at universities, mental health crises still occur. The issue of suicide has been in the news lately, and students are looking to universities to respond. More...
Several authoritative reports from Canada and the United Kingdom have drawn attention to increased demand for student mental health care that is straining university resources. Reports also point out that campus mental health services and initiatives are fragmented and inadequate to address the growing breadth and depth of student mental health need. More...
By Greta Anderson. Stanford University will change its leave of absence policies to better accommodate students who are facing mental illness crises. The decision, which goes into effect next year, results from a settlement agreement with a group of students who say they were prodded to leave campus by administrators. More...
By Greta Anderson. The largest community college in Pennsylvania is eliminating mental health services on campus. Higher ed experts worry more struggling two-year institutions may follow suit. More...
By Madeline St. Amour. Harrisburg Area Community College in Pennsylvania has eliminated its on-campus mental health counseling services for students, Spotlight PA reported. More...
Avec la très récente création de la 1ère structure adaptée et dédiée aux maladies chroniques au CHU de Poitiers, les maladies chroniques font l’objet d’une prise en charge croissante nécessaire. Plus...
Ce nouveau numéro de Di@rbenn est consacré à une problématique ancienne et que l’on peut qualifier de banale, mais toujours préoccupante et lourde de conséquences, qui est celle des chutes à l’occasion du travail. Plus...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A broken paradigm? What education needs to learn from evidence-based medicine
Lucinda McKnight, Andy Morgan, Journal of Education Policy, 2019/02/22
I'm not sure how long this SlideShare version of the paper, but you should download it while you can; Microsoft will ak you login to download, but the ResearchGate download works). Here's the paywall version ($US43/hour, if you can believe it, and they wonder why people hate publishers). Here's the gist: a lot of people are promoting evidence-based education, which is drawn from evidence-based medicine, but they aren't as quick to took at the problems being found in evidence-based medicine. "There is no pure, superior version of scientifically produced truth in the form of the RCT or meta-analysis, as medicine well knows. EBM has not yet fixed the problems it set out to solve... There is no excuse for education to continue to pretend that this superior truth". More...
En 2017, le marché mondial du médicament a dépassé le seuil des 1 000 milliards de dollars de chiffre d’affaires (environ 826 milliards d’euros). Le marché américain reste le plus important, avec 45 % du marché mondial, loin devant les principaux pays européens (Allemagne, France, Italie, Royaume-Uni et Espagne) qui réalisent 16,5 % de parts de marché. Plus...
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