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admission. This proportion could already be greater in some parts of the country and may increase if referrals of cases of self-poisoning increase faster than the facilities for their assessment and management. The provision of social work and psychiatric expertise in casualty departments may be one means of preventing unnecessary medical admissions without risk to the patients. Dr Blake's and Dr Bramble's figures do not demonstrate, however, that any advantage would attach to medical teams taking over assessment from psychiatrists except that, by implication, assessments would be completed sooner by staff working on the ward full time. What the figures actually suggest is that if assessment of overdoses were left to house doctors there would be an increase in admissions to psychiatric units (by 19°U), outpatients (by 5O°'), and referrals to social services (by 140o). So for house doctors to assess overdoses would provide no economy for the psychiatric or social services. The study does not tell us what the consequences would have been for the six patients who the psychiatrists would have admitted but to whom the house doctors would have offered outpatient appointments. E J SALTER

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Summary Background Since December, 2019, Wuhan, China, has experienced an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19 have been reported but risk factors for mortality and a detailed clinical course of illness, including viral shedding, have not been well described. Methods In this retrospective, multicentre cohort study, we included all adult inpatients (≥18 years old) with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 from Jinyintan Hospital and Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital (Wuhan, China) who had been discharged or had died by Jan 31, 2020. Demographic, clinical, treatment, and laboratory data, including serial samples for viral RNA detection, were extracted from electronic medical records and compared between survivors and non-survivors. We used univariable and multivariable logistic regression methods to explore the risk factors associated with in-hospital death. Findings 191 patients (135 from Jinyintan Hospital and 56 from Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital) were included in this study, of whom 137 were discharged and 54 died in hospital. 91 (48%) patients had a comorbidity, with hypertension being the most common (58 [30%] patients), followed by diabetes (36 [19%] patients) and coronary heart disease (15 [8%] patients). Multivariable regression showed increasing odds of in-hospital death associated with older age (odds ratio 1·10, 95% CI 1·03–1·17, per year increase; p=0·0043), higher Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score (5·65, 2·61–12·23; p Interpretation The potential risk factors of older age, high SOFA score, and d-dimer greater than 1 μg/mL could help clinicians to identify patients with poor prognosis at an early stage. Prolonged viral shedding provides the rationale for a strategy of isolation of infected patients and optimal antiviral interventions in the future. Funding Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences; National Science Grant for Distinguished Young Scholars; National Key Research and Development Program of China; The Beijing Science and Technology Project; and Major Projects of National Science and Technology on New Drug Creation and Development.

Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study

Part I: AN INTRODUCTION TO INQUIRY. 1. Human Inquiry and Science. 2. Paradigms, Theory, and Research. 3. The Ethics and Politics of Social Research. Part II: THE STRUCTURING OF INQUIRY: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE. 4. Research Design. 5. Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement. 6. Indexes, Scales, and Typologies. 7. The Logic of Sampling. Part III: MODES OF OBSERVATION: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE. 8. Experiments. 9. Survey Research. 10. Qualitative Field Research. 11. Unobtrusive Research. 12. Evaluation Research. Part IV: ANALYSIS OF DATA:QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE . 13. Qualitative Data Analysis. 14. Quantitative Data Analysis. 15. Reading and Writing Social Research. Appendix A. Using the Library. Appendix B. Random Numbers. Appendix C. Distribution of Chi Square. Appendix D. Normal Curve Areas. Appendix E. Estimated Sampling Error.

社会研究方法基础 = The Basics of Social Research

List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Introduction Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai 1 Language as Code and Language as Behaviour: A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue M.A.K. Halliday 2 Metaphors of Information John Regan 3 How Universal is a Localist Hypothesis? A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of 'Semantic Styles' of Language Yoshihiko Ikegami 4 Some Speculations on Language Contact in a Wider Setting Jeffrey Ellis 5 Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning Ruqaiya Hasan Index

Language as social semiotic

In the broadest sense, the field of the political economy of health examines relationships between socio-economic systems and healthcare performances. A nation’s healthcare system (capitalist-cum-neoliberal, socialist-cum-socialized, or two-tier) has profound implications for the health indicators of any nation. The argument is also in line with the social production of health and illness. Socialist-cum-socialized or capitalist-cum-neoliberal healthcare systems provide a good comparative terrain for those interested in the social production of health, as both types have strengths and weaknesses. In reality, almost no country has a pure socialist or a pure capitalist healthcare system; most systems are mixed, with one type predominant over the other. The debate is still on-going as to which form of healthcare guarantees the best care for the general populations worldwide. Most African countries tend to practice a two-tier health care system, a mix of both public and private provisions of healthcare. The critical question is which healthcare system works best and why. This chapter introduces the readers to the three major patterns of healthcare systems (capitalist-cum-neoliberal, socialist-cum-socialized and mixed systems), describing their strengths and weaknesses.

Healthcare Delivery Systems

BACKGROUND
Crowded conditions, noise and little privacy and other characteristics of refugee accommodations can have a negative impact on the mental health of the partially traumatized refugees. The study investigates, whether there are correlations between satisfaction with certain accommodation features in individual and shared accommodation and mental health.


METHOD
We used the IAB-BAMF-SOEP survey from Germany 2016 (n=4491 refugees). Linear regression models are calculated to test the association between mental health and the type of accommodation (single accommodation/shared accommodation) and satisfaction with the accommodation (general satisfaction, satisfaction with food quality/noise level/privacy/leisure activities/access to public transport/security, german language courses). We adjust for sociodemographic factors, potentially traumatic experiences prior to arrival in Germany and postmigrant exposures (e. g. asylum status).


RESULTS
Within the two accommodation types, there is high heterogeneity with respect to the characteristics examined. Refugees with poor mental health were significantly more likely to live in shared accommodation. When the above covariates were controlled for, the association disappeared. The other eight accommodation characteristics remained significantly associated with poorer mental health. The largest effects on mental health were observed for the satisfaction with safety, privacy, and general satisfaction. Here, the difference between persons who were barely satisfied compared with persons who were very satisfied amounted to 5-6 points on the SF-12 mental sum scale.


CONCLUSION
International results on the relationship between accommodation conditions and mental health of refugees were confirmed for Germany. This results in an increased need for mental health services in subjectively worse housing. Questions about satisfaction (especially safety, privacy, and general satisfaction) are more suitable for identifying critical accommodations than the classification into single or shared accommodations, because shared accommodations were assessed very differently. Screening instruments can help identify problematic shelters. However, reverse causality cannot be conclusively ruled out.

[Is There a Association Between the Conditions in Accommodations and the Mental Health of Refugees in Germany? - A Cross-Sectional Study].

Diurnal cortisol variation during pregnancy in Turkish origin and non-migrant women in a German birth cohort study.

Health of the offspring of immigrants: the BaBi birth cohort study.

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Oliver Razum

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Healthcare Delivery Systems

[Is There a Association Between the Conditions in Accommodations and the Mental Health of Refugees in Germany? - A Cross-Sectional Study].

Diurnal cortisol variation during pregnancy in Turkish origin and non-migrant women in a German birth cohort study.

Health of the offspring of immigrants: the BaBi birth cohort study.

FörGes 5 - An intervention for strengthening self-management competencies of family caregivers of persons with dementia of Turkish origin in Germany