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Factors associated with health-related quality of life after successful kidney transplantation: a population-based study
(SPRINGER, 2009)
Kidney transplantation improves the quality of life of end-stage renal disease patients. The quality of life benefits, however, pertain to patients on average, not to all transplant recipients. The aim of this study was ...
Recoding Life : Information and the Biopolitical
This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucault’s biopolitics in order to understand how life is being turned into a technological object. ...
Evaluation Instruments for Quality of Life Related to Melasma: An Integrative Review
(Hospital Clinicas, Univ Sao Paulo, 2018-01-01)
The aim of this study was to analyze scientific production concerning the validation and cultural adaptation of quality of life evaluation instruments for patients with melasma and to offer a critical reflection on these ...
Perception of cancer patients in palliative care about quality of life
(Assoc Brasileira Enfermagem, 2018-07-01)
Objective: To understand the perception of cancer patients in palliative care about quality of life and identify propositions for its improvement. Method: This is a quantitative research carried out with 96 patients in ...
INTERPRETING SOCIOSPATIAL FRAGMENTATION, DIFFERENTIAL URBANIZATION AND EVERYDAY LIFE: A CRITIQUE FOR THE LATIN AMERICAN DEBATE
(Univ Federal Fluminense, 2020-07-01)
Similar to many concepts in Social Sciences, the concept of sociospatial fragmentation has been often misused, at times leading to significant confusion. In view of that, this article aims to critically review this concept ...
Political exile and the construction of identity: A life stories approach
(JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD, 2008)
This paper centres its attention on the impact political exile-a result of the 1973 military coup in Chile-had on the life of exiles, particularly on their identity, based on life stories. It examines the life experiences ...
Psoriasis: correlation between severity index (PASI) and quality of life index (DLQI) in patients assessed before and after systemic treatment
(Soc Brasileira Dermatologia, 2013-09-01)
BACKGROUND: Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin that affects patients of all ages and both genders. The impact of the disease on quality of life is greater among patients with moderate to severe psoriasis. ...
Quality of life index in autoimmune bullous dermatosis patients
(Soc Brasileira Dermatologia, 2015-03-01)
Background: Autoimmune bullous dermatoses are complex diseases triggered by autoantibodies action against epidermal antigens or the dermoepidermal junction. Blisters and vesicles that evolve with erosion areas characterize ...
Resilience evaluation of the environmental control and life support system of a spacecraft for deep space travel
(2018-01-01)
In deep space manned travels, the crew life will be totally dependent on the environment control and life support system of the spacecraft. A life-support system for manned missions is a set of technologies to regenerate ...