Hepatitis & Stigma

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Burden of Infectious Disease among Inmates of and Releasees from US Correctional Facilities, 1997

Although some figures have been published, comprehensive statistics demonstrating the burden of infectious disease among inmates have been lacking.

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Caregivers

Despite calls for a shift from hospital to community based care for people with HIV infection there has been some speculation about whether the facilities will actually be available. One central element of community care is informal care.

Changing the Stigma of and Levels of Awareness for Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS

Many people believe that there are just a few ways to acquire either of these diseases and that they occur due to specific life-style behaviors. This is why, in constructing the survey we attempted to reveal the possibility of other sources in lieu of basic blood-to-blood or sexual preferences

Conceptualizing Stigma

We define stigma as the co-occurrence of its components—labeling, stereotyping, separation, status loss, and discrimination—and further indicate that for stigmatization to occur, power must be exercised

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COUPLES' PERCEPTIONS OF WIVES' CFS SYMPTOMS, SYMPTOM CHANGE, AND IMPACT ON THE MARITAL RELATIONSHIP

The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to describe the differences in couples' perceptions of wives' Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) symptoms and to describe the relationship between changing symptoms and the marital relationship

Cure versus care

The term 'Quality of Life' is often heard... and said at the Hospice to remind us of our main aim and purpose. As most of our patients have been diagnosed with a terminal disease, further treatment is often inappropriate and cure is not always an option.

Current Practice Patterns of Primary Care Physicians in the Management of Patients With Hepatitis C

We administered a survey to 1,233 primary care physicians in a health maintenance organization (HMO) in April 1997 to assess their knowledge of the risk factors for Hepatitis C Virus infection and approach to the management of 2 hypothetical Hepatitis C Virus antibody-positive patients

Differences in Knowledge of Hepatitis B Among Vietnamese, African- American, Hispanic, and White Adolescents in Worcester, Massachusetts

Adolescent knowledge about risk of infection was low in this study. Attention should be directed at providing health education on hepatitis B to adolescents, particularly to Vietnamese. Health care providers, community health educators, and others engaged in the effort to control and eradicate hepatitis B should be sensitive to the unique educational and cultural needs of high-risk southeast Asian adolescent populations.

DISABILITY AWARENESS AND CHANGING ATTITUDES

Finds that volunteer college students who have had previous contact with individuals who have a physical disability are more at ease with their peers who are disabled than those who have had no contact. Suggests that contact may alter the pattern of thoughts concerning interaction with people who have a disability.

Disclosure

The ramifications of this disclosure can impact medical, marital, family, insurance and other area of one’s life.

Epidemic Ravages Caregivers; Thousands die from diseases contracted through needle sticks

Over the next 20 years, the epidemic would ravage the nation's medical workers. Thousands of needle stick victims would die of AIDS, hepatitis and other blood-borne infections. Tens of thousands more would contract devastating diseases. Hundreds of millions of dollars would be spent every year on replacing and treating dying and infected workers.

Factors Associated with Prevalent Hepatitis C: Differences among young adult injection drug users in lower and Upper Manhattan, Hew York City

This study examined correlates of prevalent Hepatitis C Virus infection among young adult injection drug users in 2 neighborhoods in New York City

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Fear of dying and HIV infection vs. hepatitis B Infection

Fear of certain death seems to account for the greater concern about exposure to HIV than to Hepatitis B.

Hepatitis C Virus activist seen as Satan

"You are not of Christ, but of Satan." That's exactly what they said to me. That was the declaration recently from a Board of Deacons at a large area church.

Hidden Epidemic Confronting STD's

The Hidden Epidemic is the report of a 16 member committee on prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases set up by the Institute of Medicine to assess the current impact of such diseases and to "provide direction for future public health programmes, policy and research in STD prevention and control."

Illegal Drug Users Need/Deserve Treatment for Hepatitis C

University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) researchers are recommending that illicit drug users should be eligible to receive treatment for the hepatitis C virus.

Needle-Exchange Program Cut Hepatitis C Transmission Rate

According to a report presented to the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, injection drug users who began injecting drugs after the 1993 legalization of a safe needle program in San Francisco had a much lower risk of contracting hepatitis C virus (Hepatitis C Virus) than those who started earlier.

On Stigma and its Public Health Implications

In addition to variability in its definition the stigma concept and research based on it have been criticized for the narrow and biased vision it has allowed. Two critical challenges can be identified. The first is that many social scientists who do not belong to stigmatized groups and who study stigma, do so from the vantage point of theories that are uninformed by the lived experience of the people they study

PHENOMENOLOGY

Phenomenology is a movement in philosophy that has been adapted by certain sociologists to promote an understanding of the relationship between states of individual consciousness and social life. As an approach within sociology, phenomenology seeks to reveal how human awareness is implicated in the production of social action, social situations and social worlds

Prevalence and Duration of Hepatitis C Among Injection Drug Users

There are an estimated 1.0 to 1.5 mil- lion injection drug users in the United States.) To anticipate the future burden of Hepatitis C Virus-related care among injection drug users, it is important to determine the prevalence and duration of infection.

Prevalence of hepatitis C in prisons

We used cross-sectional willing anonymous salivary hepatitis C (WASH-C) surveillance linked to self-completed risk-factor questionnaires to estimate the prevalence of salivary hepatitis C antibodies (HepCAbS) in five Scottish prisons from 1994 to 1996.

Preventing Discrimination and Reducing Stigma and Isolation

In order to provide better access to health services for people with hepatitis C, it is particularly important that the discrimination common in health care settings is acknowledged and actively challenged

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Promoting health, reducing stigma: Closing the inequality gap in access to primary health care for women living with Hepatitis C

One of the major challenges facing women diagnosed with hepatitis C is overcoming the stigma attached to this illness which frequently acts as a barrier to appropriate and timely primary health care.

Concepts of health and illness, well-being and disease are cultural 

constructs—they vary with time and place, with ideology and belief.  

Over the course of history our views about health and illness have

 changed

REFRAMING WOMEN'S RISK

These women have been disproportionately poor, African-American, and Latina. Their neighborhoods have been burdened by poverty, racism, crack cocaine, heroin, and violence.

Stigma and Hepatitis C

Striking Lack of Awareness

People with hepatitis C infection deserve the same tools as those with HIV so that they can become experts about their virus

Surveillance, Social Risk, and Symbolism: Framing the Analysis for Research and Policy

This essay proposes a holistic heuristic for practical prevention policy making. Rather than focusing piecemeal on specific "barriers" to testing and care, the surveillance debate counsels public health policy makers to provide the conditions of opportunity, information, motivation, and confidence that people with HIV need to accept an effective program of early intervention.

THE DENVER POST, EDITORIAL, 1/23/02

Most cases of hepatitis C result from "lifestyle factors," rather than occupational risks. That's a polite way of saying that most cases result from intravenous drug use with dirty needles or from multiple sex partners

Through the Looking Glass: The health and socio-economic status of hepatitis C positive Transfusion Recipients

This study deals with the socio and economic impact of transfusion recipients and what occurs to them over time

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In recognition of the seriousness of the issue of hepatitis C related 

discrimination, the dearth of research, and the need for improved strategies 

to prevent and eliminate such discrimination…the anti-Discrimination Board 

of NWS undertake a statewide inquiry into Hepatitis C related discrimination

to examine the nature and extent of hepatitis C related discrimination, and 

recommend legal and administrative changes across a wide range of activities.