Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Health and Life Sciences has around 380 members of staff in the Faculty, organised into four Schools: The Schools of Allied Health Sciences, Applied Social Sciences and Leicester School of Pharmacy are located in the Hawthorn Building on the City Campus; The School of Nursing and Midwifery is located on the Charles Frears campus, which is situated some two miles from the City Campus in Leicester. The faculty grouping allows the academic schools to collaborate across the subject boundaries in teaching, consultancy and research. Students in this area have an enquiring mind, good analytical skills, and are concerned about the health and welfare of others.
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Gender Based Violence: A Resource to Support Students in Health and Social Care
(Other)This resource introduces the issues faced by people who experience gender based violence. It will help increase an understanding for health and social care students’ of gender based violence, by focusing on violence against ... -
Impaired endogenous fibrinolysis at high shear using a point-of-care test in STEMI is associated with alterations in clot architecture
(Article)Impaired endogenous fibrinolysis is an adverse prognostic biomarker in acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Abnormally dense in vitro fibrin thrombi have been demonstrated in ACS patients and related to hypofibrinolysis using ... -
The Value of Pharmacists in General Practice: Perspectives of General Practitioners. An Exploratory Interview Study
(Article)Background NHS England has recently invested on a large scale in the development of the role of pharmacists in general practice. Despite this initial funding, the perpetuation of pharmacists’ roles ultimately relies on the ... -
Qualitative study to identify ethnicity-specific perceptions of and barriers to asthma management in South Asian and White British children with asthma
(Article)Objective This paper draws on the data from the Management and Interventions for Asthma (MIA) study to explore the perceptions and experiences of asthma in British South Asian children using semi-structured interviews. A ... -
Toxic aldehyde generation in and food uptake from culinary oils during frying practices: peroxidative resistance of a monounsaturate-rich algae oil
(Article)Human ingestion of cytotoxic and genotoxic aldehydes potentially induces deleterious health effects, and high concentrations of these secondary lipid oxidation products (LOPs) are generated in polyunsaturated fatty acid ... -
The experiences, meaning and impact of obstetric violence for women during childbearing: Protocol for a systematic review of qualitative evidence
(Article)Review question/objective: The aim of this review is to synthesize the best available evidence on the experiences of mistreatment and/or obstetric violence in women. Specifically, the objective is to explore, from a woman's ... -
Can solicited diaries provide a different insight into healthcare research: Researcher perspectives from a study of women's experiences of breastfeeding
(Article)Background This paper discusses the use of diaries as a research tool to explore women's experiences of breastfeeding. Aim A phenomenological methodology was used to explore women's experiences of breastfeeding in the ... -
Responsibilization and recovery: shifting responsibilities on the journey through mental health care to social engagement
(Article)This paper examines the trajectory of 32 service users through the mental health care system on the path to recovery. It offers a critical appraisal of the processes whereby mental health and social care services attempt ... -
Mental Health and the Media: From Illness to Wellbeing
(Article)The media are a main source of information about mental health for many people and an ever-growing body of literature is evaluating their coverage of the topic. To help keep track of such research, several comprehensive ... -
PuzzlEd: Playful Learning
(Conference)This interactive Playful Activity Session presents our current novel endeavour, PuzzlEd, being developed by the successful Advance HE CATE (Spotlight) 2018 award winning team CrashEd (Angela O’Sullivan [NTF], Marie Bassford, ... -
Inside-Out: From Basic Emotions Theory to the Behavioral Ecology View
(Article)Basic Emotions Theory (BET) is the most popular and deeply rooted psychological theory of both emotion and the facial behavior held to express it. We review its Western foundations and the key developments in its evolution, ... -
Progress in Low Field Benchtop NMR Spectroscopy in Chemical and Biochemical Analysis
(Article)The employment of spectroscopically-resolved NMR techniques as analytical probes have previously been both prohibitively expensive and logistically challenging in view of the large sizes of high-field facilities. However, ... -
Factor Structure and Validation of the Mental Health Checklist (MHCL) for use in Isolated, Confined and Extreme Environments
(Article)Although human psychological risks gravely threaten the safety and success of future Mars missions, current knowledge of the mental health problems most likely to manifest during long duration space exploration (LDSE) is ... -
Evaluating a train-the-trainer educational intervention to raise standards of care, within the nursing home sector in the United Kingdom
(Article)Objective: As a response to service needs and project development by the East Midlands Health Innovation Education Cluster, now the Health Education East Midlands, an education programme intervention was developed to raise ... -
Advance Care Planning for older people: The influence of ethnicity, religiosity, spirituality and health literacy
(Article)Older people from cultural and ethnic minorities have low access to palliative or end-of-life care and there is poor uptake of Advance Care Planning by this group across a number of countries where Advance Care Planning ... -
Smart tattoo: technology for monitoring blood glucose in the future
(Article)New ways of measuring blood glucose bring hope of easing the burden of diabetes management for patients living with the conditions. The smart tattoo is an innovation that represents a nascent nanotechnology, which is ... -
Post Mortem Computed Tomography: An innovative tool for teaching anatomy within pre-registration nursing curricula
(Article)Background There is significant change throughout the world regarding Post Mortem Computed Tomography (PMCT) as an adjunct or a replacement to the traditional invasive autopsy. Of interest, is the ability to demonstrate ... -
Constructing better health and wellbeing? Understanding structural constraints on promoting health and wellbeing in the UK Construction Industry”
(Article)The construction industry has high rates of work related ill health and early retirement due to stress, injury and illness. Whilst there have been more recent calls for a ‘health like safety’ narrative within the industry, ...
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