Persistent symptoms after Covid-19: qualitative study of 114 “long Covid” patients and draft quality principles for services

E Ladds, A Rushforth, S Wieringa, S Taylor… - BMC health services …, 2020 - Springer
Background Approximately 10% of patients with Covid-19 experience symptoms beyond 3–
4 weeks. Patients call this “long Covid”. We sought to document such patients' lived …

Barriers to accessing and negotiating mental health services in asylum seeking and refugee populations: the application of the candidacy framework

CF Van der Boor, R White - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2020 - Springer
This review brought together research investigating barriers asylum seekers and refugees
(AS&R) face in accessing and negotiating mental health (MH) services. The candidacy …

Applying symptom appraisal models to understand sociodemographic differences in responses to possible cancer symptoms: a research agenda

KL Whitaker, SE Scott, J Wardle - British journal of cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Background: Sociodemographic inequalities in the stage of diagnosis and cancer survival
may be partly due to differences in the appraisal interval (time from noticing a bodily change …

'I don't know what to do or where to go'. Experiences of accessing healthcare support from the perspectives of people living with Long Covid and healthcare …

SA Baz, C Fang, JD Carpentieri… - Health Expectations, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background In October 2022, it was estimated 2.3 million people in the United
Kingdom have self‐reported Long Covid (LC). Many people have reported not receiving …

Health inequalities, fundamental causes and power: towards the practice of good theory

G McCartney, E Dickie, O Escobar… - Sociology of health & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reducing health inequalities remains a challenge for policy makers across the world.
Beginning from Lewin's famous dictum that “there is nothing as practical as a good theory” …

[HTML][HTML] Qualitative study of candidacy and access to secondary mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic

E Liberati, N Richards, J Parker, J Willars, D Scott… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Candidacy, a construct describing how people's eligibility for care is negotiated between
themselves and services, has received limited attention in the context of mental health care …

Governing 'levelling-up'in the UK: Challenges and prospects

J Connolly, R Pyper, A van der Zwet - Contemporary Social …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Following the Conservative Party's victory in the 2019 UK General Election, and
its success in achieving significant electoral gains across traditional Labour Party 'red'areas …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring people's candidacy for mobile health–supported HIV testing and care services in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Qualitative study

O Adeagbo, C Herbst, A Blandford, R McKendry… - Journal of medical …, 2019 - jmir.org
Background The use of mobile communication technologies (mHealth: mobile health) in
chronic disease management has grown significantly over the years. mHealth interventions …

Comorbidity and dementia: a mixed method study on improving healthcare for people with dementia (CoDem)

F Bunn, AM Burn, C Goodman, L Robinson… - Health services and …, 2016 - uhra.herts.ac.uk
Among people living with dementia (PLWD) there is a high prevalence of comorbid medical
conditions but little is known about the effects of comorbidity on processes and quality of …

Exploring adolescents and young people's candidacy for utilising health services in a rural district, South Africa

B Nkosi, J Seeley, N Ngwenya, SL Mchunu… - BMC health services …, 2019 - Springer
Background We use the 'candidacy framework'to describe adolescents' and young people's
(AYP) experiences of health services in a rural KwaZulu-Natal district, South Africa. Methods …