Judith N Lasker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 629010 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Judith N Lasker |
| PRENOMES | Judith N |
| SOBRENOME | Lasker |
| ASSINATURA | LASKER J N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lehigh University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1995-1810 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Applying the Brocher Declaration to short-term experiences in global health in dental education
Participating in Short-Term Experiences in Global Health (STEGHs) has become an increasingly popular way for dental students to learn about the global burden of disease and health inequalities by traveling to a low-income community. However, there is little information available in the dental education literature providing guidelines on best practices for STEGHs. Often little is known about the local dental practice laws and ethics guidelines. On…
Ghanaian views of short-term medical missions
BACKGROUND: Various governments in Ghana have tried to improve healthcare in the country. Despite these efforts, meeting health care needs is a growing concern to government and their citizens. Short term medical missions from other countries are one of the responses to meet the challenges of healthcare delivery in Ghana. This research aimed to understand Ghanaian perceptions of short-term missions from the narratives of host country staff involv…
Guidelines for responsible short-term global health activities
BACKGROUND: Growing concerns about the value and effectiveness of short-term volunteer trips intending to improve health in underserved Global South communities has driven the development of guidelines by multiple organizations and individuals. These are intended to mitigate potential harms and maximize benefits associated with such efforts. METHOD: This paper analyzes 27 guidelines derived from a scoping review of the literature available in ear…
Effective practices of international volunteering for health
BACKGROUND: The demand for international volunteer experiences to promote global health and nutrition is increasing and numerous studies have documented the experiences of the international volunteers who travel abroad; however, little is known about effective practices from the perspective of partner organizations. This study aims to understand how variables such as the skill-level of volunteers, the duration of service, cultural and language tr…
Short-term volunteer health trips
BACKGROUND: Short-term medical missions (STMMs) are quite common and largely understood to be a response to health needs in low-income countries. Yet most information about STMM practices is anecdotal. Even less is known about the preferences of in-country host communities regarding STMMs. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to gather enough quantitative and qualitative information from both STMM organizers and host community staff to compare dominant practices …
Hoping to Help
Drawing on extensive field research and surveys, Lasker suggests several ways to make international health volunteering more effective
Equal Time, Equal Value
Equal Time, Equal Value is the first systematic investigation of Time Banking in the United States. Drawing upon detailed case studies and making use of a mix of qualitative and quantitative data this book explores the most popular type of what has been called 'community currencies', in which localized systems based on time or dollar equivalents act as the medium of exchange. As such, it offers rich insights into the challenge presented by Time B…
Global Health Volunteering; Understanding Organizational Goals
This paper examines the goals of organizations that sponsor short-term volunteer trips in global health, whether they be NGO’s, faith-based, educational, or corporate organizations. Results from a U.S.-based national survey of 177 such organizations and 27 interviews with trip organizers suggest that organizations often sponsor volunteer trips to achieve goals that are quite different from the improvement of health outcomes in poor countries. Whi…
Stigma and Liver Disease
This study explores stigma experienced by women with the autoimmune liver disease Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC). Liver disease is commonly stigmatized due to an association with alcoholism and drug abuse, and persons with PBC may be subjected to stigma even though there is no etiological connection to substance use. Women with PBC (25 waiting list, 75 posttransplant), recruited through an online organization and two transplant centers, complete…
Religious Beliefs Affect Grieving After Pregnancy Loss
Fatigue as a Major Predictor of Quality of life in Women with Autoimmune Liver Disease
Assessment of Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight Deliveries
Recognition of a higher than average incidence of low birth weight (LBW) deliveries in areas of Eastern Pennsylvania led to an analysis of more than 5,500 deliveries in one of the region's hospital systems to investigate the predictors of LBW in that population. Results of multivariate analysis indicate key variables that contribute to LBW: in particular, racial/ethnic background and specific medial problems during pregnancy, including preeclamps…
For Better and for Worse
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic and potentially fatal liver disease that primarily affects women in their middle years. Caregivers of people with PBC or other rare chronic ailments face a number of challenges; this study addresses responses to those challenges based on a survey and on messages posted to a listserv specifically for family members and friends of people who have PBC. Both revealed patterns related to life stage and gend…
The Impact of Ectopic Pregnancy
Ectopic pregnancy is a potentially life-threatening event that represents the loss of a pregnancy and also may have longer-term consequences for fertility. Despite this triple threat to a woman's well-being, almost no systematic research exists on the psychological impact of ectopic pregnancy. We sought to reinterview 18 women who had been interviewed 2 months following an ectopic pregnancy as part of a longitudinal study of pregnancy loss 16 yea…
Jews, non-Jews, and attitudes toward reproductive technologies
International Comparison of Studies Using the Perinatal Grief Scale
Predicting Outcomes after Pregnancy Loss
There are widely diverse findings in the literature on the types of variables that best predict grief following a pregnancy loss. This article compares the results from twenty-two studies, carried out in four countries, which all used the Perinatal Grief Scale as their outcome measure. Results of the comparison support the value of the measure for such investigations and indicate strong commonalities among the findings. Specifically, lower grief …
Predictors of Maternal Grief in the Year after a Newborn Death
Existing interventions to assist mothers following newborn death are implemented once manifestations of distress are present. Preventive measures could be instituted if predictors of grief were defined. The objective of this study was to investigate the value of perceived support, relationship satisfaction, emotion-focused coping, problem-focused coping, and mixed coping in predicting maternal grief in the year after a newborn death. The sample c…
Patterns of grief reaction after pregnancy loss
Analysis of three waves of Perinatal Grief Scale scores for 194 bereaved subjects over the course of two years revealed patterns of change different from those commonly noted in the literature. Less than half the sample matched the "normal" model; the rest exhibited non-normal patterns that did not fit the alternative psychological models. Demographic variables and pregnancy history, both before and after the loss, help explain some of the differ…
Effects of pregnancy outcomes on marital satisfaction
This study compares the marital satisfaction of couples who experienced a pregnancy loss (spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, fetal, or neonatal death) with that of couples who experienced a successful pregnancy and birth. Data were gathered for the loss sample at 2 months postloss (N = 138 females and 56 males), and again at 1 and 2 years later. Data from the pregnancy sample were obtained during pregnancy (N = 215 females and 102 males) an…
Satisfaction with hospital care and interventions after pregnancy loss
Hospital practices after pregnancy loss have changed considerably over the past decade, yet they have not been well evaluated. In a longitudinal study of 194 women and men who experienced miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, or newborn death, the recommended interventions at the time of loss are examined. In most cases, parents were more satisfied if they had experienced an intervention than if they had not, but having experienced more tot…
Community social change and mortality
Doctors and Donors
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The Roseto effect
OBJECTIVES. Earlier studies found striking differences in mortality from myocardial infarction between Roseto, a homogeneous Italian-American community in Pennsylvania, and other nearby towns between 1955 and 1965. These differences disappeared as Roseto became more "Americanized" in the 1960s. The present study extended the comparison over a longer period of time to test the hypothesis that the findings from this period were not due to random fl…
Do they want their children to be like them
The Roseto effect
OBJECTIVES. Earlier studies found striking differences in mortality from myocardial infarction between Roseto, a homogeneous Italian-American community in Pennsylvania, and other nearby towns between 1955 and 1965. These differences disappeared as Roseto became more "Americanized" in the 1960s. The present study extended the comparison over a longer period of time to test the hypothesis that the findings from this period were not due to random fl…
Satisfaction with hospital care and interventions after pregnancy loss
Hospital practices after pregnancy loss have changed considerably over the past decade, yet they have not been well evaluated. In a longitudinal study of 194 women and men who experienced miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, or newborn death, the recommended interventions at the time of loss are examined. In most cases, parents were more satisfied if they had experienced an intervention than if they had not, but having experienced more tot…
International Comparison of Studies Using the Perinatal Grief Scale
Community social change and mortality
Choosing among therapies
Stigma and Liver Disease
This study explores stigma experienced by women with the autoimmune liver disease Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC). Liver disease is commonly stigmatized due to an association with alcoholism and drug abuse, and persons with PBC may be subjected to stigma even though there is no etiological connection to substance use. Women with PBC (25 waiting list, 75 posttransplant), recruited through an online organization and two transplant centers, complete…
Predicting Outcomes after Pregnancy Loss
There are widely diverse findings in the literature on the types of variables that best predict grief following a pregnancy loss. This article compares the results from twenty-two studies, carried out in four countries, which all used the Perinatal Grief Scale as their outcome measure. Results of the comparison support the value of the measure for such investigations and indicate strong commonalities among the findings. Specifically, lower grief …
Global Health Volunteering; Understanding Organizational Goals
This paper examines the goals of organizations that sponsor short-term volunteer trips in global health, whether they be NGO’s, faith-based, educational, or corporate organizations. Results from a U.S.-based national survey of 177 such organizations and 27 interviews with trip organizers suggest that organizations often sponsor volunteer trips to achieve goals that are quite different from the improvement of health outcomes in poor countries. Whi…
Predictors of Maternal Grief in the Year after a Newborn Death
Existing interventions to assist mothers following newborn death are implemented once manifestations of distress are present. Preventive measures could be instituted if predictors of grief were defined. The objective of this study was to investigate the value of perceived support, relationship satisfaction, emotion-focused coping, problem-focused coping, and mixed coping in predicting maternal grief in the year after a newborn death. The sample c…
The role of health services in colonial rule
Veterans' Medical Care
The history of veterans' benefits and services in the United States is reviewed; it demonstrates their responsiveness to dominant political, economic, military and medical interests. The ideological position that social services must be "deserved" is also seen to be an important influence on the V.A. system. The consequent inaccessibility of V.A. medical care to most veterans and almost all non-veterans raises questions about the appropriateness …
Choosing among therapies
Nourishing the Humanistic in Medicine
Cross-National Study of Health Systems
The Perinatal Grief Scale
The theoretical strategy underlying development of the Perinatal Grief Scale is described. The instrument was completed by 194 subjects as part of a longitudinal study of factors affecting the resolution of grief following spontaneous abortion, fetal or neonatal death, or ectopic pregnancy. Variables found to be significant predictors of grief, as measured by this scale, were: overall physical health of mother, gestational age at time of loss, qu…
In Search of Parenthood
Reproductive Technology
In In Search of Parenthood, Lasker and Borg seek to give those considering using new reproductive technologies clearer picture of what they are likely to face. They do this more effectively than most books for the infertile because they do consider some of the risks and negative experiences involved. They raise the issue of why people go through these physically and emotionally painful experiences to have children, pointing out the strong sociali…
In Search of Parenthood
The Drive to Have Children Personal and Social Pressures Why Not Adopt? The Pressure to Keep Trying 2. Feelings of Grief The Grief Process Grief with Secondary Infertility and Pregnancy Loss Resolution Part II: The Methods 3. Artificial Insemination AIH and AID: Responses to Infertility The Donor An Experience of Donor Insemination Keeping AID Secret Single heterosexual and Lesbian Women 4. In VitroFertilization Success Rates An Experience of IVF…
Do they want their children to be like them
Explaining Pregnancy Loss
Parents who experience a pregnancy loss desire to know why it happened and frequently adopt causal explanations for it. One-hundred thirty-eight females and fifty-six of their male partners were asked to explain why they believed their spontaneous abortion, fetal or neonatal death, or ectopic pregnancy occurred. Explanations for loss included blaming the mother, physical problems with the mother or fetus, fate, and no explanation. While the parti…
Acute versus chronic grief
Conceptual and measurement problems in identifying those at risk of chronic grief are reviewed, and results are presented of a longitudinal study of people who have experienced pregnancy loss. Coping resources, particularly prior mental health and social support, were the best predictors of low scores on subscales of the Perinatal Grief Scale that indicate chronic grief reactions. Results also offer some evidence of delayed grief responses, espec…
The effects of gestational age and gender on grief after pregnancy loss
The roles of gestational age and gender in grief reactions following loss of pregnancy were explored. Parents with losses later in pregnancy reported more intense grief than did those whose losses were earlier. Women expressed higher levels of grief than did men six to eight weeks after the loss; however, this difference had decreased by one and two years after the loss
The Roseto effect
OBJECTIVES. Earlier studies found striking differences in mortality from myocardial infarction between Roseto, a homogeneous Italian-American community in Pennsylvania, and other nearby towns between 1955 and 1965. These differences disappeared as Roseto became more "Americanized" in the 1960s. The present study extended the comparison over a longer period of time to test the hypothesis that the findings from this period were not due to random fl…
Doctors and Donors
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Satisfaction with hospital care and interventions after pregnancy loss
Hospital practices after pregnancy loss have changed considerably over the past decade, yet they have not been well evaluated. In a longitudinal study of 194 women and men who experienced miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, or newborn death, the recommended interventions at the time of loss are examined. In most cases, parents were more satisfied if they had experienced an intervention than if they had not, but having experienced more tot…
Community social change and mortality
Effects of pregnancy outcomes on marital satisfaction
This study compares the marital satisfaction of couples who experienced a pregnancy loss (spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, fetal, or neonatal death) with that of couples who experienced a successful pregnancy and birth. Data were gathered for the loss sample at 2 months postloss (N = 138 females and 56 males), and again at 1 and 2 years later. Data from the pregnancy sample were obtained during pregnancy (N = 215 females and 102 males) an…
Patterns of grief reaction after pregnancy loss
Analysis of three waves of Perinatal Grief Scale scores for 194 bereaved subjects over the course of two years revealed patterns of change different from those commonly noted in the literature. Less than half the sample matched the "normal" model; the rest exhibited non-normal patterns that did not fit the alternative psychological models. Demographic variables and pregnancy history, both before and after the loss, help explain some of the differ…
Predicting Outcomes after Pregnancy Loss
There are widely diverse findings in the literature on the types of variables that best predict grief following a pregnancy loss. This article compares the results from twenty-two studies, carried out in four countries, which all used the Perinatal Grief Scale as their outcome measure. Results of the comparison support the value of the measure for such investigations and indicate strong commonalities among the findings. Specifically, lower grief …
Predictors of Maternal Grief in the Year after a Newborn Death
Existing interventions to assist mothers following newborn death are implemented once manifestations of distress are present. Preventive measures could be instituted if predictors of grief were defined. The objective of this study was to investigate the value of perceived support, relationship satisfaction, emotion-focused coping, problem-focused coping, and mixed coping in predicting maternal grief in the year after a newborn death. The sample c…
Jews, non-Jews, and attitudes toward reproductive technologies
International Comparison of Studies Using the Perinatal Grief Scale
The Impact of Ectopic Pregnancy
Ectopic pregnancy is a potentially life-threatening event that represents the loss of a pregnancy and also may have longer-term consequences for fertility. Despite this triple threat to a woman's well-being, almost no systematic research exists on the psychological impact of ectopic pregnancy. We sought to reinterview 18 women who had been interviewed 2 months following an ectopic pregnancy as part of a longitudinal study of pregnancy loss 16 yea…
Assessment of Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight Deliveries
Recognition of a higher than average incidence of low birth weight (LBW) deliveries in areas of Eastern Pennsylvania led to an analysis of more than 5,500 deliveries in one of the region's hospital systems to investigate the predictors of LBW in that population. Results of multivariate analysis indicate key variables that contribute to LBW: in particular, racial/ethnic background and specific medial problems during pregnancy, including preeclamps…
Psychology (22 obras) · Medicine (21 obras) · Pregnancy (13 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Psychiatry (10 obras) · Grief (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (8 obras) · Developmental psychology (8 obras) · Obstetrics (8 obras)