Revolution blues: the reconstruction of Health and Safety as a ‘common-sense’ form of regulation

This paper provides a review of the last five years of policymaking in the area of health and safety law; this includes multiple reviews, legislative reform, and the reframing of rhetoric around the issue. It characterises this as a process of social construction of a new ‘universe of meaning’ around health and safety regulation, which provides a basis for a particular, narrow, neoliberal conception of regulation and responsibility to permeate the mainstream. Deliberative and public-facing policymaking processes have been utilised as a key element of this process.

Beating the blues after cancer : randomised control trial of a tele-based psychological intervention for high distress patients and carers

Background : The diagnosis and treatment of cancer is a major life stress such that approximately 35% of patients experience persistent clinically significant distress and carers often experience even higher distress than patients. This paper presents the design of a two arm randomised controlled trial with patients and carers who have elevated psychological distress comparing minimal contact self management vs. an individualised tele-based cognitive behavioural intervention.

Methods/design : 140 patients and 140 carers per condition (560 participants in total) will been recruited after being identified as high distress through caller screening at two community-based cancer helplines and randomised to 1) a single 30-minute telephone support and education session with a nurse counsellor with self management materials 2) a tele-based psychologist delivered five session individualised cognitive behavioural intervention. Session components will include stress reduction, problem-solving, cognitive challenging and enhancing relationship support and will be delivered weekly. Participants will be assessed at baseline and 3, 6 and 12 months after recruitment. Outcome measures include: anxiety and depression, cancer specific distress, unmet psychological supportive care needs, positive adjustment, overall Quality of life.

Discussion : The study will provide recommendations about the efficacy and potential economic value of minimal contact self management vs. tele-based psychologist delivered cognitive behavioural intervention to facilitate better psychosocial adjustment and mental health for people with cancer and their carers.

Dads doing it tough during partner's pregnancy : busting the blues

Baby blues aren't just about mothers; dads are doing it hard too.

Pop, heavy metal and the blues: secondary analysis of persistent organic pollutants (POP), heavy metals and depressive symptoms in the NHANES National Epidemiological Survey

Persistent environmental pollutants, including heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants (POPs), have a ubiquitous presence. Many of these pollutants affect neurobiological processes, either accidentally or by design. The aim of this study was to explore the associations between assayed measures of POPs and heavy metals and depressive symptoms. We hypothesised that higher levels of pollutants and metals would be associated with depressive symptoms.

Patients want to know about the 'cardiac blues'

BACKGROUND: Much attention has been given to identifying and supporting the minority of patients who develop severe clinical depression after a cardiac event. However, relatively little has been given to supporting the many patients who experience transient but significant emotional disturbance that we term the 'cardiac blues'. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate patients' preferences regarding information provision about cardiac blues. METHODS: One hundred and sixty consecutive cardiac patients admitted to two Victorian hospitals in Australia were interviewed three times over six months. They were asked about emotional issues, including information provision preferences. RESULTS: Four out of five (81%) patients would like to have received information about the cardiac blues, but only a minority received this information. CONCLUSION: Most patients want to know about cardiac blues. The development and evaluation of resources for health professionals and patients to support recovery through cardiac blues appears warranted.

Une lecture postmoderne : Volkswagen Blues de Jacques Poulin

Este artículo muestra cómo la búsqueda identitaria quebequense, se vuelve problemática, cuando compite con una mayoría anglófona. El punto nodal de este dilema ¿cómo se resuelve? ¿La evasión, la errancia, la deambulación, son salidas posibles? La tesis central: los actantes de Volkswagen Blues de Jacques Poulin, sufren un traumatismo monomaníaco: reconstruir una pertenencia por el sesgo de lo fragmentario, del indicio, de los signos, de los recuerdos. Esta obra es la eterna y circular peregrinación de todo ser excluido, exiliado, migrante o minoritario, en búsqueda de una especificidad totalizante y benéfica. Por otro lado, en lo que concierne al aspecto formal, el intertexto, a modo de fábulas encastradas unas en otras, o como fragmentos metadiegéticos, nos conduce a una lectura invertida, no canónica.

Chasing the blues /

Illustrated t.p.

The blues (splanchnic neurasthenia) causes and cure.

Pages 287-293 wrongly numbered 289-295.

The first republic; or, The Whites and the Blues ...

"Large paper ed."