11 results on '"Mario Cascio"'
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2. Nobody Left Outside (NLO) Checklist: Improving access to healthcare for vulnerable and underserved groups
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Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Mario Cascio, Rachel Halford, Denis Onyango, Eberhard Schatz, Alyna Smith, Freek Spinnewijn, and Luca Stevenson
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access to healthcare ,vulnerable communities ,health inequalities ,health service redesign ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Introduction: Many marginalised, vulnerable people in Europe who are most in need of healthcare, such as migrants, sex workers, the homeless, people who inject drugs (PWID), prisoners, or LGTBI people, are amongst the least likely to receive it. This is owing to a complex mix of administrative and structural barriers, and often a lack of understanding or unintentional discriminatory practices by service providers. Innovative policy responses and a rethink of health service design, informed by the groups affected, are needed to address these inherent inequities. Policy context and objective: Sustainable Development Goal target 3.8 emphasises universal access to quality health services. Despite being at elevated risk of poor health, marginalised groups are underserved by health systems. Their exclusion from health service planning results in a misalignment between the service design and the users’ fundamental needs, which limits their uptake and effectiveness. The Nobody Left Behind (NLO) Platform provides a forum for community organisations to collaborate at European level to identify common challenges and solutions to improve access to integrated health and social services. The NLO Platform has developed a Service re-Design Checklist intended for use by health service providers and policymakers to design and deliver targeted services that are accessible to all, particularly underserved, vulnerable people, and for advocacy use by community representatives. Targeted groups: Migrant, homeless, PWID, sex worker, prisoner and LGTBI communities Highlights: The NLO Checklist resulted from project meetings, research and a policy incubation workshop at the European Health Forum, Gastein (2017). It provides a structured series of questions which service providers and policymakers should consider to ensure that health services are accessibie to target groups and to foster engagement with community representatives. Following the World Health Organization Health Systems Framework, the NLO Checklist comprises six sections. A). Service delivery (aiming to design and deliver an easily accessible service that meets the needs of target communities, considering design-stage issues, the range of integrated or linked services provided, accessibility and adaptation measures, and peer support. B) Health workforce (to prevent and address discrimination and ensure the workforce is enabled to deliver the service through education and training). C. Health information systems (to ensure the service is used and meets users’ needs). D. Medical products and technologies (to ensure that all service users have equitable access to care. E). Financing (to ensure the service is adequately sustainably resourced) and F). Leadership and governance (to ensure that community representatives are involved in the governance of a well-organised service). The Checklist is supplmented by an Implementation Guide. NLO Platform members are using the Checklist in ongoing projects. Conclusion: Marginalised groups are often described as ‘hard to reach’ whereas, from the perspective of users, it is frequently the services that are hard to reach. The NLO Platform is a unique collaboration between underserved communities facing common and inter-related healthcare access challenges. The NLO Checklist is a practical tool useful at the policy and local implementation levels to improve access to integrated services, in alignment with the SDGs and universal health equity principles.
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- 2019
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3. Long‐term success for people living with <scp>HIV</scp> : A framework to guide practice
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Jeffrey V. Lazarus, David A. Wohl, Mario Cascio, Giovanni Guaraldi, Jürgen Rockstroh, Matthew Hodson, Bruce Richman, Gina Brown, Jane Anderson, and Maria J. Fuster‐RuizdeApodaca
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AIDS ,health-related quality of life ,Infectious Diseases ,person-centred health systems ,stigma ,well-being ,Health Policy ,antiretroviral therapy ,HIV ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
4. Why we need to re-define long-term success for people living with HIV
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Maria J. Fuster‐RuizdeApodaca, David A. Wohl, Mario Cascio, Giovanni Guaraldi, Jürgen Rockstroh, Matthew Hodson, Bruce Richman, Gina Brown, Jane Anderson, and Jeffrey V. Lazarus
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AIDS ,health-related quality of life ,Infectious Diseases ,person-centred health systems ,stigma ,well-being ,Health Policy ,antiretroviral therapy ,HIV ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
5. 'Moving Fourth': Introduction of a practical toolkit for shared decision-making to facilitate healthy living beyond HIV viral suppression
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Guido E.L. van den Berk, Thomas Buhk, Eugenio Teofilo, Joop E. Arends, Giovanni Guaraldi, Mario Cascio, and Adrian Curran
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Health-related quality of life ,media_common.quotation_subject ,MEDLINE ,Psychological intervention ,Stigma (botany) ,HIV Infections ,Quality of life (healthcare) ,Nursing ,medicine ,eHealth ,Humans ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Healthy Lifestyle ,media_common ,Healthy living with HIV ,HIV infection ,Patient-reported outcome measure ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,COVID-19 ,Usability ,General Medicine ,female genital diseases and pregnancy complications ,Infectious Diseases ,Quality of Life ,Anxiety ,Psychological resilience ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,business - Abstract
An extension of the UNAIDS 90-90-90 target proposes >90% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) should have good health-related quality of life (HrQoL); however, limited guidance exists. The "Health Goals for Me" framework, an individualized approach to HIV care, provides a framework to assess HrQoL. We analyzed several patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to develop a practical toolkit to facilitate shared physician-patient decision-making. HrQoL subdomains, actionable in the clinical setting and measurable as PROMs, were selected. PROMs were collated through systematic literature searches, scored by the authors on usability, validation, and availability, after which practical recommendations were made. Nine subdomains were selected across physical, psychological, social, and environmental domains; 46 validated PROMs were identified. After pre-screening, from 39 evaluated PROMs, we recommended PROMs in the following subdomains: fatigue/energy loss, frailty/resilience, sleep disturbance, substance use, anxiety/depression, cognition, sexual function and desire, and stigma. Using this toolkit, healthcare professionals and PLHIV can collaborate and mutually agree on individual care objectives. Following the "Health Goals for Me" framework, appropriate care interventions can be implemented and reviewed in a continuous cycle. We discussed how eHealth interventions, which will have increasing importance in the post-COVID era, can facilitate improved HrQoL for PLHIV by utilizing toolkits such as the one described here. Implementation of this practical framework and the PROMs toolkit could provide a useful approach to assessing HrQoL in PLHIV and could enhance the physician's ability to gain valuable insights into the patient's daily life across a broad range of HrQoL issues.
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- 2021
6. Novel health systems service design checklist to improve healthcare access for marginalised, underserved communities in Europe
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Freek Spinnewijn, Alyna C Smith, Eberhard Schatz, Lee Baker, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Mario Cascio, and Denis Onyango
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Service delivery framework ,Peer support ,organisation of health services ,Health Services Accessibility ,quality in health care ,Sexual and Gender Minorities ,Health care ,medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Health policy ,Marginality, Social ,Transients and Migrants ,Public health ,Community engagement ,business.industry ,Service design ,public health ,health policy ,General Medicine ,Public relations ,Salut pública ,Checklist ,Europe ,Health promotion ,Marginació social ,Health Services Research ,business - Abstract
BackgroundMarginalised communities such as homeless people, people who use drugs (PWUD), lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI), prisoners, sex workers and undocumented migrants are at high risk of poor health and yet face substantial barriers in accessing health and support services. The Nobody Left Outside (NLO) Service Design Checklist aims to promote a collaborative, evidence-based approach to service design and monitoring based on equity, non-discrimination and community engagement.MethodsThe Checklist was a collaborative project involving nine community advocacy organisations, with a focus on homeless people, PWUD, LGBTI people, prisoners, sex workers, and undocumented migrants. The Checklist was devised via a literature review; two NLO platform meetings; a multistakeholder policy workshop and an associated published concept paper; two conference presentations; and stakeholder consultation via a European Commission-led Thematic Network (including webinar).ResultsThe NLO Checklist has six sections in line with the WHO Health Systems Framework. These are: (1) service delivery, comprising design stage (6 items), services provided (2 items), accessibility and adaptation (16 items), peer support (2 items); (2) health workforce (12 items); (3) health information systems (7 items); (4) medical products and technologies (1 item); (5) financing (3 items); and (6) leadership and governance (7 items). It promotes the implementation of integrated (colocated or linked) healthcare services that are community based and people centred. These should provide a continuum of needs-based health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management, together with housing, legal and social support services, in alignment with the goals of universal health coverage and the WHO frameworks on integrated, people-centred healthcare.ConclusionsThe Checklist is offered as a practical tool to help overcome inequalities in access to health and support services. Policymakers, public health bodies, healthcare authorities, practitioner bodies, peer support workers and non-governmental organisations can use it when developing, updating or monitoring services for target groups. It may also assist civil society in wider advocacy efforts to improve access for underserved communities.
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- 2020
7. 'Moving Fourth': A Vision Toward Achieving Healthy Living with HIV Beyond Viral Suppression
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Mario Cascio, Christian Verger, Giovanni Guaraldi, Thomas Buhk, Adrian Curran, Guido E.L. van den Berk, Joop E. Arends, and Eugenio Teofilo
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Chronic condition ,AIDS ,HIV infections ,Health-related quality of life ,Healthy living with HIV ,Sustained Virologic Response ,Anti-HIV Agents ,Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ,HIV Infections ,Disease ,medicine.disease_cause ,Quality of life (healthcare) ,Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ,Nursing ,Multidisciplinary approach ,Intervention (counseling) ,medicine ,Humans ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Viral suppression ,Disease Management ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Europe ,Infectious Diseases ,Quality of Life ,Psychology - Abstract
Since HIV has evolved from being a fatal illness to a chronic condition, this brings new challenges relating to long-term health, as increasing numbers of people living with HIV (PLHIV) navigate their lives beyond viral suppression. This review presents the challenges facing patients and health-care providers managing HIV in Europe today. We highlight the challenges that the evolving landscape in HIV brings, including managing an aging and more diverse population of PLHIV; this requires a shift from managing disease to managing health and may best be achieved by multidisciplinary teams in the long term. We introduce the concept of "health goals for me:" an individualized approach to the management of HIV, and use this as the basis for a proposed framework for assessing health-related quality of life for PLHIV. Our framework comprises a continuous cycle of "ask and measure," "feedback and discussion," and "intervention," based on collaboration between the health-care professional and patient. For improved long-term management of PLHIV, we consider that this framework should become an intrinsic part of HIV care in the future and that the "health goals for me" concept be used as a tool to facilitate healthy living for PLHIV beyond viral suppression.
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- 2019
8. Nobody Left Outside (NLO) Checklist: Improving access to healthcare for vulnerable and underserved groups
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Mario Cascio, Alyna C Smith, Luca Stevenson, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Rachel Halford, Eberhard Schatz, Freek Spinnewijn, and Denis Onyango
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Service (business) ,lcsh:R5-920 ,Health (social science) ,Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,Service delivery framework ,Health Policy ,Service design ,Universal design ,access to healthcare ,vulnerable communities ,health inequalities ,health service redesign ,Service provider ,Public relations ,Health informatics ,Health equity ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Health care ,030212 general & internal medicine ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Introduction: Many marginalised, vulnerable people in Europe who are most in need of healthcare, such as migrants, sex workers, the homeless, people who inject drugs (PWID), prisoners, or LGTBI people, are amongst the least likely to receive it. This is owing to a complex mix of administrative and structural barriers, and often a lack of understanding or unintentional discriminatory practices by service providers. Innovative policy responses and a rethink of health service design, informed by the groups affected, are needed to address these inherent inequities. Policy context and objective: Sustainable Development Goal target 3.8 emphasises universal access to quality health services. Despite being at elevated risk of poor health, marginalised groups are underserved by health systems. Their exclusion from health service planning results in a misalignment between the service design and the users’ fundamental needs, which limits their uptake and effectiveness. The Nobody Left Behind (NLO) Platform provides a forum for community organisations to collaborate at European level to identify common challenges and solutions to improve access to integrated health and social services. The NLO Platform has developed a Service re-Design Checklist intended for use by health service providers and policymakers to design and deliver targeted services that are accessible to all, particularly underserved, vulnerable people, and for advocacy use by community representatives. Targeted groups: Migrant, homeless, PWID, sex worker, prisoner and LGTBI communities Highlights: The NLO Checklist resulted from project meetings, research and a policy incubation workshop at the European Health Forum, Gastein (2017). It provides a structured series of questions which service providers and policymakers should consider to ensure that health services are accessibie to target groups and to foster engagement with community representatives. Following the World Health Organization Health Systems Framework, the NLO Checklist comprises six sections. A). Service delivery (aiming to design and deliver an easily accessible service that meets the needs of target communities, considering design-stage issues, the range of integrated or linked services provided, accessibility and adaptation measures, and peer support. B) Health workforce (to prevent and address discrimination and ensure the workforce is enabled to deliver the service through education and training). C. Health information systems (to ensure the service is used and meets users’ needs). D. Medical products and technologies (to ensure that all service users have equitable access to care. E). Financing (to ensure the service is adequately sustainably resourced) and F). Leadership and governance (to ensure that community representatives are involved in the governance of a well-organised service). The Checklist is supplmented by an Implementation Guide. NLO Platform members are using the Checklist in ongoing projects. Conclusion: Marginalised groups are often described as ‘hard to reach’ whereas, from the perspective of users, it is frequently the services that are hard to reach. The NLO Platform is a unique collaboration between underserved communities facing common and inter-related healthcare access challenges. The NLO Checklist is a practical tool useful at the policy and local implementation levels to improve access to integrated services, in alignment with the SDGs and universal health equity principles.
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- 2019
9. Polydopamine Coated CeO2 as Radical Scavenger Filler for Aquivion Membranes with High Proton Conductivity
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Roberto D’Amato, Anna Donnadio, Chiara Battocchio, Paola Sassi, Monica Pica, Alessandra Carbone, Irene Gatto, and Mario Casciola
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cerium oxide ,polydopamine ,radical scavenger ,proton conductivity ,chemical degradation ,Technology ,Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering ,TK1-9971 ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,TA1-2040 ,Microscopy ,QH201-278.5 ,Descriptive and experimental mechanics ,QC120-168.85 - Abstract
CeO2 nanoparticles were coated with polydopamine (PDA) by dopamine polymerization in water dispersions of CeO2 and characterized by Infrared and Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure spectroscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Thermogravimetric analysis and X-ray diffraction. The resulting materials (PDAx@CeO2, with x = PDA wt% = 10, 25, 50) were employed as fillers of composite proton exchange membranes with Aquivion 830 as ionomer, to reduce the ionomer chemical degradation due to hydroxyl and hydroperoxyl radicals. Membranes, loaded with 3 and 5 wt% PDAx@CeO2, were prepared by solution casting and characterized by conductivity measurements at 80 and 110 °C, with relative humidity ranging from 50 to 90%, by accelerated ex situ degradation tests with the Fenton reagent, as well as by in situ open circuit voltage stress tests. In comparison with bare CeO2, the PDA coated filler mitigates the conductivity drop occurring at increasing CeO2 loading especially at 110 °C and 50% relative humidity but does not alter the radical scavenger efficiency of bare CeO2 for loadings up to 4 wt%. Fluoride emission rate data arising from the composite membrane degradation are in agreement with the corresponding changes in membrane mass and conductivity.
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- 2021
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10. AgCl-ZnAl Layered Double Hydroxides as Catalysts with Enhanced Photodegradation and Antibacterial Activities
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Morena Nocchetti, Monica Pica, Berardo Ridolfi, Anna Donnadio, Elisa Boccalon, Giulia Zampini, Donatella Pietrella, and Mario Casciola
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layered double hydroxide ,silver chloride ,photodegradation ,antibacterial ,rhodamine b ,Inorganic chemistry ,QD146-197 - Abstract
Surface-modified ZnAl layered double hydroxides (LDHs) were prepared by reaction of AgNO3, with both ZnAlCl (LDH1) and ZnAlCO3 exchanged on the surface with chloride anions (LDH3). In this way, AgCl nanoparticles with crystalline domains ranging from 40 to 100 nm were grown on the LDH surface. An additional sample was prepared by partial reduction of silver to obtain Ag@AgCl-LDH (LDH2). The composites were tested as catalysts in Rhodamine B (RhB) degradation, wherein LDH2 showed complete cleavage of RhB after 45 min of irradiation versus 70 min needed in the presence of AgCl. This time decreased to 35 min for LDH1 and 15 min for LDH3, underlining the role of the AgCl dimensions and anion in the interlayer region. Studies on the reactive species involved in the degradation process revealed that, for all catalysts, O2·− was the main active species, while, to some extent, holes contribute to the activity of the LDH3. Finally, the composites showed high bactericidal activity, under irradiation, against Escherichia coli, comparable with that of Gentamicin, the positive control. A synergic effect of silver released from the composites and the production of reactive oxygen species was considered.
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- 2019
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11. De-Ethylation and Cleavage of Rhodamine B by a Zirconium Phosphate/Silver Bromide Composite Photocatalyst
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Monica Pica, Silvia Calzuola, Anna Donnadio, Pier Luigi Gentili, Morena Nocchetti, and Mario Casciola
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zirconium phosphate ,silver halides ,photocatalysts ,Rhodamine B ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 ,Chemistry ,QD1-999 - Abstract
A composite heterogeneous photocatalyst based on silver bromide was prepared by a reaction of silver exchanged zirconium phosphate (ZrP) and HBr. The ZrP/AgBr composite containing 53 wt% AgBr was tested in the photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) and exhibited higher catalytic activity with respect to pure AgBr. As a matter of fact, the time needed to achieve a percentage of chromophore cleavage of about 90% was 3 min for the composite versus the 30 min needed for pure AgBr. The ZrP/AgBr composite turned out to be stable for at least three consecutive cycles. The UV-Vis spectra of the RhB solution, recorded at different irradiation times, were also decomposed and the concentration of the species formed by de-ethylation and cleavage processes during photocatalysis were calculated; the data obtained for the AgBr-based catalysis were also compared with those for the AgCl-based catalysis, and the degradation mechanism was suggested for both catalytic systems.
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- 2018
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