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Cognitive systems engineering (CSE) is a field of study that examines the intersection of people, work, and technology, with a focus on safety-critical systems. The central tenet of cognitive systems engineering is to treat a collection of people and technology as a single unit, one that is capable of performing cognitive work.
Inoculation is a theory that explains how attitudes and beliefs can be made more resistant to future challenges. For an inoculation message to be successful, the recipient experiences threat (a recognition that a held attitude or belief is vulnerable to change) and is exposed to and/or engages in refutational processes (preemptive refutation, that is, defenses against potential counterarguments).
Recent advances in psychological, medical, and physiological research have led to a new way of thinking about health and illness. This conceptualization, which has been labeled the biopsychosocial model, views health and illness as the product of a combination of factors including biological characteristics (e.g., genetic predisposition), behavioral factors (e.g., lifestyle, stress, health ...
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) is the principal advisory group to World Health Organization (WHO) for vaccines and immunization.Established in 1999 through the merging of two previous committees, notably the Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (which served the Program for Vaccine Development) and the Global Advisory Group (which served the EPI program) by Director-General of ...
Other molecules can be used for immunization as well, for example in experimental vaccines against nicotine or the hormone ghrelin in experiments to create an obesity vaccine. Immunizations are often widely stated as less risky and an easier way to become immune to a particular disease than risking a milder form of the disease itself.
Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy, a condition induced by long-term exposure to solvents; Circumstellar envelope, part of a star that is not gravitationally bound to the star core; Combined spinal and epidural anaesthesia, an anaesthetic technique; CSE1, a yeast chromosome-segregation protein and member of the CAS/CSE protein family
SBU, the National Rail station code for Southbury railway station, London, England; Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services; Songbei District, a district of Harbin, China
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...