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Parenthood represents a fundamental construct that identifies the quality of early adult-infant interactions. In both short and long period, relationships, as primary interactional experiences, have an essential role in influencing individual’s adjustment and psychopathology development during in lifetime. In this scenario, the most important areas of interest and innovation are (a) parents’ representation of themselves, both in relation to the child and to their care-giving role; (b) the quality of couple relationship, in terms of both conjugal and co-parental bounds, and its influence on the quality of early mother-father-child interactions; (c) the early models of caregiver-baby interaction; (d) the recent approach to the “maternal brain”, that represents the contribution coming from neurosciences, linked to the adult’s activation and cerebral functioning processes, in association with the parental role. These data are a starting point for the individuation of functioning mechanisms and developmental trajectories of parenting in groups of adults and babies, belonging to normative populations. At the same time, those studies may provide an important introduction to the detection of critical and/or dysfunctional aspects in populations of babies and adults at risk (e.g. preterm babies, adopted children, etc.) or in adults’ clinical group (e.g. a depressed parents, addicted parents, etc.) or in children with one or more impaired characteristic (e.g. children with organic diseases, with autistic disorders, etc.).. The present Research Topic puts the attention on these themes, particularly, considering the possible aftermaths that empirical research may have on planning and realizing interventional models to support the parental functioning. We will consider papers focused on the individuation of methods of observation and assessment, which allow to plan and realize prevention programs and/or interventions, primarily focused on parental support, both in the early stadium of the child’s development and in the long-term period. Thus, the focus is both on the prevention and sustenance sphere and, also, on specific manners of taking on the therapeutic responsibility of the adult-infant relationship.

Parenting --- relationships --- Post-partum depression --- Brain Imaging Methods --- parenting measures --- Attachment --- treatment outcome

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Over the course of 2000, RAND Health engaged an interdisciplinary committee of nationally recognized leaders in childhood asthma in a structured group process to arrive at the policy recommendations proposed in Improving Childhood Asthma Outcomes in the United States: A Blueprint for Policy Action, by M.

Asthma in children. --- Asthma in children - Government policy - United States. --- Asthma --- Health Policy --- Treatment Outcome --- Child --- Prognosis --- Outcome Assessment (Health Care) --- Lung Diseases, Obstructive --- Public Policy --- Age Groups --- Respiratory Hypersensitivity --- Bronchial Diseases --- Persons --- Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) --- Lung Diseases --- Social Control Policies --- Respiratory Tract Diseases --- Hypersensitivity, Immediate --- Diagnosis --- Policy --- Social Control, Formal --- Diseases --- Quality of Health Care --- Hypersensitivity --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Social Sciences --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Immune System Diseases --- Health Services Administration --- Sociology --- Health Care --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation

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Patient Reported Outcome Measures. --- Treatment Outcome. --- Quality of life --- Outcome assessment (Medical care) --- Research --- Research. --- Assessment of outcome (Medical care) --- Outcome evaluation (Medical care) --- Outcome measures (Medical care) --- Outcomes assessment (Medical care) --- Outcomes measurement (Medical care) --- Outcomes research (Medical care) --- Patient outcome assessment --- Life, Quality of --- Clinical Effectiveness --- Clinical Efficacy --- Patient-Relevant Outcome --- Treatment Efficacy --- Rehabilitation Outcome --- Treatment Effectiveness --- Clinical Effectivenesses --- Effectiveness, Clinical --- Effectiveness, Treatment --- Effectivenesses, Clinical --- Efficacy, Clinical --- Efficacy, Treatment --- Outcome, Patient-Relevant --- Outcome, Rehabilitation --- Outcome, Treatment --- Outcomes, Patient-Relevant --- Patient Relevant Outcome --- Patient-Relevant Outcomes --- Patient Reported Outcome --- Patient Reported Outcomes --- Outcome, Patient Reported --- Outcomes, Patient Reported --- Reported Outcome, Patient --- Reported Outcomes, Patient --- healthcare policy --- patient-reported outcomes --- quality of life --- clinical trials --- patient engagement --- Medical care --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Lysholm Knee Score --- Evaluation --- Patient Reported Outcome Measure --- Patient-Reported Outcome --- Patient-Reported Outcomes --- Outcome, Patient-Reported --- Human medicine

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Special Issue “Advances in Management of Voice and Swallowing Disorders” is dedicated to innovations in screening and assessment and the effectiveness of interventions in both dysphonia and dysphagia. In contemporary practice, novel techniques have been introduced in diagnostics and rehabilitative interventions (e.g., machine learning, electrical stimulation). Similarly, advancements in methodological approaches to validate measures have been introduced (e.g., item response theory using Rasch analysis), prompting the need to develop new, robust measures for use in clinics and intervention studies. Against this backdrop, this Special Issue focuses on studies aiming to improve early diagnostics of laryngological disorders and its management. This issue also welcomes the submission of studies on diagnostic accuracy and psychometrics performance of existing and newly developed measures. This includes but is not limited to studies investigating screening tools with sound diagnostic accuracy and robust psychometric properties. Furthermore, interventions with high levels of evidence in relation to clinical outcome using robust methodology (e.g., sophisticated meta-analytic approaches) are of great interest. This issue provides an overview of the latest advances in voice and swallowing disorders.

T1a glottic carcinoma --- transoral laser microsurgery --- treatment outcome --- vocal function --- objective voice diagnostics --- vocal extent measure (VEM) --- occupational voice disorders --- prevention --- prophylaxis --- teachers --- occupational health --- voice training --- balneotherapy --- dysphagia --- swallowing --- laryngeal penetration or aspiration --- deglutition --- reliability --- videofluoroscopic swallowing study --- deep learning --- machine learning --- Voice Handicap Index (VHI-9i) --- international short scale --- VHI-9i severity levels --- test–retest reliability --- validation of classification ranges --- self-assessed vocal impairment (VHIs) --- hoarseness --- dysphonia severity categories --- voice diagnostics --- deglutition disorders --- tongue --- exercise --- ageing --- Sob Voice Therapy --- Optimal Phonation Task --- Negative Practice --- auditory-perceptual analysis --- acoustic voice analysis --- laryngeal sensory dysfunction --- chronic refractory cough --- botulinum toxin --- larynx --- laryngeal hypersensitivity --- cough hypersensitivity syndrome --- globus pharyngeus --- laryngopharyngeal reflux --- neuropathic cough --- throat irritation --- auditory discrimination --- voice control --- voice assessment --- voice disorders --- swallowing disorders --- RCT --- intervention --- compensation --- rehabilitation --- classic test theory --- measure --- psychometrics --- videofluoroscopic swallow studies --- VMV --- neuromuscular electrical stimulation --- pharyngeal electrical stimulation --- PES --- NMES --- repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation --- transcranial direct current stimulation --- rTMS --- tDCS --- n/a --- test-retest reliability

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The road of acceptance of oncologic thermotherapy/hyperthermia as a synergistic modality in combination with standard oncologic therapies is still bumpy. This is partially due to the lack of level I evidence from international, multicentric, randomized clinical trials including large patient numbers and a long term follow-up. Therefore we need more level I EVIDENCE from clinical trials, we need HARMONISATION and global acceptance for existing technologies and a common language understood by all stakeholders and we need INNOVATION in the fields of biology, clinics and technology to move thermotherapy/hyperthermia forward. This is the main focus of this reprint. In this reprintyou find carefully selected and peer-reviewed contributions from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. The published papers from leading scientists from all over the world covering a broad range of timely research topics might also help to strengthen thermotherapy on a global level.

perfusion estimation --- temperature monitoring --- conductivity reconstruction --- systems medicine --- immune system in silico --- perceptron --- antigen pattern --- danger signal --- fractionation --- immune response --- head and neck cancer --- hyperthermia --- reirradiation --- treatment outcome --- hyperthermia treatment planning --- adaptive planning --- temperature optimization --- low-middle-income group countries --- cancer --- radiotherapy --- chemotherapy --- recurrent breast cancers --- cervical cancer --- head and neck cancers --- cost-effective --- meta-analysis --- intensity-modulated radiotherapy --- prostate cancer --- thermal dose --- thermometric parameters --- preclinical data --- clinical evidence --- modulated electro-hyperthermia --- abscopal effect --- locally advanced cervical cancer --- resource-constrained setting --- radiosensitiser --- rectal cancer --- chemoradiotherapy --- tumour control --- loco-regional hyperthermia --- oncology --- cellular selection --- bioelectromagnetics --- complexity --- immune-effects --- moderate hyperthermia --- deep hyperthermia --- radiative hyperthermia --- patterns of care --- reimbursement --- regional hyperthermia --- neoadjuvant chemoradiation --- survival --- induced --- brachytherapy --- prostatic neoplasms --- interstitial hyperthermia --- treatment plan optimization --- prostate --- thermoradiotherapy --- linear quadratic model --- biological modeling --- thermal dosimetry --- hypoxia --- radiation therapy --- reoxygenation --- perfusion --- oxygen consumption rate --- local tumor control --- biomarker --- immune phenotype --- hyperthermia treatment sequence --- breast cancer --- immune checkpoint molecules --- dendritic cell activation --- n/a