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Florence Nightingale's Contemporary Legacy for Patient Safety: Implications for Nursing and Public Health [PDF]

open access: yesNursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Florence Nightingale's legacy and its ongoing relevance to contemporary patient safety. Drawing on Notes on Nursing, the study highlights Nightingale's emphasis on hygiene, cleanliness, environmental factors, and systematic care as foundational to reducing harm and improving patient outcomes.
Elaine Lazaro Alcantara   +5 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Development of Bed Linen Performance Index [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Engineering, 2021
In order to develop the performance of the bed linen index objectively, the first seven properties of the fabric are selected by twenty-four experts subjectively, and these experts also give the weight for each property according to the necessity. These properties are total hand value (THV), moisture management, abrasion resistance, air permeability ...
Messay Dubale   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

EC – Bed Linen European Communities – Anti-Dumping Duties on Imports of Cotton-Type Bed Linen from India [PDF]

open access: yesWorld Trade Review, 2003
As comprehensively argued elsewhere in this volume,1 the WTO's antidumping provisions reflect political compromises that mask an underlying lack of consensus on the value and purpose of an antidumping regime at the national level. This is an old story that has been long argued in academic and policy circles.
Merit E. Janow, Robert W. Staiger
openaire   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 859-869, October 2026.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 777-798, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Did Eve Emerge From Evo's Rib? Gendered Complexities Over the Period of MAS Rule in Bolivia

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT The MAS governments in Bolivia (2006–2019) sought to overturn neoliberalism through a decolonial and post‐neoliberal political project informed by indigenous movements, feminist thought, and social movement participation. However, feminist activists and scholars soon argued that MAS discourse and policy increasingly essentialised gender and ...
Kate Maclean
wiley   +1 more source

How will the reduction of tariffs and taxes on insecticide- treated bednets affect household purchases?

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2002
One of the steps called for in the fight against malaria is the removal of tariffs and taxes on insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs), netting materials, and insecticides, with a view to reducing the retail prices of ITNs and thus increasing utilization. In
Simon Jonathon L.   +3 more
doaj  

Consensus‐based Guideline on tinea capitis

open access: yesJDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, Volume 24, Issue 10, Page e1510-e1522, October 2026.
Summary The consensus‐based guideline developed under the auspices of the German Dermatological Society (DDG) is intended to provide physicians with a structured framework for clinical decision‐making in the management of patients with tinea capitis and to contribute to improved diagnostic accuracy, treatment adherence, and prevention. Tinea capitis is
Peter Mayser   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Child mortality in a West African population protected with insecticide-treated curtains for a period of up to 6 years

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
OBJECTIVES: To determine the impact of insecticide-treated curtains (ITC) on all-cause child mortality (6-59 months) over a period of six years. To determine whether initial reductions in child mortality following the implementation of ITC are sustained ...
Diallo D.A.   +5 more
doaj  

Cost-effectiveness of social marketing of insecticide-treated nets for malaria control in the United Republic of Tanzania

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2003
OBJECTIVE: To assess the costs and consequences of a social marketing approach to malaria control in children by means of insecticide-treated nets in two rural districts of the United Republic of Tanzania, compared with no net use.
Hanson Kara   +8 more
doaj  

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