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Measuring behavioral and social drivers of COVID-19 vaccination in health workers in Eastern and Southern Africa

BMC Proceedings, 2023
Background In 2021, twenty out of twenty-one countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region introduced COVID-19 vaccines. With variable willingness to uptake vaccines across countries, the aim of the present study was to better understand ...
Helena Ballester Bon, Symen A. Brouwers, Jenna Mote, Sofia de Almeida, Laurie Markle, Silvia Sommariva, Natalie Fol   +6 more
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Bridging the evidence-to-practice gap: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating practice facilitation as a strategy to accelerate translation of a multi-level adherence intervention into safety net practices

Implementation Science Communications, 2021
Background Poor adherence to antihypertensive medications is a significant contributor to the racial gap in rates of blood pressure (BP) control among Latino adults, as compared to Black and White adults.
Antoinette Schoenthaler, Franzenith De La Calle, Amanda Soto, Derrel Barrett, Jocelyn Cruz, Leydi Payano, Marina Rosado, Samrachana Adhikari, Gbenga Ogedegbe, Milagros Rosal   +9 more
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Identifying Drivers of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake among Residents of Yopougon Est, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Vaccines, 2022
This study applied the Fogg Behavioral Model (FBM) to identify and prioritize factors influencing COVID-19 vaccination among residents of Yopougon Est, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Brian Pedersen, Katherine Thanel, Albert Yao Kouakou, Jariseta Rambeloson Zo, Mariame Louise Ouattara, Dorgeles Gbeke, Gretchen Thompson, Sohail Agha   +7 more
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The Big Compost Experiment: Using citizen science to assess the impact and effectiveness of biodegradable and compostable plastics in UK home composting

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022
Compostable and biodegradable plastics are growing in popularity but their environmental credentials need to be more fully assessed to determine how they can be a part of the solution to the plastic waste crisis.
Danielle Purkiss, Ayşe Lisa Allison, Ayşe Lisa Allison, Fabiana Lorencatto, Susan Michie, Susan Michie, Mark Miodownik   +6 more
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An international, Delphi consensus study to identify priorities for methodological research in behavioral trials in health research

Trials, 2020
Background Non-communicable chronic diseases are linked to behavioral risk factors (including smoking, poor diet and physical inactivity), so effective behavior change interventions are needed to improve population health.
Molly Byrne, Jenny McSharry, Oonagh Meade, Kim L. Lavoie, Simon L. Bacon   +4 more
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Promoting healthy lifestyles in Brazil: design and method of “VAMOS Program” in public health system

Revista Brasileira de Atividade Física e Saúde, 2021
The “Programa Vida Ativa Melhorando a Saúde – VAMOS” (Active Life Improving Health) is a community intervention with a behavioral approach. It uses educational strategies to assist health professionals in guiding the population about the importance of ...
Camila Tomicki, Cassiano Ricardo Rech, Lisandra Maria Konrad, Elaine Cristina Maciel, Fabio Araújo Almeida, Tânia Rosane Bertoldo Benedetti   +5 more
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Structural racism and health: Assessing the mediating role of community mental distress and health care access in the association between mass incarceration and adverse birth outcomes

SSM: Population Health, 2023
Research has linked spatial concentrations of incarceration with racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes. However, little is known about the specific mechanisms of this association. This represents an important knowledge gap in terms of intervention.
Anders Larrabee Sonderlund, Natasha J. Williams, Mia Charifson, Robin Ortiz, Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, Elaine De Leon, Antoinette Schoenthaler   +6 more
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Designing a Pattern Of the Causes and Consequences of Organizational Inertia [PDF]

مطالعات مدیریت بهبود و تحول, 2023
Organizational inertia leads to the damage and inefficiency in organizational processes and then the incidence of serious obstacles in the direction of achieving goals at micro and macro levels.
Shahrzad Kiyanpour, Hadi Teimouri, Ali Asghar Mobasheri   +2 more
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A comprehensive framework for operationalizing structural racism in health research: The association between mass incarceration of Black people in the U.S. and adverse birth outcomes

SSM: Population Health, 2022
Structural racism represents a key determinant of the racial health disparities that has characterized the U.S. population throughout its existence. While this reality has recently begun to gain increasing acknowledgment and acceptance within the health ...
Anders Larrabee Sonderlund, Mia Charifson, Robin Ortiz, Maria Khan, Antoinette Schoenthaler, Natasha J. Williams   +5 more
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Challenges and opportunities in coding the commons: problems, procedures, and potential solutions in large-N comparative case studies

International Journal of the Commons, 2016
On-going efforts to understand the dynamics of coupled social-ecological (or more broadly, coupled infrastructure) systems and common pool resources have led to the generation of numerous datasets based on a large number of case studies.
Elicia Ratajczyk, Ute Brady, Jacopo A. Baggio, Allain J. Barnett, Irene Perez-Ibarra, Nathan Rollins, Cathy Rubiños, Hoon C. Shin, David J. Yu, Rimjhim Aggarwal, John M. Anderies, Marco A. Janssen   +11 more
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