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Economic Uncertainties in Valuing Reductions in Children's Environmental Health Risks [PDF]

The recognition that environmental hazards can affect children differently and more severely than adults has provoked growing concern in industrialized nations about the impact of environmental pollution on children’s health.
Hoffmann, Sandra, Krupnick, Alan, Adamowicz, Wictor   +2 more
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Tuning Separator Chemistry: Improving Zn Anode Compatibility via Functionalized Chitin Nanofibers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Nanochitin derived from waste shrimp shells is used to fabricate separators for aqueous zinc batteries. By tuning the density of amine and carboxylic surface groups, water mobility at the separator interface is controlled, promoting uniform zinc deposition, suppressing dendrite growth, and enabling exceptional cycling stability exceeding 2000 h ...
Ibrahim Al Kathemi, Vishnu Arumughan, Mohamed Zbiri, Marcel Kröger, Ira Smal, Eero Kontturi, Roza Bouchal   +6 more
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Environmental public health practice and CDC\u2019s food safety winnable battle

Did you know that every year more than 1 in 6 Americans gets foodborne illness? And that more than half of all foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States are associated with restaurants?CDC is taking action to prevent these outbreaks by improving ...

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Parenting stress in parents with and without a mental illness and its relationship to psychopathology in children: a multimodal examination

Frontiers in Psychiatry
ObjectiveChildren of parents with a mental illness are at heightened risk to develop a mental illness themselves due to genetics and environmental factors. Although parenting stress (PS) is known to be associated with increased psychopathology in parents
Vanessa Seipp, Klara Hagelweide, Rudolf Stark, Sarah Weigelt, Hanna Christiansen, Meinhard Kieser, Kathleen Otto, Corinna Reck, Ricarda Steinmayr, Linda Wirthwein, Anna–Lena Zietlow, Christina Schwenck, the COMPARE-Family Research Group, Stracke, Gilbert, Eitenmüller, Awounvo, Kirchner, Klose, Buntrock, Ebert, Schlarb, Margraf, Schneider, Friedrich, Teismann, Stark, Metzger, Brakemeier, Wardenga, Hauck, Glombiewski, Schröder, Heider, Jungmann, Witthöft, Rief, Eitenmüller   +37 more
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Mass poisoning after consumption of a hawksbill turtle, Federated States of Micronesia, 2010

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2015
Background: Marine turtles of all species are capable of being toxic. On 17 October 2010, health authorities in the Federated States of Micronesia were notified of the sudden death of three children and the sickening of approximately 20 other people on ...
Boris Pavlin, Jennie Musto, Moses Pretrick, Joannes Sarofalpiy, Perpetua Sappa, Siana Shapucy, Jacobus Kool   +6 more
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A systematic review of the organizational, environmental, professional and child and family factors influencing the timing of admission to hospital for children with serious infectious illness.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BackgroundInfection, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major cause of childhood deaths globally, many deaths from infections such as pneumonia and meningococcal disease are avoidable, if treated in time.
Bernie Carter, Damian Roland, Lucy Bray, Jane Harris, Poornima Pandey, Jo Fox, Enitan D Carrol, Sarah Neill   +7 more
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Translational Considerations for Injectable Biomaterials and Bioscaffolds to Repair and Regenerate Brain Tissue

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
The repair and regeneration of brain tissue faces both biological and technical challenges. Injectable bioscaffolds offer new opportunities to stimulate tissue regrowth in the brain by recruiting neural stem cells. Here, the translational issues are reviewed that need to be address to advance this promising new therapeutic approach from the bench to ...
Michel Modo, Alena Kisel
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HCAHPS Survey Results: Impact of Severity of Illness on Hospitals' Performance on HCAHPS Survey Results

Journal of Patient Experience, 2014
Background The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is used by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to assess inpatient satisfaction.
James I. Merlino MD, FACS, FASCRS, Carmen Kestranek, Daniel Bokar, Zhiyuan Sun MS, Steven E. Nissen MD MACC, David L. Longworth MD, FACP   +5 more
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Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance [PDF]

This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness.
Jones, Melanie K., Latreille, Paul L., Sloane, Peter J.   +2 more
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Epidermal Patch Technologies for Integrated Healthcare and Infection Management

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Epidermal patches have evolved from simple wound coverings into multifunctional, skin‐conformable platforms integrating drug delivery, biosensing, and therapeutic functionalities. This review highlights their material innovations, fabrication strategies, and intelligent designs, including hydrogels, microneedles, and flexible electronics, while ...
Yuqi Wang, Atakan Tevlek, Pawel L. Urban, Boaz Mizrahi, Onome Ejeromedoghene, Roshan Deen, Yuanjing Lin, Jagan Mohan Dodda   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source