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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 594-615, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the relationship between information consumption and mental health during the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Adopting a qualitative approach, we interviewed 39 people in British Columbia, Canada between October and December 2020.
Katelin Albert, Garry Gray
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Disturbance ecology in human societies
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 1082-1093, August 2023., 2023 Abstract We define societal disturbances as discrete events that abruptly disrupt the functioning of human societies. There is a variety of such events, including hurricanes, floods, epidemics, nuclear accidents, earthquakes and wars, among others. These disturbances can interact, further increasing their impacts.
Juli G. Pausas, Alexandro B. Leverkus
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Urban mortality in Greece: Hermoupolis (1859–1940)
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 728-758, August 2023., 2023 Abstract The paper examines mortality patterns in the city of Hermoupolis, on the Greek island of Syros, from 1859 to 1940. It produces important new insights into Mediterranean urban historical demography and is the first comprehensive study of urban mortality in Greece, utilising the largest and one of the longest time series at the individual level ...
Michail Raftakis
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Developing World Bioethics, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 138-146, June 2023., 2023 Abstract In Brazil, the epicenter of the Zika crisis, brown, black, and indigenous poor women living in municipalities with scarce resources were disproportionally affected. The gendered consequences of the epidemic exposed how intersectional lenses are central to understand the impact of public health emergencies in the lives of women and girls.
Ilana Ambrogi +2 more
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Smaller size of harlequin toads from populations long exposed to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis
Biotropica, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 699-705, May 2023., 2023 Pathogens can exert selective pressures on the scheduling of reproduction. The smaller size of harlequin toads from populations long exposed to the lethal fungal disease chytridiomycosis suggests that toads from post‐epidemic populations are breeding earlier.
Margarita Lampo +3 more
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A COVID‐19 model for local authorities of the United Kingdom
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Volume 185, Issue S1, Page S86-S95, November 2022., 2022 Abstract We propose a new framework to model the COVID‐19 epidemic of the United Kingdom at the local authority level. The model fits within a general framework for semi‐mechanistic Bayesian models of the epidemic based on renewal equations, with some important innovations, including a random walk modelling the reproduction number, incorporating ...
Swapnil Mishra +7 more
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Does social distancing affect the processing of brand logos?
Brain and Behavior, Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2022., 2022 In this manuscript, we investigate the possibility that the social distancing imposed to contrast the spread of COVID‐19 affected our cognitive system. We focused on the processing of commercial logos presented originally and spaced. Results showed that the social distancing behaviors imposed have been integrated in our cognitive system since it ...
Stefania D'Ascenzo +5 more
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Desafíos de la comunicación pública de epidemias a las políticas de salud en la Argentina
Correspondencias & Análisis, 2020 El objetivo del artículo es reflexionar sobre la comunicación de políticas públicas de salud en el caso de las epidemias en la Argentina desde el campo de la comunicación y la salud. El diseño metodológico se basó en la sistematización y clasificación de
Mónica Petracci, Paula Rodríguez Zoya
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Obesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021 Resumen Prevenir la obesidad entre los jóvenes latinos que viven en Estados Unidos y en países latinoamericanos requiere reconocer la especificidad de los contextos y las interacciones entre actividad física (AF) y entorno construido (EC). El objetivo de este artículo es avanzar en la agenda de investigación sobre el EC y la AF con el fin de prevenir ...
Olga L. Sarmiento +11 more
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Obesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021 Resumen La obesidad infantil es un problema grave en Latinoamérica y entre la población latina de EE. UU. Para ser eficaces, las políticas de salud pública tienen que estar guiadas por evidencias contextuales pertinentes, lo cual exige una capacidad de investigación sostenida a través del tiempo.
Deborah Salvo +13 more
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