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Keeping up with COVID‐19 information: Capacity issues and knowledge uncertainty early in the pandemic

open access: yesCanadian 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

open access: yesPeople 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)

open access: yesThe 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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Reflections on research ethics in a public health emergency: Experiences of Brazilian women affected by Zika

open access: yesDeveloping 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
wiley   +1 more source

Smaller size of harlequin toads from populations long exposed to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis

open access: yesBiotropica, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Lutzomyia longipalpis abundance in the city of Posadas, northeastern Argentina: variations at different spatial scales

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2012
The distribution of Lutzomyia longipalpis is heterogeneous with a pattern of high abundance areas (HAAs) embedded in a matrix of low abundance areas (LAAs). The objective of this study was to describe the variability in the abundance of Lu.
María Soledad Santini   +4 more
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MENINGITE-1970/ COVID-2019. A HISTÓRIA REPETIDA

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
Introdução: Entre 1971 e 1975 o Brasil viveu a maior epidemia urbana conhecida de Doença Meningocócica, cujo epicentro foi o município de São Paulo, com dezenas de milhares de casos e com letalidade muito elevada conforme a infraestrutura de saúde local.
Roberto Focaccia, Marinella Della Negra
doaj   +1 more source

A COVID‐19 model for local authorities of the United Kingdom

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Desafíos de la comunicación pública de epidemias a las políticas de salud en la Argentina

open access: yesCorrespondencias & 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
doaj   +1 more source

DOENÇAS E DISTOPIAS, DOENÇAS NAS DISTOPIAS, DISTOPIAS NAS DOENÇAS

open access: yesRevista de Estudos de Cultura, 2021
Este artigo visa, sobretudo, a investigar, de uma perspectiva transdisciplinar, a relação entre doenças, epidemias e pandemias com as distopias. Para tanto, em primeira instância, averiguamos a propagação da ideia e da percepção da distopia no contexto ...
Amanda Berchez
doaj   +1 more source

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