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Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
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Epidemic Assistance by the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005–2014

Journal of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 2016
Epi-Aids, or epidemiologic assistance investigations, are an important mechanism through which Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports public health organizations. We described the characteristics of Epi-Aids conducted during 2005-2014 and summarized the publication outcome of Epi-Aid related scientific information products.We performed a ...
Coronado, Fátima, Chen, Guan M., Bosch, Stacey A., Eaton, Danice K.   +3 more
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Security Control Components for Epidemic Prevention Donation Management Blockchain

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure, 2020
After the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia, it has been broadcasting soon. Medical supplies are out of used. Chinese people have provided medical supplies and raised donations to help Hubei Province, China. While, Red Cross Society of Hubei Branch and Wuhan Branch were suspected for unfair distribution of donated materials, the backlog of ...
Wang, Shuo, Li, Qianmu, Hou, Jun, Jiang, Jian   +3 more
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Expert Consensus on Influenza Vaccine and Pneumococcal Vaccination in Elderly People With Chronic Respiratory Diseases (2024)

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
This consensus describes the protective effect and safety of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines, and vaccination recommendations, aiming to promote the vaccination rate, better play the role of vaccines in preventing influenza and pneumococcal diseases, and reduce the occurrence of respiratory infections and related serious complications in elderly ...
Lijing Wang, Qiao Yu, Qiong Chen, Pulin Yu, Expert Committee of Consensus Opinion on Influenza Vaccine and Pneumococcal Vaccine Vaccination for Elderly People with Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Respiratory Group of Chinese Geriatrics Society, Yunhua Bai, Yufeng Du, Luzhao Feng, Lidong Gao, Lingyun Gao, Baimei He, Junguang Jiang, Wenjing Jiang, Yayun Nan, Zhibin Peng, Yun Peng, Zhujun Shao, Jin Tan, Yingxuan Tian, Bingxiang Wang, Yuhong Wang, Wei Wu, Jianqin Wu, Xiuping Wu, Meizhe Xin, Wei Xiong, Guogang Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang, Zhimian Zhang, Xiongwen Zhou   +31 more
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Use of Rapid Ascertainment Process for Institutional Deaths (RAPID) to identify pregnancy-related deaths in tertiary-care obstetric hospitals in three departments in Haiti

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Accurate assessment of maternal deaths is difficult in countries lacking standardized data sources for their review. As a first step to investigate suspected maternal deaths, WHO suggests surveillance of “pregnancy-related deaths”, defined as ...
Andrew T. Boyd, Erin N. Hulland, Reynold Grand’Pierre, Floris Nesi, Patrice Honoré, Reginald Jean-Louis, Endang Handzel   +6 more
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‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn, J. Gilroy, S. Peter, F. Talbot, K. Bulkeley, C. Alcorso, K. Gwynne, B. Rambaldini, A. Haines, M. Lincoln   +9 more
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Understanding community resilience during the drinking water contamination event on Oahu, Hawaii, 2021–2022: a mixed mode approach

BMC Public Health
Background A petroleum leak into the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam water system on Oahu, Hawaii in November 2021 contaminated the drinking water of approximately 93,000 users, causing many to relocate for months. Perceptions of health and wellbeing were
Vidisha Parasram, Amanda R. Smith, Michele L. F. Bolduc, Jamie Rayman, Alex Poniatowski, Nicole Mintz, Madeline Jarvis, Alyssa N. Troeschel, Shanna Miko, Krishna Surasi, Charles Edge, Benjamin Gerhardstein, Diana Felton, Maureen F. Orr   +13 more
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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
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Clinical Profiles of Dengue Fever Patients, During an Outbreak

Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases, 2018
Background: Dengue fever (DF) has become a major public health concern globally. It is an infection caused by a virus of the family Flaviviridae, with five serotypes (DENV 1–5).
Shafia Saba, Ata Ur Rehman Khan, Unsar Naeem-Ullah, Syed Haroon Masood Bokhari   +3 more
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Associations between experience of stressful life events and cancer prevalence in China: results from the China Kadoorie Biobank study

BMC Cancer, 2023
Background Studies examining the relationships of stressful life events and cancer yielded inconsistent findings, while relevant evidence in mainland China is scarce.
Meng Wang, Weiwei Gong, Dianjianyi Sun, Pei Pei, Jun Lv, Canqing Yu, Min Yu   +6 more
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