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The multifactorial aquaculture‐related COVID‐19 shock in Benin, West Africa: A socio‐economic perspective of mitigating the disruptive impacts on the small‐scale and subsistence producers

open access: yesAquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 2, Issue 6, Page 507-521, December 2022., 2022
Graphical Abstract This study deals with a timely topic, COVID‐19, whose impacts on aquaculture have never been quantified in Benin. Direct discussions were held with aquaculture producers to understand how they are feeling the impact of the pandemic on their business.
Toundji Olivier Amoussou   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Achieved Capabilities Questionnaire for Community Mental Health (ACQ‐CMH): A consumer‐based measure for the evaluation of community mental health interventions

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 3-4, Page 327-339, December 2022., 2022
Abstract The capabilities approach offers a multidimensional, ecological, and agent‐centered framework that may inspire models of intervention and evaluation. A growing number of measures grounded on the capabilities approach for outcome measurement are appearing.
Beatrice Sacchetto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

People underestimate the errors made by algorithms for credit scoring and recidivism prediction but accept even fewer errors

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
This study provides the first representative analysis of error estimations and willingness to accept errors in a Western country (Germany) with regards to algorithmic decision-making systems (ADM).
Felix G. Rebitschek   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Comprehensive Training Needs of Informal Caregivers of Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesCurrent Oncology, 2023
Introduction: The increasing demand for cancer services is projected to overwhelm the cancer care system, leading to a potential shortfall in human resource capacity.
Janet Papadakos   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examination of runs of homozygosity in relation to height in an endogamous Namibian population

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 180, Issue 1, Page 207-215, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Objectives Height is a complex, highly heritable polygenic trait subject to both genetic composition and environmental influences. Recent studies suggest that a large proportion of height heritability is determined by the cumulative effect of many low allele frequency variants across the genome. Previous research has also identified an inverse
Natalie Swinford   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health Literacy

open access: yesProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
AbstractHealth literacy has been defined as access to health services of individuals, understand and use health information systems, interpret health-related issue and make right decision. In recent years, the importance of health literacy has been rising from studies with positive results in worldwide.
İlgün, Gülnur   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Survival, safety and belonging: An ethnographic study of experiences and perceptions of people who inject drugs accessing a supervised injecting Centre

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 829-846, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Introduction The inclusion of people who use drugs in the design and evaluation of their health services remains a relatively new phenomenon. The aim of the research was to explore the experiences and perceptions of people accessing the Medical Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), and Clinic 180, Sydney Australia, and the factors facilitating ...
Greg Rickard, Bethne Hart
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional improvements in readability of written informed consent forms sustained post-revised Common Rule

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021
Obtaining informed consent is a fundamental and ethical practice within human subjects’ research. Informed consent forms (ICFs) include a large amount of information, much of which may be unfamiliar to research subjects, and the revised Common Rule ...
Alison Caballero   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health Literacy in Context [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018
Health literacy has been defined and conceptualized in multiple ways, but almost all definitions have similar core elements describing the personal skills that enable individuals to obtain, understand, and use information to make decisions and take actions that will have an impact on their health. [...]
Don Nutbeam   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Differences in health literacy domains among migrants and their descendants in Germany

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundHealth literacy (HL) is considered to be an important precondition for health. HL research often identifies migrants as vulnerable for low HL.
Eva-Maria Berens   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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