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Impact of communicative and informative strategies on influenza vaccination adherence and absenteeism from work of health care professionals working at the university hospital of palermo, Italy: A quasi-experimental field trial on twelve influenza seasons [PDF]

, 2019
Every year, about 20% of health care workers (HCWs) acquire influenza, continuing to work and encouraging virus spreading. Influenza vaccination coverage rates and absenteeism from work among HCWs of the University Hospital (UH) of Palermo were analyzed ...
Bono S., Calamusa G., Caracci F., Casuccio A., Costantino C., Maida C. M., Restivo V., Ventura G., Vitale F.   +8 more
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Transforming Long-Term Care through Evidence-Informed Innovation: Learning from Three European Centres of Excellence

Journal of Long-Term Care
Using evidence to improve public services is a key aspiration, but also a significant challenge internationally, with a number of key national investments in breaking down traditional barriers between research, policy and practice.
Maria Teresa Ferazzoli, Obert Tawodzera, Maria Nilsson, Bellis van den Berg, Maria Cheshire Allen, Karen McCormick, Mirella Minkman, Elizabeth Hanson, Lennart Magnusson, Jon Glasby   +9 more
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Human displacements, fatalities, and economic damages linked to remotely observed floods

Scientific Data, 2023
We present a new open source dataset FLODIS that links estimates of flood-induced human displacements, fatalities, and economic damages to flooded areas observed through remote sensing.
Benedikt Mester, Katja Frieler, Jacob Schewe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor, Flora Hoodin, Michelle Byrd, Kristin A. Kullgren, Leah LaLonde, Lauren Benkoske, Patrick Smith, Dawn Carson, Karen MacDonald, Susumu Inoue, Brenda Kitchen, Kate Gowans, Gregory A. Yanik   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Five minutes with Andrew Miller MP: “It’s important that people handle information in an intelligent way, and social science has a huge role in this” [PDF]

, 2011
In 2011 the Science and Technology Select Committee examined the role of science when emergencies such as the H1N1 influenza pandemic and the volcanic ash disruption occur. Andrew Miller, chair of the Government’s Science and Technology Select Committee,
Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences,, Miller, Andrew   +1 more
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Analyzing the usage of theories of change for routine immunization programs -- a review of impact evaluations from LMICs

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Background In this article we analyzed the extent of the usage of Theories of Change (TOCs) and causal pathways in the evaluation of immunization programs to identify the challenges to generating evidence on how interventions improve immunization ...
Lalitha Vadrevu, Monica Jain, Shradha S. Parsekar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prolonged Corrected QT Interval as an Early Electrocardiographic Marker of Cyclophosphamide‐Induced Cardiotoxicity in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cyclophosphamide (CY) is associated with potentially fatal cardiotoxicity, yet no electrocardiographic indices have been established for early detection of CY‐induced cardiomyopathy. This study aimed to determine whether corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation can predict early onset of CY‐related cardiac dysfunction in pediatric ...
Junpei Kawamura, Kentaro Ueno, Takuro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Koji Nakae, Yasuhiro Okamoto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage

Communications Earth & Environment
The implementation and acceptance of climate policies depend on public perceptions of climate change. The media play a crucial role in informing the public discourse.
Tatjana Schirmag, Jakob H. Wedemeyer, Annika Stechemesser, Leonie Wenz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Size Distribution, Scaling Properties and Spatial Organization of Urban Clusters: A Global and Regional Percolation Perspective

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016
Human development has far-reaching impacts on the surface of the globe. The transformation of natural land cover occurs in different forms, and urban growth is one of the most eminent transformative processes.
Till Fluschnik, Steffen Kriewald, Anselmo García Cantú Ros, Bin Zhou, Dominik E. Reusser, Jürgen P. Kropp, Diego Rybski   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Memory for spatio-temporal contextual details during the retrieval of naturalistic episodes

Scientific Reports, 2021
Episodic memory entails the storage of events together with their spatio-temporal context and retrieval comprises the subjective experience of a link between the person who remembers and the episode itself.
Samy-Adrien Foudil, Claire Pleche, Emiliano Macaluso   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source