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The implementation of infection prevention and control measures and health care utilisation in ACF-supported health facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2020

Global Health Action, 2023
Background Infection prevention and control (IPC) was a central component of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s COVID-19 response in 2020, aiming to prevent infections and ensure safe health service provision.
Chiara Altare, Linda Matadi Basadia, Natalya Kostandova, Justus Nsio Mbeta, Sophie Bruneau, Caroline Antoine, Marie Petry   +6 more
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Costs and cost-effectiveness of three point-of-use water treatment technologies added to community-based treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Sindh Province, Pakistan

Global Health Action, 2019
Background: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a major global public health concern. Despite the cost-effectiveness of treatment, ministries of health are often unable to commit the required funds which limits service coverage.
Eleanor Rogers, Hannah Tappis, Shannon Doocy, Karen Martínez, Nicolas Villeminot, Ann Suk, Deepak Kumar, Silke Pietzsch, Chloe Puett   +8 more
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Associations between local descriptive norms for overweight/obesity and insufficient fruit intake, individual-level diet, and 10-year change in body mass index and glycosylated haemoglobin in an Australian cohort

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2018
Background Descriptive norms (what other people do) relate to individual-level dietary behaviour and health outcome including overweight and obesity.
Suzanne J. Carroll, Theo Niyonsenga, Neil T. Coffee, Anne W. Taylor, Mark Daniel   +4 more
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The “goldfish bowl”: a qualitative study of the effects of heightened surveillance on people who use drugs in a rural and coastal Canadian setting

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background A growing body of research has focused on contextual factors that shape health and well-being of people who use drugs (PWUD). However, most of this research focuses on large cities and less is known about the effects of social and structural ...
Geoff Bardwell, Manal Mansoor, Ashley Van Zwietering, Ellery Cleveland, Dan Snell, Thomas Kerr   +5 more
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Public goods and government action [PDF]

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2013
It is widely agreed that one of the core functions of government is to supply public goods that markets either fail to provide or cannot provide efficiently. I will suggest that arguments for government provision of public goods require fundamental moral judgments in addition to the usual economic considerations about the relative efficacy of markets ...
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Post-graduate medical education in public health: The case of Italy and a call for action [PDF]

, 2017
Public health technical expertise is of crucial importance to inform decision makers\u2019 action in the field of health and its broader determinants. Improving education and training of public health professionals for both practice and research is the ...
Attena, F, Baldo, V, Bianco, A, Bonanni, P, Borella, P, Capunzo, M, Casuccio, A, Cesana, Gm, Contu, P, D'Errico, Mm, Damiani, G, Donato, F, Fabiani, L, Fantini, Mp, Franco, E, Gabutti, G, Gasparini, R, Marranzano, M, Messina, G, Mura, I, Odone, Anna, Parpinel, M, Pelissero, G, Picerno, I, Pontello, Mm, Privitera, Gaetano Pierpaolo, Privitera, Gp, Quarto, M, Romano, G., Signorelli, C, Signorelli, Carlo, Siliquini, R, Staniscia, T, Stracci, F, Torre, I, Villari, P   +35 more
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Progressive Teacher-student Learning for Early Action Prediction [PDF]

, 2020
The goal of early action prediction is to recognize actions from partially observed videos with incomplete action executions, which is quite different from action recognition.
Hu, Jian-Fang, Lai, Jianhuang, Wang, Xionghui, Zhang, Jianguo, Zheng, Wei-Shi   +4 more
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A multi-country, prospective cohort study to evaluate the economic implications of relapse among children recovered from severe acute malnutrition: a study protocol

BMC Nutrition, 2022
Background Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) is an effective intervention at recovering children from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and preventing mortality.
Chloe Puett, Sarah King, Heather Stobaugh   +2 more
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Explaining Public Action

Topoi, 2017
Actions are uncontroversially public. However, the prevailing model of explanation in the debate about the de se seems to conflict with this fact by proposing agent-specific explanations that yield agent-specific types of action—i.e. types of action that no two agents can instantiate. Remarkably, this point affects both proponents and critics of the de
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Beyond resistance: social factors in the general public response to pandemic influenza [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Influencing the general public response to pandemics is a public health priority. There is a prevailing view, however, that the general public is resistant to communications on pandemic influenza and that behavioural responses to the 2009/10 ...
Davis, Mark, Flowers, Paul, Lohm, Davina, Stephenson, Niamh, Waller, Emily   +4 more
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