Inequality, Crime and Public Health: A Survey of Emerging Trends in Urban Data Science [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Urban agglomerations are constantly and rapidly evolving ecosystems, with globalization and increasing urbanization posing new challenges in sustainable urban development well summarized in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The advent of the digital age generated by modern alternative data sources provides new tools to tackle ...
arxiv
Main soil contaminants and their fate in the soil environment [PDF]
, 2022 Soil pollution is invisible to the human eye, but it compromises the quality of the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe and puts human and environmental health at risk.
Bussian, Bernd M +6 more
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Unleashing digital transformation to achieve the sustainable development goals across multiple sectors [PDF]
Digital technologies have the potential to support achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Existing scientific literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of the triple link: “digital technologies – different industry sectors – SDGs”.
Camilleri, Mark Anthony +5 more
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OSDG 2.0: a multilingual tool for classifying text data by UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Despite concrete indicators and targets, monitoring the progress of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains a challenge, given the many different actors, initiatives, and institutions involved. OSDG, an open-source classification tool aims to help navigate the SDG related ambiguities through a simple and easy to use application.
arxiv
Towards Good Health and Well-Being; Risk Factors Assessment for Side Effects of Spinal Anesthesia
Egyptian Journal of Health CareIntroduction : SDG optimization is the main goal of the current research, focusing on SDG#3, good health and well-being. Spinal anesthesia is a technique widely used for its efficacy and safety, and it is also known as spinal, subarachnoid, intra-dural ...
Rania Abd Elmohsen +2 more
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Issues for consideration in the scale-up of the inclusion of family planning in the National Health Insurance benefits package in Ghana [PDF]
, 2021 Ghana is working toward achieving universal health coverage (UHC). This is driven, in part, by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG 3—Good Health and Well-Being, which seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at ...
Ankomah, Augustine, Fuseini, Kamil
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Data Science: A Powerful Catalyst for Cross-Sector Collaborations to Transform the Future of Global Health - Developing a New Interactive Relational Mapping Tool [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 The increasingly complex and rapidly changing global health and socio-economic landscape requires fundamentally new ways of thinking, acting and collaborating to solve growing systems challenges. Cross-sectoral collaborations between governments, businesses, international organizations, private investors, academia and non-profits are essential for ...
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Emotion-Recognition Using Smart Watch Accelerometer Data: Preliminary Findings [PDF]
, 2017 This study investigates the use of accelerometer data from a smart watch to infer an individual's emotional state. We present our preliminary findings on a user study with 50 participants. Participants were primed either with audio-visual (movie clips) or audio (classical music) to elicit emotional responses.
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Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems and the 2030 Agenda: Sustainable Development Goals [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) is an old method for intensively monitoring a population to assess the effects of healthcare or other population-level interventions - often clinical trials. The strengths of HDSS include very detailed descriptions of whole populations with frequent updates.
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Challenges of health and well-being in the world according to SDG indicators.
Ciência & Saúde ColetivaThis study reviews the current state of the good health and well-being indicators included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), identifying the most significant challenges faced by countries in the world and in the Americas region.
E. Medina-Hernández
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