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Excess mortality and the COVID-19 pandemic: causes of death and social inequalities

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background During the coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, population’s mortality has been affected not only by the risk of infection itself, but also through deferred care for other causes and changes in lifestyle.
Jieun Oh, Jieun Min, Cinoo Kang, Ejin Kim, Jung Pyo Lee, Ho Kim, Whanhee Lee   +6 more
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Social media for a social cause

Africa Renewal, 2011
Julie Gichuru is an awardwinning Kenyan television journalist rated by Forbes business magazine in 2011 as one of the “20 youngest powerful women in Africa.” Ms. Gichuru has a reputation as an engaging TV host, stirring up her audience against corruption and sometimes poking fun at the vagaries of life.
openaire   +1 more source

Global factors which influence the directions of social development [PDF]

, 2017
This study identifies global factors conditioning the global problematics of the direction of social development. Global threats were evaluated and defined as dangerous processes, phenomena, and situations that cause harm to health ...
S. Sardak, M. Korneyev, A. Simakhova, O. Bilskaya, Sardak, Sergii   +1 more
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Sirolimus for Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformations: A Scoping Review of the Evidence in Syndromic and Non‐Syndromic Cases

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are rare, high‐flow, vascular anomalies that can occur either sporadically or as part of a genetic syndrome. AVMs can progress with serious morbidity and even mortality if left unchecked. Sirolimus is an mTOR inhibitor that is effective in low‐flow vascular malformations; however, its role in AVMs is unclear.
Will Swansson, Ingrid Winship, Gary Hammerschlag, Laura Scardamaglia   +3 more
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Evaluación de impacto aplicada a un proyecto de mercadeo social

Revista Finanzas y Política Económica, 2011
Actualmente existe una nueva estrategia empresarial en donde el sectorprivado voluntariamente está buscando involucrarse en los temas sociales. Esta estrategia se conoce como Mercadeo Social y consiste básicamente en una actividad comercial en la cual la
Luisa J. García
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Strathmore’s Macheo programme: A cause for social good

Church, Communication and Culture
A fundamental purpose of a university, its faculty, students, and administrative teams is to contribute to the common social good. In the provision of education and advancement of scientific knowledge, a university plays the crucial role of serving ...
Betty Ngala
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Advancing the study of health inequality: Fundamental causes as systems of exposure

SSM: Population Health, 2020
We tend to study health inequalities as differentials in disease and death that exist within a population. But the most important cause of health inequality is social stratification, and social stratification only varies between populations.
Alicia R. Riley
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Communitarian perspectives on social enterprise [PDF]

, 2007
Concepts of social enterprise have been debated repeatedly, and continue to cause confusion. In this paper, a meta-theoretical framework is developed through discussion of individualist and communitarian philosophy.
Allen B., Berry A., Borzaga C., Borzaga C., Brown J., Cadbury A., Cheney G., Cladis M., Collins D., Collins J., Collins J., Conyon M., Cornforth C., Cornforth C., Davies P., Dees J. G., Defourny J., DTI, DTI, DTI, Ellerman D., Evers A., Francesco M., Friedman M., Gates J., Gaus G., Giddens A., Giddens A., Griseri P., Harding R., Harrison J., Haugh H., Hobbes T., Holmstrom M., Hume J., ICAEW, IFAC, Johnson P., Kasmir S., Kotter P., Kunda G., Laville J. L., Lewis D., Lewis D., Lutz M., Lutz M., Major G., Major G., Marx K., Mayer C., Mayo E., Michels R., Monks R., NEF/SAS (New Economics Foundation/Shorebank Advisory Services), Oakeshott R., Ouchi W., Parker M., Peters T., Rawls J., Rawls J., Ridley-Duff R., Ridley-Duff R., Rothschild J., Schumpeter J., Skoble A., Smith A., Smith R., Spear R., Spear R., Sternberg E., Tam H., Thompson P., Tonnies F., Vanek J., Vidal I., Vinten G., Wallace B., Ward C., Whyte W. F., Whyte W. F., Wieland A., Willmott H.   +81 more
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman, Tadi Hondonga, Alison Berry, Caitlin Elgarten, Jason Freedman, Katelyn Oranges, Sara McDonough, Caroline Diorio, L. Lee Dupuis   +8 more
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Identifying diseases that cause psychological trauma and social avoidance by GCN-Xgboost

BMC Bioinformatics, 2020
Background With the rapid development of medical treatment, many patients not only consider the survival time, but also care about the quality of life. Changes in physical, psychological and social functions after and during treatment have caused a lot ...
Huijuan Xu, Hairong Wang, Chenshan Yuan, Qinghua Zhai, Xufeng Tian, Lei Wu, Yuanyuan Mi   +6 more
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