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Key epidemiological indicators and spatial autocorrelation patterns across five waves of COVID-19 in Catalonia

Scientific Reports, 2023
This research studies the evolution of COVID-19 crude incident rates, effective reproduction number R(t) and their relationship with incidence spatial autocorrelation patterns in the 19 months following the disease outbreak in Catalonia (Spain).
Francesc Belvis, Alberto Aleta, Álvaro Padilla-Pozo, Juan-M. Pericàs, Juan Fernández-Gracia, Jorge P. Rodríguez, Víctor M. Eguíluz, Charles Novaes De Santana, Mireia Julià, Joan Benach, the COVID-SHINE group   +10 more
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Employment and working conditions of nurses: where and how health inequalities have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Human Resources for Health, 2021
Background Nurses and midwives play a critical role in the provision of care and the optimization of health services resources worldwide, which is particularly relevant during the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, they can only provide quality services
Alba Llop-Gironés, Ana Vračar, Gisela Llop-Gironés, Joan Benach, Livia Angeli-Silva, Lucero Jaimez, Pramila Thapa, Ramesh Bhatta, Santosh Mahindrakar, Sara Bontempo Scavo, Sonia Nar Devi, Susana Barria, Susana Marcos Alonso, Mireia Julià   +13 more
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Precarious Employment and Stress: The Biomedical Embodiment of Social Factors. PRESSED Project Study Protocol

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
The PRESSED project aims to explain the links between a multidimensional measure of precarious employment and stress and health. Studies on social epidemiology have found a clear positive association between precarious employment and health, but the ...
Mireia Bolibar, Mireia Bolibar, Francesc Xavier Belvis, Francesc Xavier Belvis, Pere Jódar, Alejandra Vives, Fabrizio Méndez, Fabrizio Méndez, Xavier Bartoll-Roca, Oscar J. Pozo, Alex Gomez-Gomez, Alex Gomez-Gomez, Eva Padrosa, Eva Padrosa, Joan Benach, Joan Benach, Joan Benach, Mireia Julià, Mireia Julià   +18 more
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Social, health-related, and environmental factors influencing sleep problems of children, adolescents and young adults [PDF]

Journal of Health Monitoring, 2022
Sleep is a relevant factor for functioning and well-being of young people. The paper provides a differentiated description of sleep difficulties in this population group including social, health-related, and environmental factors. The analyses included n=
Petra Kolip, Ronny Kuhnert, Anke-Christine Saß   +2 more
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Impact of School Population Composition, Workload, and Teachers’ Utility Values on Teaching Quality: Insights From the Dutch TALIS-2018 Data

Frontiers in Education, 2022
Several studies show that teaching quality is an important predictor of students’ academic achievement. However, less is known about factors that are important for teaching quality.
Kim H. R. Ouwehand, Kate M. Xu, Marieke Meeuwisse, Sabine E. Severiens, Lisette Wijnia   +4 more
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A novel conceptual model and heuristic tool to strengthen understanding and capacities for health inequalities research

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2020
Background Despite increasing evidence on health inequalities over the past decades, further efforts to strengthen capacities to produce research on this topic are still urgently needed to inform effective interventions aiming to address these ...
Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Matthew Harris, Germán Guerra, Joan Benach   +3 more
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Balancing trust and power: a qualitative study of GPs perceptions and strategies for retaining patients in preventive health checks

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2017
Objective: Little is known about how strategies of retaining patients are acted out by general practitioners (GPs) in the clinical encounter. With this study, we apply Grimens’ (2009) analytical connection between trust and power to explore how trust and
Marie Broholm-Jørgensen, Ann Dorrit Guassora, Susanne Reventlow, Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen   +4 more
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Not in education, employment, or training (NEET) and risk of alcohol use disorder: a nationwide register-linkage study with 485 839 Swedish youths

BMJ Open, 2019
Objective To investigate to what extent being outside education, employment or training after completed secondary education in Sweden might affect the risk of subsequent alcohol use disorders (AUDs), with sociodemographic indicators, such as sex ...
Helio Manhica, Andreas Lundin, Anna-Karin Danielsson   +2 more
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The role of socio-demographic determinants in the geo-spatial distribution of newly diagnosed HIV infections in small areas of Catalonia (Spain)

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Spatial visualization of HIV surveillance data could improve the planning of programs to address the HIV epidemic. The objectives of the study were to describe the characteristics and the spatial distribution of newly diagnosed HIV infection ...
Cristina Agustí, Núria Font-Casaseca, Francesc Belvis, Mireia Julià, Núria Vives, Alexandra Montoliu, Juan M. Pericàs, Jordi Casabona, Joan Benach   +8 more
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Economic and social conditions of launching a new product on the martket.

Journal of Modern Science, 2022
Objectives The purpose of the article is a theoretical analysis of the process of introducing a new product to the market, taking into account economic and social aspects. Material and methods Induction was used as the main research method.
Łukasz Wojciechowski, Sylwia Skrzypek-Ahmed   +1 more
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