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

open access: yesScientific 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   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social, health-related, and environmental factors influencing sleep problems of children, adolescents and young adults [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Employment and working conditions of nurses: where and how health inequalities have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic?

open access: yesHuman 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   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Precarious Employment and Stress: The Biomedical Embodiment of Social Factors. PRESSED Project Study Protocol

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

Institutional conditions and social innovations in emerging economies: insights from Mexican enterprises’ initiatives for protecting/preventing the effect of violent events [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Latin-American countries are characterised by societal problems like violence, crime, corruption, the informality that influence any entrepreneurial activity developed by individuals/organisations. Social innovations literature confront “wicked problems”
Guerrero, Maribel, Urbano, David
core   +2 more sources

Investigation of Conditions and Benefits for Ukraine in the Transition of Its Household in the Rank of the Internal Investor of the State [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In the article the place, role and functions of families (households) as economic subjects of the market system are clarified. The interrelation, interdependence of categories of "savings", "investments" and "consumption" is defined.
Bondarenko, Y. (Yuliya)   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Impact of School Population Composition, Workload, and Teachers’ Utility Values on Teaching Quality: Insights From the Dutch TALIS-2018 Data

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sociality Affects REM Sleep Episode Duration Under Controlled Laboratory Conditions in the Rock Hyrax, Procavia capensis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The rock hyrax, Procavia capensis, is a highly social, diurnal mammal. In the current study several physiologically measurable parameters of sleep, as well as the accompanying behavior, were recorded continuously from five rock hyraxes, for 72 h under ...
Adhil Bhagwandin   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Chewing gum modifies state-anxiety and alertness under conditions of social stress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Objectives: The finding that chewing gum can moderate state-anxiety under conditions of acute stress¹ has proved difficult to replicate.2,4 The present study examines the extent to which chewing gum can moderate state-anxiety under conditions of acute ...
Andrew J Johnson   +5 more
core   +1 more source

A novel conceptual model and heuristic tool to strengthen understanding and capacities for health inequalities research

open access: yesHealth 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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