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Volunteering

open access: yesThe Journal of the American Dental Association, 2020
Volunteering: Insights and Tips for Teenagersprovides a complete guide to the world of volunteerism. It shows you how to become engaged in what will be among the most gratifying and worthwhile experiences of your life.
D. Haski-Leventhal
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Volunteering research in Australia: A narrative review

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Psychology, 2019
Objective Australian research on volunteering is rich and diverse, but also increasingly fragmented. In an attempt to promote a more integrated study of volunteering, we review volunteering research conducted in Australia, using volunteering journey as a
Darja Kragt, Djurre Holtrop
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Volunteering and health benefits in general adults: cumulative effects and forms

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2017
Background Although the health benefits of volunteering have been well documented, no research has examined its cumulative effects according to other-oriented and self-oriented volunteering on multiple health outcomes in the general adult public.
Jerf W. K. Yeung   +2 more
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Understanding who volunteers globally through an examination of demographic variation in volunteering across 22 countries [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports
Volunteering has been associated with enhanced individual and societal well-being around the world. While some prior research has assessed cultural and sociodemographic differences in volunteering, we know little about how volunteering differs across ...
Julia S. Nakamura   +8 more
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Chiropractic assistance to firefighters from ICMBIO and IBAMA in Chapada dos Veadeiros - GO - Brazil

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2020
In 2018, I performed a Chiropractic Sessions research—through ICMBIO's volunteer program—with ICMBIO and IBAMA PREVFOGO Firefighters from Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park in the state of Goiás totalizing 111 firefighters.
Serena Eluf de Quadros, Isadora Tessler
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Exploring the Effects of Volunteering on the Social, Mental, and Physical Health and Well-being of Volunteers: An Umbrella Review

open access: yesVOLUNTAS - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2023
Volunteering provides unique benefits to organisations, recipients, and potentially the volunteers themselves. This umbrella review examined the benefits of volunteering and their potential moderators.
B. Nichol   +3 more
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UAV-Supported Forest Regeneration: Current Trends, Challenges and Implications

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
Replanting trees helps with avoiding desertification, reducing the chances of soil erosion and flooding, minimizing the risks of zoonotic disease outbreaks, and providing ecosystem services and livelihood to the indigenous people, in addition to ...
Midhun Mohan   +16 more
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Inequality in Volunteering: Building a New Research Front

open access: yesVOLUNTAS - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2022
Volunteering research focuses predominantly on predicting participation in volunteering, proceeding from the quasi-hegemonic foundation of resource theory and dominant-status theory.
L. Hustinx   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What have we learned about COVID-19 volunteering in the UK? A rapid review of the literature

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Community engagement and volunteering are essential for the public response to COVID-19. Since March 2020 a large number of people in the UK have been regularly doing unpaid activities to benefit others besides their close relatives.
Guanlan Mao   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Views on volunteering in mental health: a focus group study with mental health professionals and volunteers in Portugal

open access: yesDiscover Mental Health, 2023
Introduction Volunteering has reported health benefits. However, little is known in Portugal about the views of mental health professionals and volunteers on volunteering in mental health care.
Mariana Pinto da Costa, Jaime Oliveira
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