Fu, Liping Sun, Huajun Xu, Kaibo
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Objective The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has threatened the state's governance and public safety. This study investigates whether and how public participation can affect central government policy response to this pandemic in the context of China. Methods This study constructs the theoretical framework based on theoretical analysis...
Goldschmidt, Peter G.
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Frontiers in Public Health
The world was unprepared for COVID-19. Pandemics can unfold quickly; faster than governments can respond, unless they have maintained a realistic pandemic playbook. As the world ahead becomes ever-more complex, such playbook becomes ever-more necessary. This article not only describes the importance of a pandemic playbook but also a system to maint...
Jia, Huanhuan Shang, Panpan Gao, Shang Cao, Peng Yu, Jianxing Yu, Xihe
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Objectives This study aims to evaluate the direct effects of work stress, health status and presenteeism on task performance, and further explore the mediating effects of health status and presenteeism, hoping to provide theoretical basis for improving the performance of medical staff. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among medical sta...
Schmidt, Susanne Goros, Martin W. Gelfond, Jonathan A. L. Bowen, Katherine Guttersen, Connie Messbarger-Eguia, Anne Feldmann, Suzanne Mead Ramirez, Amelie G.
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Objective(s) Culinary education may be one way to improve children's eating behaviors. We formatively evaluated the effect of a hands-on afterschool 12-module, registered dietitian-led culinary education program on healthy eating behaviors in a predominately Hispanic/Latino, low-socioeconomic community. Methods Of 234 children participating in the ...
Lu, Dafeng Wang, Taiwu Luo, Zhenghan Ye, Fuqiang Qian, Jiaojiao Zhang, Jinhai Wang, Chunhui
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Background To explore the efficacy and safety of drugs in patients with scrub typhus. Methods For this systematic review and network meta-analysis, we searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Central Register of Clinical Trials, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Wanfang data (WF) up to December 2021. All randomized contro...
Guo, Haibin Chen, Nan Yang, Yuqi Zhou, Xuan Li, Xin Jiang, Yan Huang, Jiaoling Du, Qing
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Objectives To determine the influence of ethnic disparities, socioeconomic status (SES) and hukou on the incidence of scoliosis. Methods We enrolled 2,445 junior high school students (Han: 1,153; ethnic minorities: 1,292) aged 12–16 years from two schools in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province from November 2020 to February 2021. We m...
Lee, Samantha Sze-Yee Mackey, David A.
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Myopia tends to develop and progress fastest during childhood, and the age of stabilization has been reported to be 15–16 years old. Thus, most studies on myopia have centered on children. Data on the refractive error profile in young adulthood — a time in life when myopia is thought to have stabilized and refractive error is unaffected by age-rela...
Schoen, Corina N. Morgan, Elizabeth Leftwich, Heidi K. Rogers, Christine Soorneedi, Anand Suther, Cassandra Moore, Matthew D.
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The risk of potential SARS-CoV-2 transmission by infected mothers during labor and delivery has not been investigated in-depth. This work collected air samples close to (respiratory droplets) and more distant from (aerosol generation) unvaccinated patients who had previously tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during labor within 5 days of a positive te...
Belji Kangarlou, Marzieh Fatemi, Farin Paknazar, Fatemeh Dehdashti, Alireza
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Introduction The pandemic has intensified physical and psychological work demands experienced by nurses in a hospital environment. The purpose of this study was to examine personal and work environmental risk factors associated with occupational burnout among hospital nurses. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional from April to November 2020. Data ...
Li, Shaojie Cui, Guanghui Yin, Yongtian Tang, Kaixuan Chen, Lei Liu, Xinyao
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A previous cross-sectional study found that problematic mobile phone use (PMPU) was associated with students' eating disorder symptoms. However, since the cross-sectional study cannot infer the causality and the direction of effect, the longitudinal relationship between the two and the mechanism behind this relationship are unclear. Therefore, the ...