De Wit, John B. F. de Ridder, Denise T. D. van den Boom, Wijnand Kroese, Floor M. van den Putte, Bas Stok, F. Marijn Leurs, Mariken de Bruin, Marijn
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Background COVID-19 mitigation measures intend to protect public health, but their adverse psychological, social, and economic effects weaken public support. Less favorable trade-offs may especially weaken support for more restrictive measures. Support for mitigation measures may also differ between population subgroups who experience different ben...
Currier, Jessica Arteaga, Ignacia Turner-Uaandja, Hannah Starling, Bella Pashayan, Nora Jäderholm, Christina Ponce Campuzano, Christopher Shannon, Jackilen
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Introduction While authentic and sustained community involvement in the research process is critically important to making new technologies and interventions effective and socially acceptable, there is uneven participation across sociodemographic, racial, and ethnic communities in many research areas, including cancer early detection research. Curr...
McNicholas, Triona Hendrick, Louise McDarby, Geraldine Mustafa, Saqif Zhang, Yu Saikat, Sohel Jakab, Zsuzsanna Holohan, Tony
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This article is part of the Research Topic ‘Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict.’ The COVID-19 pandemic presented a challenge to health systems and exposed weaknesses in public health capacities globally. As Ireland looks to recovery, strengthening public health capacities to support health systems resilience ...
Karanyotova, Stephanie Topova, Branimira Petrova, Elina Doychev, Peter Kapitanska, Eliana Petrova, Guenka Mitkova, Zornitsa Dimitrova, Maria
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Introduction Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer affecting women in Europe. Advanced breast cancer (ABC) poses a significant therapeutic challenge, and therefore, timely access to treatment is crucial. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the treatment patterns and patients' access to new therapies for ABC in Bulgaria. Methods W...
Zhang, Shilun Chen, Lin
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The use of existing resources, such as natural sounds, to promote the mental health of citizens is an area of research that is receiving increasing attention. This research contributes to existing knowledge by combining a field psychological walk method and an experimental acoustic control method to compare the acoustic information masking effects ...
Andrew, J. Eunice, R. Jennifer Karthikeyan, J.
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Digital health data collection is vital for healthcare and medical research. But it contains sensitive information about patients, which makes it challenging. To collect health data without privacy breaches, it must be secured between the data owner and the collector. Existing data collection research studies have too stringent assumptions such as ...
Koçkaya, Güvenç Oguzhan, Gülpembe Ökçün, Selin Kurnaz, Mustafa
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Introduction This study aims to determine the out-of-pocket health expenditures of households in Turkey where individuals with rare diseases are residing. Methods The research population consisted registered members of associations who are members of the Rare Diseases Network. In addition to the general analysis including all participants, expendit...
Yin, Jian-Hai Zhang, Li Feng, Xin-Yu Xia, Zhi-Gui
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Malaria is a major public health threat worldwide, and it was also widely prevalent in the history in China, seriously endangering people's health and affecting socioeconomic development. China was certified malaria elimination in 2021 with unremitting efforts since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. This great achievement has ...
Ma, Hangxia Hu, Maosen Wan, Jingjing
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Objective To investigate the kidney transplantation knowledge of kidney transplant (KT) candidates and recipients, and to explore the related influencing factors. Methods From March to July 2022, a total of 170 KT candidates and 270 KT recipients were investigated in two tertiary and Grade A hospitals in Hunan Province, China, using demographic que...
Luo, Mengrui Liu, Tiancong Ma, Changcheng Fang, Jianwei Zhao, Zhiying Wen, Yu Xia, Yang Zhao, Yuhong Ji, Chao
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Background and aim The current study aimed to clarify the association between household polluting cooking fuels and adverse birth outcomes using previously published articles. Methods In this systematic review and meta-analysis, a systematic literature search in PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus databases were undertaken for relevant studi...
