Background: The early years is a critical stage to establish optimal nutrition and movement behaviours. Community playgroups are a relaxed environment for parents with a focus on social connection and supporting parents in their role as ‘First Teachers’. Playgroups are therefore an opportunistic setting to promote health behaviours in the early yea...
Published in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge to community wellbeing and mental health. However, quantifiable information on the extent of mental health problems and associated factors due to the pandemic is still lacking in low-income countries. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the levels of depression, anxiety, and stress and the...
En 1992, une politique de formalisation des droits et de libéralisation du foncier annonçait un bouleversement dans la structure agraire du Mexique. Cette réforme autorisait, sous certaines conditions, la parcellisation et la privatisation des ejidos, un régime de propriété collective inscrit dans la Constitution de 1917. Elle visait notamment à dy...
Published in European child & adolescent psychiatry
Co-occurring regulatory problems in infancy, RPs, including excessive crying, feeding-eating and sleeping, have been found associated with mental health problems in school ages. Still, an overview is needed on trajectories of co-occurring or combined RPs, and mental health problems in early childhood. The aim of this review is to systematically rev...
A key question in community ecology is to understand how abiotic (e.g. climate, habitatcharacteristics), anthropogenic factors (e.g. contamination), and species interactions drivethe structure and composition of biological communities in the environment. For instance,metal soil contamination is known to cause changes in the taxonomic structure of c...
Aim: Ecological and anthropogenic factors shift the abundances of dominant and rare tree species within local forest communities, thus affecting species composition and ecosystem functioning. To inform forest and conservation management it is important to understand the drivers of dominance and rarity in local tree communities. We answer the follow...
Published in Journal of Vascular Research
Social networks have transformed the way we communicate and access information, but they also play a complex and sometimes worrying role in society. This article explores the impact of social networks on societal security risks, highlighting their ability to influence and potentially destabilize society. Societal security risks refer to threats lik...
Published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
In the recent times, the issues of resource depletion, rapid urbanization, and climate change have focused on the need for sustainable solutions in the area of mobility. While significant importance has been made in urban areas towards sustainable transportation, rural areas face unique challenges that require strategies. The scarcity of resources,...
Introduction: Health Literacy (HL) is a key skill for the prevention of adverse health and the maintenance and promotion of good health outcomes, and is generally agreed to reflect a person’s ability to understand, access, appraise and apply health information. Due to HL reflecting a person’s skill to navigate health information, public HL has beco...
