Hamilton, Michael A. Hamilton, Danielle Soneye, Oluwatamilore Ayeyemi, Olorunshola Jaradat, Raed
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International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
This research aimed to quantify the racial disparities of COVID-19 for primarily positive tests and deaths across the US and territories individually and collectively. The first research hypothesis investigated whether positive cases and death rates were higher for people of color (POC) than the White ethnic group. The second hypothesis examined wh...
Llop-Gironés, Alba Vračar, Ana Llop-Gironés, Gisela Benach, Joan Angeli-Silva, Livia Jaimez, Lucero Thapa, Pramila Bhatta, Ramesh Mahindrakar, Santosh Bontempo Scavo, Sara
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Human Resources for Health
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 if their work environment provides adequate conditions to support them. Today the employment an...
Jones, Wayne Kaoser, Ridhwana Fischer, Benedikt
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
Background Into the 21st century, the conflation of high rates of chronic pain, systemic gaps in treatment availability and access, and the arrival of potent new opioid medications (e.g., slow-release oxycodone) facilitated strong increases in medical opioid dispensing in Canada. These persisted until post-2010 alongside rising opioid-related adver...
Doody, J. Sean Reid, Joan A. Bilali, Klejdis Diaz, Jennifer Mattheus, Nichole
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Crime Science
Despite the immense impact of wildlife trafficking, comparisons of the profits, costs, and seriousness of crime consistently rank wildlife trafficking lower relative to human trafficking, drug trafficking and weapons trafficking. Using the published literature and current events, we make the case, when properly viewed within the context of COVID-19...
Coccolini, Federico Cicuttin, Enrico Cremonini, Camilla Tartaglia, Dario Viaggi, Bruno Kuriyama, Akira Picetti, Edoardo Ball, Chad Abu-Zidan, Fikri Ceresoli, Marco
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World Journal of Emergency Surgery : WJES
On January 2020, the WHO Director General declared that the outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The world has faced a worldwide spread crisis and is still dealing with it. The present paper represents a white paper concerning the tough lessons we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, an international an...
Vanderschuren, Marianne J. W. A. Nnene, Obiora A.
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Health Research Policy and Systems
Background The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and universal design (UD) principles call for inclusive planning. Within the transportation field, this includes the development or improvement of facilities that accommodate people with disabilities. Between 10% and 20% of the African population is affected by disabilities. A lack of understandin...
Ghebreyesus, Tedros Adhanom
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Nature Aging
In support of the Decade of Healthy Aging, the World Health Organization has launched a publicly available, multi-lingual knowledge exchange platform that will enable people to find, share and produce knowledge on healthy aging. The WHO Director-General introduces the platform and explains how it can be used to make the world a better place to grow...
Le Daré, Brendan Degremont, Adeline Couty, Clémence Baert, Alain Bouvet, Renaud Morel, Isabelle Gicquel, Thomas
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Preventive Medicine Reports
The primary objective of the present study was to evaluate the frequency of positive tests for alcohol and drugs during roadside testing or after road accidents among drivers in the Brittany region of France. The study’s secondary objective was to describe the blood concentrations of the substances found during these tests, in order to provide a sc...
Gaebel, Wolfgang Lukies, R Kerst, A Stricker, J Zielasek, J Diekmann, S Trost, N Gouzoulis-Mayfrank, E Bonroy, B Cullen, K
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European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
E-mental health (eMH) encompasses the use of digital technologies to deliver, support, or enhance mental health services. Despite the growing evidence for the effectiveness of eMH interventions, the process of implementation of eMH solutions in healthcare remains slow throughout Europe. To address this issue, the e-Mental Health Innovation and Tran...
Mann, John
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The International journal on drug policy
A recurrent theme regarding drug policy and the use of cognitive enhancing drugs (CEDs) by students in higher education (HE), concerns the potential introduction of policy to prohibit the use of CEDs. One of the arguments put forward to support a prohibitive policy framework, is that the use of CEDs by students in HE is a form of academic misconduc...
