Recent cases and the future of Directive 79/7 on equal treatment for men and women in social security: How to realise it...
status: published
Assessing Provider Bias in General Practitioners' Assessment and Referral of Depressive Patients with Different Migratio...
Published in Community mental health journal
Although the prevalence of common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, is higher among people with a migration background, these groups are generally underrepresented in all forms of institutionalized mental health care. At the root of this striking discrepancy might be unequal referral by health care practitioners. In this arti...
Chlamydia trachomatis L2c infection in a porcine model produced urogenital pathology and failed to induce protective imm...
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The current study was designed to evaluate the pathogenesis, pathology and immune response of female genital tract infection with Chlamydia trachomatis L2c, the most recently discovered lymphogranuloma venereum strain, using a porcine model of sexually transmitted infections. Pigs were mock infected, infected once or infected and re-infected intrav...
Mouse mutant phenotyping at scale reveals novel genes controlling bone mineral density
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The genetic landscape of diseases associated with changes in bone mineral density (BMD), such as osteoporosis, is only partially understood. Here, we explored data from 3,823 mutant mouse strains for BMD, a measure that is frequently altered in a range of bone pathologies, including osteoporosis. A total of 200 genes were found to significantly aff...
High burden of self-reported sexually transmitted infections among key populations in Mozambique: the urgent need for an...
...Published in BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundKey populations - men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex workers (FSW) and people who inject drugs (PWID) – are at high risk for sexually transmitted infections (STI) given their sexual risk behaviours along with social, legal and structural barriers to prevention, care and treatment services. The purpose of this secondary analysis i...
Association of insularity and body condition to cloacal bacteria prevalence in a small shorebird
Do islands harbour less diverse disease communities than mainland? The island biogeography theory predicts more diverse communities on mainland than on islands due to more niches, more diverse habitats and availability of greater range of hosts. We compared bacteria prevalences of Campylobacter, Chlamydia and Salmonella in cloacal samples of a smal...
A Two-Wave Assessment of the Structure and Stability of Self-Reported Problematic Pornography Use Among Male Croatian Ad...
status: published
Brief Intervention to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections and Unintended Pregnancies: Protocol of a Mixed Methods Fe...
Published in JMIR Research Protocols
Background Sexual well-being is fundamental to physical and emotional health, and the ability to achieve it depends on access to comprehensive sexuality information and high-quality sexual health care from evidence-informed, nonjudgmental providers. Adequate and timely delivery of these components to individuals who are at high risk for sexually tr...
Hide Your Pain: Social Threat Increases Pain Reports and Aggression, but Reduces Facial Pain Expression and Empathy.
Published in The journal of pain : official journal of the American Pain Society
Earlier research studying the effects of social threat on the experience and expression of pain led to mixed results. In this study, female participants (N = 32) came to the lab with 2 confederates. Both confederates administered a total of 10 painful electrocutaneous stimuli to the participant. The framing of the administration was manipulated in ...
Birds of a feather flock together? : The survival of underrepresented groups within parliamentary parties, 1990-2015
This study focuses on the exit of MPs of underrepresented groups – i.e., women, visible minorities and the lower educated– from parliamentary parties. Research has mostly focused on what brings these politicians into parliament, but not on what determines their survival within parliamentary parties. Based on the economic and sociological literature...
