Surveillance for Action: Operationalizing Private Sector Surveillance and Service Delivery across the Malaria Transmission Continuum
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Apr 23:tpmd230447. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0447. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite global recommendations that surveillance systems should capture malaria case data from both private and public sectors, the integration of private sector data into national systems remains a challenge for national malaria programs in high-burden settings. The WHO's Malaria Surveillance, Monitoring & Evaluation: A Reference Manual suggests eight general guidelines for conducting private sector surveillance. Practical operational guidance is needed to implement private sector surveillance and service delivery inte...
Source: Am J Trop Med Hyg - April 23, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Erica Berlin Christopher Louren ço Stephen Poyer Source Type: research
Surveillance for Action: Operationalizing Private Sector Surveillance and Service Delivery across the Malaria Transmission Continuum
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Apr 23:tpmd230447. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0447. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite global recommendations that surveillance systems should capture malaria case data from both private and public sectors, the integration of private sector data into national systems remains a challenge for national malaria programs in high-burden settings. The WHO's Malaria Surveillance, Monitoring & Evaluation: A Reference Manual suggests eight general guidelines for conducting private sector surveillance. Practical operational guidance is needed to implement private sector surveillance and service delivery inte...
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - April 23, 2024 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Erica Berlin Christopher Louren ço Stephen Poyer Source Type: research
'We Were an Afterthought': Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities in New South Wales, Australia
Soc Work Public Health. 2024 Apr 23:1-13. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2024.2343390. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the impact on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities in Australia of government and community responses to the coronavirus pandemic of 2019 in the domains of education, employment, housing, social connectedness, and public health communication. Most of the examples are drawn from the state of New South Wales. In Australia, CALD refers to people from countries not classified as main English speaking. Most CALD communities reported in this article are from refugee backgrounds, ...
Source: Social Work in Public Health - April 23, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rugare Mugumbate Vinod Gopaldasani Paul Kidson Jioji Ravulo Source Type: research
Surface water quality index forecasting using multivariate complementing approach reinforced with locally weighted linear regression model
This study used a unique hybrid model called MVMD-LWLR, which introduced an innovative method for forecasting BOD in the Klang River, Malaysia. The hybrid model combines a locally weighted linear regression (LWLR) model with a wavelet-based kernel function, along with multivariate variational mode decomposition (MVMD) for the decomposition of input variables. In addition, categorical boosting (Catboost) feature selection was used to discover and extract significant input variables. This combination of MVMD-LWLR and Catboost is the first use of such a complete model for predicting BOD levels in the given river environment. ...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 23, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tao Hai Iman Ahmadianfar Bijay Halder Salim Heddam Ahmed M Al-Areeq Vahdettin Demir Huseyin Cagan Kilinc Sani I Abba Mou Leong Tan Raad Z Homod Zaher Mundher Yaseen Source Type: research
Surveillance for Action: Operationalizing Private Sector Surveillance and Service Delivery across the Malaria Transmission Continuum
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Apr 23:tpmd230447. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0447. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite global recommendations that surveillance systems should capture malaria case data from both private and public sectors, the integration of private sector data into national systems remains a challenge for national malaria programs in high-burden settings. The WHO's Malaria Surveillance, Monitoring & Evaluation: A Reference Manual suggests eight general guidelines for conducting private sector surveillance. Practical operational guidance is needed to implement private sector surveillance and service delivery inte...
Source: Am J Trop Med Hyg - April 23, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Erica Berlin Christopher Louren ço Stephen Poyer Source Type: research
'We Were an Afterthought': Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities in New South Wales, Australia
Soc Work Public Health. 2024 Apr 23:1-13. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2024.2343390. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the impact on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities in Australia of government and community responses to the coronavirus pandemic of 2019 in the domains of education, employment, housing, social connectedness, and public health communication. Most of the examples are drawn from the state of New South Wales. In Australia, CALD refers to people from countries not classified as main English speaking. Most CALD communities reported in this article are from refugee backgrounds, ...
Source: Social Work in Public Health - April 23, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rugare Mugumbate Vinod Gopaldasani Paul Kidson Jioji Ravulo Source Type: research
Surveillance for Action: Operationalizing Private Sector Surveillance and Service Delivery across the Malaria Transmission Continuum
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Apr 23:tpmd230447. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0447. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite global recommendations that surveillance systems should capture malaria case data from both private and public sectors, the integration of private sector data into national systems remains a challenge for national malaria programs in high-burden settings. The WHO's Malaria Surveillance, Monitoring & Evaluation: A Reference Manual suggests eight general guidelines for conducting private sector surveillance. Practical operational guidance is needed to implement private sector surveillance and service delivery inte...
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - April 23, 2024 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Erica Berlin Christopher Louren ço Stephen Poyer Source Type: research
Surface water quality index forecasting using multivariate complementing approach reinforced with locally weighted linear regression model
This study used a unique hybrid model called MVMD-LWLR, which introduced an innovative method for forecasting BOD in the Klang River, Malaysia. The hybrid model combines a locally weighted linear regression (LWLR) model with a wavelet-based kernel function, along with multivariate variational mode decomposition (MVMD) for the decomposition of input variables. In addition, categorical boosting (Catboost) feature selection was used to discover and extract significant input variables. This combination of MVMD-LWLR and Catboost is the first use of such a complete model for predicting BOD levels in the given river environment. ...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 23, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tao Hai Iman Ahmadianfar Bijay Halder Salim Heddam Ahmed M Al-Areeq Vahdettin Demir Huseyin Cagan Kilinc Sani I Abba Mou Leong Tan Raad Z Homod Zaher Mundher Yaseen Source Type: research
Are legal experts better decision makers than jurors? A psychological evaluation of the role of juries in the 21st century
Lee Curley, Till Neuhaus Journal of Criminal Psychology, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The Scottish Government hope to pilot judge only rape trials to increase the woefully low rape conviction rates in Scotland. The reasoning is that by removing jurors, the court will be attenuating the role that rape myths and other cognitive and social biases have on conviction rates. However, a plethora of research from cognitive and social psychology, legal literature and decision-making science has shown that experts, including judges and other legal professionals, may be no less biased than laypeople. This paper aims...
Source: Journal of Criminal Psychology - April 23, 2024 Category: Criminology Authors: Lee Curley Till Neuhaus Source Type: research
Environmental Justice and Health in Nigeria
AbstractPurpose of ReviewThe United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identified 17 goals to achieve by the year 2030, with many of these goals directly or indirectly linked to environmental justice. Health outcomes remain poor in Nigeria; the country ranks low in environmental quality despite supporting environmental treaties and laws. The burden of diseases in the country is in part related to poor environmental quality and is linked to environmental justice issues, such as mining, energy exploration, transport emission, poor waste management, and proliferation of slum settlement.Recent FindingsPrevious studie...
Source: Current Environmental Health Reports - April 23, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
Willingness and hesitancy towards the governmental free human papillomavirus vaccination among parents of eligible adolescent girls in Shenzhen, Southern China
This study investigated parental willingness and hesitancy towards the government-sponsor... (Source: BMC Women's Health)
Source: BMC Women's Health - April 23, 2024 Category: OBGYN Authors: Dadong Wu, Peiyi Liu, He Wang, Wenwen Wan and Yueyun Wang Tags: Research Source Type: research
Any plan to make smoking obsolete is the right step
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01176-4The United Kingdom is correct to attempt to end the single largest preventable cause of illness and death, as was New Zealand before its government changed its mind. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - April 23, 2024 Category: Research Source Type: research
So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of U.S. federal laws over time.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol 153(5), May 2024, 1153-1164; doi:10.1037/xge0001572Over the last 50 years, there have been efforts on behalf of the U.S. government to simplify legal documents for society at large. However, there has been no systematic evaluation of how effective these efforts—collectively referred to as the “plain-language movement”—have been. Here we report the results of a large-scale longitudinal corpus analysis (n ≈ 225 million words), in which we compared every law passed by congress with a comparably sized sample of English texts from four different baseline genres publishe...
Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Opportunistic screening in the emergency department
Smoking cessation is currently topical with recent government announcements regarding restricting the sale of disposable vapes and a consultation on raising the legal age of buying tobacco from 18 years, so that anyone born after a certain year will never be able to buy cigarettes legally. This edition of the EMJ contains a randomised controlled multicentre trial of smoking cessation initiated in the emergency department (ED).1 The intervention group received brief smoking cessation advice as well as provision of an e-cigarette starter kit and referral to the local stop smoking services, while the control group received ad...
Source: Emergency Medicine Journal - April 22, 2024 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: France, J. Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
Undergraduate Biology Lecture Courses Predominantly Test Facts about Science Rather than Scientific Practices
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Jun;23(2):ar19. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-12-0244.ABSTRACTScientific practices are the skills used to develop scientific knowledge and are essential for careers in science. Despite calls from education and government agencies to cultivate scientific practices, there remains little evidence of how often students are asked to apply them in undergraduate courses. We analyzed exams from biology courses at 100 institutions across the United States and found that only 7% of exam questions addressed a scientific practice and that 32% of biology exams did not test any scientific practices. The low occurrence of s...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - April 19, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Crystal Uminski Sara M Burbach Brian A Couch Source Type: research
