Background: Psychiatric disorders often emerge during adolescence or young adulthood, leading to significant disability among youth. The transition from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS) is critical for individuals experiencing emerging psychopathology, with delayed access to care negatively impacting long-term outcomes. Accessing mental health services for adolescents and young adults is often complex and delayed due to challenges in service visibility, accessibility and appropriateness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudies about the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in different backgrounds such as naive populations are still scarce, especially from South America. This work aimed to study the introduction and diversification pattern of SARS-CoV-2 during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Northwestern Argentina (NWA) region and to analyze the evolutionary dynamics of the main lineages found. In this study, we analyzed a total of 260 SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome sequences from Argentina, belonging to the Provinces of Jujuy, Salta, and Tucumán, from March 31st, 2020, to May 22nd, 2021, which covered the full first wave and the early second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe interactions between health and the environment are at the heart of the concerns of the political actors in Villeurbanne. Their participation in the network "Villes-Santé" and the adoption of the Municipal Plan for the Environment, has incited them to promote a local approach based on the identification of the health problems linked to the environment that are expressed and felt by the inhabitants. The study, carried out among 567 individuals (1/150 of the inhabitants of Villeurbanne), showed that overall, 73% complain of two important environmental problems linked to their state of health: air pollution (48% of inhabitants), and noise (district noise 37%, and noise from the neighbours 24%).
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