Association between physical fitness and executive functions in cognitively healthy female older adults: a cross-sectional study.

Cardiovascular endurance and muscular fitness seem to impact specific cognitive components in older females. However, it remains uncertain whether these relate to executive functions or if these correlations are limited to specific physical fitness indicators. This study aimed to determine the association between specific physical fitness components and executive functions in community-dwelling older females.

Association between changes in habitual stepping activity and cognition in older adults.

Advancing age is associated with declines in cognitive function. Although physical activity is thought to protect against this decline, it is unclear how a short-term uptake in daily steps or a decline in day-to-day step variability may contribute to cognition among older adults. We tested associations between changes in step counts, day-to-day step variability and executive cognitive functions among older adults taking part in a physical activity intervention.

Frailty is associated with worse executive function and higher cerebral blood velocity in cognitively healthy older adults: a cross-sectional study.

Frailty is characterized by an increased vulnerability to adverse health events. Executive function impairment is an early sign of progression towards cognitive impairments. Whether frailty is associated with executive function and the associated mechanisms are unclear.

Evolution of Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations and Criteria for Decision Making in 5 Western European Countries and the United States.

Objectives: Pneumococcal vaccine recommendations have become increasingly complex. This study aims to understand how national immunization technical advisory groups (NITAGs) and health technology assessment (HTA) agencies of 5 European countries and the United States formed their pneumococcal vaccine recommendations, by providing reviewed evidence and key drivers for new recommendations.

Methods: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and National Health Authorities Web sites were screened to capture the evolution of pneumococcal recommendations.

Immunization funding across 28 European countries.

Introduction: Disease prevention and improving vaccination coverage in Europe are key elements contributing to resilient health systems and ensuring better health outcomes for all. The aim of this study was to describe the immunization funding landscape across all European Union 28 countries (EU28).

Areas Covered: Data collected in a targeted literature review supported descriptive analysis on the different indicators that were looked at: vaccines included in the EU28 national immunization programs (NIP), national immunization funding, immunization funding per capita (2015-2019) and percentage of health-care budget allocated to immunization.

The status of human papillomavirus vaccination recommendation, funding, and coverage in WHO Europe countries (2018-2019).

: There is a need to better understand HPV vaccination (HPVv) implementation in WHO Europe Region (WHO/ER), including recommendations, funding, and vaccination coverage rates (VCR). : A targeted literature review (up to 31 January 2020) was conducted using national health ministry websites, WHO database, and published studies from WHO/ER countries (n = 53). HPVv recommendations and funding data (target age, gender, schedule, setting, target and monitored VCR) for primary and catch-up cohorts were collected.

[The role of pediatric nurses in France in actions to support parenting].

Introduction: Parenting support is a subject of a public health policy in France, identified as a means of reducing health inequalities in early childhood. Pediatric nurses, for their leadership role in supporting children and their families, are at the heart of these actions, but their feedback appears more in grey literature, rather than in scientific literature.

Aim: To describe and analyze actions of parenting support, performed by pediatric nurses, through professional literature, to give them visibility within the scientific community.

[Encouraging the publication of professional work].

To promote the publication of nursing writing, two professional associations organise awards to which students can submit their final year dissertations. The publication of this work helps to promote practices and encourages young professionals to publish.

Implementing an influenza vaccination programme for adults aged ≥65 years in Poland: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

Background And Objectives: Influenza is a common respiratory disease occurring in seasonal patterns, and may lead to severe complications in frail populations such as the elderly. In Poland, influenza vaccination is recommended for people aged ≥65 years; however the vaccine coverage rate in the elderly is very low. The fact that influenza vaccine is neither reimbursed by the National Health Insurance (Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia [NFZ]) nor financed via a National Immunization Program (NIP) could be a reason for the low coverage rate.

Persistence of culturable Escherichia coli fecal contaminants in dairy alpine grassland soils.

Our knowledge of Escherichia coli (E. coli) ecology in the field is very limited in the case of dairy alpine grassland soils. Here, our objective was to monitor field survival of E.

Does disturbance and restoration of alpine grassland soils affect the genetic structure and diversity of bacterial and N2-fixing populations?

Responses of bacterial communities to disturbance and restoration processes were investigated on alpine grassland soil. Bulk soil, rhizosphere soil and two soil separates, i.e.