Introduction: Civilian healthcare workers (HCW) and medical facilities are directly and indirectly impacted by armed conflict. In the Russia-Ukraine war, acute trauma care needs grew, the workforce was destabilised by HCW migrating or shifting roles to meet conflict needs, and facilities faced surge events. Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) exposure risks created unique preparedness needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Over 50% of annual deaths in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) could be averted through access to high-quality emergency care.
Objectives: We performed a scoping review of the literature that described at least one measure of emergency care access in LMICs in order to understand relevant barriers to emergency care systems.
Eligibility Criteria: English language studies published between 1 January 1990 and 30 December 2020, with one or more discrete measure(s) of access to emergency health services in LMICs described.
Introduction: Since the first COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccines became available globally for emergency or conditional use, post-marketing surveillance activities have been implemented for the monitoring of any adverse events that might arise in daily clinical practice and were not detected earlier during clinical trials.
Methods: Safety data concerning the BNT162b2 and the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccines were collected from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for the period from December 2020 to October 15, 2021. In addition to a descriptive analysis of individuals who experienced an adverse event after vaccination, a case-non-case analysis was performed by using the Reporting Odds Ratio with 95 % confidence interval as statistical parameter for detecting differences in reporting rates between the two mRNA vaccines.
Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) is considered a universal marker of developmental dyslexia (DD) and could also be helpful to identify a reading deficit in minority-language children (MLC), in which it may be hard to disentangle whether the reading difficulties are due to a learning disorder or a lower proficiency in the language of instruction. We tested reading and rapid naming skills in monolingual Good Readers (mGR), monolingual Poor Readers (mPR), and MLC, by using our new version of RAN, the RAN-Shapes, in 127 primary school students (from 3rd to 5th grade). In line with previous research, MLC showed, on average, lower reading performances as compared to mGR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe construct a class of interacting (d-2)-form theories in d dimensions that are "third-way" consistent. This refers to the fact that the interaction terms in the p-form field equations of motion neither come from the variation of an action nor are they off-shell conserved on their own. Nevertheless, the full equation is still on-shell consistent.
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