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BMC Health Serv Res
January 2025
Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 666 Buzih Road, Taichung, 40601, Taiwan.
Background: Blood is a vital medical resource that is sourced from primarily nonremunerated donations. As Taiwan faces an aging population, increasing medical demands pose new challenges to blood resource management. Trend analysis can improve blood supply chain management and allocate blood resources more efficiently and cost-effectively.
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January 2025
Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Background: Despite the rising prevalence of common mental symptoms, information is scarce on how health workers make sense of symptoms of mental disorders and perceive a link with inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) as work stressors to understand causation and produce useful knowledge for policy and professionals. Therefore, this study aimed to explore how health workers perceive the link between inadequate WASH and common mental symptoms (CMSs) at hospitals in central and southern Ethiopian regions.
Methods: We used an interpretive and descriptive phenomenological design guided by theoretical frameworks.
Eur J Hosp Pharm
January 2025
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: The healthcare sector contributes significantly to global greenhouse emissions, with inhalers being major contributors.
Objective: To develop a framework for reducing the environmental footprint of inhalers in Spain by implementing greener prescription practices.
Methods: A multidisciplinary working group was formed, including hospital pharmacists, pulmonologists, and environmental experts.
Waste Manag Res
January 2025
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Invertis University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Plastics are integral to modern life but present significant environmental and economic challenges due to ineffective waste management systems. This article provides a comprehensive review of global plastic waste management (PWM) strategies, focusing on advancements in processing technologies, policy frameworks and their practical applications. It highlights the role of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and regulatory bodies across the United States, Canada, Europe, Britain, India, Japan, Australia and China in fostering sustainable PWM practices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEntropy (Basel)
November 2024
Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary.
The end-user paradox and the illusion of digital prosperity reveal the contradictory situation in which both non-professional and professional computer scientists and engineers seem satisfied with digital development but unaware of the magnitude of waste generated by end-users and their digital artifacts. To measure this waste and to reveal end-users' problem-solving strategies, our research group set up an objective measuring system that can calculate the entropy of digital texts (EDT). To calculate EDT, a testing process of 53 participants was launched where erroneous and correct natural language digital texts were modified according to the requirements of the tasks.
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