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J Paediatr Child Health
December 2024
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Aims: While COVID-19 no longer presents a global health emergency, the indirect (non-infection) impacts of the pandemic may exacerbate health inequalities in years to come. We examined the socio-economic distribution of the impacts of the pandemic on the psychosocial and economic well-being of children, young people and their families.
Methods: The CoRonavIruS Health Impact Survey (CRISIS) was conducted in seven existing longitudinal cohorts, together involving n = 3072 participants aged 0-19 years.
Soc Sci Med
December 2024
University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TL, UK; The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK. Electronic address:
Despite the development of digital health infrastructure, female health inequalities have worsened during the pandemic. This transdisciplinary study, through health, feminist, and infrastructural geographical lens, examines how gender health inequalities may have emerged or worsened during Covid-19 in the UK. This study leverages a novel web archive collection, Python coding-powered data-handling text analysis (of over 0.
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December 2024
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.
Background: As part of the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobile handwashing stations (mHWS) were deployed in healthcare facilities in low-resource settings. We assessed mHWS in hospitals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for contamination with Gram-negative bacteria.
Methods: Water and soap samples of in-use mHWS in hospitals in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi were quantitatively cultured for Gram-negative bacteria which were tested for antibiotic susceptibility.
N Engl J Med
January 2025
From the Office of the Undersecretary General, Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Geneva (W.B.); the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (L.-G.B.); and the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics, Georgetown University School of Health, and O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University Law Center - both in Washington, DC (M.M.K.).
Heliyon
December 2024
Campus Docent Sant Joan de Déu-Fundació Privada, Spain.
Background: The birth plan promotes women's autonomy allowing them to express their care preferences and to participate actively in decision-making. During the Covid-19 pandemic, concerns about infection placed limitations on women's decision-making and infringed upon some of their rights. The role of the birth plan, after the pandemic, needs to be reassessed to protect women's rights and ensure high-quality maternity care.
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