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Disaster Med Public Health Prep
January 2025
Department of Clinical Research, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, ME, USA.
Objectives: Plastics in the environment have moved from an "eye-sore" to a public health threat. Hospitals are one of the biggest users of single-use plastics, and there is growing literature looking at not only plastics in the environment but health care's overall contribution to its growth.
Methods: This study was a retrospective review at a 411-bed level II trauma hospital over 47 months pre and post the last wave of COVID-19 affecting this hospital.
JACS Au
January 2025
Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States.
Abraham Patchornik was born in 1926 in Ness Ziona, a town in Palestine founded by his great-grandfather Reuben Lehrer in 1883. He started to study chemistry as an undergraduate at the Hebrew University. However, this was interrupted by the war, and he completed his studies in various locations in West Jerusalem.
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January 2025
Faculty of Health and Public Services, Semmelweis University, Health Services Management Training Centre, Budapest, Hungary.
Background: Human services occupations are highly exposed to mental health risks, thus psychosocial risk management is critical to assure healthy and safe working conditions, promote mental health and commitment, and prevent fluctuation of employees. However, still little is known about prominent psychosocial risk factors in various human services work.
Objectives: To identify prominent psychosocial risk factors of mental health in human services occupations and to explore their individual and organizational correlates in 19 European countries.
Front Public Health
January 2025
Department of Global Health, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Background: Orthohantaviruses (also known as hantaviruses) are pathogens, primarily transmitted by rodents, that can cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). In endemic regions of Kazakhstan, no confirmed HFRS cases were detected between 2020 and 2022 raising concerns about detection. Estimate antibody seroprevalence for hantaviruses and identify associated risk factors among high-risk adults in western Kazakhstan in 2023.
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January 2025
Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Introduction: The incidence of pediatric tracheostomy is on the rise. More children are undergoing tracheostomy at a younger age and living longer and cared for at home. Caring for children with tracheostomy affects the caregivers' Quality of Life (QOL) and caregiver burden.
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