51 results match your criteria: "UPF-Barcelona School of Management[Affiliation]"
Sustain Sci
December 2022
Johns Hopkins University-Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public Policy Center, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08002 Barcelona, Spain.
Unlabelled: This paper aims to unpack the relational dimension of place and placemaking by analysing how creative actions underpin relational values towards socio-spatial restoration in the sacrifice zone affecting the communities of Quintero and Puchuncaví (QPSZ) in Chile. Sacrifice zones are places permanently subject to environmental damage and lack of environmental regulation. For affected populations in environmentally degraded areas, creative actions such as murals, music, and street performances have become a way to re-establish connections both among humans, and between humans and the environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatient Relat Outcome Meas
December 2022
Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society Foundation, Genoa, Italy.
Background: Patient engagement is increasingly considered to be an important element in the treatment of brain disorders to optimise outcomes for patients, society, and healthcare systems. Nonetheless, scientific research examining methodologies to engage patients with brain diseases in Research and Innovation (R&I) is scarce.
Aim: To review existing scientific evidence regarding the engagement of patients with brain disorders in research and innovation.
J Biosoc Sci
November 2023
Research Group in Science Communication (GRECC), Department of Communication, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Roc Boronat 138, Barcelona08018, Spain.
The maxim of proponents of pseudoscience is to spread ignorance through false perceptions of its scientific status. One of its most attractive - and simultaneously harmful - manifestations is complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Despite the scientific evidence against them, CAM has taken hold in today's society as a therapeutic model for a growing segment of the population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSociol Health Illn
January 2023
Research Group on Health Inequalities, Environment, Employment Conditions Knowledge Network (GREDS-EMCONET), Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Societal concerns about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have largely focussed on the social groups most directly affected, such as the elderly and health workers. However, less focus has been placed on understanding the effects on other collectives, such as children. While children's physical health appears to be less affected than the adult population, their mental health, learning and wellbeing is likely to have been significantly negatively affected during the pandemic due to the varying policy restrictions, such as withdrawal from face to face schooling, limited peer-to-peer interactions and mobility and increased exposure to the digital world amongst other things.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNat Commun
June 2022
Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen, Parkveien 9, PB 7805, 5020, Bergen, Norway.
Miscalculating the volumes of water withdrawn for irrigation, the largest consumer of freshwater in the world, jeopardizes sustainable water management. Hydrological models quantify water withdrawals, but their estimates are unduly precise. Model imperfections need to be appreciated to avoid policy misjudgements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Urban Health
June 2022
Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, 08023, Pl. Lesseps 1, Barcelona, Spain.
Energy poverty is a serious social problem with well-known adverse health consequences. This problem has been addressed mainly through improvements in the energy efficiency of housing. Still, little is known about the effects of information-based measures on energy poverty and their impacts on health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
May 2022
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been testing countries' capacities and scientific preparedness to actively respond and collaborate on a common global threat. It has also heightened awareness of the urgent need to empirically describe and analyze health inequalities to be able to act effectively. In turn, this raises several important questions that need answering: What is known about the rapidly emerging COVID-19 inequalities research field? Which countries and world regions have been able to rapidly produce research on this topic? What research patterns and trends have emerged, and how to these compared to the (pre-COVID-19) global health inequalities research field? Which countries have been scientifically collaborating on this important topic? Where are the scientific knowledge gaps, and indirectly where might research capacities need to be strengthened? In order to answer these queries, we analyzed the global scientific production (2020-2021) on COVID-19 associated inequalities by conducting bibliometric and network analyses using the Scopus database.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Internet Res
March 2022
Open Evidence Research, Open Evidence, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: Disinformation has become an increasing societal concern, especially due to the speed that news is shared in the digital era. In particular, disinformation in the health care sector can lead to serious casualties, as the current COVID-19 crisis clearly shows.
Objective: The main aim of this study was to experimentally examine the effects of information about the source and a protective warning message on users' critical evaluation of news items, as well as the perception of accuracy of the news item.
Appetite
June 2022
Open Evidence Research, Open Evidence, Barcelona, Spain; Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Objective: Literature on food marketing targeting young people reveals that in the last years, sophisticated marketing techniques have been developed to market predominantly unhealthy food products. Much research has been conducted to test the impact of these techniques on subsequent product selection and intake. Less is known about the effects of promoting healthier foods, although the health-related benefits of eating more fruit and vegetables for children are important.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
February 2022
Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
The location of primary public schools in urban areas of developing countries is the focus of this study. In such areas, new schools and modification of the current schools are required, and this process should be developed using rational and broad supporting tools for decision makers, such as optimization models. We propose a realistic coverage location model and a framework to analyze the location of schools.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Epidemiol Community Health
February 2022
Research Group on Health Inequalities, Environment and Employment Conditions (Dept. Political and Social Sciences), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.
The lack of preparedness and the adoption of a reactive approach underlie many mistakes in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. We need a vision with a proactive approach to planetary health prevention, that is suited for addressing the neglected systemic determinants of health which generate disease, inequality and environmental degradation, and capable of anticipating known and unknown risks, and foreseeing possible threatening scenarios. To achieve a healthy, equitable and sustainable future, it is time to make health prevention planetary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Internet Res
October 2021
Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppetite
January 2022
Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C. Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, 08005, Barcelona, Spain; UPF Barcelona School of Management, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address:
A growing number of people (privately) endorse the benefits associated with adopting a meat-free diet. Yet, the societal transition to a more plant-based diet is taking place rather slowly. Why do people's private meat-free preferences fail to materialize in their daily food choices? One potential explanation is that vegetarians and vegans, at this time still a minority group, are worried about eliciting stigma and thus may not feel comfortable expressing their meat-free preferences during social interactions with meat-eaters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSci Total Environ
February 2022
UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Passeig Pujades 1, Barcelona 08003, Spain.
Policies aiming to prevent environmental deterioration are gaining attention. To mitigate the detrimental effects of household waste in the form of packaging and single-use containers, diverse mechanisms to enhance recycling have been implemented in many countries. This paper studies citizenship perception and expected behaviour in the face of a potential implementation of a packaging Deposit and Refund System (DRS) in Catalonia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Assist Reprod Genet
October 2021
Boston IVF - Eugin Group, 130 Second Avenue, Waltham, MA, 02451, USA.
Sci Total Environ
November 2021
UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Passeig Pujades 1, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address:
In China, the food delivery packaging waste is increasing due to the rapid growth of the sector and the use of single-use packaging to transport the meals. In addition, the recycling rates of current municipal waste management are low. In this regard, this study aims at estimating the climate change impact of current food delivery packaging and its waste treatment, by performing a Life Cycle Assessment with a cradle-to-grave approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiomimetics (Basel)
July 2021
Director Chair in Sustainable Finance, UPF Barcelona School of Management, 08008 Barcelona, Spain.
Biomimicry is a scientific discipline that aims to model the behavior or properties of biological systems so as to adapt them to other scientific areas. Recently, this approach has been adopted in order to develop an organizational model called "Organizational Biomimicry". It proposes a systemic approach, a worldview that places the organization and the people related to it as an integral part of nature, and an R&D system based on continuous learning from nature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Internet Res
July 2021
Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
J Environ Manage
September 2020
UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Passeig Pujades 1, Barcelona, 08003, Spain.
There is a growth of social concern regarding the deterioration of the environment. This has boosted the promotion of more efficient and sustainable mechanisms to deal with waste management. In Spain, waste management authorities and related organisations have engaged in a debate about the desirability to implement a packaging Deposit and Refund System (DRS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSoc Work Public Health
June 2020
Research Group in Science Communication (GRECC), Department of Communication, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
Given the expansion of pseudoscience, there is a need to understand its mechanisms of diffusion. Our aim was to evaluate how pseudoscience operates among pharmacists. We performed 29 semi-structured interviews to assess the stance of pharmacists regarding pseudoscience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
March 2020
Department of Communication, Pompeu Fabra University, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
Spain ranks fifth among European countries for childhood obesity. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and soft drinks (SDs) are consumed by 81% of the Spanish children weekly. Advertising is one of the factors that contributes to an obesogenic environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrials
December 2019
Fundació Institut Universitari per a la recerca a l'Atenció Primària de Salut Jordi Gol i Gurina (IDIAPJGol), Manso Health Centre, Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: Despite their marginal benefit, about 60% of acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTIs) are currently treated with antibiotics in Catalonia. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of a continuous disease-focused intervention (C-reactive protein [CRP]) and an illness-focused intervention (enhancement of communication skills to optimise doctor-patient consultations) on antibiotic prescribing in patients with ALRTIs in Catalan primary care centres.
Methods/design: A cluster randomised, factorial, controlled trial aimed at including 20 primary care centres (N = 2940 patients) with patients older than 18 years of age presenting for a first consultation with an ALRTI will be included in the study.
Br J Anaesth
October 2019
August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Anaesthesiology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: Prehabilitation may reduce postoperative complications, but sustainability of its health benefits and impact on costs needs further evaluation. Our aim was to assess the midterm clinical impact and costs from a hospital perspective of an endurance-exercise-training-based prehabilitation programme in high-risk patients undergoing major digestive surgery.
Methods: A cost-consequence analysis was performed using secondary data from a randomised, blinded clinical trial.
Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol
December 2018
d Real-World Insights , IQVIA , Barcelona , Spain.
High prices of second-generation direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients led to reimbursement decisions based on cost per quality-adjusted life year (QALY). Areas covered: We performed a systematic review of cost-utility analyses (CUA) comparing interventions with second-generation DAA therapies with no treatment, and with previous therapies for chronic HCV patients until July 2017. A total of 36 studies were included: 30 studies from the perspective of the healthcare payer, 3 from the societal perspective, and 3 did not report the perspective.
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