Beyond buzzwords: fostering interdisciplinary and collaborative global health research in Germany and beyond by Maeve Cook-Deegan, Kerem Böge, Walter Bruchhausen, Mizeck Chagunda, Medha Chaturvedi, Meral Esen, Johanna Hanefeld, Beate Kampmann, Carsten Köhler, Charlotte Köhler, Francis Osei, Clarissa Prazeres da Costa, Eva Rehfuess, Thirumalaisamy P. Velavan, Nora Anton, on behalf of the GLOHRA Steering Committee**

“…Background Germany has increased its political and financial commitment for global health, but this needs to be backed by a robust global health research ecosystem with strong partnerships in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). …”
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ADOPTERs of Innovation in a Crisis: The History of Vera Gedroits, Kanehiro Takaki and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 by Pratik Raichurkar, BMed, Devesh Kaushal, MBBS, MS, FRACS, Robert Beaumont Wilson, MBBS (Hons 1), BSc, FRACS, FACS

“…We aim to show how both these surgeons challenged entrenched dogma and the cultural and political zeitgeist, and risked their professional reputations and their lives in being ADOPTERs of innovation during a crisis.…”
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Scaling up of parenting support to prevent violence against children in Tanzania: insights from policymakers and service providers by Sabine van Tuyll van Serooskereken Rakotomalala, Kija Nyalali, Joyce Wamoyi, Onduru Gervas Onduru, Gerry Mshana, F. Marijn Stok, Mara A. Yerkes, John B. F. De Wit

“…Results The most prominent enabling factors noted for the scale-up of parenting support interventions in Tanzania include the existing supportive political commitment, the interventions currently on offer at the programmatic level, and the perceived understanding of Tanzanian caregivers of the importance of parenting and, thereby, a willingness to change. …”
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Social, Racial, and Economic Disparities Affecting Outcomes of Hypertensive Adolescents by Kanya Singhapakdi, Amelia Haydel, Marla Johnston, Shengping Yang, Tamara Bradford, Dedrick Moulton, Thomas R. Kimball

“…Social determinants of health (SDH) are the cultural, economic, educational, healthcare accessibility, and political influences in the environment in which an individual is born or lives, all of which can affect that individual's overall health. …”
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Strengthening National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups: Twelve Years of Progress (2012–2023) by Louise Henaff, Laure Dumolard, Vinod Bura, Gerald Etapelong Sume, Sidy Ndiaye, Jennifer Sanwogou, Heeyoun Cho, Joachim Hombach, Christoph A. Steffen

“…Setbacks in countries facing instability or political turmoil are a reminder of the reversibility of progress. …”
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Editorial by Lindsay B. Flynn

“…The books and the reviews describe the current channels that link financialisation to wealth inequality, bring in the human and political dimensions to housing access challenges, and unpack the various policy levers contributing to expensive housing and subsequent social tensions. …”
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Fur Processing in Raižiai in the 20th Century: Craft and Image by Jonas Mardosa

“… In Lithuania, fur processing craft used to change depending on the social, cultural and even political context of the development of the state and the nation. …”
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Designing an educational model based on identity development with an Iranian-Islamic approach for primary school students. by Ali Oladhamzehzadeh, masoumeh oladiyan, Mahmoud Safari

“…In building national identity and changing its layers, endogenous political developments such as ideology, culture, thought, crisis and national security play a role in the identity of the Iranian people and the ruling system of the world. …”
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Assessment of economic risks in Ukrainian enterprises: Management aspect by Оksana Nuzhna, Natalia Tluchkevych, Tetyana Pisarenko

“…It should be noted that a reliable assessment of risks in the conditions of war requires further research and analysis taking into account new political and economic factors of influence…”
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Social determinants of occupational injuries among US-based commercial fishermen: a systematic review by Shannon Guillot-Wright, Leonard Kuan-Pei Wang, Bibiana Toro Figueira, Mary Overcash Jones, Ruhi Maredia, Nikhita Kichili

“…Conclusion Our review shows how injury is connected to social factors, such as a lack of health care access, as well as political-economic factors, such as a lack of sick leave benefits.…”
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Health system financing fragmentation and maternal mortality transition in Mexico, 2000–2022 by Edson Serván-Mori, Carlos Pineda-Antúnez, Diego Cerecero-García, Laura Flamand, Alejandro Mohar-Betancourt, Christopher Millett, Thomas Hone, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, Octavio Gómez-Dantés

“…Finally, we mapped state disparities in MMR by health insurance for the last four political administrations. Findings MMR in Mexico decreased from 59.3 maternal deaths per hundred thousand live births in 2000 to 47.3 in 2018. …”
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Eating green in Copenhagen: organic consumers’ path to less meat and minimal food waste by Lea Ellen Matthiessen, Lea Ellen Matthiessen, Sinne Smed, Jørgen Dejgård Jensen, Dominika Średnicka-Tober, Laura Rossi, Susanne Gjedsted Bügel

“…The public food procurement has largely been driven by politically determined goals. Further studies are needed to better understand how food systems can support the adoption of healthier, more sustainable diets — emphasizing increased plant-based foods and reduced food waste.…”
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Study of different thermal management systems for traction batteries to obtain vehicle lightweighting by Giulia Sandrini, Daniel Chindamo, Marco Gadola, Andrea Candela, Paolo Magri

“…Nowadays environmental sustainability is a hot topic, especially with regards to the transportation sector. In fact, political strategies are oriented to the transition towards the cleaner technologies to reduce polluting and climate-altering emissions. …”
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Exploring the perspectives of new-in-practice specialists about the Health Advocate role: “I didn’t even know where to start” by Jacqueline Dorothy Cochrane, Nancy Dudek, Kelsey Crawford, Lindsay Cowley, Kori A LaDonna

“…While training imparted adequate patient-level advocacy skills, participants felt underprepared to enact system-level advocacy–which they conceptualized as a wide-range of activities including political advocacy. In turn, participants grappled with lack of preparation, waning motivation, feelings of futility, lack of value for advocacy and need for self-preservation. …”
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The Addis Declaration on Immunization: Assessing the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Immunization Service Delivery Systems in Africa as of the End of 2023 by Franck Mboussou, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Bridget Farham, Ado Bwaka, Sarah Wanyoike, Amos Petu, Sidy Ndiaye, Andre Bita Fouda, Johnson Muluh Ticha, Adidja Amani, Regis Obiang, Magaran Monzon Bagayoko, Benido Impouma

“…<b>Background/Objectives</b>: The Addis Declaration on Immunization (ADI) is a historic pledge aiming at increasing political will to achieve universal access to immunization services and includes ten commitments to shape the future of immunization in Africa. …”
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Presentation of Religious Tourism Pattern Based on Foundation Data Theory in International Borders by Ali Rostami, Mohammad Aidi, Alireaza slambolchi, Mohammadreza Rabiee Mandejin

“…Having determining the sample size qualitatively via snowball method, 14 experts of religious tourism including academics and trustees of religious tourism were recognized and they were interviewed directly and the research findings showed that religious tourism pattern in Mehran International Border has six main components including casual conditions (religious and tribal communities, provincial infrastructures, common border of Iraq and vicinity to The Holy of Holies, advertisements) categories (tourism and its subcategories, religious places in Iran and Iraq, security) grounds (commercial free zone in Mehran welfare and health services, economic part of religious tourism), interferer factors (political factors, conveying affairs to non-governmental sector, weather changes), strategies (cooperating with educational centers and universities, increasing governmental investing, using capacities of religious days) consequences & results (income and creating jobs, people’s persistence in border and non-immigration, cultural development of province, destruction of environmental, road and jungles of province) which could be introduced as a proper pattern for religious tourism in Mehran International Border according to the opinion of experts. …”
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Crop wild relatives conservation in the Chechen Republic by L. V. Bagmet, M. A. Taisumov

“…This is especially important for the Chechen Republic due to its unique geographic, climatic, environmental and political conditions.Materials and methods. The material for the present research was taken from the published data on the flora of the studied region and the own field studies conducted by the route exploration method. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATIVE INTELLIGENCE (NI) AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI): AN OVERVIEW by Bawallah Musa Adesola, Odole, Kehinde, Ilugbo, Stephen Olubusol, DareC, Ojo Omonijo, Owele Boye Agatha, Hadiza Mali Bukar

“…Western Ideologists tend to attribute Native Intelligence (NI) to Africans / third-word concepts, indistinctly fixed to value and belief that aided social cultural, religious, political economic, spiritual evolution, and ancient societies, However, the Emergence of Artificial intelligence (AI) being the capacity of a computer system or machine to mimic human cognitive such as learning and solving problems, through a computer system that uses mathematics and logic, to simulate the reasoning ability of man, through the process of learning from new information, and transforming such information into actions, by making decisions that has increasingly enhanced the quality of human life. …”
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The evolution, facilitators, barriers, and additional activities of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance platform in polio eradication programme Bangladesh: a mixed-method study by Humayra Binte Anwar, Yameen Mazumder, Sanjana Nujhat, Bushra Zarin Islam, Anna Kalbarczyk, Olakunle Alonge, Malabika Sarker

“…The major facilitating factors were multi-sectoral collaboration, Surveillance Immunization Medical Officer (SIMO) network activities, social environment, community-based surveillance, and promising political commitment. On the other hand, high population growth, hard-to-reach areas, people residing in risky zones, and polio transition planning were significant challenges. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic as a Factor for the Paradigm Shift in International Communications. Book Review of ‘Pandémie médiatique. Com de crise/crise de com’ by S. Fouks by T. Yu. Lebedeva, L. V. Minaeva, A. D. Krivonosov

“…The author concludes that these policies refl ect a general crisis of the ruling elites (political establishment). Here the author continues to further elaborate on the ideas of his previous book — ‘The New Elites: portrait of a generation that will ignore’ (‘Les Nouvelles Elites: portrait d’une génération 1ui s’ignore’).The author provides a critical analysis of the key elements of communication strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the ruling elites to the expert community, and delineates methods and the role of international communication in the future. …”
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