Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: Still Lots to Learn and a Need for Standardized Data Collection Instruments by T. J. Marrie, G. J. Tyrrell, Sumit R. Majumdar, Dean T. Eurich

“…Males outnumbered females and Aboriginal and homeless persons were overrepresented. High rates of smoking, excessive alcohol use, and illicit drug use were seen. …”
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Meaning mindset theory: a transdiagnostic approach to mental health promotion and intervention for children by Laura Lynne Armstrong, Emmalyne Watt, Catherine Laura Potter, Brent L. Epperson

“…To date, the DREAM program, as well as MMT more broadly, has been tested in diverse populations with school-aged children, families, neurodiverse and intellectually gifted young people, homeless men, and Black families, among others. Future research should explore the efficacy of an MMT in therapeutic settings compared to standard treatments, potentially enhancing mental health intervention strategies for Canadian children and families.…”
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Rudy Kelly’s Eyes: Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco’s Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Øyvind Vågnes

“…The reader is introduced to despaired people living on the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation in South Dakota; the homeless of Camden, N.J.; migrant workers assigned to pick tomatoes in worker camps in Florida; and individuals suffering from and resisting mountain-top removal by coal companies in West Virginia. …”
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HCV Integrated Care: A Randomized Trial to Increase Treatment Initiation and SVR with Direct Acting Antivirals by Erik J. Groessl, Lin Liu, Marisa Sklar, Samuel B. Ho

“…Results. 42% of the study participants were previously homeless and 79% had HCV genotype 1. Twice as many IC participants (45%) initiated treatment compared with UC participants (23%) (χ2 = 4.59, p=0.032). …”
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Subject matter of crime violation of the procedure for transplantation of human anatomical materials established by law by Yu. O. Tkach

“…., the prohibition to use human anatomical materials which are not healthy or unsuitable for transplantation with violation of the term of their use; 2) to restate paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Article 299 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine as follows: “Cruel treatment of animals belonging to vertebrates, including homeless animals, violation of animals transportation rules, if such actions resulted in bodily injury, mutilation or death of an animal, illegal removal of organs or tissues from live animals, that belong to the vertebrates, setting animals against each other, committed for hooligan or mercenary motives, as well as propaganda, public calls for actions that have signs of cruelty to animals, distribution of materials calling for such actions – …”. …”
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Intensification of Natural Disasters in the State of Pará and the Triggering Mechanisms Across the Eastern Amazon by Everaldo B. de Souza, Douglas B. S. Ferreira, Luciano J. S. Anjos, Alan C. Cunha, João Athaydes Silva, Eliane C. Coutinho, Adriano M. L. Sousa, Paulo J. O. P. Souza, Waleria P. Monteiro Correa, Thaiane S. Silva Dias, Alexandre M. C. do Carmo, Carlos B. B. Gutierrez, Giordani R. C. Sodré, Aline M. M. Lima, Edson J. P. Rocha, Bergson C. Moraes, Luciano P. Pezzi, Tercio Ambrizzi

“…The catastrophic impacts on people and the economy were documented, showing a significant rise in the number of homeless individuals and those directly affected, alongside considerable material damage and economic losses for both the public and private sectors. …”
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Särndal Approach and Separate Type Quantile Robust Regression Type Mean Estimators for Nonsensitive and Sensitive Variables in Stratified Random Sampling by Usman Shahzad, Ishfaq Ahmad, Nadia H. Al-Noor, Soofia Iftikhar, A. H. Abd Ellah, Troon J. Benedict

“…The issues of a population related to these themes (for example homeless and nonregular workers, heavy drinkers, assault and rape unfortunate casualties, and drug users) contain estimation errors ascribable to nonresponses as well as untruthful revealing. …”
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Use and impact of social prescribing: a mixed-methods feasibility study protocol by Uy Hoang, Harshana Liyanage, Simon de Lusignan, Victoria Tzortziou Brown, Filipa Ferreira, Ivelina Yonova, Lucy Moore, Anant Jani

“…Introduction Social prescribing aims to address social determinants of health, which account for 80%–90% of health outcomes, but the evidence base behind it is limited due to a lack of data linkingsocial prescribing activity and outcomes.Methods and analysis The objective of the quantitative component of this feasibility studyisto identify the characteristics of individuals who receive social prescriptions and describe the use and estimate the impact of social prescribing; the latter will be done on a homeless subgroup. We will use the Oxford Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) primary care sentinel network, whose general practicescover a population of over 4 000 000 patients. …”
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Extrapolating empirical measurements of wastewater exfiltration from sanitary sewers to estimate watershed-scale fecal pollution loading in urban stormwater runoff by Joshua A. Steele, Adriana González-Fernández, John F. Griffith, Darcy Ebentier McCargar, Sierra Wallace, Kenneth C. Schiff

“…., no septic systems, no homeless encampments, no reported sanitary sewer overflows) to estimate the amount of exfiltrated sewage that reaches stormwater. …”
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Using large language models for extracting stressful life events to assess their impact on preventive colon cancer screening adherence by Dmitry Scherbakov, Paul M. Heider, Ramsey Wehbe, Alexander V. Alekseyenko, Leslie A. Lenert, Jihad S. Obeid

“…The events with the most negative impact on screening were arrest or incarceration (OR 0.26 95% CI 0.06–0.77), becoming homeless (OR 0.18 95% CI 0.01–0.92), separation from spouse or partner (OR 0.32 95% CI 0.05–1.18), getting married or starting to live with a partner (OR 0.60 95% CI 0.19–1.53). …”
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Disproportionate, differential and targeted treatment: people who use drugs’ experiences of policing during the COVID-19 pandemic by Shelley Walker, Kasun Rathnayake, Paul Dietze, Peter Higgs, Bernadette Ward, Margaret Hellard, Joseph Doyle, Mark Stoove, Lisa Maher

“…Thirty-eight interviewees received COVID-19 fines; some were fined while homeless or travelling to or from harm reduction services. …”
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Improving the experience of health services for trans and gender-diverse young people and their families: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Stepney, Samantha Martin, Magdalena Mikulak, Sara Ryan, Jay Stewart, Richard Ma, Adam Barnett

“…Future research areas raised during the evaluation were the experiences of homeless trans young people, siblings, grandparents and those in care or care leavers. …”
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