The association between health literacy, private health insurance, and medical expenditure in South Korea by Jeehye Lee, Hye Sook Min, Dong-Hee Ryu

“…Results Among participants, 70.05% had indemnity insurance coverage, and 88.02% held at least one PHI policy. Individuals with sufficient HL showed higher indemnity insurance enrollment (71.47%) compared to those with inadequate HL (63.17%). …”
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Don’t assume, ask! A focus group study on end-of-life care planning with people with intellectual disabilities from minoritised ethnic groups by Andrea Bruun, Leon Jordan, Jo Giles, Rhidian Hughes, Rebecca Anderson-Kittow, Irene Tuffrey-Wijne

“…They deemed it important to discover and respect (and not assume) the individual’s perspectives, values, needs, and wishes through a person-centred approach. …”
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Impact of a potential Chlamydia vaccine in the USA: mathematical modelling analyses by Hiam Chemaitelly, Laith J Abu-Raddad, Houssein H Ayoub, Susanne F Awad, Monia Makhoul

“…Number of vaccinations needed to avert one infection was 17.7 for VES=50%, 26.5 for VEI=50%, 33.4 for VEP=50% and 12.0 for VES=VEI=VEP=50%. Vaccinating individuals aged 15–19 and at highest risk of infection was most effective, requiring only 7.7 and 1.8 vaccinations to prevent one infection, respectively. …”
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Impact of a Virtual Reality Intervention on Stigma, Empathy, and Attitudes Toward Patients With Psychotic Disorders Among Mental Health Care Professionals: Randomized Controlled Tr... by Jing Ling Tay, Yuanrong Qu, Lucas Lim, Rohan Puthran, Chye Lee Robert Tan, Rajkirren Rajendran, Ker Chiah Wei, Huiting Xie, Kang Sim

“…Of note, virtual reality (VR) interventions have been associated with improvements in attitudes and empathy and reduced stigma toward individuals with psychotic disorders, especially among undergraduates, but this has not been examined among mental health care professionals. …”
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Cochlear implantation outcomes in adults: A scoping review. by Isabelle Boisvert, Mariana Reis, Agnes Au, Robert Cowan, Richard C Dowell

“…It also aimed to appraise the individual success rate and the magnitude of benefit following implantation.…”
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Food Acquisition Coping Strategies Vary Based on Food Security Among University Students by Emily Sklar, Gwen M Chodur, Leslie Kemp, Deborah S Fetter, Rachel E Scherr

“…Most individuals faced significant challenges in maintaining food security. …”
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Diagnostic Potential of Systemic Eosinophil-Associated Cytokines and Growth Factors in IBD by Katarzyna Neubauer, Malgorzata Matusiewicz, Iwona Bednarz-Misa, Sabina Gorska, Andrzej Gamian, Malgorzata Krzystek-Korpacka

“…Eotaxin, determined individually or in a panel with IFNγ and hsCRP, showed fair accuracy in differentiating CD from UC. …”
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Attitudes towards persons with disabilities vs. personality traits of Polish students by Iwona Radlińska, Marta Kożybska, Arkadiusz Prajzner, Łukasz Krzywoszański, Beata Karakiewicz

“…Polish adaptations of the scales were used in the study: Multidimensional Attitudes Scale Towards Persons With Disabilities (MAS) and the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI).ResultsA significant correlation was demonstrated between attitudes towards individuals with physical disabilities and a range of personality traits, including agreeableness, extroversion, conscientiousness, and openness, among Polish students. …”
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Analisis Kemiskinan Digital Indonesia di Era Revolusi Industri 4.0 by Permata Sakti

“…Namun di Indonesia masih terdapat individu dengan sedikit atau tanpa akses ke teknologi, inilah yang kemudian disebut sebagai kemiskinan digital. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Intestinal Parasitic Infections among Food Handlers in Mettu Town, Southwest Ethiopia by Solomon Yeshanew, Melaku Tadege, Abdulhakim Abamecha

“…Twenty-eight (45.2%) study individuals were also found with mixed infections. The study thus revealed a high prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection among apparently healthy food handlers in food establishments of the study area. …”
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Post-Marketing Pharmacovigilance of Canakinumab from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) by Weidong Zhang, Yunzhou Chen, Zeyu Yao, Mengling Ouyang, Minghui Sun, Shupeng Zou

“…More attention should be paid to serious infections, particularly in males, individuals aged ≥60 years, or those weighing >100 kg, who demonstrated the highest risk of serious infections.…”
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Bokvalg i norske barnehager - hva som leses sammen med barn og hvorfor by Agnes-Margrethe Bjorvand, Monica G. Mitchell, Katarzyna A. Tunkiel, Marianne Undheim

“…However, when teachers mainly read books that children find enjoyable, that is books already known to the children, we find that there is an untapped potential in ECEC institutions to promote newer books, both individual titles and series.  …”
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Biological characteristics of bream (Abramis brama Linnaeus, 1758) of the Kremenchuk Reservoir as an object of commercial fishery by N. Rudyk-Leuska, O. Buzevych, M. Leuskyi, I. Burjak

“…Purpose. Analysis of individual and population parameters of bream (Abramis brama L.) of the Kremenchuk Reservoir from the point of view for assessing the conditions for the formation and exploitation of the commercial stock of this valuable species in ecological and fisheries terms. …”
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Anatomical and Functional MRI Changes after One Year of Auditory Rehabilitation with Hearing Aids by M. R. Pereira-Jorge, K. C. Andrade, F. X. Palhano-Fontes, P. R. B. Diniz, M. Sturzbecher, A. C. Santos, D. B. Araujo

“…HA use increased fMRI activity in the auditory and language cortices and multimodal integration areas. Individual fMRI signal changes from all these areas were positively correlated with individual SRT changes. …”
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Impacts of Pta-AckA pathway on CPS biosynthesis and type 3 fimbriae expression in Klebsiella pneumoniae by Tien-Huang Lin, Chen-Yu Wang, Chien-Chen Wu, Ching-Ting Lin

“…Background: Klebsiella pneumoniae is a Gram-negative bacterium that can cause infections, especially in individuals with diabetes. Recently, more hypervirulent strains have emerged, posing a threat even to healthy individuals. …”
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A novel framework to predict ADHD symptoms using irritability in adolescents and young adults with and without ADHD by Saeedeh Komijani, Dipak Ghosal, Manpreet K. Singh, Julie B. Schweitzer, Julie B. Schweitzer, Prerona Mukherjee, Prerona Mukherjee

“…While irritability is not a diagnostic symptom of ADHD, temper outbursts and irritable moods are common in individuals with ADHD. However, research on the association between irritability and ADHD symptoms in adolescents and young adults remains limited.MethodPrior research has used linear regression models to examine longitudinal relations between ADHD and irritability symptoms. …”
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A Missense Mutation in OPA1 Causes Dominant Optic Atrophy in a Chinese Family by Shaoyi Mei, Xiaosheng Huang, Lin Cheng, Shiming Peng, Tianhui Zhu, Liang Chen, Yan Wang, Jun Zhao

“…A 5-generation pedigree of 35 family members including 12 individuals affected with DOA was recruited from Shenzhen Eye Hospital, China. …”
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Socioeconomic environment and survival in patients after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI): a longitudinal study for the City of Vienna by Christian Roth, Michael Kühn, Rudolf Berger, Sonja Spitzer, Vanessa di Lego

“…SEE is proxied via mean individual gross income from employment in each municipal district.Results Results are based on Kaplan-Meier survival probability estimates, Cox proportional hazard regressions and competing risk models, always using age as the time scale. …”
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Genetic diversity of the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus in cohorts of patients affected with SARS-CoV-2 by Patrizia Malaspina, Carla Jodice, Bianca Maria Ciminelli, Michela Biancolella, Vito Luigi Colona, Andrea Latini, Francesca Leonardis, Paola Rogliani, Antonio Novelli, Giuseppe Novelli, Andrea Novelletto

“…Conclusions Two haplotypes seem to act as protective factors specifically in young individuals, counteracting the general increase in vulnerability with age. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of “U” Route Transforaminal Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy in Chronic Pain Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Combined with Disc Herniation by Binbin Wu, Xinyi Tian, Ce Shi, Chenchen Jiang, Jing Zhang, Gonghao Zhan, Danli Xie

“…The other 80 healthy individuals who were age- and sex-matched to the patients without chronic pain were enrolled as healthy controls. …”
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