Legal aspects of protecting the Ukrainian population against emergencies under martial law by O. A. Lukianykhina, S. A. Petrovska

“…It is important to understand these consequences, in particular within the context of building a fair and proper legal status at the legislative level for those categories of workers involved in overcoming the consequences of such emergencies, not only employees of the SES and the police, but also of critical infrastructure, transport, healthcare, and trade. …”
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The effect of risk of contracting and fear of COVID-19 on burnout and job satisfaction in Polish teachers by Joanna Dymecka, Rafał Gerymski, Radoslaw B. Walczak, Aleksandra Jania

“…In the studied sample, 252 people worked remotely, 41 in-person and 59 were hybrid workers. The Risk of Contracting COVID-19 Scale, the Fear of COVID-19 Scale, the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Brief Job Satisfaction Scale were used. …”
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Social support sources for people with palliative care needs at home: a scoping review by Trudy Schutter, Ian Koper, Kris Vissers, Jeroen Hasselaar

“…Conclusions Community sources and professionals with a main focus on social support such as social workers can enhance, complement and substitute social support provided by the informal network, if needed. …”
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Analysis of Charcoal Producers Perceptions of Its Production, Forest Degradation, and Governance in Wolaita, Southern Ethiopia’s Dry Afromontane Forests by Alemayehu Hido, Abebe Teka, Asabeneh Alemayehu

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Music Theory, Historically-Informed Performance, and The Significance of Cities by Adam Krims

“…It isolates the feature of wind/string balance, widely touted at the time as an advantage of the HIP approach, and measures them at key points of the movement; the resulting similarities of two of the recordings, both from London-based performers, and their pronounced divergence from the third, featuring East-Coast American performers, suggests the possibility that music workers (performers, but also engineers, producers, etc.) informed each others’ aesthetic preference and priorities, whether implicitly or explicitly. …”
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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GIRL CHILD IN AKPABUYO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA by NNANA OKOIOFEM, JULIANA JEROME ADIE, OMINI UBI UBI, RUNYI DANIEL JAMES

“…Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended amongst others that there is need for public enlightenment programmes by social workers to combat mass ignorance as well as public and intense awareness on psychological, social and physical health of the female children as well as severe penalty for those still involved in the practice of female genital mutilation in our society. …”
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Building a culture of quality in maternal and newborn health: experience from the quality, equity and dignity network in Ethiopia by Anene Tesfa Berhanu, Asebe Amenu Tufa, Seblewengel Lemma, Geremew Gonfa, Theodros Getachew, Desalegn Bekele, Fitsum Kibret, Nehla Djellouli, Tim Colbourn, Tanya Marchant

“…QED enhanced people-centered care and data tracking, but the added data focus burdened healthcare workers. Opportunities for collaboration and shared learning were facilitated, although not accessible to all actors. …”
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Home delivery among women who receive antenatal care in Ethiopia, design-based logistic regression analysis by Yimer Seid Yimer, Tariku Tesfaye, Awgichew Kifle Zemelak, Solomon Emyu Ferede

“…Our results indicate for special attention to the evaluation and improvement of health extension workers’ competency in ANC delivery, and counselling women on various aspects of birth readiness during ANC visits.…”
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Peer support and social networking interventions in diabetes self-management in Kenya and Uganda: A scoping review. by Habil Otanga, Brian Semujju, Lynn Mwaniki, Justus Aungo

“…Most interventions were delivered by multidisciplinary teams comprising nurses and other professionals, peer educators, peer leaders and community health workers. Most interventions were effective and led to improvements in HbA1c and blood pressure, eating behaviors and physical activity and social support.…”
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Adapted Guidelines for Malaria Case Management in Sudan by Samah Elhassan, Sahar Khalid Mohamed, Khlood Fathi Hassan Alnaeem, Ahmed Abdulgadir Noureddin, Samah Kamaleldeen Bakrri Abass, Fadwa Mohamed Saad, Technical Advisory Committee

“…Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) has updated its malaria case management policy to guide healthcare workers in making informed decisions about malaria diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. …”
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Challenging Gender Norms: Male Physicians' Perspectives on Family Planning in Rural Islamabad by Junaid Jamshed, Rida Shakil, Muhammad Hassan Laique

“…Cultural norms further restricted their engagement, as FP counseling and provision were widely regarded as responsibilities of female healthcare workers. However, FP training, supportive supervision, and access to educational materials enabled male physicians to develop essential skills, increasing their confidence in counseling and service delivery. …”
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‘You Choose No Time to Live and Die’: Dinmukhamed A. Kunayev and His Time by Ziyabek Y. Kabuldinov, Konstantin V. Cherepanov, Didar B. Kassymova

“…Kunayev, recollections of his contemporaries and co-workers, materials and documents from Kazakhstan-based and foreign archives (Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan, etc.). …”
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The Mental Health Literacy and Stigma Scale—Bilingual Cultural Adaptation: Validity and Reliability Pilot Study in Nursing Students by Maria José Nogueira, Síria Sas, Lucía Rodríguez, Andrea Carbonero, Uxía Bello, Leandro Nascimento, Susana Mendonça, Delfina Teixeira

“…The MHLaSS‐B presents good psychometric properties, and it can be a useful tool for novice health workers to better understand the aspects they should pay attention to manage MHL and stigma successfully. …”
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Building Responsive Intersectoral Initiatives for Newcomers in Toronto: Learning from Service Providers’ Experiences in the Context of COVID-19 by Carly Jackson, Shinjini Mondal, Erica Di Ruggiero, Lara Gautier

“…We conducted interviews (n = 25) with community and public sector frontline workers and managers, as well as municipal/regional/provincial policymakers and funders. …”
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Investigating the Working Efficiency of Typical Work in High-Altitude Alpine Metal Mining Areas Based on a SeqGAN-GABP Mixed Algorithm by Ning Hua, He Huang, Xinhong Zhang

“…First, we investigated the collaborative relationship between workers, operating machinery, operating environment, and design variables in order to establish the evaluation index system of typical work efficiency in high-altitude alpine metal mining areas. …”
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Building resilience against cholera: lessons from the implementation of integrated community strategy for cholera control in Zambia by Nyuma Mbewe, Fred Kapaya, Moses Mwale, Peter Jay Chipimo, Precious Kalubula, Ladislas Hibusu, Stella Mumba Chomba Mulima, Kafusha Kapema, Kelvin Mwangilwa

“…The strategy’s implementation involved deploying multidisciplinary technical teams, training community-based volunteers and healthcare workers in the affected communities. This approach led to a rapid reduction in cholera cases and mortality, largely due to enhanced surveillance, community education sessions and improved sanitation practices. …”
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Visible-Light-Active Titania Photocatalysts: The Case of N-Doped TiO2s—Properties and Some Fundamental Issues by Alexei V. Emeline, Vyacheslav N. Kuznetsov, Vladimir K. Rybchuk, Nick Serpone

“…Relative to pristine nominally clean TiO2 with absorption edges at 3.2 eV (anatase) and 3.0 eV (rutile), N-doped TiO2s display red-shifted absorption edges into the visible spectral region. Several workers have surmised that the (intrinsic) band gap of TiO2 is narrowed by coupling dopant energy states with valence band (VB) states, an inference based on DFT computations. …”
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Quality of Counselling, Exposure to Vaccination Messages, and Caregivers’ Knowledge on the Uptake of Pentavalent Vaccine in Six Northern Nigerian States by Matthew Alabi, Leanne Dougherty, Eno-Obong Etim, Adebola Adedimeji

“…Factors associated with Penta uptake include caregivers’ knowledge of when a child should receive their first vaccination (aOR = 2.08 and 95% CI = 1.01–4.29), sources of child vaccination messages, namely, place of worship (aOR = 2.78 and 95% CI = 1.15–6.67), community health workers (CHWs; aOR = 1.95 and 95% CI = 1.14–3.34), community leader (aOR = 2.21 and 95% CI = 1.11–4.41), and residence in the northwest region (aOR = 2.60 and 95% CI = 1.51–4.48). …”
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Changing of the characteristics of the labor potential in the transition to the technogenic society by O. A. Tettsoeva

“…This in turn leads to changing of the situation in the labor market, where low-skilled workers are becoming non-competitive. High qualification fundamentally change an employee’s motivation: the significance of material incentives decreases, external motivation changes for the internal one, the meaningfulness of work, the independence of work performance, the responsibility for decisions taken, become an issue of the highest priority.The transition to the new culture of the technogenic society requires alteration of both professional and personal communications. …”
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Production of Biogas and Bio-fertilizer from Abattoir Waste as Sustainable Management, Eastern Ethiopia, 2019 by Sina Temsgen Tolera, Fekade Ketema Alemu

“…There is also lack of studies on quantification of abattoir waste and lack of workers awareness towards abattoir waste. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to estimate abattoir waste for bioenergy potential as sustainable management. …”
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