Using Human-Centered Design to Bridge Zero-Dose Vaccine Gap: A Case Study of Ilala District in Tanzania by Simon Martin Nzilibili, Hellen Maziku, Awet Araya, Ruthbetha Kateule, Millenium Anthony Malamla, Suna Salum, Furaha Kyesi, Lotalis Gadau, Tumaini Menson Haonga, Florian Tinuga, Rashid Mfaume, Zaitun Hamza, Georgina Joachim, Alice Geofrey Mwiru, Alex Benson, Oscar Kapela, Ona Machangu, Norman Jonas, Ntuli Kapologwe

“…The participants were able to come up with 309 ideas, which were refined through multiple iterations using the impact–-effort matrix and skimmed down to three (3) solutions: (i) having health facilities to notify and alert local leaders about vaccination dates; (ii) using parents, kids, and grownups who got vaccinated to influence others; (iii) using local government leaders and house representatives for vaccine advocacy. …”
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La descolonización no es una metáfora by Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang

“…La descolonización trae consigo la repatriación de la tierra y la vida Indígena; no es una metáfora de otras cosas que queremos hacer para mejorar nuestras sociedades. La fácil adopción del discurso descolonizador evidenciado por el creciente número de llamados a «descolonizar nuestras escuelas», o utilizar «métodos descolonizadores» o «descolonizar el pensamiento», convierte la descolonización en una metáfora. …”
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Erratum to ‘Cost differences between autologous and nonautologous cranioplasty implants: A propensity score–matched value driven outcomes analysis’ [World Neurosurgery: X (22C) (20... by Matthew Findlay, Sawyer Z. Bauer, Diwas Gautam, Matthew Holdaway, Robert B. Kim, Walid K. Salah, Spencer Twitchell, Sarah T. Menacho, Gurpreet S. Gandhoke, Ramesh Grandhi

“…The costs for imaging, hospital supplies, implants, pharmacy services, facility usage, and laboratory studies were captured for initial surgeries and for subsequent cranioplasty-related revision hospitalizations and surgeries. …”
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A qualitative study exploring the acceptability of the TEXTPAD telehealth and virtual supervised exercise intervention and trial for patients with peripheral arterial disease livin... by Maddey Patterson, MPH, Letitia Sermin-Reed, MSc, James Prentis, MBBS, Arathi Radhakrishnan, MBBS, Eileen Kaner, PhD, Sandip Nandhra, MBBS, Maisie Rowland, BSc, Gabriel Cucato, PhD, Mackenzie Fong, PhD

“…Remote, virtual support may overcome some barriers to attending facilities in person experienced by PAD patients, such as poor mobility and financial cost. …”
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Airborne Levels of Lung Carcinogens at an Ascon Manufacturing Site by Kyeongmin Lee, Sungwon Choi, Miyeon Kim, Dongwoo Song, Ki-Youn Kim

“…This study presents the first environmental evaluation at an ascon production facility in terms of substances that cause lung cancer.…”
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Seeking abortion medications online: experiences from a mystery client study in Colombia by Daniel Arango Arango, Alice F Cartwright, Ava Braccia, Ann Moore, Maria M Vivas

“…Objectives While Colombians gained broad legal access to abortion in 2022, people still lack knowledge about its availability and face variable quality of care at health facilities. …”
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Assessment of Healthcare Solid Waste Composition, Generation and its Management: the case of Two Hospitals of Shashemene Town, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia by Gudeta Elie, Daniel Fitamo, Semere Gebreaegawi

“…The study establishes that the little attention is given to medical waste management which primarily proceeds from a lack of due implementation of the national healthcare wastes management guideline/directive at the healthcare facility level. If the poor healthcare solid waste management is not properly addressed at the study hospitals, human (healthcare workers, waste handlers, patients, and nearby community) and environmental health risk will be within the bounds of possibility. …”
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Desarrollo de un dispositivo para monitoreo en la línea del proceso de coagulación de la leche by O.A. SBODIO, E.D.A. MARTÍNEZ, E.J. TERCERO, M.J.J. DIDIER, G.R. REVELLI

“…El tamaño reducido del sensor lo hace no intrusivo, robusto, fácil de limpiar in situ o esterilizar por medio de vapor, para lo cual no necesita ser removido durante las operaciones de elaboración. …”
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Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation in South Africa: a case study of USAID-supported programs by Jerome Wendoh Milimu, Lauren Parmley, Mahlodi Matjeng, Mathata Madibane, Mandisi Mabika, Jacques Livingston, Joseph Lawrence, Orapeleng Motlhaoleng, Hasina Subedar, Rethabile Tsekoa, Zandile Mthembu

“…(iii) Integrating community-based and facility-based service delivery supported client-centered care. …”
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Dites 33. Les huit incipit allemands de Bouvard et Pécuchet (1) by Loïc Windels

“…C’est par lui que le lecteur étranger entre dans « l’univers diégétique » de l’œuvre originelle, qu’il passe le seuil « où se marquent les codes d’écriture et le pacte de lecture », et c’est par lui que le traducteur essaie de reconduire les promesses du titre et de l’attente. …”
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Codeswitching – Ergebnisse einer Studie in der albanischen Sprachgruppe in Deutschland und der Schweiz by Naxhi Selimi, Basil Schader, Andrea Cantieni

“…Die quantitativ erhobenen und kontrastiv diskutierten Daten dokumentieren, dass alle drei Generationen der albanischen und Community in Deutschland und der Schweiz Codeswitching verwenden und dass sich die beiden Ländergruppen diesbezüglich nicht wesentlich unterscheiden. …”
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Prediction of mortality and prioritisation to tertiary care using the 'OUR-ARCad' risk score gleaned from the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic-A retrospective cohort study from Sou... by Narendran Gopalan, Vinod Kumar Viswanathan, Vignes Anand Srinivasalu, Saranya Arumugam, Adhin Bhaskar, Tamizhselvan Manoharan, Santosh Kishor Chandrasekar, Divya Bujagaruban, Ramya Arumugham, Gopi Jagadeeswaran, Saravanan Madurai Pandian, Arunalatha Ponniah, Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan, Baskaran Dhanraj, Vineet Kumar Chadha, Balaji Purushotham, Manoj Vasanth Murhekar

“…<h4>Background</h4>Judicious utilisation of tertiary care facilities through appropriate risk stratification assumes priority, in a raging pandemic, of the nature of delta variant-predominated second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India. …”
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Histological chorioamnionitis and its predictors among mothers with premature rupture of membranes delivering at tertiary hospitals in Uganda: a multicenter cross-sectional study by Ibrahim Abdi Abdinasir, Marie Pascaline Sabine Ishimwe, Maxwell Okello, Paul Byaruhanga, Ralph Samson Enyamitoit, Theoneste Hakizimana

“…Patients with PROM who were referred from other health facilities or had not attended PNC were at a higher risk of developing HCA. …”
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Evaluation of the Competitiveness Model in the Steel Industry with a Technology Transfer Approach by Ali Amraei, Safieh Mehrinejad, Amir Bayattork

“…By providing appropriate facilities and subsidies, these institutions can encourage and motivate active and potential investors to expand their production activities. …”
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اعادة الهندسة الاداریة کمدخل لتمیز مؤسسات المعرفة by د. أمنیة خیر توفیق

“…Different types of knowledgeinstitutions need to re-engineer management , whether they suffer or not fromproblems of re-engineering in knowledge institutions : Service of reengineering ,reengineering process , reengineering ofmanagement systems , reengineering requires management improvementand development especially in the areas of organizational work , process outputs, system , and resources .A set of reengineering approaches that can be reliably applied toknowledge institutions is available from the results of the application of thereengineering approach to knowledge institutions : the transformation ofbusiness units from functional departments to operations teams , transformingjobs from simple tasks to complex work , the focus shifts on performancestandards , rewards and activities to results , Examples of obstacles that arepreventing the re-engineering approach to knowledge. institutions : the existenceof a culture of resistance to change, the lack of clarity of the knowledge        institution's vision , its organizational culture in the process of re-engineering, theuse of non-cadres to lead the process of administrative re-engineering, assigningadministrative re-engineering to retiring individuals , non-discrimination betweenadministrative re-engineering and other change programs, An example of therequirements for : The adequate awareness of the wishes of the beneficiaries ,an analysis of the institution's position and the design of the objectives of change, the belief of the senior management in the importance of change andencouragement of employees and understanding of the process of reengineeringadministrative management .Recommendations of the study : The need to adopt conscious leaders indifferent types of knowledge institutions , providing the necessary budget forapplying administrative reengineering in knowledge institutions , establishing aspecialized unit for reengineering of knowledge institutions , setting a plan for aspecific period of time of different types , especially the leaders in which newskills and knowledge on the reengineering management , monitoring theexperiences and management practices distinct in the field of reengineeringmanagement services facilities to document and benefit from them , increasingdependence needed to support administrative processes of reengineeringmethod of information technology .…”
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Prevalence, predisposing factors, and turnover intention related to low back pain among health workers in Accra, Ghana. by Philip Apraku Tawiah, Emmanuel Appiah-Brempong, Paul Okyere, Geoffrey Adu-Fosu, Mary Eyram Ashinyo

“…<h4>Background</h4>Globally, low back pain (LBP) is responsible for disability among 60.1 million people. Health workers face a higher likelihood of being exposed to LBP compared to employees in the construction and manufacturing sectors. …”
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Synergistic effect of magnetic magnetite and greigite nanoparticles dispersed pinewood biochar for aqueous lead(II) and cadmium(II) adsorption by Prashan M. Rodrigo, Raghava R. Kommalapati

“…This study enhanced the understanding of adsorption characteristics for a treatment facility that can effectively remediate lead and cadmium-contaminated wastewater. …”
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Derivation and validation of a clinical predictive model for longer duration diarrhea among pediatric patients in Kenya using machine learning algorithms by Billy Ogwel, Vincent H. Mzazi, Alex O. Awuor, Caleb Okonji, Raphael O. Anyango, Caren Oreso, John B. Ochieng, Stephen Munga, Dilruba Nasrin, Kirkby D. Tickell, Patricia B. Pavlinac, Karen L. Kotloff, Richard Omore

“…This study utilizes machine learning (ML) to derive and validate a predictive model for LDD among children presenting with diarrhea to health facilities. Methods LDD was defined as a diarrhea episode lasting ≥ 7 days. …”
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Assessing the financial burden of multimorbidity among patients aged 30 and above in India by Sudheer Kumar Shukla, Pratheeba John, Sakshi Khemani, Ankur Shaji Nair, Nishikant Singh, Rajeev Sadanandan

“…Statistical models, including linear, log-linear, and logistic regressions, were used to examine the financial risk, with a focus on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), healthcare facility choice, and socioeconomic status and Epidemiological Transition Levels (ETLs). …”
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Patient-reported symptoms and admission pathways in stroke mimics versus confirmed stroke or transient ischaemic attack: a cross-sectional observational study by Jawad Haider Butt, Christina Kruuse, Heidi Shil Eddelien, Viktor Frederik Idin Sørensen

“…Secondarily, the number of strokes versus mimics presenting at a healthcare facility within 3 hours contacted the emergency medical service (EMS) and arrived by ambulance.Results Of 592 suspected patients with stroke, 113 (19.1%) were mimics; most frequently peripheral vertigo (24.7%) and migraine (11.5%). …”
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