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García Ubaque, Juan Carlos. "Cultural aspects regarding public health." Revista de Salud Pública 16, no. 4 (September 6, 2014): 489–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v16n4.52752.

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It is often perceived that cultural aspects represent a limitation which must be considered when regarding the development and implementation of public health intervention activities is often perceived, usually because there are varying degrees of difficulty concerning relationships, communication and understanding between communities and experts in this particular field. Nevertheless, different social groups’ beliefs and practices still survive and carry great force when addressing the various issues of interest regarding public health, as shown by the articles in this issue of the journal on such issues as cardiovascular risk factors, smoking and alcohol consumption, breastfeeding, physical activity, health service access, nutrition, healthcare team-patient-family relationship or implementing specific risk eradication, control or mitigation actions. However, there is relatively little public health-related information concerning how this issue can be understood and addressed, possibly because consensus is still lacking between sociologists and anthropologists working in the healthcare field. It would thus seem clear that more research is needed in this field, so that, while advances have been made regarding a situational description, advances should also be made in constructing diagnostic and intervention methodologies which would be truly accessible to those who (without being experts on this topic) are taking on the operational work amongst communities, so that cultural matters cease being a barrier and become rather an opportunity for the collective reconstruction of knowledge and practice regarding public health It may be realistic to consider formal and informal regulatory aspects, a sense of identity and belonging to a particular group and implicit or explicit power and control mechanisms incorporated into a group of interest’s everyday life as themes and possible starting points for such an approach. It is thus important to approach how these aspects are expressed in the home, jobs and public spaces (i.e. the three major areas of modern life) and as embodied in speech, language, customary practices, relationships and social organisation.
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Brady, Rita-Marie A., Joanna L. Stettner, and Liz York. "Healthy Spaces: Legal Tools, Innovations, and Partnerships." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 47, S2 (2019): 27–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073110519857311.

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This article explores innovative legal tools in built environment settings. Using tangible examples, the discussion will leverage the authors' expertise in the law, public health, and architecture to explore strategies in domestic and international settings to explain how healthy spaces make a direct public health impact on people's lives.
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de Oliveira Cunha, Marcella Viana Portela, Angelina Dias Leão Costa, and Mariama da costa Ireland. "Ergonomic aspects to be considered in planning public spaces destined for elderly people." Work 41 (2012): 3827–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-2012-0685-3827.

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Oldfield, Kenneth. "The Social Aspects of Hand Washing in American Restaurants: An Administrative Approach to Reducing Public and Private Health Care Costs." Administration & Society 49, no. 5 (April 3, 2016): 753–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399716638121.

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Proper hand sanitation prevents spreading of many types of illness and infection, thereby lowering the quantitative and qualitative costs of public and private health care. Research shows that thinking or knowing someone is watching you wash your hands in a public lavatory appreciably improves the odds of you doing so. Nevertheless, most restaurants place their hand washing facilities inside the bathroom, beyond public view. Reformers from the public and private sectors should work cooperatively to incentivize restaurant owners voluntarily to place their hand washing facilities in public spaces. If this uncompelled approach proves unsuccessful, reformers should seek to impose laws requiring that all public eateries place their bathroom washbasins in conspicuous locations. The discussion closes by suggesting ancillary improvements to test in pursuit of further improving hand washing rates and practices in public spaces.
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Tobias, Maisa Sales Gama, and Éden Fernando Batista Ferreira. "Perception of health and accessibility: an approach to support projects for urban public spaces." Journal of Transport Literature 8, no. 1 (January 2014): 24–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s2238-10312014000100003.

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Urban public spaces are conceived within certain technical standards, which would meet people's needs. According to users' perception that does not match all the time with the given arrangement, that may lead to rejection or misuse. In this article, the approach to analysis of projects for urban public spaces associates the perception of its users' health with accessibility that these spaces can offer. This becomes a support for efficacy analysis of projects as part of a social inclusion policy. The approach associates an international functionality, incapacity and health classification to a multi-criteria analysis of these factors through interviews with involved population, using Likert scale, where aspects considered as accessibility barriers or facilitators of these spaces are evaluated. The results of the case studied in Belém-Brazil showed, for example, that the understanding that people build on the circulation environment regarding barriers or facilitators is not always determined by difficulties related to their performance in actions and that an inadequate project may be a limiting factor to accessibility, even for people without a diagnosed disability.
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Scopelliti, Massimiliano, Maria Giuseppina Pacilli, and Antonio Aquino. "TV News and COVID-19: Media Influence on Healthy Behavior in Public Spaces." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 4 (February 15, 2021): 1879. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041879.

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The COVID-19 outbreak has dramatically changed our life. Despite the rapid growth of scientific publications about medical aspects of the pandemic, less has been explored about the effects of media communication regarding COVID-19 on healthy behaviors. Yet, the scientific literature has widely debated on how media can influence people’s health-related evaluations, emotions, and behaviors. To fill this gap, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between media exposure, people’s attitudes and emotions toward media contents, and healthy behaviors related to the use of public spaces, such as avoiding crowded places, wearing face masks, and maintaining social distance. A questionnaire referring to these variables was administered to an opportunistic sample of 174 participants in Italy during the off-peak period of the COVID-19 outbreak and before restrictions to mobility were extended to the whole country. Results showed that media exposure, the perception of social initiatives of prevention, and moderate levels of fear increase healthier behaviors in the use of public spaces. Perceiving alarming information did not significantly predict healthy behaviors in the use of public spaces. Results are discussed with reference to the previous literature. Suggestions to media communication to increase preventive behaviors during emergencies are also provided.
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Rizka Rachmawati, Imtihan Hanom, and Santi Salayanti. "THE INFLUENCE OF CHILDREN’S PLAYROOM INTERIOR ASPECT IN REGARD TO PARENTAL SAFETY PERCEPTION. CASE STUDY: CHILDREN’S PLAYROOM AT 23 PASKAL BANDUNG, INDONESIA." Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine 20, Special1 (August 1, 2020): 51–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.37268/mjphm/vol.20/no.special1/art.668.

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Children’s playrooms in public spaces need to consider the safety of their interior elements. Previous studies also discussed about things that need to be taken into account to assure the children’s safety while playing. However, some parents join their children playing in public spaces due to the cautiousness of playground safety level. This study was conducted to understand how far the interior aspects of children’s playgrounds can affect parents’ safety perception to let their children play by themselves in public spaces, for example, the children’s playroom in 23 Paskal Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The result shows that sufficient light, interior finishes, and noise or sound intensity in the children’s playground at 23 Paskal Bandung, Indonesia can make parents feel safe to let their children spend time there.
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van den Toorn, Martin. "New functions and roles for public parks in Europe : The future relation between public space and public health." 4D Tájépítészeti és Kertművészeti Folyóirat, no. 55-56 (2020): 2–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.36249/55.56.1.

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The design of public parks in Europe evolved at the end of 18th century. The first public parks were created primarily for leisure, entertainment and social representation. Reflecting architectural and artistic trends of specific time periods and eras, and design concepts of various ideologies, through their images, compositional aspects and symbols public parks also fulfill an important educational role in everyday life. Following the progress of the theoretical background of European public parks, the article introduces the research analysis of the educational role of the parks. The conclusions drawn from the historical review and from the analysis of public parks and gardens provide a good basis for the renovation methodology of historic parks and for the design of contemporary urban parks and open spaces, with an emphasis on their current and future educational role. Placing the survey and assessment of the public parks into an international context makes it possible to overview the most important educational benefits of public parks to the society.
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Mehdipanah, Roshanak, Ana M. Novoa, Brenda Biaani León-Gómez, Maria José López, Laia Palència, Hugo Vasquez, Èlia Díez, Carme Borrell, and Katherine Pérez. "Effects of Superblocks on health and health inequities: a proposed evaluation framework." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 73, no. 7 (April 1, 2019): 585–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-211738.

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The following essay outlines the intervention and presents a framework that will serve as a guide in the evaluation of the different effects of the Superblocks. Superblocks consist of amalgamations of blocks throughout the city, with the goal of improving the habitability of public spaces, advancing sustainable mobility, increasing urban green, and promoting residents’ participation and coresponsibility, while ultimately influencing residents’ health and health inequities. The evaluation framework considers the following aspects: the interventions implemented in the Superblock strategy, the changes that occur at neighbourhood and individual level and the population turnover as intermediate factors and finally the health outcomes. Inequity dimensions are also considered.
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Oriola, Taiwo A. "Ethical and Legal Analyses of Policy Prohibiting Tobacco Smoking in Enclosed Public Spaces." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 37, no. 4 (2009): 828–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2009.00454.x.

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It is axiomatic that tobacco smoking is hazardous to health. The statistics are well documented and often very grim. For example, the 2008 World Health Organization Report on the global tobacco epidemic presented the following statistics: a hundred million people died of tobacco-related diseases globally in the 20th century; there are approximately over five million tobacco-related deaths every year; and an estimated one billion could die of tobacco-related diseases in this 21st century.Significantly, no other risky, self-indulgent addictive behaviors such as cocaine abuse directly endanger bystanders as much as cigarette smoking or tobacco use endangers nonsmokers through secondhand tobacco smoke or inhaled environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Environmental tobacco smoke comprises sidestream smoke (smoke that emanates from the burning end of a tobacco product) and mainstream smoke (smoke exhaled by the smoker). About 85 percent of environmental tobacco smoke is sidestream smoke, while the remainder is mainstream smoke.
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Botha, Willings. "A broader economic evaluative space for public health interventions : an integrated approach." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8488/.

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Introduction: There is an increasing need for economic evaluation of public health interventions to ensure efficient allocation of resources. Outcomes of such interventions often consists of health and non-health and do not fit in the conventional economic evaluation of quality-adjusted life year (QALY) framework. A cost-benefit analysis (CBA) could be appropriate but has concerns of assigning monetary values to health outcomes. Questions remain on how to consider the broad outcomes of a public health intervention in an economic evaluation. Objective: This thesis aimed to develop an integrated approach for an economic evaluation of a public health intervention that combines the standard cost-utility analysis (CUA) for health outcomes with the stated preference discrete choice experiment (SPDCE) approach for non-health outcomes on a single monetary metric. Methods: A natural experiment of the Woods In and Around Towns (WIAT) study in Scotland was used for empirical analysis. Costs were assessed using a top-down approach based on resources used. A difference-in-differences (DiD) approach was used to establish the impact. A CUA valued the health outcomes in terms of QALYs while a previously developed conceptual model of the WIAT was used to identify the SPDCE attributes and levels for the non-health outcomes. The WIAT study questionnaire was mapped to the SPDCE which generated relative willingness to pay (WTP) values from a general Scottish population. The WTP estimates were applied to the changes or improvements in the attributes and levels resulting from the intervention. A net monetary benefit (NMB) framework was then used to combine the CUA with the SPDCE on the same monetary scale, effectively deriving a CBA. Results: The WIAT interventions were of low cost despite the base case DiD analysis showing a statistically insignificant effect for interventions. The incremental cost-effective ratios (ICERs) for the interventions revealed that they were cost-effective. The probabilistic sensitivity analysis (PSA) showed that the physical intervention was 73% likely to be cost-effective at WTP of £20,000 and £30,000. The combined physical and social interventions had 74% and 75% likelihood of being cost-effective at WTP of £20,00 and £30,000, respectively. There was a great deal of uncertainty around QALY results. Overall, the integrated approach revealed that the WIAT interventions were cost-beneficial in terms of both health and non-health outcomes. Conclusion: This thesis has proposed and demonstrated the integrated approach that combines the conventional QALY framework with the SPDCE on a single monetary scale, hence a broader economic evaluative space particularly suitable for an economic evaluation of a public health intervention.
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REIS, INES NASCIMENTO DE CARVALHO. "INVISIBLE PUBLIC SPACES: LOSSES AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN HEALTH PROMOTION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=20806@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
A presente pesquisa analisou a dinâmica dos espaços públicos de saúde, segundo os referenciais da promoção da saúde e seus desdobramentos, tendo como campo empírico a sala de espera, espaço institucionalizado onde o cidadão aguarda atendimento. O espaço público é expressão das relações sociais e de poder, fundamentado na ética cidadã, na pluralidade, na liberdade, na transparência, no diálogo, na solidariedade, na educação conscientizadora e transformadora. Fez-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica sobre sala de espera e análise documental sobre Promoção da Saúde. A pesquisa de campo foi quali-quantitativa, usou multi-métodos e foi realizada nos 17 Centros de Saúde Escola (CSE) do Brasil, relacionados no Cadastro Nacional de Estabelecimentos de Saúde (Cnes), entre 2009 e 2010. Foram entrevistados 91 cidadãos (24 gestores, 35 profissionais de saúde e 32 usuários), buscando identificar a evolução dos conceitos, das práticas e da institucionalização da Promoção da Saúde, na perspectiva da Atenção Básica de Saúde no âmbito do SUS. Os resultados mostraram uma sintonia na percepção dos entrevistados com essa evolução, identificando variadas dificuldades e vantagens na prática das atividades educativas, notadamente no espaço de sala de espera. Dentre as dificuldades, destacaram as ligadas ao ambiente construído, aos recursos humanos disponíveis, à dispersão dos usuários e à falta de apoio institucional. As vantagens mais citadas foram a de democratização do conhecimento, a interação social, a humanização, a organização do serviço, e a qualificação de discentes e profissionais de saúde. Ficou notória, de um lado, a visibilidade das salas de espera dos CSE como espaços empíricos de ações educativas e informativas; de outro, sua invisibilidade enquanto categoria teórica de espaço promotor de saúde, como espaço público onde se incentive o enfrentamento da questão social brasileira. O estudo conclui 8 que a visibilidade das salas de espera como espaço público pode ser ampliada através da valorização e do enriquecimento do saber popular e do agir em conjunto, para o incentivo à cidadania e ao bem comum, aplicando procedimentos criativos, oportunos e atrativos, sob a ótica de nossas carências atuais de recursos.
This study aimed to analyze the dynamics of public spaces of health, according to the references of health promotion and its ramifications, using as empirical field the Waiting Room (WR). In this study, the WR represents an institutionalized space, a built environment used under the responsibility of a legal institution, where the citizen waits for treatment. The public space expresses the social and power relationships based on ethics, plurality, freedom, transparency, dialogue, solidarity, and transformative education for critical consciousness. There was a literature search on the waiting room and document analysis on the Promotion of Health. The field research is quali-quantitative, used multi-methods and was conducted in 17 School Health Centers (CSE, in portuguese) in Brazil, listed on the National Register of Health Establishments (CNES, in portuguese), between 2009 and 2010. We interviewed 91 people (24 managers, 35 professionals and 32 users) in order to identify the evolution of concepts, practices and institutionalization of health promotion from the perspective of primary health care in the SUS (Health Unique System, in portuguese). The results showed a consistent perception of people interviewed with these developments, identifying different challenges and advantages in the practice of educational activities, especially within the WR. Among the difficulties, were highlighted those related to the built environment, the available human resources, the dispersion of users and the lack of institutional support. The main advantages cited were the democratization of knowledge, the social interaction, the humanization, the service organization, and the qualification of students and health professionals. It became notorious the visibility of the WR of the CSE as an empirical space for educational and informative actions; on the other hand, it became obvious its invisibility as a theoretical category of promoter of health, a public space made to encourage the confronting of social issues in Brazil. The study concludes that the visibility of 10 WR as a public space can be expanded through the enhancement and enrichment of popular knowledge and the acting together to favor common goods and citizenship, applying creative, relevant and attractive procedures, from the perspective of our current lack of resources.
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Otter, Robert. "Aspects of environmental public health in Portsmouth, 1764-1864." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387284.

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Fitzwater, Kendra K. "Assessment of environmental and public health hazards of electronic waste." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1380100.

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Electronic waste or `e-waste' is a rapidly growing form of solid waste worldwide. The heavy metals present in various electronic components demand attention because such metals may leach and pose significant health and environmental hazards (U.S. EPA, 2007). Knowledge of the potential of heavy metal leaching from e-waste represents an important contribution for developing U.S. standards for classifying e-waste as hazardous waste. Hazardous elements which leach from a variety of electronics wastes were assessed in laboratory batch studies. Electronic components evaluated included PC cathode ray tubes, PC motherboards, PC mice, television remote controls, and cellular phones. Each component was disassembled and digested using the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP), EPA Method 1312, Method EA NEN 7371 (Dutch Environmental Agency), and Method DEV-S4 (Germany). The extracts were analyzed for lead, cadmium, chromium, silver, and cobalt. The TCLP consistently leached the greatest amounts of all metals; TCLP-soluble lead was extracted well beyond federal limits for several electronic devices.
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Woo, Chunho Anthony, and 鄔俊豪. "Molecular ecology and public health risks of urban bio-aerosols." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B49617680.

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The Earth’s atmosphere supports microorganisms and they include potential pathogens and microbial allergens. Whilst indoor environments have been well studied, relatively little is known of bio-aerosols in outdoor locations and their potential influence on human health, particularly with regard to urban development. Hong Kong provides an ideal model system for testing hypotheses related to the impact of urbanization on bio-aerosols, with a well-defined gradient of urbanization and large population. This thesis describes work to establish the biodiversity and spatio-temporal dynamics of outdoor bio-aerosols in Hong Kong. A comprehensive study of multi-domain microbial diversity and allergen levels in urban aerosols over a contiguous annual timescale and along a gradient of urbanization was carried out. A comprehensive suite of climatic and pollutant variables were also recorded during the sampling interval. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) was employed to investigate variations in bacterial and eukaryal assemblages, followed by phylogenetic assessment using high-throughput sequencing. The results revealed a strong seasonality in both bacterial and eukaryal assemblages, with Archaea forming a negligible part of the urban bio-aerosols. The most abundant bacteria were proteobacteria but community shifts were seen due to increases in algae in summer, and betaproteobacteria and cyanobacteria in winter. This was most parsimoniously explained by considering the backward trajectory analysis of air mass. A greater abundance of marine-associated phylotypes such as Bacillariophyta and Chlorophyta were identified when the dominant air mass arriving in Hong Kong in the summer originated from oceanic sources. In contrast, betaproteobacteria, which indicated soil sources were prevalent when the origin of air mass was from terrestrial sources. A trend in fungal phylotypes was also apparent, with summer samples dominated by basidiomycetous Agaricales, and winter samples by the ascomycete genus Cladosporium. This was likely due to favourable climatic conditions during wetter summer months enhancing release of fungal basidiospores. A range of airborne human pathogens was also detectable at low levels including pathogenic bacteria such as Acinetobacter baumannii, Clostridium perfringens, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Ricinus communis, and the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus terreus. Microbial allergens including bacterial endotoxins and fungal glucans were also quantified with immunological assays. These generally followed variations in biomass, and during some months were recorded at levels that may impact human health upon chronic exposure. Carbon dioxide levels were the only climatic or pollutant variable that correlated with allergen levels. Conversely changes in microbial assemblages were strongly correlated to several climatic variables including temperature, rainfall, air pressure and relative humidity, but not with the degree of urbanization or airborne pollutants. This study highlights the importance of including microbial assessments in future bio-surveillance of urban aerosols.
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Tong, Hoi-yee Henry, and 唐海誼. "Evidence-based public health analysis in casino gambling." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4694221X.

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Galant, Desiree Marchelle. "The economic value of public open spaces : an approach for the City of Cape Town." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/8531.

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Thesis (MBA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.
The fact that parks and urban green spaces have value is no longer disputed. The literature is awash with evidence attesting to this fact. The City Parks Department of the City of Cape Town is responsible for the provision and maintenance of in excess of six thousand green public open spaces across the Metropolitan area but is currently challenged in terms of ensuring that the service it provides is recognized and that it is adequately resourced from City coffers. This research was undertaken to find a mechanism that the Department can utilize to establish the value of the service it provides within a language that people generally understand and appreciate, the language of money and economics. Using the economic theoretical frameworks and paradigms as context, the key considerations and challenges facing the City Parks Department was considered in terms of competition for adequate land, definitions and the various values which can be attached to public open spaces. Considering the data and information contained in the literature, case studies and established economic valuation approaches and methods, a Valuation Framework was devised for the City Parks Department. The Valuation Framework is meant to be used as a mechanism for establishing the economic value of the public open spaces for which the Department is responsible. It consists of four sections namely a Site Selection Matrix, Site Valuation Components, Valuation Approaches and Methods and a Seven-Step Methodology. The Framework is devised for application at site level but with the understanding that the accumulation of outcomes can be integrated to draw conclusions and inferences about the total economic value which is created directly or indirectly by the Parks Department through its service offering.
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Magalhães, Alexandre Pedro Tavares da Fonseca. "How distances to Urban Green Spaces and Open Sport Spaces can influence physical activity in teenagers of Porto Community. The Epiteen (Epidemiological Health Investigation of Teenagers in Porto) Cohort." Dissertação, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/55455.

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Magalhães, Alexandre Pedro Tavares da Fonseca. "How distances to Urban Green Spaces and Open Sport Spaces can influence physical activity in teenagers of Porto Community. The Epiteen (Epidemiological Health Investigation of Teenagers in Porto) Cohort." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/55455.

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Saramunee, Kritsanee. "General public views on community pharmacy services in public health." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2013. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/6170/.

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Community pharmacists are increasingly providing public health services in response to government policies. Published literature regarding the views of the general public related to pharmacy public health services, although important in ensuring uptake of these services, was limited. This study series aim to explore the general public's perspective on how to maximise the appropriate utilisation of community pharmacy services for improving public health. A large study comprising four sequential phases was designed and conducted in Sefton borough. Initially, to gather background information, focus group discussions (FGDs) and semi-structured interviews were undertaken with the general public and key stakeholders. The second phase involved the development and testing of a questionnaire extracted from the qualitative findings and a literature review. The questionnaire focused upon seven pharmacy public health services related to cardiovascular risks as well as views on factors influencing pharmacy use and advertising/promotion techniques. Geodemographic concepts, widely recognised in public health, were also included to identify potential benefits to pharmacy practice research. Next, a large scale survey was administered among the general public using eight survey modes, to additionally evaluate the range of methods available/for gathering public views. Finally, survey findings were evaluated by representatives of survey respondents using a FGD. Results indicated that, although stakeholders considered that community pharmacy can make an extensive contribution in supporting public health, pharmacy public health services are used at a relatively low level by the general public and awareness of services is also low. Survey respondents indicated a willingness to use services in the future. Important factors influencing pharmacy use include loyalty, location and convenient accessibility. Appropriate promotional campaigns are a key facilitator to help raise the public's awareness. The findings will help the profession to increase uptake of pharmacy public health services. The variety of survey modes used proved beneficial in obtaining diverse population demographics, with street survey being the optimal technique, however, the potential for social desirability bias must be considered with this and other interviewer-assisted approaches. MOSAIC™ as a geodemographic tool is potentially useful in helping to target services for specific groups and is recommended for use in further research.
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Books on the topic "Health aspects of Public spaces"

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Laurie, Zagon, ed. The Power of Color: Creating healthy interior spaces. New York: Wiley, 1995.

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Peter, Aspinall, and Bell, Simon, 1957 May 24-, eds. Innovative approaches to researching landscape and health: Open space: people space 2. New York: Routledge, 2010.

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Thompson, Catharine Ward. Innovative approaches to researching landscape and health: Open space: people space 2. New York: Routledge, 2010.

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Thompson, Catharine Ward. Innovative approaches to researching landscape and health: Open space: people space 2. New York: Routledge, 2010.

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Beckstein, David Loren. AIDS prevention in public sex environments: Outreach and training manual. Santa Cruz, Calif. (P.O. Box 5142 Santa Cruz 95063): Santa Cruz AIDS Project, 1990.

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Schifter, Jacobo. Caperucita Rosa y el lobo feroz: Sexo público latino. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial ILPES, 1999.

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Educação, cultura e organizações sociais: Ensaios interdisciplinares. Belo Horizonte: Crisálida, 2009.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment. National Electromagnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination Act: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Environment of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, March 10, 1992. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1992.

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Public and private spaces of the city. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003.

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Health, Institute of Medicine (U S. ). Committee on Damp Indoor Spaces and. Damp indoor spaces and health. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2004.

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Appleton, Evan, and Piers Millett. "Technical Aspects of Biosecurity: Screening Guidance, Attribution, and Traceability." In NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, 141–67. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2086-9_10.

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AbstractBiosecurity is a multi-disciplinary topic that covers areas of policy, public health, economics, and science. This chapter focuses on the technical scientific aspects of the current international biosecurity framework. We discuss these technical areas in terms time horizon. We begin this chapter with review of current technology within the international biosecurity framework and discuss weakness and opportunities for further work. We then focus on near-term technical developments and imminent opportunities to strengthen the existing framework. Specifically, we break down the range of issues into biological threat prevention, detection, and response. We discuss how technical tools can assist in policy development and the engineering cycle of Design, Built, and Test. Finally, this chapter describes a ‘futuring’ exercise conducted by the working group that created this chapter to explore broader longer-term issues in the biosecurity space.
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Duarte, Fábio, and Carlo Ratti. "What Urban Cameras Reveal About the City: The Work of the Senseable City Lab." In Urban Informatics, 491–502. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_27.

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AbstractCameras are part of the urban landscape and a testimony to our social interactions with city. Deployed on buildings and street lights as surveillance tools, carried by billions of people daily, or as an assistive technology in vehicles, we rely on this abundance of images to interact with the city. Making sense of such large visual datasets is the key to understanding and managing contemporary cities. In this chapter, we focus on techniques such as computer vision and machine learning to understand different aspects of the city. Here, we discuss how these visual data can help us to measure legibility of space, quantify different aspects of urban life, and design responsive environments. The chapter is based on the work of the Senseable City Lab, including the use of Google Street View images to measure green canopy in urban areas, the use of thermal images to actively measure heat leaks in buildings, and the use of computer vision and machine learning techniques to analyze urban imagery in order to understand how people move in and use public spaces.
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Peng-Keller, Simon. "Charting Spiritual Care in Digital Health: Analyses and Perspectives." In Charting Spiritual Care, 213–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47070-8_13.

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Abstract This final contribution draws together the various lines of discussion. It outlines the main arguments as well as the points of convergence between transnational developments. Taking up the introductory chapters, the reasons for the rapid development of chaplaincy documentation in the last two decades are examined. The rise of charting spiritual care is understood as an aspect of the ongoing digitalization of society and healthcare. At least three further drivers are clearly identifiable: the emergence of a new paradigm of healthcare chaplaincy, the development of interprofessional spiritual care, and remarkable changes in Western societies concerning the role of religion and spirituality in public spaces. In current discussions about recording spiritual care in EMRs, there is a growing convergence on at least four points. First, used as a tool for planning, coordination, and self-evaluation, digital charting can benefit the work of chaplains. Second, it can also have undesired side effects. Third, any future healthcare chaplaincy will have to be a part of the evolving process of digital recording. Fourth, the ongoing change in healthcare and society forces chaplains to become clearer about its nature and role. In sum, the task of charting spiritual care into EMRs might be seen as a bureaucratic burden. However, with its questions of the “who,” the “what,” and the “how,” it touches the heart of chaplaincy as a spiritual profession in healthcare. The paper concludes with an outline of a possible future for the practice of charting spiritual care.
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Boelaert, Marleen, Sakib Burza, and Gustavo Romero. "Control and Public Health Aspects." In The Leishmaniases: Old Neglected Tropical Diseases, 227–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72386-0_10.

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Sheldon, T. A., and S. L. Ibbotson. "Public Health Aspects of Subfertility." In Infertility, 399–420. London: Springer London, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1962-3_28.

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Chaudhury, Moushumi, Melody Oliver, Hannah M. Badland, and Suzanne Mavoa. "Public Open Spaces, Children’s Independent Mobility." In Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing, 315–35. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-51-4_17.

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Chaudhury, Moushumi, Melody Oliver, Hannah M. Badland, and Suzanne Mavoa. "Public Open Spaces, Children’s Independent Mobility." In Play, Recreation, Health and Well Being, 1–21. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-96-5_17-1.

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Cournos, Francine, Karen McKinnon, Veronica Pinho, and Milton Wainberg. "Special Populations and Public Health Aspects." In HIV and Psychiatry, 211–62. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118339503.ch5.

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Baxter, Peter J. "Public Health Aspects of Chemical Catastrophes." In Toxic Turmoil, 19–37. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0623-2_2.

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Deininger, Rolf A., Jiyoung Lee, Arvil Ancheta, and Chak Somana. "Public Health Aspects of Riverbank Filtration." In Riverbank Filtration: Understanding Contaminant Biogeochemistry and Pathogen Removal, 153–76. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0479-4_8.

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Conference papers on the topic "Health aspects of Public spaces"

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Tripathi, Neha Goel, Mahavir Mahavir, and Prabh Bedi. "Contribution of planed urban green spaces for promoting human health. Case of Chandigarh, India." In Post-Oil City Planning for Urban Green Deals Virtual Congress. ISOCARP, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/oyzf6988.

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Goal 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals has the seventh target of its Sustainable Cities and Communities focused on providing access to safe and inclusive green and public spaces. Principles of sustainable development necessitate that a balance is struck between environment and development to ensure healthy urban living. It has long been established that the presence of natural areas and planned open green spaces in and around urban settlements contributes to a quality of life by providing important ecological, social and psychological benefits to humans. In India, rapid urbanisation is resulting in significant land being used for developmental activities resulting in decline in open spaces across cities. It needs to be noted, the case in Chandigarh, India is different from rest of the country, where open spaces are considered as inviolable land use. Being a rare exception amongst the cities established immediately after India’s Independence, urban greens were visualized and planned as an integral component in the city’s Master Plan. Le Corbusier conceived the master plan of Chandigarh as analogous to human body, where green spaces symbolized the lungs. The greens in Chandigarh were created as functional, organized and natural spaces for integration and convergence of mind and body, that is the city as well as of its population. The research delves into the aspect of inclusivity of its various green spaces based on the social survey of the city’s residents. The intent is to determine the usability and accessibility of the greens by the residents for various recreational, cultural and ecosystem services. The measures of inclusivity of the green spaces are defined to address the key question being researched upon, that is if green spaces have contributed to Chandigarh being a healthy city. Built upon the social survey tools, the authors discern the typologies of green spaces as the measure for building a healthy city contextualized for Chandigarh.
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Young Song, Jin. "High Living." In 2016 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intlp.2016.23.

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The extreme density in Dharavi Slum, one of the largest in the world, produce two opposite aspects, one is the unique locality and dynamic energy as a part of greater Mumbai urban dynamics, and the other is the cause of disaster in public health, safety and well-being. The lack of infrastructure, complicated ownership, illegal settlement and poverty make many previous conventional redevelopment efforts a cosmetic dream. Responding to this problem, High-Living, the prefabricated connected towers, can provide radical but realistic cure. The phasing strategy starting from minimal area for construction is to gradually gain open spaces on the ground and provide quality living/working space in the tower. It can maintain the density vertically, keeping the rich spatial configuration in newly constructed prefabricated modules, while providing innovative solutions in four points; Structure, Life Safety, Sustainability and Happiness (Socio-cultural Well-being).
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Matsokha, Alina. "PUBLIC SPACES AND THEIR IMPACT ON PUBLIC HEALTH." In Jährliches Internationales Symposium EuroEco. European Scientific Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35630/978/3.00.032886.2.5.

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Porwal, Charles. "Exploring the spatial tools to generate social inclusive and empowered space for people living in margins." In Post-Oil City Planning for Urban Green Deals Virtual Congress. ISOCARP, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/poca4957.

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A good public space must be accommodative for everyone including the marginal, the forgotten, the silent, and an undesirable people. With the process of development, the city leaves behind the marginalized section of the society especially urban poor, who constitute about 20-30 percent of the urban population and are majorly involved in informal settlement like congested housing typologies and informal economy in which they face the everyday social, physical and economic exclusion. Thus, the informal sector and the marginalized becomes the forgotten elements in urban space. ‘Cities for the Citizen’ a slogan described by Douglas address the same issues of democratization, multicultural/gender difference between humans. Though these people have strong characteristics and share a unique pattern and enhances the movement in the city which makes a city a dynamic entity. The lack of opportunities and participation to such section leaves the city divided and generates the negative impacts in the mind of victims which further leads to degradation of their mental health and city life because of their involvement in crime, unemployment, illiteracy and unwanted areas. The physical, social, cultural and economic aspects of space should accommodate the essential requirements for the forgotten and provide them with inclusive public environment. It is very necessary that they generate the association and attachment to the place of their habitation. We can easily summarize that the city which used to be very dynamic and energetic is now facing the extreme silence in the present pandemic times. The same people are returning back to their homes after facing the similar problems of marginalization and exclusion even during hard times where they had no place to cover their heads. So, we have to find the way in which they can be put into consideration and make them more inclusive and self-sustaining. With the economic stability, social stability is also equally necessary for the overall development of an individual. So, the paper tries to focus upon the idea of self-sustaining livelihood and social urbanism which talks about development of cities aiming to the social benefit and upliftment of their citizen. The social urbanism strategy in any project tries to inject investment into targeted areas in a way that cultivates civic pride, participation, and greater social impact. Thus, making the cities inclusive and interactive for all the development. The paper will tries to see such spaces as a potential investment in term of city’s finances and spaces to generate a spatial & development toolkit for making them inclusive by improving the interface of social infrastructure.
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MacKenzie, Ellen J. "The Public Health Impact of Lower Extremity Trauma." In Symposium on Biomechanics and Medical Aspects of Lower Limb Injuries. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/861932.

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Alonso-Almeida, María del Mar, Maria Escat, and Perez-Encinas Adriana. "COWORKING SPACES: THREAT OR OPPORTUNITY TO FACE CRISIS SITUATIONS." In The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health —Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ecerph-3-09099.

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Yolova, Galina. "FOR SOME POSSIBLE ASPECTS OF MEDIATION IN HEALTH INSURANCE RELATIONS." In THE MEDIATION IN THE DIFFERENT PUBLIC SPHERES 2021. University publishing house "Science and Economics", University of Economics - Varna, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36997/mdps2021.21.

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The work analyzes some possible aspects of the application of mediation in health insurance relations, by deriving on the one hand typical problems in the functioning of the health insurance system, and on the other - by options for solving them through the methods of out-of-court voluntary procedure. Based on the systematics, specific proposals and exemplary practices for the introduction of mediation procedures are derived.
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Yolova, Galina. "FOR SOME POSSIBLE ASPECTS OF MEDIATION IN HEALTH INSURANCE RELATIONS." In THE MEDIATION IN THE DIFFERENT PUBLIC SPHERES 2021. University publishing house "Science and Economics", University of Economics - Varna, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36997/mdps2021.231.

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The work analyzes some possible aspects of the application of mediation in health insurance relations, by deriving on the one hand typical problems in the functioning of the health insurance system, and on the other - by options for solving them through the methods of out-of-court voluntary procedure. Based on the systematics, specific proposals and exemplary practices for the introduction of mediation procedures are derived.
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Misheva, Kristina. "THE INFLUENCE OF THE EU HEALTH POLICY ON THE PROCESS OF PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM REFORMS IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA." In PROCEDURAL ASPECTS OF EU LAW. Faculty of Law, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.25234/eclic/6543.

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Belova, Elena, Oleg Mitrokhin, Ali Alsaegh, Nina Ermakova, and Alevtina Leonova. "COVID-19 Pandemic: Sanitary-Hygienic Aspects of Self-Isolation." In The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health —Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ecerph-3-09044.

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Reports on the topic "Health aspects of Public spaces"

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Merten, Martina, Susann Roth, and Fazilah Shaik Allaudin. Public Health Innovations for COVID-19: Finding, Trusting, and Scaling Innovation. Asian Development Bank, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps200283-2.

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The public and private sector, civil society, and academic institutions have developed many innovative solutions to manage public health aspects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Innovators have focused on tools for surveillance, supply chain management, clinical trials, diagnosis, communication, and developing vaccines. These have been supplemented by research collaboration platforms, isolation and hospital upgrading novelties, as well as risk stratification resources. This paper provides an overview of these solutions to enhance the evidence-based application of innovative public health approaches. The author’s also propose that a “living platform” for sharing public health innovations is developed.
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Ripoll, Santiago, Jennifer Cole, Olivia Tulloch, Megan Schmidt-Sane, and Tabitha Hrynick. SSHAP: 6 Ways to Incorporate Social Context and Trust in Infodemic Management. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2021.001.

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Information epidemiology or infodemiology is the study of infodemics - defined by the World Health Organization as an overabundance of information, some accurate and some not, that occurs during a pandemic or other significant event that may impact public health. Infodemic management is the practice of infodemiology and may sit within the risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) pillar of a public health response. However, it is relevant to all aspects of preparedness and response, including the development and evaluation of interventions. Social scientists have much to contribute to infodemic management as, while it must be data and evidence driven, it must also be built on a thorough understanding of affected communities in order to develop participatory approaches, reinforce local capacity and support local solutions.
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Ripoll, Santiago, Jennifer Cole, Olivia Tulloch, Megan Schmidt-Sane, and Tabitha Hrynick. SSHAP: 6 Ways to Incorporate Social Context and Trust in Infodemic Management. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2021.001.

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Information epidemiology or infodemiology is the study of infodemics - defined by the World Health Organization as an overabundance of information, some accurate and some not, that occurs during a pandemic or other significant event that may impact public health. Infodemic management is the practice of infodemiology and may sit within the risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) pillar of a public health response. However, it is relevant to all aspects of preparedness and response, including the development and evaluation of interventions. Social scientists have much to contribute to infodemic management as, while it must be data and evidence driven, it must also be built on a thorough understanding of affected communities in order to develop participatory approaches, reinforce local capacity and support local solutions.
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Schmidt-Sane, Megan, Tabitha Hrynick, Jennifer Cole, Santiago Ripoll, and Olivia Tulloch. SSHAP: 6 Ways to Incorporate Social Context and Trust in Infodemic Management. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2021.009.

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Information epidemiology or infodemiology is the study of infodemics - defined by the World Health Organization as an overabundance of information, some accurate and some not, that occurs during a pandemic or other significant event that may impact public health. Infodemic management is the practice of infodemiology and may sit within the risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) pillar of a public health response. However, it is relevant to all aspects of preparedness and response, including the development and evaluation of interventions. Social scientists have much to contribute to infodemic management as, while it must be data and evidence driven, it must also be built on a thorough understanding of affected communities in order to develop participatory approaches, reinforce local capacity and support local solutions.
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Coelho Resende, Noelle, Renata Weber, Jardel Fischer Loeck, Mathias Vaiano Glens, Carolina Gomes, Priscila Farfan Barroso, Janine Targino, Emerson Elias Merhy, Leandro Dominguez Barretto, and Carly Machado. Working Paper Series: Therapeutic Communities in Brazil. Edited by Taniele Rui and Fiore Mauricio. Drugs, Security and Democracy Program, Social Science Research Council, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35650/ssrc.2081.d.2021.

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Spread across Brazil and attaining an unparalleled political force, therapeutic communities are as inescapable in the debate on drug policy as they are complex to define. Although they are not a Brazilian creation, they have been operating in that country for decades, and their dissemination intensified in the 1990s. In 2011, they were officially incorporated into Brazil's Psychosocial Care Network (Rede de Atenção Psicossocial, or RAPS). Since then, therapeutic communities have been at the center of public debates about their regulation; about how they should—or even if they should—be a part of the healthcare system; about the level of supervision to which they should be submitted; about their sources of funding, particularly whether or not they should have access to public funding; and, most importantly, about the quality of the services they offer and the many reports of rights violation that have been made public. However, a well-informed public debate can only flourish if the available information is based on sound evidence. The SSRC’s Drugs, Security and Democracy Program is concerned with the policy relevance of the research projects it supports, and the debate around therapeutic communities in Brazil points to a clear need for impartial research that addresses different cross-cutting aspects of this topic in its various dimensions: legal, regulatory, health, and observance of human rights, among others. It is in this context that we publish this working paper series on therapeutic communities in Brazil. The eight articles that compose this series offer a multidisciplinary view of the topic, expanding and deepening the existing literature and offering powerful contributions to a substantive analysis of therapeutic communities as instruments of public policy. Although they can be read separately, it is as a whole that the strength of the eight articles that make up this series becomes more evident. Even though they offer different perspectives, they are complementary works in—and already essential for—delineating and understanding the phenomenon of therapeutic communities in Brazil.
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Lehtimaki, Susanna, Aisling Reidy, Kassim Nishtar, Sara Darehschori, Andrew Painter, and Nina Schwalbe. Independent Review and Investigation Mechanisms to Prevent Future Pandemics: A Proposed Way Forward. United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37941/rr/2021/1.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has created enormous challenges for national economies, livelihoods, and public services, including health systems. In January 2021, the World Health Organization proposed an international treaty on pandemics to strengthen the political commitment towards global pandemic preparedness, control, and response. The plan is to present a draft treaty to the World Health Assembly in May 2021. To inform the design of a support system for this treaty, we explored existing mechanisms for periodic reviews conducted either by peers or an external group as well as mechanisms for in-country investigations, conducted with or without country consent. Based on our review, we summarized key design principles requisite for review and investigation mechanisms and explain how these could be applied to pandemics preparedness, control, and response in global health. While there is no single global mechanism that could serve as a model in its own right, there is potential to combine aspects of existing mechanisms. A Universal Periodic Review design based on the model of human rights treaties with independent experts as the authorized monitoring body, if made obligatory, could support compliance with a new pandemic treaty. In terms of on-site investigations, the model by the Committee on Prevention of Torture could lend itself to treaty monitoring and outbreak investigations on short notice or unannounced. These mechanisms need to be put in place in accordance with several core interlinked design principles: compliance; accountability; independence; transparency and data sharing; speed; emphasis on capabilities; and incentives. The World Health Organization can incentivize and complement these efforts. It has an essential role in providing countries with technical support and tools to strengthen emergency preparedness and response capacities, including technical support for creating surveillance structures, integrating non-traditional data sources, creating data governance and data sharing standards, and conducting regular monitoring and assessment of preparedness and response capacities.
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