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The Challenge of Timely, Responsive and Rigorous Ethics Review of Disaster Research: Views of Research Ethics Committee Members.

Matthew Hunt, Catherine M Tansey, James Anderson, Renaud F Boulanger et al. • PLoS ONE (2016)

Research conducted following natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods or hurricanes is crucial for improving relief interventions. Such research, however, poses ethical, methodological and logistical challenges for researchers. Oversig...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157142

Evaluation of clinical quality improvement interventions: feasibility of an integrated approach

Sandeep Reddy, Kevin Mc Namara, Mary Malakellis, Tim Denton et al. • Pilot and Feasibility Studies (2019)

Abstract Background Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the largest cause of death and disability in Australia. Australian national guidelines for the primary prevention of CVD recommend that all adults without CVD and aged 45 years or more a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40814-018-0386-1

Effect of falls prevention interventions on falls and the risk factors for falls among cancer survivors: protocol for a systematic review

Lynette Mackenzie, Amanda M. Clifford, Eleanor Fallon, Joanna M. Allardyce • BMJ Open (2026)

Introduction Falls are a significant health concern and associated with cancer survivorship. Falls can result in negative psychosocial consequences for cancer survivors and economic sequelae for healthcare delivery. There are cancer-specifi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110212

Agricultural Use of Lands Affected by Deep-Seated Landslides in the Transylvanian Basin and Its Consequences on Soil Physicochemical Properties

Gheorghe Roșian, Mihai Buta, Csaba Horvath • Applied Sciences (2026)

Land leveling deep-seated landslides for agricultural use alters soil profile integrity and soil functionality. In the mid-20th century, such interventions in the Transylvanian Basin (Romania) involved grading and converting landslide bodie...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/app16083744

Roles of loneliness and life satisfaction in the relationship between perceived friend social support, positive feelings about the future and loss of motivation

Yavuz Aslan, Orhan Koçak, Aysel Basmacı Kaya, Abdulmohsen Mohammed Abdullah Alkhulayfi et al. • Acta Psychologica (2025)

Purpose: University students often face psychological challenges, particularly loneliness and hopelessness, which are exacerbated by factors such as limited social interactions, economic uncertainty, lack of employment opportunities, and th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105315

Reasoning, Affectivity and School Performance at the end of Portuguese Elementary Education: Which Variables To Consider?

Cristina Costa-Lobo, Joana Matamá, Daniela Nascimento • Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto) (2020)

Abstract Elementary education is a stage in which children and adolescents develop reasoning and affectivity, variables often associated with school performance. This study aims to analyze the relationship between reasoning, affectivity and...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1590/1982-4327e3008

Chaotic outbreak in discrete epidemic model with vaccination and quarantine interventions and limited medical resources

Faizal Rifky Fahreza, Moh Hasan, Kiswara Agung Santoso • Majalah Ilmiah Matematika dan Statistika (2025)

The spread of infectious diseases can be analyzed dynamically using a discrete dynamic system. The characteristics of the infectious disease phenomenon are interesting to study as parameters considered in a dynamic system. Some of these inc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.19184/mims.v25i1.53689

The Mathematics of Marriage

John Mordechai Gottman, J. D. Murray, Catherine Swanson, Rebecca C. Tyson et al. • The MIT Press eBooks (2002)

Divorce rates are at an all-time high. But without a theoretical understanding of the processes related to marital stability and dissolution, it is difficult to design and evaluate new marriage interventions. The Mathematics of Marriage pro...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/4499.001.0001

Professionalising health technology assessment in South Africa

Debjani Mueller, M Poluta, M Brand, N Mutshekwane • Southern African Journal of Public Health (2024)

Health technology encompasses interventions developed to prevent, diagnose or treat medical conditions; promote health; provide rehabilitation or organise healthcare delivery. The intervention can be a test, device, medicine, vaccine, proce...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.7196/sajph.2024.v7i2.1875

Digital prevention of depression for farmers? A qualitative study on participants' experiences regarding determinants of acceptance and satisfaction with a tailored guided internet intervention program

Johanna Freund, Claudia Buntrock, Lina Braun, Janika Thielecke et al. • Internet Interventions (2022)

Introduction: Farmers, forest workers and gardeners have a higher risk of developing depression compared to other occupational populations. As part of the German pilot project “With us in balance”, the potential of six guided internet- and ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2022.100566

Adopting AI Enhances Humanitarian Operations While Demanding Critical Trade-Offs

Caroline Grangier, Munzer Alkhalil, Aula Abbara • Avicenna Journal of Medicine (2026)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting the cooperation sector, transforming how humanitarians are operating in the field. AI tools now allow for improved health diagnostics and quality services. In conflict areas, organizati...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1055/s-0046-1822817

Gender, power, and digital health inequities: a narrative review of barriers to digital health access among women in Lesotho

Sharon R.T. Chilunjika, Patrick Ngulube • Cogent Social Sciences (2026)

Digital health technologies are increasingly recognised as tools to enhance healthcare accessibility in resource-constrained settings. However, evidence suggests that not every section of society has benefitted equally. Women in developing ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2026.2686470

Health technology assessment and haemophilia

Albert Farrugia, Brian O’Mahony, Josephine Cassar • Haemophilia (2012)

Although the funding of rare diseases such as haemophilia in developing countries remains a low priority, pressures on the funding of haemophilia treatment are also emerging in developed economies affected by the global economic downturn an...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2516.2012.02754.x

A self-control training app to increase self-control and reduce aggression – A full factorial design

Hanneke Kip, Marcia C. Da Silva, Yvonne H.A. Bouman, Lisette J.E.W.C. van Gemert-Pijnen et al. • Internet Interventions (2021)

Background: Research has shown that self-control training (SCT) is an effective intervention to increase self-control and behaviour driven by self-control, such as reactive aggression. We developed an app that offers SCT by asking users to ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2021.100392

Social norms, misperceptions, and mosquito net use: a population-based, cross-sectional study in rural Uganda

Jessica M. Perkins, Paul Krezanoski, Sae Takada, Bernard Kakuhikire et al. • Malaria Journal (2019)

Abstract Background Mosquito net use is an essential part of malaria prevention. Although previous research has shown that many people sleep under a mosquito net in endemic areas, it is unknown whether people underestimate how common it is ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12936-019-2798-7

Narratives of risk: Women at midlife, medical 'experts' and health technologies

Eileen E. Green, Diane Thompson, Frances E. Griffiths • Health Risk & Society (2002)

The 'management' of midlife women's bodies is becoming an increasingly important focus for both themselves and medical 'experts'. Health technologies play a major part in this process, given health promotion messages about their usefulness ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369857021000016632