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An Investigation of Potential Health Risks from Zoonotic Bacterial Pathogens Associated with Farm Rats

Lorina Badger-Emeka, Yasmeen Al-Mulhim, Fatimah Al-Muyidi, Maram Busuhail et al. • Environmental Health Insights (2020)

Background: The 21st century has seen a wide range of diseases resulting from zoonotic infections, of which bacterial infections have led to outbreaks of food-borne diseases. Aim: The study looks at bacterial pathogen carriage by farm rats ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/1178630220942240

Explaining Prejudice Toward Americans and Europeans in Egypt: Closed-mindedness and Conservatism Mediate Effects of Religious Fundamentalism

Friederike Sadowski, Gerd Bohner • International Journal of Conflict and Violence (2016)

With an Arab-Muslim sample of 160 Egyptian citizens from the greater Cairo area, we examined the role of religion in prejudice toward U.S. Americans and Europeans. When religious fundamentalism was tested concurrently with general religious...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4119/ijcv-3081

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Online Health Consultation Services: The Role of Subjective Norm, Trust, Perceived Benefit, and Offline Habit

Zepeng Gong, Zepeng Gong, Ziqiang Han, Xudan Li et al. • Frontiers in Public Health (2019)

The cyberspace plays an important role in improving the quality, equity, and efficiency of health services. Studying people's adoption of online health services, such as online health consultation services (OHCS) can benefit both industry a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00286

Redressing COVID-19 vaccine inequity amidst booster doses: charting a bold path for global health solidarity, together

Sudhan Rackimuthu, Kapil Narain, Arush Lal, Faisal A. Nawaz et al. • Globalization and Health (2022)

Abstract Background With large swathes of the world’s population—majority clustered in low- and middle-income countries—still yet to receive the minimum of two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine; The need to address the failures of international...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12992-022-00817-5

The (Political) Science of Salt

Gary Taubes • Science (1998)

Three decades of controversy over the putative blood pressure benefits from salt reduction are demonstrating how the demands of good science clash with the pressures of public health policy. Early studies seemed to support the value of salt...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.281.5379.898

Lockdown and Breakdown in Italians' Reactions on Twitter during the First Phase of Covid-19

Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Francesca Greco, Gevisa La Rocca • Partecipazione e Conflitto (2021)

The article focuses on Italians' reactions to the pandemic on Twitter. During the first phase of the 2020 lockdown (from the beginning of March 2020 - to the beginning of May 2020), a real-time dataset was built, linking data scratching to ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v14i1p261

Political Science and Public Policy

Paul Sabatier • PS Political Science & Politics (1991)

Political scientists who are policy scholars often trace their lineage back to the pioneering work of Lerner and Lasswell (1951). But public policy did not emerge as a significant subfield within the discipline of political science until th...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096500050629

Total factor productivity growth and spatial–temporal evolution of China’s health system: a three-stage DEA-Malmquist approach

Yutong Yan, Pengcheng Wang, Yurui Guo • Frontiers in Public Health (2026)

In recent years, the deepening of healthcare reform in China has raised high demands for the accurate measurement of hospital total factor productivity (TFP), where existing systems often overstate performance by neglecting social welfare. ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1818765

Artificial intelligence for pediatric height prediction using large-scale longitudinal body composition data

Dohyun Chun, Hae Woon Jung, Jongho Kang, Woo Young Jang et al. • Digital Health (2025)

Objective We developed a precise, reliable artificial intelligence (AI) model for predicting the future height of children and adolescents based on anthropometric and body composition data. Materials and Methods We used an extensive longitu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/20552076251395975

Tirzepatide versus GLP-1 receptor agonists and stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation and type 2 diabetes

Chih-Lang Lin, Kuan-Chou Lin, Jung-Min Yu, Chia-Lun Chang et al. • Nature Communications (2026)

Abstract Patients with atrial fibrillation and type 2 diabetes remain at high risk of stroke despite anticoagulation and glucose-lowering treatment. We examined whether tirzepatide was associated with lower cerebrovascular risk than establi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77047-5

Investigating Spatial Effects through Machine Learning and Leveraging Explainable AI for Child Malnutrition in Pakistan

Xiaoyi Zhang, Muhammad Usman, Ateeq ur Rehman Irshad, Mudassar Rashid et al. • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (2024)

While socioeconomic gradients in regional health inequalities are firmly established, the synergistic interactions between socioeconomic deprivation and climate vulnerability within convenient proximity and neighbourhood locations with heal...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/ijgi13090330

Immunoinformatics and Reverse Vaccinology Approach for the Identification of Potential Vaccine Candidates against <i>Vandammella animalimors</i>

Ahmad Hasan, Wadi B. Alonazi, Muhammad Ibrahim, Li Bin • Microorganisms (2024)

Vandammella animalimorsus is a Gram-negative and non-motile bacterium typically transmitted to humans through direct contact with the saliva of infected animals, primarily through biting, scratches, or licks on fractured skin. The absence o...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12071270

Strategic decoupling through legitimacy: the sustainability-innovation gap in the food processing sector and its health implications

Mustafa Yucel • Globalization and Health (2025)

Abstract Background Environmental and public health impacts are critical in the food processing industry. To demonstrate responsiveness to stakeholder expectations, firms foreground sustainability reporting through frameworks such as Enviro...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12992-025-01166-9

Exploring Asymmetric Nexus Between CO2 Emissions, Environmental Pollution, and Household Health Expenditure in China

Zeeshan M, Han J, Rehman A, Ullah I et al. • Risk Management and Healthcare Policy (2021)

Muhammad Zeeshan,1 Jiabin Han,1 Alam Rehman,2 Irfan Ullah,3 Fakhr E Alam Afridi4 1College of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Xingcheng, Liaoning Province, 125105, People&rsquo;s Republic of China; 2Faculty of Managem...

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Questioning the Status Quo: Can Stakeholder Participation Improve Implementation of Small-Scale Mining Laws in Ghana?

Alex Osei-Kojo, Nathan Andrews • Resources (2016)

Ghana’s small-scale mining sector faces complex challenges, including environmental degradation and pollution, loss of life and increased health risks, despite several years of implementation of small-scale mining laws. These challenges, ge...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/resources5040033