Strategic behaviour and risk aversion in local governance - Harmon J.
Under what conditions is local governance influenced by external interests? I illustrate the capacity of external lobbies' strategic behavior to affect local change on hot button issues by exploiting resource asymmetries between them. Using a case of gun p...
Source: SafetyLit - July 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Transforming Africa ’s Food Systems: Challenges & Opportunities
Ibrahim Mayaki, the Africa Union Special Envoy for Food Systems, previously served as the CEO of the AU Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD). Ahead of the UN Food System Stocktaking Moment scheduled to take place in Rome on 24 - 26 July 2023, Africa Renewal's Kingsley Ighobor interviewed Dr. Mayaki. They discussed various issues regarding the state of Africa's food systems and the opportunities and challenges involved in feeding a rapidly growing population. Credit Africa Renewal, United Nations.   Below are excerpts from their insightful conversation:By Kingsley IghoborUNITED NATIONS, Jul 20 2023 (IPS)   Q: As the ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kingsley Ighobor Tags: Africa Featured Food and Agriculture Headlines Health IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

U.S. Should Expand and Standardize Plastics Collection and Recycling, Study Potential Uses in Infrastructure, Says New Report
Recycled plastics are an underutilized resource in the U.S., and it is in society’s economic and environmental interests to expand and standardize plastics waste collection, increase recycling, and explore new applications for plastics waste in infrastructure. Possible uses include asphalt pavements, railroad ties, and utility poles.
Source: News from the National Academies - July 19, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

New atlas of human kidney cells to help unlock kidney disease research
NIH-funded effort provides interactive resource for global research community.
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - July 19, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Webinar: Realise Global Scale for Your Digital Health Solution
Channels: CommercialPermission: FreeDescription: Break down barriers to access and create a blueprint for commercialisation at scalePrimary Event: Pharma Digital Health Europe 2023Thumbnail: Upload Type: WebinarDate: Thursday, June 29, 2023Top Event Content: With a decade of experimentation and heavy investment, the pressure is mounting for pharma to go big in digital health or retreat to its comfort zone in medicine. It ’s obvious that pharma is ‘all in’ in digital health, but with high stakes, continued regulatory uncertainty, market access ambiguity, and commercial unknowns,...
Source: EyeForPharma - July 19, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Izzy Gladstone Source Type: news

Violence in Sudan: a looming public health disaster editorial - Nashwan AJ, Osman SH, Mohamedahmed LA.
Sudan's ongoing conflict, rooted in colonial-era policies and resource competition, has led to widespread displacement, poverty, and social service breakdowns. The escalating power struggle between the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary  Rapid...
Source: SafetyLit - July 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news

University students' psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: a structural equation model of the role of resource loss and gain - Kelada L, Schiff M, Gilbar O, Pat-Horenczyk R, Benbenishty R.
Using the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, we aimed to determine whether university students' loss and gain in resources during the pandemic mediated the relationships between COVID-19 exposure/concern and depression and anxiety. In 2021, 7013 Israe...
Source: SafetyLit - July 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Climate Justice – Is Litigation a Good Way Forward?
Discussion on “loss and damage” was revived in COP27 in reaction to the failure of developed countries to fulfil their pledge to climate financing to help vulnerable states with climate actions. While there is currently no clear definition for “loss and damage”, the term essentially refers to the much-contested obligations of countries that have historically benefited from fossil fuel investment to pay for the residual consequences and permanent damage caused by climate change to nature and human societies, predominantly in the developing countries. Loss and damage encompass both economic and non-economic losses. ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kwan Soo-Chen and David McCoy Tags: Asia-Pacific Climate Change Environment Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Inequity IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

RefSeq Release 219
RefSeq release 219 is now available online and from the FTP site. You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets. What’s included in this release? As of July 18, 2023, this full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data containing: 371,291,248 records 3,752,372,037,103 nucleotide bases 106,842,615,422 amino acids sequences from 138,491 organisms The release is provided in several directories … Continue reading RefSeq Release 219 →
Source: NCBI Insights - July 18, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) RefSeq Source Type: news

We ’ ve Had The 988 Crisis Line For a Year. Here ’ s What ’ s Working and What Needs to Change
On July 16 last year, the U.S. government changed the national suicide lifeline from an 800 number into an easier-to-remember three digit one: 988. As part of the revision, the government also pledged $1 billion to enhance services provided by the network, including building up staffing at the 200 call centers as well as creating more resources such as mobile crisis teams and crisis stabilization centers for people who needed immediate or follow-up care. In the year since, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the non-profit Vibra...
Source: TIME: Health - July 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Mental Health Source Type: news

Concerning CT Findings Increase Health Care Utilization With Low-Risk Pulmonary Embolism
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 -- Concerning computed tomography (CT) findings among patients with low-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) are associated with increased hospitalization and resource utilization without short-term adverse clinical outcomes,...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - July 18, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Searching LinkedIn or Indeed? Here ' s how to avoid job scams: Ask HR
Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR professional society and author of "Reset: A Leader’s Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval.” The questions…#johnnyctaylorjr #usatoday #linkedin #glassdoor #manners101
Source: Reuters: Health - July 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Tiny Guyana could soon become one of the world ’s giant oil exporters
Y probably heard of the resource curse, when a country is overwhelmed by a windfall from selling commodities. The tiny state of Guyana, on the north-east corner of the Amazon, is about to become one of the most extreme cases of recent times. In 2015, 11bn barrels of proven oil reserves were…#guyana #northeast #amazon #brazilian #latinamericas #georgetown #capitalcity #latinamerica #exxonmobil #equatorialguinea
Source: Reuters: Health - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

US States, Counties With Highest Alzheimer ' s Rates Flagged US States, Counties With Highest Alzheimer ' s Rates Flagged
New data identifies US regions, states, and counties with the highest rates of Alzheimer ' s disease, in new findings that could have significant implications for resource allocation.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - July 17, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

Orphanhood vulnerabilities for violence and HIV by education, sex, and orphan type among 18-24-year-old youth: findings from the 2018 Lesotho violence against children and youth survey - Lee NH, Self-Brown SR, Bachman G, Howard AL, Gilbert LK, Hegle J, Perry EW, Saul J, Behl I, Massetti GM.
HIV and violence among orphans are key measures of vulnerability in low-resource settings. Although Lesotho has the second highest HIV adult prevalence rate (21.1%) in the world, and the prevalence of orphanhood (44.2%) and violence exposure (67.0%) is hig...
Source: SafetyLit - July 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

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