item: #1 of 508 id: seejph-100 author: Grochtdreis, Thomas; Jong, Nynke de; Harenberg, Niels; Görres, Stefan; Schröder-Bäck , Peter title: Nurses’ roles, knowledge and experience in national disaster pre-paredness and emergency response: A literature review date: 2023-01-24 words: 9689 flesch: 48 summary: Errington G. Stress among disaster nurses and relief workers. Where non-existent, national directives and concepts for disaster nursing should be developed and nurses should be aware of their duties. keywords: care; competencies; disaster; disaster nursing; disaster preparedness; education; emergency; emergency response; experience; health; knowledge; literature; nurses; nursing; preparedness; response; review; roles; training; work cache: seejph-100.pdf plain text: seejph-100.txt item: #2 of 508 id: seejph-101 author: Senyuta, Iryna title: The emerging public health legislation in Ukraine date: 2023-01-24 words: 4293 flesch: 44 summary: DOI:10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-141 2 Abstract As Ukraine has started the legal process for a public health legislation, this narrative review attempts to: i) characterize recent legal acts (which are current as well as drafts) and international standards in the sphere of public health; ii) analyze the definitions of public health legally relevant to Ukraine, in particular: public health and public health protection; iii) discuss related definitions relevant to the health sector; iv) characterize the main subjects tasked to protect public health; v) and clarify the necessary educational innovations, which are the basis in the preparation of human resources for an efficient implementation of the public health concept. Keywords: health care, multiprofessionality, public health, public health protection, Ukraine. keywords: care; health; law; population; protection; public; state; system; ukraine cache: seejph-101.pdf plain text: seejph-101.txt item: #3 of 508 id: seejph-102 author: Kahn, Laura H. title: Protecting the planet and sustainable development date: 2023-01-24 words: 2654 flesch: 37 summary: First, those who work on environmental health, such as occupational and environmental physicians, nurses, and environmental health specialists, focus their work primarily on abiotic (i.e. non-living) contaminants, pesticides, and toxic waste exposures in occupational settings that affect workers. DOI:10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-135 3 Expanding the definition of environmental health keywords: december; development; ecosystem; environmental; food; health; u.s cache: seejph-102.pdf plain text: seejph-102.txt item: #4 of 508 id: seejph-103 author: Rustani-Batku, Manushaqe; Tonuzi, Ali title: Socio-demographic factors and selected clinical characteristics of patients with retinal vein occlusions in transitional Albania date: 2023-01-24 words: 3123 flesch: 47 summary: Rustani-Batku, Tonuzi A. Socio-demographic factors and selected clinical characteristics of patients with retinal vein occlusions in transitional Albania (Short report). DOI:10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-139 1 SHORT REPORT Socio-demographic factors and selected clinical characteristics of patients with retinal vein occlusions in transitional Albania Manushaqe Rustani-Batku1, Ali Tonuzi2 1 Primary Health Care Center No. 2, Tirana, Albania; 2 University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania. keywords: albania; characteristics; factors; patients; rvo; socio cache: seejph-103.pdf plain text: seejph-103.txt item: #5 of 508 id: seejph-104 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: Complete Issue date: 2023-01-24 words: 51312 flesch: 42 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-148 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Enhancing health system’s governance through demographic and health surveys in transitional European countries: The example of Albania Herion Muja1,2, Genc Burazeri1,2, Peter Schröder-Bäck1, Helmut Brand1 1Department of International Health, School CAPHRI, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 2 Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania. The Dutch long-term care reform: Moral conflicts in executing the Social Support Act 2015 Wesley Jongen1, Peter Schröder-Bäck1, Jos MGA Schols2 1 Department of International Health, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; 2 Department of Health Services Research and Department of Family Medicine, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. keywords: act; activities; albania; approach; article; bäck; combatants; conflicts; countries; curriculum; data; development; disease; doi; ethical; european; evaluation; general; global; government; group; health; health care; health education; health organization; health policy; health report; health services; health survey; health system; healthcare; http://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/seejph-2017-142; implementation; international; level; march; medical; municipalities; need; new; people; primary; principles; project; public; public health; quality; reform; research; respondents; results; review; schröder; seejph-2017; services; social; society; standards; study; support; support act; surveillance; survey; sustainable; systems; term; term care; time; unibi; university; use; values; war; world health cache: seejph-104.pdf plain text: seejph-104.txt item: #6 of 508 id: seejph-105 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: Reflections on the Liberian Civil War, 1989-2003 date: 2023-01-24 words: 803 flesch: 48 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-154 2 The generation which experienced war in Europe – World War II – is passing away and with it those who can tell ‘in their own words’ from war experience and trauma. Documented experience in Europe and notably Germany shows war traumata handed over through several generations, from the parents experiencing war to their children and even grand-children, a threat for social stability and cohesion: ‘Because of the war my parents simply did not experience that the world is a safe place where one can feel well and protected. keywords: bielefeld; liberian; war cache: seejph-105.pdf plain text: seejph-105.txt item: #7 of 508 id: seejph-106 author: Rusnak, Martin; Duric, Predrag; Jakubcova, Denisa; Rusnakovarusnakm@truni.sk, Viera; Obradovic-Balihodzic, Amina title: Introduction of the European Union case definitions to primary care physicians has improved the quality of communicable diseases notification in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina date: 2023-01-24 words: 3718 flesch: 43 summary: Principles of communicable disease surveillance and use of case definitions with emphasis on importance of surveillance, techniques, categories and use of the EU case definitions were presented by the project. Communicable disease surveillance is the first step towards prevention and it is one of the most important tools used in public health. keywords: care; communicable; diseases; health; notification; physicians; public; quality; surveillance cache: seejph-106.pdf plain text: seejph-106.txt item: #8 of 508 id: seejph-107 author: Muja, Herion; Burazeri, Genc; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Brand, Helmut title: Enhancing health system’s governance through demographic and health surveys in transitional European countries: The example of Albania date: 2023-01-24 words: 3517 flesch: 30 summary: Keywords: Albania, Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), health examination survey, health information system, health interview survey, health system governance. The ultimate goal of a well-functioning HIS is a continuous and synchronized endeavor to gather, process, report and use health information and the knowledge generated for the good governance of health systems; in other words: influence policy and decision-making, design activities and programs which eventually improve the health outcomes of the population, but also contribute to more efficient use of (often limited) resources (1,3,4). keywords: albania; countries; data; dhs; health; level; research; surveys; system cache: seejph-107.pdf plain text: seejph-107.txt item: #9 of 508 id: seejph-108 author: Groote, Per M. von; Skempes, Dimitrios; E. Bickenbach, Jerome title: Evaluation of an implementation strategy for a World Health Organization (WHO) public health report: The implementation of the International Perspectives on Spinal Cord Injury (IPSCI) in Romania date: 2023-01-24 words: 7076 flesch: 38 summary: More specifically, it seeks to: a) evaluate implementation actions with a focus on a number of people reached and status of completion at 12 months follow-up; b) describe implementation activities undertaken in the course of one year, and; c) evaluate perceived barriers and facilitators of implementation at 12 months follow-up. Results on the implementation status, implementation activities performed and self-reported barriers and facilitators were analysed and reported using descriptive statistics. keywords: activities; cord; health; implementation; injury; ipsci; organization; people; policy; public; report; research; romania; spinal; world cache: seejph-108.pdf plain text: seejph-108.txt item: #10 of 508 id: seejph-109 author: Jongen, Wesley; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Schols, Jos MGA title: The Dutch long-term care reform: Moral conflicts in executing the Social Support Act 2015 date: 2023-01-24 words: 11538 flesch: 46 summary: Or, as one respondent put it: “It depends on the individual perception of people whether they experience the introduction of the new Social Support Act as an advantage or a disadvantage”. The decreasing level of formal care provision can also be considered as a disadvantage on a societal level, when considering the more long-term expected consequences of the implementation of the Social Support Act 2015. keywords: care; care reform; conflicts; dutch; health; municipalities; people; principles; reform; research; respondents; schröder; support; support act; term care cache: seejph-109.pdf plain text: seejph-109.txt item: #11 of 508 id: seejph-110 author: P. Taylor, Aloysius title: From their own words: An explorative qualitative study on the experience of combatants disabled in the Liberian civil war,1989-2003 date: 2023-01-24 words: 6076 flesch: 53 summary: Recommendations: Establishment of a trust fund for survivors of the civil war who are disabled; reform of the National Bureau of Veteran Affairs to include the disabled ex- combatants of all former warring factions; erection as planned of the proposed Veterans Hospital; a national census of disabled ex-combatants and war victims. This publication, though conducted in only one of the 15 counties of Liberia, contributes to the knowledge needed for the attainment of a better living condition for disabled ex-combatants as well as promoting sustainable peace in Liberia. keywords: combatants; doi; experience; fighters; liberia; research; study; war; war,1989; words cache: seejph-110.pdf plain text: seejph-110.txt item: #12 of 508 id: seejph-111 author: Lueddeke, George R.; Kaufman, Gretchen E.; Lindenmayer, Joann M.; Stroud, Cheryl M. title: Preparing society to create the world we need through“One Health”education date: 2023-01-24 words: 10445 flesch: 43 summary: DOI: 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH- 2017-142 4 Summary of online One Health education survey results The purpose of the One Health Education online survey was to elucidate concepts, values and principles that respondents associated with One Health, and to begin to define how the One Health concept might be operationalized in K-12 schools. Conclusion We assumed that most people attending this conference (10) do support the idea of K-12 One Health Education. keywords: april; article; curriculum; development; education; global; health; health education; http://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/seejph-2017-142; k-12; kaufman; lindenmayer; lueddeke; need; review; society; stroud; survey; sustainable; world cache: seejph-111.pdf plain text: seejph-111.txt item: #13 of 508 id: seejph-112 author: Sarancha, Vitaliy; Sulyma, Vadym; Pros, Nenad; Vitale, Ksenija title: Approaches to the international standards application in healthcare and public health in different countries date: 2023-01-24 words: 6055 flesch: 28 summary: Сhallenges(Approaches to)forInternational Standards application inHealth Sarancha V, Sulyma V, Pros N, Vitale K. Approaches to the international standards application in healthcare and public health in different countries (Review article). DOI: 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH 2017-145 1 REVIEW ARTICLE Approaches to the international standards application in healthcare and public health in different countries Vitaliy Sarancha1, Vadym Sulyma2, Nenad Pros3, Ksenija Vitale1 1 School of Public Health “A. Stampar”, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; 2 Department of Traumatology, Ivano - Frankivsk National Medical University, Ivano – Frankivsk, Ukraine; 3 Quality Management Department, Pastor TVA JSC, Croatia. keywords: accreditation; application; countries; european; health; healthcare; international; iso; management; medical; public; quality; review; standardization; standards; system cache: seejph-112.pdf plain text: seejph-112.txt item: #14 of 508 id: seejph-113 author: Lueddeke, George title: High level Communiqué from the InterAction Council date: 2023-01-24 words: 566 flesch: 29 summary: George Lueddeke PhD Chair, One Health Education Task Force The One Health Commission in association with the One Health Initiative Convenor/chair, One Health Global Think Tank for Sustainable Health & Well-Being - 2030 Consultant in Higher and Medical Education Southampton, United Kingdom Linked-In connection: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-george-lueddeke/42/4b0/401 * Link to the One Health Initiative News Item: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php?query=InterAction+Council+Issues+%91THE +DUBLIN+CHARTER+FOR+ONE+HEALTH%92+Communiqu%E9 http://interactioncouncil.org/final-communiqu-53� http://interactioncouncil.org/final-communiqu-53� https://www.onehealthcommission.org/� http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/� http://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph/article/view/114� http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-george-lueddeke/42/4b0/401� Lueddeke G. High level Communiqué from the InterAction Council(Letter to Editors). Corresponding author: George R. Lueddeke, Co-Chair, One Health Education Task Force; Address: 9 Lakeland Gardens, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 4XG, United Kingdom; Email: glueddeke@aol.com Lueddeke G. High level Communiqué from the InterAction Council(Letter to Editors). keywords: health; lueddeke cache: seejph-113.pdf plain text: seejph-113.txt item: #15 of 508 id: seejph-114 author: Lueddeke, George R. title: Toward holistic governance in an interdependent world date: 2023-01-24 words: 2256 flesch: 52 summary: This fundamental principle underpinning the UN-2030 Agenda and the SDGs could apply equally well to other issues of global governance (trade, migration, conflicts), that is, ensuring that interactions and negotiations take a more holistic approach tackling https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/anna-bruce-lockhart� Lueddeke G. Toward holistic governance in an interdependent world (Editorial). While agreeing with the attributes about ‘good governance, identified earlier (1), perhaps consideration might also be given to another,that is, recognising that ‘governance’ has a higher purpose - the sustainability of people and planet. keywords: global; governance; health; lueddeke; world cache: seejph-114.pdf plain text: seejph-114.txt item: #16 of 508 id: seejph-115 author: Laaserulrich.laaser@uni-bielefeld.de z, Ulrich; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Eliakimu, Eliudi; Czabanowska, Katarzyna title: A code of ethical conduct for the public health profession date: 2023-01-24 words: 9811 flesch: 50 summary: Several authors have noted the importance of ethics for public health (3, 4), and public health professionals training (5). For example, ethical issues in public health also feature prominently in the efforts to control emerging infectious diseases at the population level (6, 7), which necessitated the World Health Organisation (WHO) to issue guidance on how to deal with ethical issues in infectious diseases control (8). keywords: bäck; code; conduct; czabanowska; doi; equity; ethical; ethics; global; health; health profession; justice; laaser; principles; profession; professionals; public; research; schröder; seejph; solidarity; tank; think cache: seejph-115.pdf plain text: seejph-115.txt item: #17 of 508 id: seejph-116 author: Hoti, Adrian; Gashi, Edmond; Kraja, Fationa; Sallaku, Agim title: Association of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and cancer antigen 15-3 (CA 15-3) with socio-demographic factors and metastases site in women with metastatic breast cancer in Albania date: 2023-01-24 words: 4285 flesch: 46 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2018-178 8 Discussion Main findings of the current analysis include a higher mean value of both CEA and CA15-3 levels in Albanian female patients with breast cancer metastases in the bones and/or lungs compared with their counterparts with metastases in the liver. Furthermore, it has been indicated that the skeleton is the most frequent site of metastasis in breast cancer patients (5). keywords: antigen; breast; ca15; cancer; cea; metastases; site; years cache: seejph-116.pdf plain text: seejph-116.txt item: #18 of 508 id: seejph-117 author: Marstein, Egil; Babich, Suzanne M. title: Global health in transition: The coming of neoliberalism date: 2023-01-24 words: 3229 flesch: 44 summary: Global health in transition: The coming of neoliberalism (Original research). Global health in transition: The coming of neoliberalism (Original research). keywords: global; governance; health; international; marstein; neoliberalism; policy; social; state; world cache: seejph-117.pdf plain text: seejph-117.txt item: #19 of 508 id: seejph-118 author: Groote, Per M.von; Comanescu, Gabi M.; Ungureanu, Claudia; Bickenbach, Jerome E.; Lavis, John N. title: Developing an implementation strategy for a World Health Organization public health report: The implementation of the International Perspectives on Spinal Cord Injury (IPSCI) in Romania date: 2023-01-24 words: 11460 flesch: 36 summary: In the context of this research, the impact includes the effect that mechanisms for implementation strategy development can have on their own or in combination as a process. In this sense, standard implementa- tion outcome variables used in implementation research (29) show the appropriateness of the mechanisms, and the fact that in this setting and with this target audience it was possible to successfully engage participants to contribute to the development of the implementation strategy. keywords: cord; core; developing; development; february; health; health organization; health report; implementation; implementation group; implementation strategy; injury; ipsci; lavis; leader; people; perspectives; policy; project; report; research; romania; spinal; world health cache: seejph-118.pdf plain text: seejph-118.txt item: #20 of 508 id: seejph-119 author: Gutema, Keneni; Mariam, Damen Haile title: Does health sector aid matter? Evidence from time-series data analysis in Ethiopia date: 2023-01-24 words: 5070 flesch: 59 summary: The choice of this variable is by evidence of an earlier finding that when women are educated, they become aware of issues related to health development at household level, such as, nutrition, immunization, health seeking behaviour (26,27); - FEMED can exceed 100% due to the inclusion of over-aged and under-aged students because of early or late school entrance and grade repetition, however, it can provide a valid evidence. Results: Development assistance for health expenditure (lagged one and two years) had a significant positive effect on life expectancy at birth in Ethiopia. keywords: aid; analysis; assistance; data; development; ethiopia; health; leb; series; time cache: seejph-119.pdf plain text: seejph-119.txt item: #21 of 508 id: seejph-120 author: Collaku, Ledio; Resuli, Margarita; Gjermeni, Ilir; Tase, Mihal title: Evidence of a higher burden of multimorbidity among female patients in Albania date: 2023-01-24 words: 3384 flesch: 45 summary: Keywords: Albania, female patients, internal medicine, male patients, multimorbidity, patients, sex. Conflicts of interest: None. Collaku L, Resuli M, Gjermeni I, Tase M. Evidence of a higher burden of multimorbidity among female patients in Albania (Original research). Discussion The main findings of this study consist of a significantly higher mean value of diseases among Albania female patients compared to their male counterparts, e finding which was evident irrespective of several demographic and socio-economic characteristics. keywords: albania; burden; conditions; diseases; multimorbidity; patients; study cache: seejph-120.pdf plain text: seejph-120.txt item: #22 of 508 id: seejph-121 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: THE GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH CURRICULUM: Specific Global Health Competences date: 2023-01-24 words: 12795 flesch: 41 summary: 2.5 Social determinants of health inequalities (Janko Jankovic) 2.6 Gender and health (Bosiljka Djikanovic) 2.7 Structural and social violence (Fimka Tosija) 2.8 Disaster preparedness (Elisaveta Stikova) 2.9 Millennium Development Goals (Marta Lomazzi) 2.10 Health and wellbeing (Francesco Lietz) 2.11Global financial crisis and health (Helmut Wenzel) 3.0 Governance of global public health 3.1 Global governance of population health and well-being (George Lueddeke) 3.2 Health programme management (Christopher Potter) 3.3 Role of the civil society in health (Motasem Hamdan) 3.4 Universal health coverage (Jose Moreno et al.) 3.5 Public health leadership in a globalised world (Katarzyna Czabanowska et al.) 3.6 Public health ethics (Alexandra Jovic-Vranes) 3.7 The global public health workforce (Milena Santric-Milicevic et al.) 3.8 Education and training of professionals for global public health (Suzanne Babic et al.) 3.9 Blended learning (Željka Stamenkovic-Nikolic et al.) 3.10 Global health law (Joaquin Cayon) 3.11 Human rights and health (Fiona Haigh) 3.12 Global financial management for health (Ulrich Laaser) 4.0 Going global (Ulrich Laaser) keywords: competences; development; doi; editor; february; global; health; health competences; health curriculum; health professional; impact; know; laaser; law; learning; prevention; public; reports; seejph-2018; social; unibi; violence cache: seejph-121.pdf plain text: seejph-121.txt item: #23 of 508 id: seejph-122 author: Holst, Jens; Breckenkamp, Jürgen; Burazeri, Genc; Martin-Moreno, Jose M.; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Laaser, Ulrich title: Five years of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH): Focusing on health systems in transition and global health date: 2023-01-24 words: 971 flesch: 45 summary: Current trends in global health include demographic and epidemiological transitions, the changing burden of disease, climate change, and the increasing awareness of both national and global disparities in health. The most frequently cited definition was crafted by Jeffrey Koplan and colleagues in 2009: “Global health emphasises transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions; involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration; and is a synthesis of population-based prevention with individual-level clinical care” (4). keywords: health; journal; seejph; south cache: seejph-122.pdf plain text: seejph-122.txt item: #24 of 508 id: seejph-123 author: Alderslade, Richard; Fawcett-Henesy, Ainna; Ruseva, Maria title: On the perspectives of Public Health and what IHPA can contribute to its advancement in practice date: 2023-01-24 words: 1417 flesch: 46 summary: The IHPA and its members are driven by this view of public health, using their expertise to promote and protect health and well-being, preventing ill-health and prolonging life, through the organized efforts of societies, of professionals, leaders and community-based groups. Advancing public health research to inform policy and practice Today’s public health practice needs to tackle inequalities, promote equity in health, and work across sectors. keywords: health; ihpa; july; public cache: seejph-123.pdf plain text: seejph-123.txt item: #25 of 508 id: seejph-124 author: Sirin, Hulya; Karasahin, Emine Fusun; Tezel, Basak; Ozbas, Sema; Keskinkilic, Bekir; Ozkan, Secil title: Pilot scheme assessment: Health development program for students at dormitories date: 2023-01-24 words: 5194 flesch: 59 summary: Those living at dormitories among university students constitute a group which has different social and emotional characteristics and which should be considered in terms of their needs and problems. A study made with university student in Germany, Poland and Bulgaria reported that more than half of the participants were normal weight and the overweight frequency was 11.6% (10). keywords: development; dormitories; health; pilot; program; scheme; smoking; students; study; university cache: seejph-124.pdf plain text: seejph-124.txt item: #26 of 508 id: seejph-125 author: Kesselly, Roland Y.; Kwenah, Nuaker K.; Gonyon, Ernest; Byepu, Stephen; Bawo, Luke; Jacobs, George; Korvayan, Justin; Graeser, Melanie S.; Galakpai, Moses Kortoyassah; Wesseh, Sandford; Laaser, Ulrich title: The status of health services in the 15 counties of Liberia date: 2023-01-24 words: 5959 flesch: 54 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2018-190 6 1) Family planning Despite 88% of health facilities are offering family planning services, still there are significant disparities in the availability between counties (Figure 2). According to the SARA Report (6), Liberia still did not reach this threshold with an average 82% of health facilities offering child immunization and an average readiness score of 76% of facilities out of 701. keywords: availability; counties; facilities; grand; health; health services; liberia; ministry; population; readiness; services cache: seejph-125.pdf plain text: seejph-125.txt item: #27 of 508 id: seejph-126 author: Marstein, Egil; Babich, Suzanne M. title: The corporatization of global health: The impact of neoliberalism date: 2023-01-24 words: 3356 flesch: 42 summary: The corporatization of global health: The impact of neoliberalism (Original research). The corporatization of global health: The impact of neoliberalism Egil Marstein 1 , Suzanne M. Babich 1 1 Department of Health Policy and Management, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA. Corresponding author: Egil Marstein, PhD Department of Health Policy and Management, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University; Address: Health Sciences Building (RG), 1050 Wishard Blvd. keywords: global; health; institutions; neoliberalism; ngos; paradigm; power; public; world cache: seejph-126.pdf plain text: seejph-126.txt item: #28 of 508 id: seejph-128 author: Kamberi, Haxhi; Jerliu, Naim Jerliu; Kamberi, Safete; Berisha, Idriz title: Knowledge about breastfeeding of children 0-6 months among mothers attending hospital services in Kosovo date: 2023-01-24 words: 4138 flesch: 57 summary: More importantly, although the sample was meant to be representative to Kosovo women with young children, the hospital-based selection approach does not allow generalization of the survey findings to all women in Kosovo. However, to date, the evidence about the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices related to breastfeeding of Kosovo mothers with infants and young children is scarce. keywords: breastfeeding; children; knowledge; kosovo; months; mothers; study; women cache: seejph-128.pdf plain text: seejph-128.txt item: #29 of 508 id: seejph-129 author: Laase, Ulrich title: GLOBAL HEALTH COMPETENCES date: 2023-01-24 words: 11537 flesch: 43 summary: Nowadays, according to the emergence of the idea of global public health, a new concept -“Global Health Law”- has been born. In this context, an interdisciplinary approach to global public health inevitably requires the study of Global Health Law for any healthcare professional. keywords: competences; development; doi; editor; gender; global; health; health competences; health curriculum; health professional; impact; international; laaser; public; reports; seejph-2018; september; shortlist; social; unibi cache: seejph-129.pdf plain text: seejph-129.txt item: #30 of 508 id: seejph-130 author: Surjadi, Charles; Jani, Dwi; Langoday, UrsulaYunita title: Geriatric curriculum at faculties of medicine in Indonesia date: 2023-01-24 words: 2312 flesch: 50 summary: Geriatric training is recommended to prepare lecturers in medical faculties. Our aim was to assess how geriatric training is organised in medical faculties in Indonesia. keywords: care; faculties; geriatric; indonesia; medical; medicine; training cache: seejph-130.pdf plain text: seejph-130.txt item: #31 of 508 id: seejph-131 author: Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Anna CichowskaMyrup; Aleksandrova, Olga title: Women leadership for public health: The added value and needs of women driving public health system reform in Ukraine date: 2023-01-24 words: 3445 flesch: 44 summary: The international, interdisciplinary and inter-professional faculty engaged in the interactive meaning making around such topics as: the self-assessment of leadership competencies, public health leadership, leadership theories, system thinking, dealing with interests, power and stakeholders, barriers to women leadership and methods to address them, special leadership tools for women empowerment and leading change, communication and impact. Day M, Shickle D, Smith K, Zakariasen K, Oliver T, Moskol J. Time for heroes: public health leadership in the 21st century. keywords: health; leadership; needs; participants; public; seminar; system; ukraine; women cache: seejph-131.pdf plain text: seejph-131.txt item: #32 of 508 id: seejph-133 author: Brownell, Patricia title: Future directions for research on neglect, abuse and violence against older women date: 2023-01-24 words: 3472 flesch: 51 summary: It has also obscured an identified risk factor in elder abuse: abuse experienced earlier in the lifespan of elder abuse victims (16). Theoretical advances in understanding neglect, abuse and violence across the life course The field of elder abuse research has been hampered by lack of a unifying theory that explains abuse of older adults in domestic settings (22). keywords: abuse; life; neglect; perspective; research; stress; trauma; understanding; violence; women cache: seejph-133.pdf plain text: seejph-133.txt item: #33 of 508 id: seejph-134 author: Holst, Jens title: Designing Germany’s new global health strategy: Some important recommendations date: 2023-01-24 words: 2946 flesch: 48 summary: A comprehensive approach has to acknowledge that global health starts at home. The global health strategy should therefore:  call for a rapid transition to a carbon- neutral economy and society by means of emissions reductions, adequate taxation of fossil fuels and reduction of subsidies, which are harmful to the environment or the environment;  seek to use the additional funds for climate change and health;  financially and technologically support poorer countries to avoid development pathways based on environmental degradation and fossil energy generation;  understand global health as the health of human civilisation and its natural Holst J. Designing Germany’s new global health strategy: Some important recommendations (Editorial). keywords: germany; global; health; new; people; protection; public; social; strategy cache: seejph-134.pdf plain text: seejph-134.txt item: #34 of 508 id: seejph-135 author: Spallek, Jacob; Breckenkamp, Jürgen; Kraywinkel, Klaus; Schwabe, Wolfgang; Krieg, Volker; Greiner, Wolfgang; Damm, Oliver; Razum, Oliver title: Need for nursing care support in cancer patients: Registry-linkage study in Germany date: 2023-01-24 words: 5378 flesch: 61 summary: Geriatric assessment with management in cancer care: Current evidence and potential mechanisms for future research. Nursing homes and cancer care. keywords: cancer; care; ekr; group; level; mdk; need; nursing; nursing care; patients; support cache: seejph-135.pdf plain text: seejph-135.txt item: #35 of 508 id: seejph-136 author: Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Duin, Claire van; Brall, Caroline; Scholtes, Beatrice; Tahzib, Farhang; Maeckelberghe, Els title: Norms in and between the philosophical ivory tower and public health practice: A heuristic model of translational ethics date: 2023-01-24 words: 6026 flesch: 56 summary: Schröder-Bäck P, van Duin C, Brall C, Scholtes B, Tahzib F, Maeckelberghe E. Norms in and between the philosophical ivory tower and public health practice: A heuristic model of translational ethics (Original research). Corresponding author: Peter Schröder-Bäck Address: Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands; Email: peter.schroder@maastrichtuniversity.nl Schröder-Bäck P, van Duin C, Brall C, Scholtes B, Tahzib F, Maeckelberghe E. Norms in and between the philosophical ivory tower and public health practice: A heuristic model of translational ethics (Original research). keywords: autonomy; concepts; ethics; health; level; model; norms; practice; public; theory; tower cache: seejph-136.pdf plain text: seejph-136.txt item: #36 of 508 id: seejph-137 author: Caushaj, Klevis; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Roshi, Enver; Muja, Herion title: Leadership competencies among male health professionals in a Western Balkan country date: 2023-01-24 words: 3896 flesch: 37 summary: Keywords: Albania, competency level, male health professionals, public health leadership, Western Balkans. The gap of leadership competency level (mean difference between the required and the current level of competencies) was higher for male health professionals working in top managerial positions (mean difference: 4.1) compared to those operating in middle managerial positions (mean difference: 3.2) and, particularly, individuals working in low managerial positions (mean difference: 1.5). keywords: albania; competencies; competency; health; leadership; level; professionals; public cache: seejph-137.pdf plain text: seejph-137.txt item: #37 of 508 id: seejph-138 author: Jarke, Hannes; Džindo, Amra; Jakob, Lea title: Healthcare access in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the light of European Union accession efforts date: 2023-01-24 words: 4838 flesch: 56 summary: Although not necessarily systematic, studies further report distance from healthcare providers, alleged widespread corruption, discrimination of minorities and vulnerable populations, as well as vaccination gaps as problems in healthcare access for specific groups. Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina, European Union membership, healthcare access, healthcare access and quality index, inequality. keywords: access; accession; article; b&h; bosnia; european; healthcare; healthcare access; herzegovina; light; review; roma; system; union cache: seejph-138.pdf plain text: seejph-138.txt item: #38 of 508 id: seejph-139 author: Sentell, Tetine; Câmara, Saionara Maria Aires da; Ylli, Alban; Velez, Maria P.; Domingues, Marlos R.; Bassani, Diego G.; Guo, Mary; Pirkle, Catherine M. title: Data gaps in adolescent fertility surveillance in middle-income countries in Latin America and South Eastern Europe: Barriers to evidence-based health promotion date: 2023-01-24 words: 9692 flesch: 53 summary: Adolescent health data in MIC can be found through national and cross-national surveillance systems. For instance, while adolescent health data is typically aggregated for 15-19-year-olds in many MIC, the pregnancy rate is higher among 18-19-yearolds than among 15-17- year-olds (14). keywords: america; article; birth; countries; data; eastern; europe; evidence; fertility; gaps; health; income; internet; latin; march; pregnancy; review; south; surveillance; women; years cache: seejph-139.pdf plain text: seejph-139.txt item: #39 of 508 id: seejph-140 author: Macassa, Gloria title: Responsible leadership styles and promotion of stakeholders’ health date: 2023-01-24 words: 1566 flesch: 38 summary: The report first describes responsible leadership styles and then briefly discusses the potential connection with health promotion within the lens of the wider determinants of health and intersectorial collaboration. Integrative responsible leadership and health promotion share a common vision: to alter the economic, environmental, and social contexts in which decisions relating to health and well- being are made, thus affecting health equity. keywords: health; leadership; promotion; stakeholders; styles cache: seejph-140.pdf plain text: seejph-140.txt item: #40 of 508 id: seejph-141 author: Chernyavskiy, Valery; Mikhailova, Julia title: Russia: A key partner in the Northern Dimension Partnership date: 2023-01-24 words: 1929 flesch: 45 summary: It provided a basis for community health activities including mandatory immunization and periodic health checks and it fostered a generation committed to solidarity in the provision of health care aiming at universal coverage and equitable access. This period allowed the partner countries to outline common problems in health and to define mechanisms of interaction and cooperation. keywords: dimension; federation; health; ndphs; partnership; russian cache: seejph-141.pdf plain text: seejph-141.txt item: #41 of 508 id: seejph-142 author: Malik, Koussoh Simone; Adoubi, Anicet; Kouadio, Kouamé; Kouamé, Jérôme; Sackou, Julie title: Overweight and obesity among women living in peri-urban areas in West Africa date: 2023-01-24 words: 4873 flesch: 65 summary: Abdominal obesity was defined by waist to hip ratio greater or equal to 0.80. The prevalence of abdominal obesity was 90.6% among obese people. keywords: abdominal; africa; age; blood; obese; obesity; overweight; pressure; prevalence; study; women cache: seejph-142.pdf plain text: seejph-142.txt item: #42 of 508 id: seejph-143 author: Kureta, Elona; Murati, Ermelinda; Tomini, Eugena; Roshi, Enver; Bino, Silvia; Basho, Mimoza title: Screening for viral Hepatitis Bin theRoma community in Tirana, Albania date: 2023-01-24 words: 2758 flesch: 53 summary: Considering the high prevalence of HBV in Roma population and the problems that this vulnerable group has towards the vaccination process and difficulties accessing adequate healthcare, the Institute of Public Health (IPH) in collaboration with the Directorate of Public Health of Tirana have performed screening in some areas where Roma populations live. Due to this high prevalence of HBV and difficulties accessing adequate healthcare, a screening was performed in some areas where Roma populations live. keywords: albania; hbv; hepatitis; population; roma; tirana cache: seejph-143.pdf plain text: seejph-143.txt item: #43 of 508 id: seejph-144 author: Hoxha, Rina; Kosevska, Elena; Berisha, Merita; Ramadani, Naser; Jerliu, Naim; Zhjeqi, Valbona; Gashi, Sanije title: Predictive factors for patient satisfaction in public and private hospitals in Kosovo date: 2023-01-24 words: 4174 flesch: 46 summary: Patient satisfaction will offer valuable and distinctive insights into daily medical care and is widely accepted as a freelance dimension of quality of care as a result of an analysis of patient satisfaction includes “internal” (inward-looking) aspects of hospital care, which regularly stay unrecorded, like communica tion, fellow feeling or interaction (2,3-5). Hoxha R, Kosevska E, Berisha M, Ramadani N, Jerliu N, Zhjeqi V, Gashi S. Predictive factors for patient satisfaction in public and private hospitals in Kosovo (Original research). keywords: care; factors; health; hospitalization; hospitals; kosovo; patient; predictors; public; satisfaction; stay; test; total cache: seejph-144.pdf plain text: seejph-144.txt item: #44 of 508 id: seejph-145 author: Laaser, Wolfram; Exeni, Cecilia title: Introduction of digital technologies in education - Concepts and experiences date: 2023-01-24 words: 3932 flesch: 49 summary: Laaser W, Exeni C. Introduction of digital technologies in education - Concepts and experiences (Review article). DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2019-220 Page 1 of 10 REVIEW ARTICLE Introduction of digital technologies in education - Concepts and experiences Wolfram Laaser1, Cecilia Exeni2 1 ex Fernuniversität, Hagen, Germany; 2 National University, Cordoba, Argentina. keywords: concepts; digital; education; introduction; learning; program; school; students; teachers; technologies cache: seejph-145.pdf plain text: seejph-145.txt item: #45 of 508 id: seejph-146 author: Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Broniatowski, Raphael; Byepu, Stephen; Laaser, Ulrich title: Maternal and new-born health policy indicators for low-resourced countries: The example of Liberia date: 2023-01-24 words: 7468 flesch: 42 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2019-221 Page 4 of 17 Results 1) Review of health policy documents related to Maternal & New-born Health (MNH) DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2019-221 Page 13 of 17 - translating evidence into action through effective advocacy and accountability for maternal health. keywords: august; countries; health; indicators; liberia; maternal; ministry; monrovia; mortality; national; new; plan; policy; review; welfare cache: seejph-146.pdf plain text: seejph-146.txt item: #46 of 508 id: seejph-147 author: Houghton, Frank; Doherty, Diane O’; McInerney, Derek; Duncan, Bruce title: Anti-tobacco text warnings in Italy: Geography, language and South Tyrol date: 2023-01-24 words: 1432 flesch: 59 summary: Houghton F, O’Doherty D, McInerney D, Duncan B. Anti-tobacco text warnings in Italy: Geography, language, and South Tyrol (Short report). Corresponding Author: Frank Houghton, PhD, MPHe, MA, MSc, Director HEALR Research Group; Department of Applied Social Sciences, Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland; Telephone: +353-87-7101346; Email: Frank.Houghton@LIT.ie Houghton F, O’Doherty D, McInerney D, Duncan B. Anti-tobacco text warnings in Italy: Geography, language, and South Tyrol (Short report). keywords: south; text; tobacco; tyrol; warnings cache: seejph-147.pdf plain text: seejph-147.txt item: #47 of 508 id: seejph-148 author: Macassa, Gloria title: Integrated corporate social responsibility and human resources management for stakeholders health promotion date: 2023-01-24 words: 2589 flesch: 43 summary: Macassa G. Integrated corporate social responsibility and human resources management for stakeholders health promotion (Short report). HRM can help to create a win–win environment for business organizations Macassa G. Integrated corporate social responsibility and human resources management for stakeholders health promotion (Short report). keywords: corporate; csr; health; hrm; human; literacy; management; responsibility; stakeholders cache: seejph-148.pdf plain text: seejph-148.txt item: #48 of 508 id: seejph-149 author: Burazeri, Genc title: Mortality reduction in the Russian Federation: Significant progress contrary to Western beliefs date: 2023-01-24 words: 811 flesch: 46 summary: Thus, on average, mortality reduction levels amounted to 50% in North-Western Russia, suggesting an impressive progress. Burazeri G. Mortality reduction in the Russian Federation: keywords: federation; health; russian cache: seejph-149.pdf plain text: seejph-149.txt item: #49 of 508 id: seejph-15 author: Burazeri, Genc; Jankovic, Slavenka; Laaser, Ulrich; Martin-Moreno, Jose M. title: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health: A new international online journal date: 2023-01-24 words: 974 flesch: 50 summary: DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2013-01. 1 EDITORIAL South Eastern European Journal of Public Health: A new international online journal Genc Burazeri1,2, Slavenka Jankovic3, Ulrich Laaser4, Jose M. Martin-Moreno5 1 Department of International Health, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 2 Faculty of Public Health, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 3 Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; 4 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; 5 Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2013-01. 2 The South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) is an online, open- access, international, peer-reviewed journal, published by Jacobs Company in Germany (1). keywords: eastern; health; journal; south cache: seejph-15.pdf plain text: seejph-15.txt item: #50 of 508 id: seejph-150 author: Chernyavskiy, Valery; Wenzel, Helmut; Mikhailova, Julia; Ivanova, Alla; Zemlyanova, Elena; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Mikhailov, Alexander; Laaser, Ulrich title: Successful reduction of premature mortality in the Russian Federation and the countries around the Baltic Sea working together on Health and Social Well-being date: 2023-01-24 words: 6219 flesch: 52 summary: e 1 | 20 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Successful reduction of premature mortality in the Russian Federation and the countries around the Baltic Sea working together on Health and Social Well-being Valery Chernyavskiy1, Helmut Wenzel2, Julia Mikhailova1, Alla Ivanova1,3, Elena Zemlyanova1,3, Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic4, Alexander Mikhailov1, Ulrich Laaser5 1 Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of the Russian Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russian Federation; 2 Independent consultant, Konstanz, Germany; 3 Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation 4 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Social Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia; 5 University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld School of Public Health, Bielefeld, Germany. Keywords: gap analysis, northern dimension, North West Federal Okrug, premature mortality, public health, Russian Federation. keywords: baltic; federation; health; mortality; russian; russian federation; sea cache: seejph-150.pdf plain text: seejph-150.txt item: #51 of 508 id: seejph-151 author: Lafranconi, Alessandra; Meuse, Vera; Caldeira, Sandra; Babich, Suzanne; Czabanowska, Katarzyna title: Facilitators and barriers to the use of economic evaluations in nutrition and public health date: 2023-01-24 words: 6803 flesch: 43 summary: This qualitative analysis aimed to identify key barriers and facilitators of performing public health economic evaluations and in including them in the development of policies in the area of nutrition and prevention of chronic diseases. “Lack of standardised methodologies and evidence based approaches, and no special focus of HTA units and bodies [are challenges encountered] in public health evaluations”. keywords: analysis; barriers; caldeira; evaluations; evidence; facilitators; health; interventions; nutrition; participants; phee; policy; public; research; use cache: seejph-151.pdf plain text: seejph-151.txt item: #52 of 508 id: seejph-152 author: Italia, Salvatore; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Brand, Helmut title: Switching emergency contraceptives to non-prescription status and unwanted pregnancy among adult and teenage women: A long-term European comparative study date: 2023-01-24 words: 6486 flesch: 57 summary: DOI: 10.4119/seejph-3277 P a g e 11 | 16 available figures are from 2011/2012 and may have fallen since then) showed long- term trends towards higher abortion rates among teenagers after the switch, and in only seven countries total abortion rates were slightly higher in 2017 than at time of the switch. On average, abortion rates among women aged 15–49 years were 83% higher 15 years before (compared with the year of reference) and 14% lower 15 years after the switch. keywords: abortion; countries; emcs; emergency; european; pregnancy; prescription; rates; status; switch; women; years cache: seejph-152.pdf plain text: seejph-152.txt item: #53 of 508 id: seejph-153 author: Jovanovic, Dragana; Jankovic, Janko; Mirilovic, Nikola title: Socio-demographic inequalities in satisfaction with primary health care and utilization of chosen doctors’ services: a cross-sectional study date: 2023-01-24 words: 6073 flesch: 58 summary: Despite the fact that Serbia has a comprehensive universal health care system with free access to primary care services, inequalities in the utilization of health care services are present (6,15). 12 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Socio-demographic inequalities in satisfaction with primary health care and utilization of chosen doctors’ services: a cross-sectional study Dragana Jovanovic1, Janko Jankovic2, Nikola Mirilovic3 1 Department of Social Medicine with Informatics, Primary Health Center Valjevo, Valjevo, Serbia; 2 Institute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; 3 Zemun Gymnasium, Zemun, Serbia. keywords: care; doctor; health; inequalities; satisfaction; services; socio; socioeconomic; status; study; utilization cache: seejph-153.pdf plain text: seejph-153.txt item: #54 of 508 id: seejph-154 author: Cuschieri, Sarah title: The diabetes epidemic in Malta date: 2023-01-24 words: 4003 flesch: 56 summary: However, this expenditure did not differentiate between newly diagnosed and previously diagnosed diabetes, as well as it was based on over- estimation of diabetes prevalence rate. Global diabetes prevalence levels by district in Malta 2014 – 2016 keywords: diabetes; expenditure; health; malta; population; prevalence; study; years cache: seejph-154.pdf plain text: seejph-154.txt item: #55 of 508 id: seejph-155 author: Torre, Giuseppe La; Baer, lice De Paula; Sestili, Cristina; Cocchiara, Rosario Andrea; Barbato, Domenico; Mannocci, Alice; Cimmuto, Angela Del title: Knowledge and perception about climate change among healthcare professionals and students: A cross-sectional study date: 2023-01-24 words: 8719 flesch: 65 summary: Now what do people know about global climate change? Knowledge and perception about climate change among healthcare professionals and students: A cross- sectional study (Original research). keywords: barbato; climate change; health; healthcare; knowledge; participants; perception; professionals; public; research; students; study; torre cache: seejph-155.pdf plain text: seejph-155.txt item: #56 of 508 id: seejph-156 author: Tozija, Fimka; Lizana, Tona title: Migrant Health Policy in European Union (EU) and a non EU country: Current situation and future challenges for improvement date: 2023-01-24 words: 4394 flesch: 47 summary: Results: There are differences between Spain and Macedonia in health care coverage and access to health services for migrants. Targeted migrant health policies are stronger and services more responsive in Spain compared to Macedonia which offers migrants legal entitlements to healthcare, but health services should be more culturally responsive to migrant health needs. keywords: country; european; health; integration; macedonia; migrant; migration; policy; spain; union cache: seejph-156.pdf plain text: seejph-156.txt item: #57 of 508 id: seejph-157 author: Lueddeke, George R. title: Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future date: 2023-01-24 words: 2633 flesch: 50 summary: In Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future, George R. Lueddeke, the chair of the One Health Education Task Force, shows how public health can be incorporated into a wide range of fields to address individual, population, and ecosystem health…’With respect to this, kindly let us know more. In this connection, PEAH had the pleasure to interview Dr. George R. Lueddeke as the author of the recently published cross-disciplinary book Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future Routledge, 1st edition, 2019. keywords: future; global; health; lueddeke; planet; survival; world cache: seejph-157.pdf plain text: seejph-157.txt item: #58 of 508 id: seejph-158 author: Martin-Moreno, Jose M. title: Facing the COVID-19 challenge: When the world depends on effective public health interventions date: 2023-01-24 words: 1780 flesch: 55 summary: However, we cannot forget the relevance of all other essential operations, such as: the communication and social mobi- lization for health (EPHO 9); the one which allows us to articulate solutions for an effec- tive vaccine (EPHO 10 and 5); the health pro- tection interventions including environmen- tal, occupational, and food safety (EPHO 3); the promotion of population health and well- being tackling inequalities and the broader social and environmental determinants (EPHO 4); the proper health governance for health, together with reliable infrastructures and financing to ensure the resources and vi- ability of public health interventions (EPHO 6 and 8); and, the responsibility to ensure a competent workforce (EPHO 7). When the world depends on effective public health interventions Jose M. Martin-Moreno1,2 1Editorial Board, South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH); 2Department of Preventive Medicine & INCLIVA, University of Valencia, Spain. keywords: covid-19; doi; health; martin; public; world cache: seejph-158.pdf plain text: seejph-158.txt item: #59 of 508 id: seejph-159 author: Holst, Jens title: When the world depends on effective public health intervention – and public health does not deliver date: 2023-01-24 words: 2549 flesch: 45 summary: Pandemic challenging Public Health In spite of all declarations about the relevance of public health in a pandemic outbreak, it was not public and global health experts other than virologists and epidemiologists to be- come the second group to enter the global and national scenes. Moon S. Power in global govern- ance: an expanded typology from global health. keywords: covid-19; doi; global; health; public; world cache: seejph-159.pdf plain text: seejph-159.txt item: #60 of 508 id: seejph-160 author: Husseini, Maha Nubani; Donchin, Milka title: School-based intervention to promote healthy nutrition and physical activity in Palestinian girls - Process evaluation date: 2023-01-24 words: 6551 flesch: 51 summary: It is important to note that several of the schools had already been made aware of the aspects of the health promotion program through municipality programs designed to encourage “health promoting schools.” Intervention activities are presented in Table 2. keywords: activities; activity; committee; evaluation; girls; healthy; intervention; mothers; nutrition; palestinian; process; process evaluation; program; school; schoolchildren; teachers cache: seejph-160.pdf plain text: seejph-160.txt item: #61 of 508 id: seejph-161 author: Beshir, Safia; Shaheen, Weam; Saad-Hussein, Amal; Saeed, Yuosra title: Aflatoxin B1 as an endocrine disruptor among miller flour workers date: 2023-01-24 words: 5113 flesch: 59 summary: DOI: 10.4119/seejph-3441 P a g e 1 | 12 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Aflatoxin B1 as an endocrine disruptor among miller flour workers Safia Beshir1, Weam Shaheen1, Amal Saad-Hussein1, Yuosra Saeed2 1Environmental and Occupational Medicine Department, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt; 2Air Pollution Research Department, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt. This study was proposed to clarify the possible effects of aflatoxin B1 as an endocrine disruptor on pituitary gland, thyroid gland and gonads among miller flour workers, and to evaluate its effects on human male sexual function. keywords: afb1; aflatoxin; aspergillus; endocrine; flour; fsh; hormone; male; miller; non; serum; study; testosterone; thyroid; workers cache: seejph-161.pdf plain text: seejph-161.txt item: #62 of 508 id: seejph-162 author: Peposhi, lir; Tafa, Holta; Bardhi, Donika; Hafizi, Hasan title: Clinical and epidemiological evaluation of Tuberculosis in Albania during the period 2009-2018 date: 2023-01-24 words: 3411 flesch: 60 summary: The total number of TB cases increased from 440 to 447. Males prevail among TB cases and male-to-female ratio ranges from 2:1 to 3:1. keywords: albania; cases; incidence; period; proportion; tuberculosis cache: seejph-162.pdf plain text: seejph-162.txt item: #63 of 508 id: seejph-163 author: Kaur, Kiranjeet; Greco, Stefano; Saroj, Sunil D.; Hossain, Shaikh Shah; Pradhan, Himanshu Sekhar; Singh, Sanjeev K.; Clerici, Francesca; Sood, Meenakshi; Brand, Helmut; John, Preethi; Schröder-Bäck, Peter title: Risk management and prevention of antibiotics resistance: The PREVENT IT project date: 2023-01-24 words: 7039 flesch: 50 summary: In the absence of real data reflecting the current effect of ABR Indian scenario, few reports (16) have identified it as an emerging threat to public health. In this regard, the innovative character of the PREVENT IT project is to create the first Indo-European collaboration aimed at devel- oping ABR specific curricula and disseminat- ing expertise in ABR prevention. keywords: abr; amr; antibiotics; antibiotics resistance; awareness; education; global; health; india; management; prevention; project; public; resistance; review; risk cache: seejph-163.pdf plain text: seejph-163.txt item: #64 of 508 id: seejph-164 author: Marta, Ivanović; Mirjana, Đorđević; Aleksandar MA, Klarić; Filip, Mikanović; Kristina, Nikolić; Tamara, Perić; Tamara, Savić; Katarina, Steljić; Laza, Subotić; Marko, Todorović; Irena, Todorovski; Bojan, Totić title: Serbian Citizens’ Opinion on the COVID-19 Epidemic date: 2023-01-24 words: 3824 flesch: 57 summary: When comparing these results to the previous questions’, one could ask: If 55% of respondents think politicians are bringing discomfort and panic, while at the same time, 86% say they are not concerned about the virus, are the politicians losing the trust of the people? 5) How much traction have conspiracy theories gained among Serbian citizens? The results showcase a lack of motivation for including government institutions in solving this problem, as many respondents would rely on self-initiative. keywords: citizens; covid-19; opinion; public; respondents; virus cache: seejph-164.pdf plain text: seejph-164.txt item: #65 of 508 id: seejph-165 author: Abed, Yehia title: COVID-19 in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under the political conflict in Palestine date: 2023-01-24 words: 5766 flesch: 58 summary: Palestinians are facing the epidemic, with around 2 million inhabitants under siege in the highly populated Gaza Strip for the last 14 years. Keywords: control measures, COVID-19, Gaza Strip, Palestine. keywords: bank; cases; covid-19; gaza; gaza strip; health; palestine; palestinian; population; strip; west; west bank cache: seejph-165.pdf plain text: seejph-165.txt item: #66 of 508 id: seejph-166 author: Sahu, Monalisha; Dobe, Madhumita title: How the largest slum in India flattened the COVID curve? A Case Study date: 2023-01-24 words: 5739 flesch: 48 summary: Majority of Dharavi population is made of migrants both formal and informal mostly from other districts of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujrat, UP and Bihar (5). Dharavi is the largest slum in India and one of the most densely populated areas in the world. keywords: august; case; case study; covid; covid-19; curve; dharavi; health; india; people; seejph; slum; study cache: seejph-166.pdf plain text: seejph-166.txt item: #67 of 508 id: seejph-167 author: Kalaitzi, Stavroula title: Navigating barriers to gender equality in the European Union context: The case of healthcare sector date: 2023-01-24 words: 6587 flesch: 52 summary: The study applies the- ories of gender equality, women’s leadership, gender equality policy and implementation at EU and Member States level. On the grounds of the provided evidence-in- formed insights on the context sensitive and country specific gendered barriers, policy ac- tors and decision makers are invited to follow the “think globally – act locally” strategy in gender equality policies and practices in their efforts to close the gap between policy and reality. keywords: barriers; context; equality; european; gender; gender equality; healthcare; maastricht; policy; research; sector; study; union; women cache: seejph-167.pdf plain text: seejph-167.txt item: #68 of 508 id: seejph-169 author: Burazeri, Genc; Laaser, Ulrich title: Health status of the populations in the Western Balkans region date: 2023-01-24 words: 963 flesch: 57 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4232 P a g e 1 | 3 EDITORIAL Health status of the populations in the Western Balkans region Genc Burazeri1,2, Ulrich Laaser3 1 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 2 Department of International Health, School CAPHRI (Care and Public Health Research Institute), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 3 Section of International Health, Faulty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. Health status of the populations in the West- ern Balkans region is characterized by an ex- cessive mortality compared with the EU av- erage (5). keywords: countries; health; region cache: seejph-169.pdf plain text: seejph-169.txt item: #69 of 508 id: seejph-17 author: Bojaj, Gazmend; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Skeraj, Fitim title: Level of competencies of family physicians from patients’ viewpoint in post-war Kosovo date: 2023-01-24 words: 4093 flesch: 44 summary: Future studies should comprehensively assess the main determinants of self-perceived competencies of family physicians among primary health care users in Kosovo. Keywords: competencies, family physicians, primary health care users, quality of care. keywords: care; competencies; family; health; kosovo; level; physicians; primary cache: seejph-17.pdf plain text: seejph-17.txt item: #70 of 508 id: seejph-170 author: Ljaljevic, Agima; Wenzel, Helmut; Laaser, Ulrich title: Women in Montenegro exhibit a high degree of happiness and life satisfaction: Data from the Multiple Independent Cluster Survey 2018 date: 2023-01-24 words: 6417 flesch: 66 summary: Because of their high potential relevance we employed for two variables with a relatively high percentage of missing values (M7 - Mar- ried or lived with a man once or more than once and WAGEM - Age at first mar- riage/union of woman) a MD imputation us- ing a k-NN approach (14) to estimate missing values. Part I: Potential determinants of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Line numbers Variable Code Long name Variable format Missing values 11 WM6M Month of interview 2019 Cat. keywords: cat; data; degree; happiness; life; life satisfaction; montenegro; satisfaction; survey; values; women; yes cache: seejph-170.pdf plain text: seejph-170.txt item: #71 of 508 id: seejph-171 author: Tafa, Holta; Mema, Donika; Mezini, Arian; Nikolla, Jolanda; Teferici, Alma; Todri, Dafina; Burazeri, Genc; Hafizi, Hasan title: Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Albania date: 2023-01-24 words: 5112 flesch: 68 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4164 P a g e 1 | 12 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Albania Holta Tafa1, Donika Mema2, Arian Mezini1, Jolanda Nikolla3, Alma Teferici1, Dafina Todri1, Genc Burazeri4, Hasan Hafizi1 1 University Hospital “Shefqet Ndroqi”, Tirana, Albania; 2 Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania; 3 American Hospital, Tirana, Albania; 4 Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania. A literature review of the epidemiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease showed that the prevalence estimates varied widely, depending on the methods used for diagnosis and classification of COPD (16- 18). keywords: age; albania; copd; data; disease; prevalence; responders; smoking; spirometry; study; years cache: seejph-171.pdf plain text: seejph-171.txt item: #72 of 508 id: seejph-172 author: Macassa, Gloria; Tomaselli, Gianpaolo title: Socially responsible human resources management and stakeholders’ Health Promotion: A conceptual paper date: 2023-01-24 words: 7255 flesch: 45 summary: Public health literacy is seen as a challenge for public health and health promo- tion as it represents a new, higher level of health literacy, through which the population as a whole (and within different arenas) can better understand health information related not only to the individual, but also to the com- munity (18). The framework proposes two potential mech- anisms: (i) socially responsible HR policies that include public health literacy (physical activity and mental health literacy); and (ii) integrative responsible leadership. keywords: business; csr; doi; employees; health; health literacy; hrm; human; literacy; management; organization; policies; promotion; resources; stakeholders; wellbeing cache: seejph-172.pdf plain text: seejph-172.txt item: #73 of 508 id: seejph-173 author: Grochtdreis, Thomas; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Harenberg, Niels; Görres, Stefan; Jong, Nynke de title: National disaster preparedness and emergency response of nurses in Germany: An exploratory qualitative study date: 2023-01-24 words: 6250 flesch: 53 summary: According to international studies, require- ments for disaster preparedness were pre-reg- istering in a disaster registry, having experi- ence in disaster nursing and continuingly tak- ing part in trainings and drills (1,31,33-37). In order to prepare for emergency response, education within the field of disaster nursing is essential. keywords: care; disaster; disaster preparedness; emergency; experience; germany; health; national; nurses; nursing; participants; preparedness; qualitative; research; response; study cache: seejph-173.pdf plain text: seejph-173.txt item: #74 of 508 id: seejph-174 author: Chernyavskiy, Valery; Wenzel, Helmut; Mikhailova, Julia; Ivanova, Alla; Zem-lyanova, Elena; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Mikhailov, Alexander; Laaser, Ulrich title: Can Russia’s high mortality return until 2030 to trajectory of the 1980-ies and reach the SDGs evenly across the country? date: 2023-01-24 words: 10608 flesch: 68 summary: STD Pi Di* (Remaining Years to Upper Age Limit) 0-4 10,565 9,050,624 80,269,483 0.00117 93,698 6,316,727 5-9 1,624 8,836,526 84,285,393 0.00018 15,494 966,888 10-14 1,912 7,591,733 85,828,597 0.00025 21,617 1,240,846 15-19 4,073 6,784,546 87,597,591 0.00060 52,592 2,755,719 20-24 7,026 7,112,528 82,619,776 0.00099 81,614 3,874,045 25-29 15,858 10,511,622 77,252,661 0.00151 116,545 4,952,301 Sum 41,058 49,887,579 497,853,501 0.00078 381,559 20,126,858.00 Standardized rate (per 100 000) 76.64 4,042.73 Russian Federation Age Groups 0-29 Standardized death rates 2018 Direct standardization Study Population (Russian Federation) Deaths Population (OECD 1980) STD Pi Di* (Remaining Years to Upper Age Limit) 30-34 44,424 11,503,330 73,604,119 0.00386 284,247 10,659,263 35-39 51,038 10,536,322 61,676,142 0.00484 298,762 9,709,774 40-44 53,882 9,656,787 57,394,499 0.00558 320,243 8,806,685 45-49 68,119 9,365,913 54,245,506 0.00727 394,534 8,877,020 50-54 111,658 11,310,282 52,537,987 0.00987 518,668 9,076,695 55-59 146,852 10,508,049 48,323,994 0.01398 675,339 8,441,739 60-64 177,781 8,819,230 36,727,063 0.02016 740,355 5,552,659 65-69 126,244 4,861,126 36,887,734 0.02597 957,981 2,394,951 Sum 779,999 76,561,038 421,397,044 0.01144 4,190,129 63,518,786.64 Standardized rate (per 100 000) 994.34 15,073.38 Russian Federation Age Groups 30-69 Standardized death rates 2013 Direct standardization Study Population (Russian Federation) Deaths Population (OECD 1980) keywords: chernyavskiy v; mikanovic v; mikhailova j; mortality; mortality return; pi di; russia; trajectory; vesna bjegovic cache: seejph-174.pdf plain text: seejph-174.txt item: #75 of 508 id: seejph-175 author: Mansholt, Hilke; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Otok, Robert; Nooijer, Jascha de title: Professionalization of Public Health – an exploratory case study date: 2023-01-24 words: 7837 flesch: 48 summary: DOI: 10.4119/seejph-3845 P a g e 2 | 16 Abstract Introduction: Public health is continuously challenged by a shortage of workforce. There are var- ious reasons for this: 1) public health is less visible than traditional health professions and people may be unfamiliar with the nature and opportunities involved in entering this career field; 2) lack of official recognition of public health as a professional category; and 3) no umbrella organization that supports its members and governs professional standards as is the case of other more estab- lished professions. keywords: case; doi; education; european; field; health; otok; profession; professionalization; public; research; students; study; workforce cache: seejph-175.pdf plain text: seejph-175.txt item: #76 of 508 id: seejph-176 author: Hwang, Phoebe W.; Gomes, Cristiano dos Santos; Auais, Mohammad; Braun, Kathryn L.; Pirkle, Catherine M. title: Childhood adversity and leisure time physical and sports activity in older adults: A cross-sectional analysis from the International Mobility in Aging Study date: 2023-01-24 words: 6491 flesch: 58 summary: This may ex- plain why childhood adversity was associated with physical activity engagement in the mid- dle income sites. In Natal, pres- ence of childhood social adversity was signif- icantly associated with LTSA. Table 3. keywords: activity; adults; adversity; childhood; childhood adversity; engagement; high; income; leisure; ltpa; ltsa; study; time cache: seejph-176.pdf plain text: seejph-176.txt item: #77 of 508 id: seejph-1769 author: Burazeri, Genc; Jankovic, Slavenka; Laaser, Ulrich; Martin-Moreno, Jose M. title: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health: A new international online journal date: 2015-12-02 words: 974 flesch: 50 summary: DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2013-01. 1 EDITORIAL South Eastern European Journal of Public Health: A new international online journal Genc Burazeri1,2, Slavenka Jankovic3, Ulrich Laaser4, Jose M. Martin-Moreno5 1 Department of International Health, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 2 Faculty of Public Health, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 3 Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; 4 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; 5 Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2013-01. 2 The South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) is an online, open- access, international, peer-reviewed journal, published by Jacobs Company in Germany (1). keywords: eastern; health; journal; south cache: seejph-1769.pdf plain text: seejph-1769.txt item: #78 of 508 id: seejph-177 author: Alderslade, Richard; Kokeny, Mihaly; Tsouros, Agis title: The health of the public: What has gone wrong? date: 2023-01-24 words: 4697 flesch: 43 summary: The authors suggest a fur- ther strengthening and re-design of WHO to protect and promote global public health, par- ticularly through the prevention, detection and response of future outbreaks. This paper will try to look behind what has gone wrong with our capacity to protect and secure the health of people-public health in our professional terminology- and to suggest what needs to be done now to safeguard the global population from such devastating events in the future. keywords: coronavirus; countries; covid-19; health; international; new; october; public; review; world cache: seejph-177.pdf plain text: seejph-177.txt item: #79 of 508 id: seejph-1770 author: Kola, Ermira; Çelaj, Ermela; Bakalli, Iliriana; Lluka, Robert; Kuli-Lito, Gjeorgjina; Sallabanda, Sashenka title: Efficacy of an IgM preparation in the treatment of patients with sepsis: a double-blind randomized clinical trial in a pediatric intensive care unit date: 2015-12-02 words: 4319 flesch: 50 summary: The pooled results showed a relative reduction in mortality of 34% in adult sepsis patients who received the adjunctive IgM preparation (relative risk: 0.66; P=0.0009). There were no statistical differences between treatment groups in baseline characteristics at PICU admission (Table 1). keywords: care; group; igm; immunoglobulin; intervention; patients; pediatric; preparation; sepsis; study; survival; treatment cache: seejph-1770.pdf plain text: seejph-1770.txt item: #80 of 508 id: seejph-1771 author: Bojaj, Gazmend; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Skeraj, Fitim; Burazeri, Genc title: Level of competencies of family physicians from patients’ viewpoint in post-war Kosovo date: 2015-12-02 words: 4093 flesch: 44 summary: Future studies should comprehensively assess the main determinants of self-perceived competencies of family physicians among primary health care users in Kosovo. Keywords: competencies, family physicians, primary health care users, quality of care. keywords: care; competencies; family; health; kosovo; level; physicians; primary cache: seejph-1771.pdf plain text: seejph-1771.txt item: #81 of 508 id: seejph-1772 author: Spasova, Zornitsa title: Seasonal variations of schizophrenic patients in emergency departments in Sofia, Bulgaria date: 2015-12-02 words: 3228 flesch: 53 summary: As for schizophrenia patients, there is still no cure, the research of etiologic factors, particularly environmental ones that could be avoided and used in effective prevention programs, is essential (1). They found that the mean monthly admission rates are significantly higher during the summer (for schizophrenia patients) and fall (for schizoaffective patients). keywords: bulgaria; disorders; emergency; patients; schizophrenia; seasonal; sofia; values; visits cache: seejph-1772.pdf plain text: seejph-1772.txt item: #82 of 508 id: seejph-1773 author: Hyska, Jolanda; Mersini, Ehadu; Mone, Iris; Bushi, Entela; Sadiku, Edite; Hoti, Kliti; Bregu, Arjan title: Assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices about public health nutrition among students of the University of Medicine in Tirana, Albania date: 2015-12-02 words: 3700 flesch: 49 summary: Furthermore, several studies have shown that the vast majority of medical students and incoming interns are dissatisfied with their education in medical nutrition and feel unprepared to counsel patients on nutritional topics (6-8). In addition, medical students felt that the teaching curriculum should be more scientifically rigorous (mean score: 3.3) keywords: attitudes; health; knowledge; medicine; nutrition; students; tirana; university cache: seejph-1773.pdf plain text: seejph-1773.txt item: #83 of 508 id: seejph-1774 author: Brownell, Patricia title: Neglect, abuse and violence against older women: Definitions and research frameworks date: 2015-12-02 words: 5957 flesch: 47 summary: Older women are often absent from discussions about shelters and hotlines, and there is the lack of a debate on circumstances and special needs of older women victims of abuse that may affect help seeking behavior. It provides an overview of main approaches to addressing abuse of older women, and key interventions including policies and programs for the protection of older women victims of abuse along with outcomes where evaluations have been completed. keywords: abuse; age; definitions; elder; frameworks; health; human; neglect; research; rights; violence; women cache: seejph-1774.pdf plain text: seejph-1774.txt item: #84 of 508 id: seejph-1775 author: Scholtes, Beatrice; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Mackay, Morag; Vincenten, Joanne; Brand, Helmut title: A practical and applied approach to assessing the cross cutting nature of child injury prevention as a basis for policy making at the local level date: 2015-12-02 words: 4409 flesch: 50 summary: Scholtes B, Schröder-Bäck P, Mackay M, Vincenten J, Brand H. A practical and applied approach to assessing the cross cutting nature of child injury prevention as a basis for policy making at the local level (Review article). A practical and applied approach to assessing the cross cutting nature of child injury prevention as a basis for policy making at the local level Beatrice Scholtes1, Peter Schröder-Bäck1, Morag Mackay2, Joanne Vincenten2, Helmut Brand1 1 Department of International Health, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 2 European Child Safety Alliance, Birmingham, United Kingdom. keywords: approach; benefits; child; factors; health; injury; injury prevention; level; policy; prevention cache: seejph-1775.pdf plain text: seejph-1775.txt item: #85 of 508 id: seejph-1776 author: Jerliu, Naim; Ramadani, Naser; Mone, Iris; Brand, Helmut title: Public health in Kosovo after five difficult years of independence date: 2015-12-02 words: 3270 flesch: 42 summary: The health care reform, leading eventually to significant changes within the health sector in Kosovo, consists of two main pillars: (i) structural and functional reorganization of the health care system through establishment of Kosovo Health Service (an autonomous and non-for-profit public enterprise at central level of the health care sector), and; (ii) establishment for the first time of the public health insurance system with a Health Insurance Fund as its main body. This reform, leading eventually to significant changes within the health sector in Kosovo, consists of two main pillars: (i) structural and functional reorganization of the health care system through establishment of Kosovo Health Service (an autonomous and non-for-profit public enterprise at central level of the health care sector), and; (ii) establishment of the public health insurance system with the Health Insurance Fund as its main body. keywords: care; health; kosovo; mortality; population; public; system; years cache: seejph-1776.pdf plain text: seejph-1776.txt item: #86 of 508 id: seejph-1777 author: Dyakova, Mariana; Drew, Christian; Wright, Nicola; Clarke, Aileen; Rees, Karen title: Systematic versus opportunistic risk assessment for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: Cochrane systematic review protocol date: 2015-12-02 words: 2370 flesch: 46 summary: We present the rationale and methodology of a Cochrane systematic review, assessing the effectiveness, costs and adverse effects of systematic risk assessment compared to opportunistic risk assessment for the primary prevention of CVD. Keywords: cardiovascular disease, Cochrane systematic review protocol, risk assessment. keywords: assessment; cochrane; cvd; disease; health; prevention; risk; systematic cache: seejph-1777.pdf plain text: seejph-1777.txt item: #87 of 508 id: seejph-1778 author: Levett, Jeffrey title: Albanian castles in defence of Balkan public health date: 2015-12-02 words: 1711 flesch: 56 summary: It can help institutional renewal of public health, give a boost to investment in training for competence, promote Levett J. Albanian castles in defence of Balkan public health (Public Health Perspective). This network has an impressive list of publications covering a wide range of subject materials and books for students and has addressed the development of schools of public health and the need for a health curriculum for peace (4). keywords: balkan; europe; health; human; levett; public cache: seejph-1778.pdf plain text: seejph-1778.txt item: #88 of 508 id: seejph-1779 author: Jankovic, Slavenka title: Request for the retraction of the manuscript “Public health in Kosovo after five difficult years of independence” (Review article). SEEJPH 2013 by authors Jerliu N, Ramadani N, Mone I, Brand H. date: 2015-12-08 words: 580 flesch: 32 summary: They analyze or discuss research previously published…They come in the form of systematic reviews and literature reviews and are a form of secondary literature (1). Review articles draw upon the articles that they review to suggest new research directions, to strengthen support for existing theories and/or identify patterns among existing research studies (3). keywords: review; seejph cache: seejph-1779.pdf plain text: seejph-1779.txt item: #89 of 508 id: seejph-178 author: Dobe, Madhumita; Sahu, Monalisha title: How the Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh, India, fought Corona date: 2023-01-24 words: 3431 flesch: 38 summary: In-migration from other districts: By 4th May another 40,000 migrant workers re- turned to Kurnool district from other dis- tricts in the same state of Andhra Pradesh. Method: The authors compiled the publicly available information on different public health measures in Kurnool district and related them to the progression of COVID-19 from March to May 2020. keywords: andhra; cases; corona; district; india; kurnool; pradesh; state cache: seejph-178.pdf plain text: seejph-178.txt item: #90 of 508 id: seejph-1780 author: Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Marinkovic-Eric, Jelena title: Letter to Editors: Misunderstanding should be avoided by precise formulation: Comment on Jerliu et al. “Public Health in Kosovo after five difficult years of independence” date: 2015-12-08 words: 859 flesch: 48 summary: However, as the authors write, “…the nineties left Kosovo with a very inefficient health system characterized by a lack of trained personnel, disparities in health force distribution, leading to variations in access to primary care, corruption and informal payments as well as deteriorated child and adult health indicators”. “Public Health in Kosovo after five difficult years of independence” (Letter to editors). keywords: april; health; kosovo cache: seejph-1780.pdf plain text: seejph-1780.txt item: #91 of 508 id: seejph-1781 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: Editorial comment on the editorial policy of SEEJPH with reference to the comments by Bjegovic-Mikanovic & Marinkovic, and by Jankovic date: 2015-12-08 words: 472 flesch: 51 summary: One of us, Prof. Slavenka Jankovic together with her colleagues from Serbia clearly marked this deficit in their recent comments and even more the reference to Independence of Kosovo in the title, which was declared unilaterally on February 17 th , 2008, however judged not to violate international law by the International Court of Justice (1). We always strive to improve the rigidity of our reviewers’ work and, therefore, I welcome the critique by Prof. Slavenka Jankovic from a scientific point of view. keywords: paper cache: seejph-1781.pdf plain text: seejph-1781.txt item: #92 of 508 id: seejph-1783 author: Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Maeckelberghe, Els; Bordonada, Miguel Ángel Royo title: The Ethics effect date: 2015-12-03 words: 1260 flesch: 50 summary: To contribute to this endeavour, we welcome in this journal articles that have ethics integrated into the public health perspective; or articles that deal with public health ethics explicitly. Public health ethics: The voices of practitioners. keywords: ethics; health; public; schröder cache: seejph-1783.pdf plain text: seejph-1783.txt item: #93 of 508 id: seejph-1784 author: Adogu, Prosper; Udigwe, Ifeoma; Nwabueze, Achunam; Adinma, Echendu; Udigwe, Gerald; Onwasigwe, Chika title: Sexual health knowledge, attitude and risk perception among in-school and out-of-school female adolescents in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria date: 2015-12-03 words: 5440 flesch: 59 summary: However, it was decided to recruit a total sample of 800 female adolescents (400 among in-school adolescents and 400 among out-of school adolescents) in order to considerably increase the power of the study. Involvement in schools and plans to attend higher education are all related to less sexual risk- 8 Adogu P, Udigwe I, Nwabueze A, Adinma E, Udigwe G, Onwasigwe C. Sexual health knowledge, attitude and risk perception among in-school and out-of-school female adolescents in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria (Original research). keywords: adolescents; attitude; girls; health; hiv; knowledge; nigeria; perception; risk; school; sexual cache: seejph-1784.pdf plain text: seejph-1784.txt item: #94 of 508 id: seejph-1785 author: Skeraj, Fitim; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Bojaj, Gazmend; Burazeri, Genc title: Self-perceived level of competencies of family physicians in transitional Kosovo date: 2015-12-03 words: 4333 flesch: 45 summary: This is especially relevant for primary health care services which are considered as the most important level of health care in many developed countries (16), but also developing and transitional countries. Conclusion: Our study provides useful evidence on the self-assessed level of competencies of primary health care physicians in post-war Kosovo. keywords: care; competencies; family; health; kosovo; level; physicians; self; study cache: seejph-1785.pdf plain text: seejph-1785.txt item: #95 of 508 id: seejph-1786 author: Farkas, Jerneja; Lainscak, Mitja; Kukec, Andreja; Kosnik, Mitja title: Health-related behaviour among managers of Slovenian hospitals and institutes of public health date: 2015-12-03 words: 5061 flesch: 49 summary: Conclusion: Our findings point to a high prevalence of overweight and obesity as well as workplace-related stress among Slovenian public health managers. According to reports of International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services, hospital management attitudes are crucial for clinical health promotion among patients, implementation of health promotion activities for employees and quality control (5- 8). keywords: behaviour; farkas; health; healthcare; hospitals; institutes; managers; public; respondents; risk; slovenian; stress; study cache: seejph-1786.pdf plain text: seejph-1786.txt item: #96 of 508 id: seejph-1787 author: Kurti, Vera; Hafizi, Hasan; Kurt, Bardhyl; Kurti, Vera; Hafizi, Hasan; Kurti, Bardhyl title: Sex-differences in socioeconomic status and health-seeking behaviour among tuberculosis patients in transitional Albania in 2012-2013 date: 2015-12-03 words: 3256 flesch: 43 summary: Tuberculosis knowledge: Kurti V, Hafizi H, Kurti B, Marku F, Mema D, Burazeri G. Sex-differences in socioeconomic status and health- seeking behaviour among tuberculosis patients in transitional Albania in 2012-2013 (Original research). Relative income and acute coronary syndrome: A population-based case-control study in Tirana, Albania Kurti V, Hafizi H, Kurti B, Marku F, Mema D, Burazeri G. Sex-differences in socioeconomic status and health- seeking behaviour among tuberculosis patients in transitional Albania in 2012-2013 (Original research). keywords: albania; care; differences; health; patients; sex; tuberculosis cache: seejph-1787.pdf plain text: seejph-1787.txt item: #97 of 508 id: seejph-1788 author: Laaser, Ulrich; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna title: The United Nations millennium development and post-2015 sustainable development goals: Towards long-term social change and social stability An Introduction date: 2015-12-03 words: 1277 flesch: 42 summary: This request corresponds in a way to the results of the global survey of the World Federation of Public Health Associations on the experience of public health professionals from 71 countries with the MDGs (7-9), where the importance of “politics” was ranked highest in all continents, in particular by official spokespersons of public health associations. The modern concept of public health carries a great potential for healthy and therefore less aggressive societies. keywords: development; health; june; public cache: seejph-1788.pdf plain text: seejph-1788.txt item: #98 of 508 id: seejph-1789 author: Lueddeke, George R. title: Towards an integrative post-2015 sustainable development goal framework: Focusing on global justice – peace, security and basic human rights date: 2015-12-03 words: 9656 flesch: 48 summary: In addition, she advocates the need for prioritizing policy, strategy and action based on accurate analysis of reliable health information and epidemiological data; engaging in collaborative partnerships and networks; promoting good governance and accountability; using national think tank groups; scaling up and sustaining critical intervention for sustainable health development; promoting and supporting problem solving research; and developing and using participatory monitoring and evaluation systems. Although the MDGs have raised the profile of global health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, underpinned by the urgent need to address poverty worldwide, progress has been uneven both between and within countries. keywords: development; e e; e n; global; goals; health; human; june; m e; n d; o n; peace; post-2015; security; sustainable cache: seejph-1789.pdf plain text: seejph-1789.txt item: #99 of 508 id: seejph-1790 author: Masic, Izet title: Ethics in research and publication of research articles date: 2015-12-03 words: 3535 flesch: 40 summary: The Nordic countries proposed a much broader definition of fraud in scientific research describing it as “any degree of dishonesty”. There is no single solution that would allow full ethics in scientific research. keywords: article; authors; authorship; ethics; publication; research; results cache: seejph-1790.pdf plain text: seejph-1790.txt item: #100 of 508 id: seejph-1791 author: Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Flahault, Antoine; Otok, Robert; Shortell, Stephen M.; Wisbaum, Wendy; Laaser, Ulrich title: What we need to improve the Public Health Workforce in Europe? date: 2015-12-03 words: 9184 flesch: 43 summary: Keywords: public health competences, public health education, public health workforce. From core public health functions to core competences, teaching curricula and public health performance Competence based education and training Public health competences may be defined as a “…unique set of applied knowledge, skills, and other attributes, grounded in theory and evidence for the broad practice of public health” (3). keywords: bjegovic; competences; czabanowska; development; education; european; health; health education; health workforce; laaser; leadership; learning; mikanovic; need; professionals; public; schools; skills; training; workforce cache: seejph-1791.pdf plain text: seejph-1791.txt item: #101 of 508 id: seejph-1792 author: Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Laaser, Ulrich; Stjernberg, Louise title: Shaping and authorising a public health profession date: 2015-12-03 words: 3275 flesch: 44 summary: Firstly, we use the profession traits theory as a framework in arguing whether public health can be a legitimate profession in itself; secondly, we explain who public health professionals are and what usually is required for shaping the public health profession; and thirdly, we attempt to sketch the road to the authorisation or licensing of public health professionals. In order to discuss the shaping of a public health profession, a significant question relates to the extent that public health profession exhibits the characteristics of a profession. keywords: czabanowska; directive; european; health; profession; professionals; public; recognition; shaping cache: seejph-1792.pdf plain text: seejph-1792.txt item: #102 of 508 id: seejph-1793 author: Vekov, Toni Yonkov title: Control of public expenditure on drug products in Bulgaria – Policies and outcomes date: 2015-12-03 words: 2924 flesch: 45 summary: The contemporary approaches to drug policy in a number of European Union (EU) countries include negotiating discounts and rebates between the health insurance funds and the pharmaceutical manufacturers, as well as agreements for risk sharing in order to reduce the impact of the new patented medicines on the public budget. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that the long-term results of drug policies on discounts and programs for the controlled access of patients are more effective in terms of public spending, than the independent application of a reference price system within the PDL. Vekov TY. keywords: access; agreements; bulgaria; drug; medicines; policies; products cache: seejph-1793.pdf plain text: seejph-1793.txt item: #103 of 508 id: seejph-1795 author: Burazeri, Genc; Achterberg, Peter title: Health status in the transitional countries of South Eastern Europe date: 2015-12-07 words: 1994 flesch: 51 summary: Essentially, regardless of cross-country differences, a cluster of preventable risk factors (smoking, alcohol abuse, overweight, unhealthy diet, and lack of physical activity) are currently contributing in a very important way to the observed increase in the total burden of non- communicable diseases in SEE countries such as cancer, heart disease, lung and liver diseases, and diabetes. Furthermore, better statistics, regular health surveys and improved healthcare administrative data will allow for better research into the quality of the health systems and health status of the populations in SEE countries and inequalities within the countries, similar to the approach employed by their EU counterparts. keywords: albania; countries; health; region cache: seejph-1795.pdf plain text: seejph-1795.txt item: #104 of 508 id: seejph-1796 author: Jakovljevic, Mihajlo; Laaser, Ulrich title: Population aging from 1950 to 2010 in seventeen transitional countries in the wider region of South Eastern Europe date: 2015-12-07 words: 5256 flesch: 56 summary: DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-42 2 Abstract Aim: Population aging has profoundly reshaped demographic landscapes in all South Eastern European (SEE) countries. The speed of population aging has vastly accelerated (with a 2.5 fold increase) over the past three decades. keywords: aging; countries; eastern; europe; health; jakovljevic; nations; population; region; south; transitional; years cache: seejph-1796.pdf plain text: seejph-1796.txt item: #105 of 508 id: seejph-1797 author: Norman, Ishmael D.; Binka, Fred N.; Godi, Anthony H. title: Geophagia: A cultural-nutrition health-seeking behaviour with no redeeming psycho-social qualities date: 2015-12-07 words: 5767 flesch: 59 summary: Enzootic Geophagia of Calves and Lambs in Northern Cape and Northwest and the possible role of chronic manganese poisoning. Geophagia: keywords: behaviour; doi; earth; february; geophagia; ghana; health; nutrition; p<0.001; practice; qualities; research; study; women cache: seejph-1797.pdf plain text: seejph-1797.txt item: #106 of 508 id: seejph-1798 author: Pampuri, Orjola; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Hysa, Bajram; Roshi, Enver; Burazeri, Genc title: Public health leadership competency level among health professionals in a South Eastern European country date: 2015-12-07 words: 3329 flesch: 39 summary: Pampuri O, Czabanowska K, Hysa B, Roshi E, Burazeri G. Public health leadership competency level among health professionals in a South Eastern European country (Original research). “Aleksander Moisiu”, No. 88, Tirana, Albania; Telephone: +355672066183; E-mail: o.pampuri@yahoo.com Pampuri O, Czabanowska K, Hysa B, Roshi E, Burazeri G. Public health leadership competency level among health professionals in a South Eastern European country (Original research). keywords: competencies; competency; health; leadership; level; professionals; public cache: seejph-1798.pdf plain text: seejph-1798.txt item: #107 of 508 id: seejph-1799 author: Aigbokhaode, Adesuwa Q.; Isah, Essy C.; Isara, Alphonsus R. title: Health seeking behaviour among caregivers of under-five children in Edo State, Nigeria date: 2015-12-07 words: 4757 flesch: 57 summary: The poor knowledge danger signs in a child that should necessitate health care seeking demonstrated by caregivers in this study may have contributed to this practice. Health care seeking behaviour among market traders in Ibarapa central local government, Nigeria. keywords: behaviour; caregivers; children; edo; health; nigeria; respondents; seeking; state; study; treatment cache: seejph-1799.pdf plain text: seejph-1799.txt item: #108 of 508 id: seejph-18 author: Spasova, Zornitsa title: Seasonal variations of schizophrenic patients in emergency departments in Sofia, Bulgaria date: 2023-01-24 words: 3228 flesch: 53 summary: As for schizophrenia patients, there is still no cure, the research of etiologic factors, particularly environmental ones that could be avoided and used in effective prevention programs, is essential (1). They found that the mean monthly admission rates are significantly higher during the summer (for schizophrenia patients) and fall (for schizoaffective patients). keywords: bulgaria; disorders; emergency; patients; schizophrenia; seasonal; sofia; values; visits cache: seejph-18.pdf plain text: seejph-18.txt item: #109 of 508 id: seejph-1800 author: Harizi (Shemsi), Edlira; Rroji, Arben; Cekaj, Elton; Gabrani, Sazan title: Anatomical variations of the circle of Willis and cerebrovascular accidents in transitional Albania date: 2015-12-07 words: 3003 flesch: 46 summary: Of these, there were 22 (42.3%) cases with anatomical variations of the circle of Willis compared with no Harizi (Shemsi) E, Rroji A, Cekaj E, Gabrani S. Anatomical variations of the circle of Willis and cerebrovascular accidents in transitional Albania (Original research). Harizi (Shemsi) E, Rroji A, Cekaj E, Gabrani S. Anatomical variations of the circle of Willis and cerebrovascular accidents in transitional Albania (Original research). keywords: accidents; albania; circle; control; patients; variations; willis cache: seejph-1800.pdf plain text: seejph-1800.txt item: #110 of 508 id: seejph-1801 author: Ruseva, Maria; Chichevalieva, Snezhana; Harris, Meggan; Kostova, Neda Milevska; Jakubowski, Elke; Kluge, Hans; Martin-Moreno, Jose M. title: The South Eastern Europe Health Network: A model for regional collaboration in public health date: 2015-12-07 words: 6096 flesch: 48 summary: The Third Ministerial Forum in 2011 brought the signing of the Banja Luka Pledge (25), with the ministers’ unanimous commitment to sustain and strengthen the regional cooperation in public health in SEE; achieve equity and accountability in health; strengthen public health capacities and services; and foster intersectoral collaboration within national governments, with regional and international partners, and among all stakeholders interested in promoting sustainable health and wellbeing for the population. The South Eastern Europe Health Network: A model for regional collaboration in public health (Review article). keywords: collaboration; development; eastern; eastern europe; europe; europe health; health; network; office; seehn; south; south eastern; states cache: seejph-1801.pdf plain text: seejph-1801.txt item: #111 of 508 id: seejph-1802 author: Goodman, Julien D. title: The history of European public health education accreditation in perspective date: 2015-12-07 words: 4462 flesch: 53 summary: The reviews took place between July and October 2014 based upon the search terms of “public health education accreditation”. Goodman J. The history of European public health education accreditation in perspective (Review article). keywords: accreditation; american; development; education; european; health; public; public health; review; schools; training cache: seejph-1802.pdf plain text: seejph-1802.txt item: #112 of 508 id: seejph-1803 author: Stein, Hans title: The Maastricht Treaty 1992: Taking stock of the past and looking at future perspectives date: 2015-12-07 words: 12204 flesch: 59 summary: Conclusion: For the future of EU health policy it is essential that its position is considerably strengthened, in order to assure that health interests of the EU population are sufficiently safeguarded. The establishment of a legal base for EU health policy has never been the object of an overall plan or strategy of any EU institution. keywords: article; commission; december; economic; eu health; european; future; health; health policy; maastricht; past; policies; policy; public; stein; treaty cache: seejph-1803.pdf plain text: seejph-1803.txt item: #113 of 508 id: seejph-1804 author: Laaser, Wolfram title: The rise and fall of the “Massively Open Online Courses” date: 2015-12-07 words: 4762 flesch: 56 summary: Bremer C, Thillosen A. Der deutschsrachige Open Online Course OPCO12. The definition of the so-called MOOCs, also referred to as a “disruptive educational innovation”, however, is not very precise and has led to some irritations and scepticism. keywords: article; courses; doi; education; fall; laaser; learning; moocs; november; online; open; review; rise cache: seejph-1804.pdf plain text: seejph-1804.txt item: #114 of 508 id: seejph-1805 author: Heinzelmann, Wilfried title: The German-Jewish paediatrician Albert Eckstein (1891-1950) exiled to Turkey: Pioneering modern paediatric care and social hygiene (health sciences) during World War II date: 2015-12-07 words: 4735 flesch: 55 summary: DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-37 3 Introduction During the great remodelling of the Turkish nation under the government of Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938), the German-Jewish physician and emigrant Albert Eckstein (1891-1950), also often mentioned as “Architect of the modern Turkish health-care system” (1), made significant efforts in lowering child mortality. Heinzelmann W. The German-Jewish paediatrician Albert Eckstein (1891-1950) exiled to Turkey: keywords: albert; ankara; care; children; der; eckstein; health; heinzelmann; hygiene; paediatrician; sciences; turkey; und; war; world cache: seejph-1805.pdf plain text: seejph-1805.txt item: #115 of 508 id: seejph-1806 author: Burazeri, Genc; Laaser, Ulrich; Martin-Moreno, Jose M.; Schröder-Bäck, Peter title: Complete Issue date: 2015-11-13 words: 38121 flesch: 48 summary: We have obviously travelled a very long way indeed from the arguments about whether the EU had a significant role in public health policy, let alone that it could have anything to do with the functioning of national health systems. The method used ambient air quality data [information received from the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning (MoEPP)] for PM10 and PM2.5, health statistics – annual deaths by disease type; frequency of chronic bronchitis, asthma, infant mortality; and health cost data (information received from the Institute of Public Health and Health Insurance Fund), exposure-response functions from health studies (information from international and local literature) and population characteristics – age groups, gender, urban/rural population (information from the state Statistics Bureau). keywords: age; air; albania; analysis; article; association; belgrade; birth; bmi; bone; bulgaria; centrality; children; cost; countries; data; density; development; doi; effects; european; factors; health; health care; health impacts; health insurance; health policy; health status; healthcare; information; kosovo; kovačic; level; lifestyle; low; maternal; medical; mineral; mortality; mothers; national; national health; network; new; osteoporosis; players; pleven; pm10; policies; policy; population; pregnancy; public; public health; reaction; research; results; risk; seejph; seejph-2014; self; serbia; smoking; social; socioeconomic; study; system; table; transition; weight; women; years cache: seejph-1806.pdf plain text: seejph-1806.txt item: #116 of 508 id: seejph-1807 author: Bozikov, Jadranka title: E-health and m-health: Great potentials for health and wellbeing, but also for harmonization and European integration in health date: 2015-11-30 words: 3016 flesch: 44 summary: The Green paper on mobile health covered broad scope of m-health potential for both, healthcare and market. The Commission launched a public consultation on the Green Paper on mobile health (11) on 10th of April 2014. keywords: digital; european; health; mobile; october; wellbeing cache: seejph-1807.pdf plain text: seejph-1807.txt item: #117 of 508 id: seejph-1808 author: Wenzel, Helmut; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Laaser, Ulrich title: Piloting an advanced methodology to analyse health care policy networks: The example of Belgrade, Serbia date: 2015-11-30 words: 6439 flesch: 55 summary: DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-52 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Piloting an advanced methodology to analyse health care policy networks: Keywords: Belgrade‟s health care policy network, policy analysis, Serbia, social network analysis, sources of power. keywords: analyse; analysis; belgrade; care; centrality; health; health care; july; national; network; players; policy; research; serbia cache: seejph-1808.pdf plain text: seejph-1808.txt item: #118 of 508 id: seejph-1809 author: Meisner, Craig; Gjorgjev, Dragan; Tozija, Fimka title: Estimating health impacts and economic costs of air pollution in the Republic of Macedonia date: 2015-11-30 words: 3504 flesch: 49 summary: Estimated health impacts of air pollution, urban and rural, 2010 (Source: World Bank, 2012) Health impacts DALYs /10,000 cases CP mortality (PM2.5) 80,000 LC mortality (PM2.5) 80,000 ALRI mortality (PM10) 340,000 Chronic bronchitis (PM10) 22,000 Hospital admissions (PM10) 160 Emergency room visits (PM10) 45 Restricted activity days (PM10) 3 Lower respiratory illness in children (PM10) 65 Respiratory symptoms (PM10) 0.75 Total Monetizing health impacts To create a set of bounds three alternative valuation approaches were used: the (adjusted) Human Capital Approach (HCA) [the adjusted version avoids the issue of assigning a value of zero to the lives of the retired and the disabled since the traditional approach is based on foregone earnings. A reduction of even 1μg/m 3 in ambient PM10 or PM2.5 would imply 195 fewer deaths and represent an economic savings of €34 million per year in reduced health costs. keywords: air; costs; health; impacts; macedonia; mortality; pm10; pm2.5; pollution cache: seejph-1809.pdf plain text: seejph-1809.txt item: #119 of 508 id: seejph-1810 author: Jovic-Vranes, Aleksandra; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna title: Health and health status of children in Serbia and the desired Millennium Development Goals date: 2015-11-30 words: 3498 flesch: 50 summary: More preventive approaches and consistent efforts for improvement are needed in Serbia, to ensure that child health receives the attention and resources needed and secure the benefits that children and families require. Progress in the reduction of child mortality is one of the leading public health challenges in all countries (1). keywords: children; health; millennium; mortality; roma; serbia; status cache: seejph-1810.pdf plain text: seejph-1810.txt item: #120 of 508 id: seejph-1811 author: Kamburova, Mariela Stefanova; Hristova, Petkana Angelova; Georgieva, Stela Ludmilova; Khan, Azhar title: Adverse effects of maternal age, weight and smoking during pregnancy in Pleven, Bulgaria date: 2015-11-30 words: 4798 flesch: 60 summary: Campbell MK, Cartier S, Xie B, Kouniakis G, Huang W, Han V. Determinants of small for gestational age birth at term. Maternal characteristics correlated with normal birth-weight and low birth-weight (g) Characteristics Linear regression Logistic regression All (n=250) Low birth weight (N=58) Normal birth weight (N=192) Low birth weight P Mean±SE P Mean±SE P Mean±SE P OR (95%CI) keywords: age; birth; bmi; bulgaria; maternal; mothers; pleven; pregnancy; risk; smoking; study; weight cache: seejph-1811.pdf plain text: seejph-1811.txt item: #121 of 508 id: seejph-1812 author: Kollcaku, Artur; Kollcaku, Julia; Duraj, Valbona; Backa, Teuta; Tafaj, Argjend title: Lifestyle correlates of low bone mineral density in Albanian women date: 2015-11-30 words: 3827 flesch: 42 summary: Relative income and acute coronary syndrome: A population-based case-control study in Tirana, Albania Kollcaku A, Kollcaku J, Duraj V, Backa T, Tafaj A. Lifestyle correlates of low bone mineral density in Albanian women (Original research). DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-46 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Lifestyle correlates of low bone mineral density in Albanian women Artur Kollcaku1, Julia Kollcaku², Valbona Duraj1, Teuta Backa1, Argjend Tafaj1 1 Rheumatology Service, University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania; ² Ambulatory Health Service, Polyclinic, Tirana, Albania. keywords: bone; bone mineral; density; lifestyle; mineral; mineral density; osteoporosis; study; women cache: seejph-1812.pdf plain text: seejph-1812.txt item: #122 of 508 id: seejph-1813 author: Vekov, Toni Yonkov; Aleksandrova-Yankulovska, Silviya title: Public expenditure and drug policies in Bulgaria in 2014 date: 2015-11-30 words: 3045 flesch: 37 summary: DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-48 2 Abstract Aim: The objective of this study was to provide an analysis of the factors which have a significant impact on the growth of public expenditure on medical products in Bulgaria. Results: The results from the current analysis indicate that the growth of public expenditure is directly proportional to the number of reimbursed medical products and that the pattern of prescriptions including the innovative medical products mainly for the treatment of oncological and rare diseases has a significant impact on it. keywords: bulgaria; cost; drug; expenditure; expenses; health; healthcare; policies; products; public cache: seejph-1813.pdf plain text: seejph-1813.txt item: #123 of 508 id: seejph-1814 author: Qazimi, Musa; Cakerri, Luljeta; Tahiri, Zejdush; Burazeri, Genc title: Reaction to political and socioeconomic transition and self-perceived health status in the adult population of Gjilan region, Kosovo date: 2015-11-30 words: 4558 flesch: 33 summary: Qazimi M, Cakerri L, Tahiri Z, Burazeri G. Reaction to political and socioeconomic transition and self- perceived health status in the adult population of Gjilan region, Kosovo (Original research). “Avdulla Tahiri”, p.n. 60000, Gjilan, Kosovo Telephone: +381280323066; E-mail: micro_dental@hotmail.com Qazimi M, Cakerri L, Tahiri Z, Burazeri G. Reaction to political and socioeconomic transition and self- perceived health status in the adult population of Gjilan region, Kosovo (Original research). keywords: health; kosovo; population; reaction; self; status; study; transition cache: seejph-1814.pdf plain text: seejph-1814.txt item: #124 of 508 id: seejph-1815 author: Merkel, Bernard title: A growing competence: The unfinished story of the European Union health policy date: 2015-11-30 words: 2729 flesch: 59 summary: In this review, I will entirely leave aside his general discussion of the overall evolution of the EU and its future prospects, and instead concentrate on a few specific points about the development of EU health policy to date. We have obviously travelled a very long way indeed from the arguments about whether the EU had a significant role in public health policy, let alone that it could have anything to do with the functioning of national health systems. keywords: article; health; public; treaty cache: seejph-1815.pdf plain text: seejph-1815.txt item: #125 of 508 id: seejph-1816 author: Bozikov, Jadranka title: Obituary Professor Luka Kovacic, MD, PhD date: 2015-12-02 words: 2508 flesch: 65 summary: Poštovana obitelj Deželić, poštovana obitelj Kušan, poštovani kolege i prijatelji The Editors of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health express their deepest sorrow about the death of one of our most prominent members of the Editorial Board, Professor Luka Kovačić, founder of the Stability Pact’s Forum for Public Health in South Eastern Europe (FPH-SEE) in 2000/2001 and strong supporter of the creation of this journal. He graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb in 1965, and after a few years of medical practice he joined the Andrija Štampar School of Public Health which is a part of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. keywords: care; croatia; european; health; kovačić; luka; medicine; professor; public; school cache: seejph-1816.pdf plain text: seejph-1816.txt item: #126 of 508 id: seejph-1819 author: Burazeri, Genc; Laaser, Ulrich; Martin-Moreno, Jose M.; Schröder-Bäck, Peter title: Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health date: 2016-04-19 words: 933 flesch: 61 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-89 1 EDITORIAL Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health Genc Burazeri 1,2 , Ulrich Laaser 3 , Jose M. Martin-Moreno 4,5 , Peter Schröder-Bäck 2,6 1 School of Public Health, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 2 Department of International Health, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 3 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; 4 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Valencia, Spain; 5 INCLIVA Research Institute, University of Valencia Clinical Hospital, Valencia, Spain; 6 Faculty of Human and Health Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Burazeri G, Laaser U, Martin-Moreno JM, Schröder-Bäck P. Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Editorial). keywords: health; public; seejph; south cache: seejph-1819.pdf plain text: seejph-1819.txt item: #127 of 508 id: seejph-1820 author: Thomas-Reilly, R. Gregory; Tozija, Fimka; Soltan, Viorel; Nikovska, Dance G; Crudu, Valeriu; Atun, Rifat; McKee, Martin title: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Moldova and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: The importance of health system governance date: 2016-04-19 words: 4428 flesch: 48 summary: This study examines the role of health systems in amplifying or preventing the development of MDR-TB. Methods: We present two comparative studies, which were undertaken in The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (TFYR Macedonia) and Moldova. Keywords: drug-resistance, Europe, health systems, MDR-TB, Moldova, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, tuberculosis. keywords: care; governance; health; informants; macedonia; mckee; moldova; republic; research; systems; tuberculosis cache: seejph-1820.pdf plain text: seejph-1820.txt item: #128 of 508 id: seejph-1821 author: Nubani-Husseini, Maha; Berry, Elliot; Abdeen, Ziad; Donchin, Milka title: Dietary patterns and physical activity among Palestinian female schoolchildren in East Jerusalem date: 2016-04-19 words: 5749 flesch: 57 summary: The purpose of this paper is to describe nutritional and physical activity habits and their socio-demographic determinants among Palestinian girls in East Jerusalem schools of different types of ownerships. Methods: A cross-sectional study of grade 4 and 5 pupils (mean age: 11 years) in 14 all-girl schools in East Jerusalem, of four different types of school ownership (overall N=897), was conducted, using self-administered questionnaires and height and weight measurements. keywords: activity; breakfast; east; eating; health; jerusalem; obesity; overweight; palestinian; schoolchildren; schools; study cache: seejph-1821.pdf plain text: seejph-1821.txt item: #129 of 508 id: seejph-1822 author: Laci, Ilirian; Spahiu, Alketa title: Concurrent validity of radiography and ultrasound examination for the diagnosis of aortic aneurisms in Albanian patients date: 2016-04-19 words: 3147 flesch: 41 summary: It should be noted that radiography played a major role in thoracic aortic aneurisms, but less so for abdominal aortic aneurisms, except for old abdominal aneurisms with wall calcifications which enabled a prompt diagnosis upon radiography. In particular, radiography played a major role for detection of thoracic aortic aneurisms, whereas in cases of abdominal aortic aneurisms it was less effective (valid). keywords: aneurisms; aortic; diagnosis; examination; patients; radiography; ultrasound cache: seejph-1822.pdf plain text: seejph-1822.txt item: #130 of 508 id: seejph-1823 author: Wenzel, Helmut; Unger, Edgar title: Influence of a six-month strengthening programme on HbA1c, cholesterol and triglycerides in type II diabetics: A pilot study date: 2016-04-19 words: 5578 flesch: 59 summary: Resistance exercise training lowers HbA1c more than aerobic training in adults with type 2 diabetes. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-96 2 Abstract Aim: To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of resistance training on glycaemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes, the additional risk factors including low physical activity, measured by HbA1c, body weight, cholesterol and triglycerides. keywords: cholesterol; diabetes; hba1c; march; physical; pilot; research; resistance; risk; study; training; triglycerides; type cache: seejph-1823.pdf plain text: seejph-1823.txt item: #131 of 508 id: seejph-1824 author: Jakovljevic, Mihajlo; Souliotis, Kyriakos title: Pharmaceutical expenditure changes in Serbia and Greece during the global economic recession date: 2016-04-19 words: 5659 flesch: 46 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH- 2016-101 2 Abstract Aim: Clarity on health expenditures is essential for the timely identification of risks that jeopardize the democratic provision of health services and the credibility of health insurance systems. While health expenditure per capita (PPP$) in Serbia still succeeded to grow for 19.4%, the Greek one felt almost 14% during these six years. keywords: changes; economic; expenditure; gdp; greece; health; jakovljevic; pharmaceutical; public; recession; research; serbia; souliotis cache: seejph-1824.pdf plain text: seejph-1824.txt item: #132 of 508 id: seejph-1825 author: Laaser, Ulrich; Schröder-Bäck, Peter title: Towards a Code of Conduct for the European Public Health Profession! date: 2016-04-19 words: 2161 flesch: 51 summary: Even though the values we mentioned and affirmed above are somewhat reflected in the Code of the Leadership Society, values that seem particularly important for a European perspective on public health – namely solidarity and equity – are not explicitly mentioned. If we assume – what we do – that a Code of Conduct is important to function as an explicit normative compass for public health and to help building the public health profession for Europe, then such a Code of Conduct should be formulated and it will help to further professionalization of public health. Professionalization of public health is important to advance public health education, training, and practice. keywords: code; ethics; european; health; laaser; profession; public cache: seejph-1825.pdf plain text: seejph-1825.txt item: #133 of 508 id: seejph-1826 author: Wiskow, Christiane; Ruseva, Maria; Laaser, Ulrich title: Ten years onwards: Comparison of the South Eastern European regional public health strategy 2004 and the South Eastern European 2020 strategy date: 2016-04-19 words: 9644 flesch: 45 summary: Public Health Strategies: A Tool for Regional Development, page 629] SEE regional public health strategy framework, 2005-2010 Goals and objectives Goal 1 Improving equity in health 1.1: Targeting vulnerable groups 1.2: Ensuring adequate and safe living conditions Goal 2 Strengthening social participation 2.1: Mapping social participation opportunities and initiatives 2.2: Awareness rising and empowerment of the public 2.3: Developing mechanisms to involve civil society in decision making processes Goal 3 Strengthening human resources in public health 3.1: Ensuring sustainable development of human resources 3.2: Keywords: public health strategy, regional collaboration, socioeconomic development. keywords: collaboration; countries; development; eastern; european; framework; health; health strategy; policies; public; regional; social; south; strategy; systems; years cache: seejph-1826.pdf plain text: seejph-1826.txt item: #134 of 508 id: seejph-1827 author: Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna title: Governance and management of health care institutions in Serbia: An overview of recent developments date: 2016-04-19 words: 10738 flesch: 41 summary: Continuing education on health care management is being offered in Serbia at an increasing scale, in response to the health care system’s well-known deficits. Recently, at the Belgrade School of Medicine, a postgraduate Master’s program in health care management was established. keywords: article; bjegovic; board; care institutions; development; february; governance; health; health care; institutions; level; management; managers; mikanovic; organization; overview; serbia; services; system cache: seejph-1827.pdf plain text: seejph-1827.txt item: #135 of 508 id: seejph-1830 author: Levett, Jeffrey title: First half century of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region date: 2016-04-20 words: 1390 flesch: 57 summary: No better gift can come from the political world than greater recognition of Schools and Institutions of Public Health in tandem with the ascendancy of public health up the political agenda. The celebration is hosted by the Hellenic School, an institution finally launched in 1929, following heroic efforts of Greek pioneers in malaria and after a bizarre pandemic of dengue fever and a little known, unique and short-lived revolution in public health, which hiccoughed its way into history (2-5). keywords: aspher; european; health; levett; schools cache: seejph-1830.pdf plain text: seejph-1830.txt item: #136 of 508 id: seejph-1831 author: Bozikov, Jadranka title: Half century of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region: A significant contribution to public health education date: 2016-04-22 words: 2875 flesch: 54 summary: Participants of the first ASPHER General Assembly, convened from October 7-12, 1968, in front of the Andrija Stampar School of Public Health in Zagreb, Croatia The School of Public Health in Zagreb was established in 1927 by funds of the Rockefeller Foundation and the efforts of Dr. Andrija Stampar as one of the oldest Schools of Public Health in Europe. Corresponding author: Jadranka Bozikov, PhD Address: Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Rockefeller St. 4, Zagreb, Croatia; Telephone: +38514590101; E-mail: jbozikov@snz.hr Conflicts of interest: The author is the Director of the Andrija Stampar School of Public Health in Zagreb, Croatia, which is one of the founding members of ASPHER. keywords: andrija; aspher; association; health; public; schools; stampar cache: seejph-1831.pdf plain text: seejph-1831.txt item: #137 of 508 id: seejph-1832 author: Mitevska, Lolita; Stanculescu, Manuela Sofia; Stikova, Elisaveta title: Performance of the public health care sector in the Republic of Macedonia date: 2016-04-14 words: 5415 flesch: 49 summary: Assessment of the performance of public health care system in the Republic of Macedonia ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PERFORMANCE CATEGORY NUMBER PERCENT SCORE (1-5) Availability of health care services Very poor 0 Poor 11 8.8 Medium 43 34.4 Good 48 38.4 Very good 23 18.4 Average Score 3.7 Quality of health-care services Very poor 1 0.8 Poor 11 8.8 Medium 52 41.6 The assessment of the expected and actual performances of public health care system was based on the data collected from 175 interviewed respondents: 125 knowledgeable observers (family physicians and medical specialists in hospitals or emergency centers), and 50 individual witnesses (patients or their family members who were diagnosed during the period between the 1 st of January 2010 to the 31 st of December 2011). keywords: care; health; health care; macedonia; performance; public; republic; services; system cache: seejph-1832.pdf plain text: seejph-1832.txt item: #138 of 508 id: seejph-1833 author: Gjorgji, Petrit; Kruja, Jera title: Trends and demographic characteristics of hemorrhagic stroke in Albania during the period 2004-2015 date: 2016-07-26 words: 2774 flesch: 52 summary: Overall, there was evidence of a significant linear trend over time (Mann-Kendall test: P<0.01), indicating a gradual increase in the number of hemorrhagic stroke cases in Albania for the period 2004-2015. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJP-2016-123 4 Mann-Kendall test was used to assess the linear trend in the distribution of the number of hemorrhagic stroke cases in Albania for the period 2004-2015. keywords: albania; cases; period; stroke; years cache: seejph-1833.pdf plain text: seejph-1833.txt item: #139 of 508 id: seejph-1834 author: Selli, Kristina; Czabanowska, Kasia; Danusevičienė, Lina; Butkevičienė, Rūta; Jurkuvienė, Ramunė; Overall, Judy title: Discrimination of elderly patients in the health care system of Lithuania date: 2016-07-26 words: 9353 flesch: 54 summary: One of the reasons for the incomplete implementation of human rights in elderly patient care is likely the non-binding character of many conventions and charters instead of binding legislation. Nevertheless even our small study reveals serious violations of elderly patients‟ rights and should arose the attention of politicians, stakeholders and professionals and help to initiate further studies to analyse the quantity and quality of human rights neglect in elderly patient care. keywords: age; care; court; discrimination; elderly; health; health care; human; lack; lithuania; november; patients; research; rights; system cache: seejph-1834.pdf plain text: seejph-1834.txt item: #140 of 508 id: seejph-1835 author: Kollcaku, Julia; Kollcaku, Artur title: Correlates of rheumatoid arthritis among women in Albania date: 2016-08-29 words: 3300 flesch: 44 summary: Kollcaku J, Kollcaku A. Correlates of rheumatoid arthritis among women in Albania (Original research). DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-127 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Correlates of rheumatoid arthritis among women in Albania Julia Kollcaku1, Artur Kollcaku2 1 Ambulatory Health Service, Polyclinic No. 3, Tirana, Albania; 2 Rheumatology Service, University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania. keywords: albania; arthritis; factors; kollcaku; rheumatoid; study; women; years cache: seejph-1835.pdf plain text: seejph-1835.txt item: #141 of 508 id: seejph-1836 author: Modisenyane, Moeketsi; Senkubuge, Flavia; Hendricks, Stephen JH title: Global health in foreign policy in South Africa – Evidence from state actors date: 2016-09-20 words: 6977 flesch: 54 summary: Keywords: diplomacy, foreign policy, global health, global health diplomacy, South Africa. Global health in foreign policy in South Africa – Evidence from state actors (Original research). keywords: actors; africa; diplomacy; doi; global; health; policy; research; respondents; south; south africa; state; study cache: seejph-1836.pdf plain text: seejph-1836.txt item: #142 of 508 id: seejph-1837 author: Arenas-Monreal, Luz; Pacheco-Magana, Lilian E; Rueda-Neria, Celina; Carrillo-Estrada, Josue; Marquez-Serrano, Margarita; Magana-Valladares, Laura; Rivera-Pasquel, Marta title: An educational initiative for Mexican school-aged children to promote the consumption of fruit, vegetables and physical activity date: 2016-10-01 words: 5786 flesch: 58 summary: Effectiveness of a diet and physical activity promotion strategy on the prevention of obesity in Mexican school children. Conclusion: In addition to educational activities, schools need to implement strategies to improve the access and availability of fresh foods while limiting the access of high energy- density foods. keywords: activity; arenas; changes; children; community; consumption; food; fruit; health; initiative; magana; research; rivera; school; study; vegetables cache: seejph-1837.pdf plain text: seejph-1837.txt item: #143 of 508 id: seejph-1839 author: Bozikov, Jadranka title: European and North American Schools of Public Health – Establishment, growth, differences and similarities date: 2016-06-03 words: 4872 flesch: 45 summary: As opposed to that, the North American model of Public Health education is unique due to the fact that American SPHs operate independently from the healthcare system. It seemed that the European scene of Public Health education had been changing but CEE countries showed to be polarized: in some countries US-type SPHs had been established, whereas in the others even the new initiatives were based at the training under the umbrella of MoHs, likely due to historical reasons as it was stated in the conclusion (9). keywords: american; aspher; education; european; health; institutions; medical; north; programmes; public; schools; sphs cache: seejph-1839.pdf plain text: seejph-1839.txt item: #144 of 508 id: seejph-184 author: Bishaw, Tewabech title: COVID -19 Pandemic -Increasing the African Access to VaccinationA Strategy to Curb the Global Spread of Infection date: 2023-01-24 words: 2016 flesch: 41 summary: Through alliances with US CDC, aca- demia, scientific organizations, and other partners, Africa CDC developed and released training to address priority national response needs; as a result, COVID-19 laboratory test- ing capacity grew from two countries early in the outbreak to all 55 AU member states by August 2020. DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4608 P a g e 4 | 5 Urgent Appeal for 300 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines for Africa The Lancet COVID-19 Commission Africa Task Force June 30, 2021 On behalf of the people of Africa, we appeal urgently to the vaccine-producing nations for emergency donations and shipments of at least 300 million doses of vaccines to enable every country in Africa to fully immunize at least 20 percent of its adult population by end of August 2021.1 Africa is currently experiencing the third and deadliest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by the highly contagious Delta Variant that was responsible for the recent devastating surge of disease and deaths in India. keywords: africa; countries; covid-19; doses; health; pandemic cache: seejph-184.pdf plain text: seejph-184.txt item: #145 of 508 id: seejph-1840 author: Laaser, Ulrich; Lueddeke, George; Nurse, Joanna title: Launch of the ‘One Health Global Think-Tank for Sustainable Health & Well-being’ – 2030 (GHW-2030) date: 2016-04-20 words: 8973 flesch: 36 summary: Barbara RIMER Dean, University of North Carolina (UNC) GillingsSchool of Global Public Health. The South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) published several papers (Volumes 2,3,5) on the UN Global Goals (2, 3, 4). keywords: april; commonwealth; development; doi; education; ghw-2030; global; health; laaser; lueddeke; nurse; policy; public; report; secretariat; seejph; social; tank; think; think tank; unibi; university cache: seejph-1840.pdf plain text: seejph-1840.txt item: #146 of 508 id: seejph-1841 author: Lueddeke, George R.; Kaufman, Gretchen E.; Kahn, Laura H.; Krecek, Rosina C.; Willingham, A. Lee; Stroud, Cheryl M.; Lindenmayer, Joann M.; Kaplan, Bruce; Conti, Lisa A.; Monath, Thomas P.; Woodall, John (Jack) title: Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education date: 2016-06-03 words: 1884 flesch: 40 summary: E-mail: gkaufman10@gmail.com 1,3 Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP. Co-founder, global One Health Initiative team. Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education George R. Lueddeke 1,2 , Gretchen E. Kaufman 1,2 , Laura H. Kahn 1,3 , Rosina C. Krecek 1,2 , A. Lee Willingham 1,2 , Cheryl M. Stroud 1,2 , Joann M. Lindenmayer 1,2 , Bruce Kaplan 1,3 , Lisa A. Conti 3 , Thomas P. Monath 3 , John (Jack) Woodall 3 1 One Health Education Task Force; 2 One Health Commission; 3 One Health Initiative. keywords: education; global; health; initiative; need; world cache: seejph-1841.pdf plain text: seejph-1841.txt item: #147 of 508 id: seejph-1842 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: Complete Issue date: 2017-11-16 words: 41491 flesch: 48 summary: In a response to solve this, researchers are constantly evaluating and checking their research work against ethical aspects of public health; assessing whether the recommendations that are or can be derived from their work can be ethically justified. Even though there has been a growing interest on how ethics applies to public health, it has not yet gained a prominent position in all public health research. keywords: achievement; adulthood; albania; article; characteristics; criteria; december; development; differences; disaster; disaster nursing; disaster preparedness; doi:10.4119; education; emergency; environmental; ethics; ethnic; european; experience; factors; health; health care; health ethics; health programme; health protection; health services; health values; high; knowledge; life; medical; national; need; non; nurses; nursing; order; patients; php; population; preparedness; principles; project; public; public health; quality health; research; response; review; role; roma; satisfaction; seejph; seejph-2017; smoking; strategies; study; table; time; trajectories; ukraine; unibi; university; women; work cache: seejph-1842.pdf plain text: seejph-1842.txt item: #148 of 508 id: seejph-1843 author: Kalaitzi, Valia title: The mark of women’s leadership on solutions to global health problems date: 2016-10-07 words: 1120 flesch: 50 summary: Global health leadership falls behind in providing the opportunities and motivation to female leaders to unfold their talents and give their touch to new health challenges. That balance can be changed to benefit global health. keywords: global; health; leadership; women cache: seejph-1843.pdf plain text: seejph-1843.txt item: #149 of 508 id: seejph-1844 author: Duval, Laetitia; Wolff, François-Charles; McKee, Martin; Roberts, Bayard title: Ethnic differences in smoking behaviour: The situation of Roma in Eastern Europe date: 2016-12-14 words: 6614 flesch: 61 summary: Previous research on Roma health tends to be restricted to a small number of countries, mainly Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (15,16,23,26), and which often use small sample sizes which make comparisons between Roma and non-Roma groups of population difficult. Our findings show that Roma respondents are more likely to smoke and are heavier smokers on average compared to non-Roma (with substantial heterogeneity in the gap between the Duval L, Wolff FC, McKee M, Roberts B. Ethnic differences in smoking behaviour: The situation of Roma in Eastern Europe (Original research). keywords: behaviour; cigarette; consumption; differences; discrimination; ethnic; europe; health; mckee; public; research; roma; smokers; smoking cache: seejph-1844.pdf plain text: seejph-1844.txt item: #150 of 508 id: seejph-1845 author: Otenyo, Nelly K. title: The relevance of ethics in the European Union’s second public health programme date: 2017-03-10 words: 7872 flesch: 47 summary: Methodological and theoretical limitations including other potential challenges The results from this study will indicate whether ethical concepts and public health ethics are already a constituent part of public health projects particularly with regard to the Second EU Public Health Programme. Therefore, future public health programmes could use this as an opportunity to emphasis on the inclusion and application of ethical principles in public health projects. keywords: care; ethics; health; health care; php; principles; programme; project; public; quality; values cache: seejph-1845.pdf plain text: seejph-1845.txt item: #151 of 508 id: seejph-1846 author: Piumatti, Giovanni title: Trajectories of life satisfaction during one-year period among university students: Relations with measures of achievement strategies and perception of criteria for adulthood date: 2017-03-20 words: 5112 flesch: 49 summary: Life satisfaction trajectories (mean values in a scale 1-7) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 T1 life satisfaction T2 life satisfaction T3 life satisfaction High stable (n = 52; 37%) Moderate decreasing (n = 82; 57%) Low stable (n = 9; 6%) Piumatti G. Trajectories of life satisfaction during one-year period among university students: Relations with measures of achievement strategies and perception of criteria for adulthood (Original research). First, starting from the non-significant findings, it appeared that the perception of the most important criteria for adulthood (i.e., family capacities, interdependence, norm compliance) are not correlated to life satisfaction trajectories, either low or high. keywords: achievement; adulthood; criteria; life; satisfaction; strategies; students; time; trajectories; university cache: seejph-1846.pdf plain text: seejph-1846.txt item: #152 of 508 id: seejph-1847 author: Grochtdreis, Thomas; de Jong, Nynke; Harenberg, Niels; Görres, Stefan; Schröder-Bäck, Peter title: Nurses’ roles, knowledge and experience in national disaster pre-paredness and emergency response: A literature review date: 2016-12-16 words: 9689 flesch: 48 summary: Errington G. Stress among disaster nurses and relief workers. Where non-existent, national directives and concepts for disaster nursing should be developed and nurses should be aware of their duties. keywords: care; competencies; disaster; disaster nursing; disaster preparedness; education; emergency; emergency response; experience; health; knowledge; literature; nurses; nursing; preparedness; response; review; roles; training; work cache: seejph-1847.pdf plain text: seejph-1847.txt item: #153 of 508 id: seejph-1848 author: Senyuta, Iryna title: The emerging public health legislation in Ukraine date: 2017-04-03 words: 4293 flesch: 44 summary: DOI:10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-141 2 Abstract As Ukraine has started the legal process for a public health legislation, this narrative review attempts to: i) characterize recent legal acts (which are current as well as drafts) and international standards in the sphere of public health; ii) analyze the definitions of public health legally relevant to Ukraine, in particular: public health and public health protection; iii) discuss related definitions relevant to the health sector; iv) characterize the main subjects tasked to protect public health; v) and clarify the necessary educational innovations, which are the basis in the preparation of human resources for an efficient implementation of the public health concept. Keywords: health care, multiprofessionality, public health, public health protection, Ukraine. keywords: care; health; law; population; protection; public; state; system; ukraine cache: seejph-1848.pdf plain text: seejph-1848.txt item: #154 of 508 id: seejph-1849 author: Kahn, Laura H. title: Protecting the planet and sustainable development date: 2017-02-09 words: 2654 flesch: 37 summary: First, those who work on environmental health, such as occupational and environmental physicians, nurses, and environmental health specialists, focus their work primarily on abiotic (i.e. non-living) contaminants, pesticides, and toxic waste exposures in occupational settings that affect workers. DOI:10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-135 3 Expanding the definition of environmental health keywords: december; development; ecosystem; environmental; food; health; u.s cache: seejph-1849.pdf plain text: seejph-1849.txt item: #155 of 508 id: seejph-185 author: Satyamoorthy, Adhitya; Brand, Helmut; Kessel, Robin van title: How to minimize negative health effects in the European Union due to the Economic recession caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic date: 2023-01-24 words: 6297 flesch: 64 summary: Satyamoorthy A, Brand H, van Kessel R. How to minimize negative health effects in the European Union due to the Economic recession caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic (Original research). 15 ORIGINAL RESEARCH How to minimize negative health effects in the European Union due to the Economic recession caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic Adhitya Satyamoorthy1, Helmut Brand1,2, Robin van Kessel1,3 1 Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 2 Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karna- taka, India; 3 Maastricht Working on Europe, Studio Europa, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Nether- lands. keywords: available; covid-19; crisis; effects; european; health; health effects; march; measures; pandemic; recession; union; van cache: seejph-185.pdf plain text: seejph-185.txt item: #156 of 508 id: seejph-1850 author: Rustani-Batku, Manushaqe; Tonuzi, Ali title: Socio-demographic factors and selected clinical characteristics of patients with retinal vein occlusions in transitional Albania date: 2017-03-16 words: 3123 flesch: 47 summary: Rustani-Batku, Tonuzi A. Socio-demographic factors and selected clinical characteristics of patients with retinal vein occlusions in transitional Albania (Short report). DOI:10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-139 1 SHORT REPORT Socio-demographic factors and selected clinical characteristics of patients with retinal vein occlusions in transitional Albania Manushaqe Rustani-Batku1, Ali Tonuzi2 1 Primary Health Care Center No. 2, Tirana, Albania; 2 University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania. keywords: albania; characteristics; factors; patients; rvo; socio cache: seejph-1850.pdf plain text: seejph-1850.txt item: #157 of 508 id: seejph-1851 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: Complete Issue date: 2017-11-21 words: 51312 flesch: 42 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-148 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Enhancing health system’s governance through demographic and health surveys in transitional European countries: The example of Albania Herion Muja1,2, Genc Burazeri1,2, Peter Schröder-Bäck1, Helmut Brand1 1Department of International Health, School CAPHRI, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 2 Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania. The Dutch long-term care reform: Moral conflicts in executing the Social Support Act 2015 Wesley Jongen1, Peter Schröder-Bäck1, Jos MGA Schols2 1 Department of International Health, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; 2 Department of Health Services Research and Department of Family Medicine, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. keywords: act; activities; albania; approach; article; bäck; combatants; conflicts; countries; curriculum; data; development; disease; doi; ethical; european; evaluation; general; global; government; group; health; health care; health education; health organization; health policy; health report; health services; health survey; health system; healthcare; http://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/seejph-2017-142; implementation; international; level; march; medical; municipalities; need; new; people; primary; principles; project; public; public health; quality; reform; research; respondents; results; review; schröder; seejph-2017; services; social; society; standards; study; support; support act; surveillance; survey; sustainable; systems; term; term care; time; unibi; university; use; values; war; world health cache: seejph-1851.pdf plain text: seejph-1851.txt item: #158 of 508 id: seejph-1852 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: Reflections on the Liberian Civil War, 1989-2003 date: 2017-10-30 words: 803 flesch: 48 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-154 2 The generation which experienced war in Europe – World War II – is passing away and with it those who can tell ‘in their own words’ from war experience and trauma. Documented experience in Europe and notably Germany shows war traumata handed over through several generations, from the parents experiencing war to their children and even grand-children, a threat for social stability and cohesion: ‘Because of the war my parents simply did not experience that the world is a safe place where one can feel well and protected. keywords: bielefeld; liberian; war cache: seejph-1852.pdf plain text: seejph-1852.txt item: #159 of 508 id: seejph-1853 author: Rusnak, Martin; Duric, Predrag; Jakubcova, Denisa; Rusnakova, Viera; Obradovic-Balihodzic, Amina title: Introduction of the European Union case definitions to primary care physicians has improved the quality of communicable diseases notification in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina date: 2017-05-22 words: 3718 flesch: 43 summary: Principles of communicable disease surveillance and use of case definitions with emphasis on importance of surveillance, techniques, categories and use of the EU case definitions were presented by the project. Communicable disease surveillance is the first step towards prevention and it is one of the most important tools used in public health. keywords: care; communicable; diseases; health; notification; physicians; public; quality; surveillance cache: seejph-1853.pdf plain text: seejph-1853.txt item: #160 of 508 id: seejph-1854 author: Muja, Herion; Burazeri, Genc; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Brand, Helmut title: Enhancing health system’s governance through demographic and health surveys in transitional European countries: The example of Albania date: 2017-08-15 words: 3517 flesch: 30 summary: Keywords: Albania, Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), health examination survey, health information system, health interview survey, health system governance. The ultimate goal of a well-functioning HIS is a continuous and synchronized endeavor to gather, process, report and use health information and the knowledge generated for the good governance of health systems; in other words: influence policy and decision-making, design activities and programs which eventually improve the health outcomes of the population, but also contribute to more efficient use of (often limited) resources (1,3,4). keywords: albania; countries; data; dhs; health; level; research; surveys; system cache: seejph-1854.pdf plain text: seejph-1854.txt item: #161 of 508 id: seejph-1855 author: Groote, Per M. von; Skempes, Dimitrios; Bickenbach, Jerome E. title: Evaluation of an implementation strategy for a World Health Organization (WHO) public health report: The implementation of the International Perspectives on Spinal Cord Injury (IPSCI) in Romania date: 2017-10-11 words: 7076 flesch: 38 summary: More specifically, it seeks to: a) evaluate implementation actions with a focus on a number of people reached and status of completion at 12 months follow-up; b) describe implementation activities undertaken in the course of one year, and; c) evaluate perceived barriers and facilitators of implementation at 12 months follow-up. Results on the implementation status, implementation activities performed and self-reported barriers and facilitators were analysed and reported using descriptive statistics. keywords: activities; cord; health; implementation; injury; ipsci; organization; people; policy; public; report; research; romania; spinal; world cache: seejph-1855.pdf plain text: seejph-1855.txt item: #162 of 508 id: seejph-1856 author: Jongen, Wesley; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Schols, Jos MGA title: The Dutch long-term care reform: Moral conflicts in executing the Social Support Act 2015 date: 2017-10-11 words: 11538 flesch: 46 summary: Or, as one respondent put it: “It depends on the individual perception of people whether they experience the introduction of the new Social Support Act as an advantage or a disadvantage”. The decreasing level of formal care provision can also be considered as a disadvantage on a societal level, when considering the more long-term expected consequences of the implementation of the Social Support Act 2015. keywords: care; care reform; conflicts; dutch; health; municipalities; people; principles; reform; research; respondents; schröder; support; support act; term care cache: seejph-1856.pdf plain text: seejph-1856.txt item: #163 of 508 id: seejph-1857 author: Taylor, Aloysius P. title: From their own words: An explorative qualitative study on the experience of combatants disabled in the Liberian civil war,1989-2003 date: 2017-10-30 words: 6076 flesch: 53 summary: Recommendations: Establishment of a trust fund for survivors of the civil war who are disabled; reform of the National Bureau of Veteran Affairs to include the disabled ex- combatants of all former warring factions; erection as planned of the proposed Veterans Hospital; a national census of disabled ex-combatants and war victims. This publication, though conducted in only one of the 15 counties of Liberia, contributes to the knowledge needed for the attainment of a better living condition for disabled ex-combatants as well as promoting sustainable peace in Liberia. keywords: combatants; doi; experience; fighters; liberia; research; study; war; war,1989; words cache: seejph-1857.pdf plain text: seejph-1857.txt item: #164 of 508 id: seejph-1858 author: Lueddeke, George R.; Kaufman, Gretchen E.; Lindenmayer, Joann M.; Stroud, Cheryl M. title: Preparing society to create the world we need through“One Health”education date: 2017-04-20 words: 10445 flesch: 43 summary: DOI: 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH- 2017-142 4 Summary of online One Health education survey results The purpose of the One Health Education online survey was to elucidate concepts, values and principles that respondents associated with One Health, and to begin to define how the One Health concept might be operationalized in K-12 schools. Conclusion We assumed that most people attending this conference (10) do support the idea of K-12 One Health Education. keywords: april; article; curriculum; development; education; global; health; health education; http://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/seejph-2017-142; k-12; kaufman; lindenmayer; lueddeke; need; review; society; stroud; survey; sustainable; world cache: seejph-1858.pdf plain text: seejph-1858.txt item: #165 of 508 id: seejph-1859 author: Sarancha, Vitaliy; Sulyma, Vadym; Pros, Nenad; Vitale, Ksenija title: Approaches to the international standards application in healthcare and public health in different countries date: 2017-06-07 words: 6055 flesch: 28 summary: Сhallenges(Approaches to)forInternational Standards application inHealth Sarancha V, Sulyma V, Pros N, Vitale K. Approaches to the international standards application in healthcare and public health in different countries (Review article). DOI: 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH 2017-145 1 REVIEW ARTICLE Approaches to the international standards application in healthcare and public health in different countries Vitaliy Sarancha1, Vadym Sulyma2, Nenad Pros3, Ksenija Vitale1 1 School of Public Health “A. Stampar”, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; 2 Department of Traumatology, Ivano - Frankivsk National Medical University, Ivano – Frankivsk, Ukraine; 3 Quality Management Department, Pastor TVA JSC, Croatia. keywords: accreditation; application; countries; european; health; healthcare; international; iso; management; medical; public; quality; review; standardization; standards; system cache: seejph-1859.pdf plain text: seejph-1859.txt item: #166 of 508 id: seejph-186 author: García, Laura Patricia Orellana; Kaur, Kiranjeet; Brand, Helmut; Schröder-Bäck, Peter title: Scenario planning: An alternative approach to European Commission for combating antimicrobial resistance by 2050 date: 2023-01-24 words: 5397 flesch: 54 summary: In fact, the EU is currently endorsing AMR measures in third countries through different actions, like promoting AMR-re- lated standards in its bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) (9). DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4312 P a g e 7 | 11 N e w a n ti m ic r o b ia l th e r a p ie s The EC has constantly been investing in AMR research. keywords: amr; antibiotics; antimicrobial; commission; european; health; planning; research; resistance; scenario; use cache: seejph-186.pdf plain text: seejph-186.txt item: #167 of 508 id: seejph-1860 author: Lueddeke, George title: High level Communiqué from the InterAction Council date: 2017-07-07 words: 566 flesch: 29 summary: George Lueddeke PhD Chair, One Health Education Task Force The One Health Commission in association with the One Health Initiative Convenor/chair, One Health Global Think Tank for Sustainable Health & Well-Being - 2030 Consultant in Higher and Medical Education Southampton, United Kingdom Linked-In connection: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-george-lueddeke/42/4b0/401 * Link to the One Health Initiative News Item: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php?query=InterAction+Council+Issues+%91THE +DUBLIN+CHARTER+FOR+ONE+HEALTH%92+Communiqu%E9 http://interactioncouncil.org/final-communiqu-53� http://interactioncouncil.org/final-communiqu-53� https://www.onehealthcommission.org/� http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/� http://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph/article/view/114� http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-george-lueddeke/42/4b0/401� Lueddeke G. High level Communiqué from the InterAction Council(Letter to Editors). Corresponding author: George R. Lueddeke, Co-Chair, One Health Education Task Force; Address: 9 Lakeland Gardens, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 4XG, United Kingdom; Email: glueddeke@aol.com Lueddeke G. High level Communiqué from the InterAction Council(Letter to Editors). keywords: health; lueddeke cache: seejph-1860.pdf plain text: seejph-1860.txt item: #168 of 508 id: seejph-1862 author: Lueddeke, George R. title: Toward holistic governance in an interdependent world date: 2017-11-26 words: 2256 flesch: 52 summary: This fundamental principle underpinning the UN-2030 Agenda and the SDGs could apply equally well to other issues of global governance (trade, migration, conflicts), that is, ensuring that interactions and negotiations take a more holistic approach tackling https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/anna-bruce-lockhart� Lueddeke G. Toward holistic governance in an interdependent world (Editorial). While agreeing with the attributes about ‘good governance, identified earlier (1), perhaps consideration might also be given to another,that is, recognising that ‘governance’ has a higher purpose - the sustainability of people and planet. keywords: global; governance; health; lueddeke; world cache: seejph-1862.pdf plain text: seejph-1862.txt item: #169 of 508 id: seejph-1863 author: Laaser, Ulrich; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Eliakimu, Eliudi; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; The One Health Global Think-Tank for Sustainable Health & Well-being (GHW-2030), . title: A code of ethical conduct for the public health profession date: 2017-12-01 words: 9811 flesch: 50 summary: Several authors have noted the importance of ethics for public health (3, 4), and public health professionals training (5). For example, ethical issues in public health also feature prominently in the efforts to control emerging infectious diseases at the population level (6, 7), which necessitated the World Health Organisation (WHO) to issue guidance on how to deal with ethical issues in infectious diseases control (8). keywords: bäck; code; conduct; czabanowska; doi; equity; ethical; ethics; global; health; health profession; justice; laaser; principles; profession; professionals; public; research; schröder; seejph; solidarity; tank; think cache: seejph-1863.pdf plain text: seejph-1863.txt item: #170 of 508 id: seejph-1864 author: Hoti, Adrian; Gashi, Edmond; Kraja, Fationa; Sallaku, Agim title: Association of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and cancer antigen 15-3 (CA 15-3) with socio-demographic factors and metastases site in women with metastatic breast cancer in Albania date: 2018-01-01 words: 4285 flesch: 46 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2018-178 8 Discussion Main findings of the current analysis include a higher mean value of both CEA and CA15-3 levels in Albanian female patients with breast cancer metastases in the bones and/or lungs compared with their counterparts with metastases in the liver. Furthermore, it has been indicated that the skeleton is the most frequent site of metastasis in breast cancer patients (5). keywords: antigen; breast; ca15; cancer; cea; metastases; site; years cache: seejph-1864.pdf plain text: seejph-1864.txt item: #171 of 508 id: seejph-1865 author: Marstein, Egil; Babich, Suzanne M. title: Global health in transition: The coming of neoliberalism date: 2018-01-04 words: 3229 flesch: 44 summary: Global health in transition: The coming of neoliberalism (Original research). Global health in transition: The coming of neoliberalism (Original research). keywords: global; governance; health; international; marstein; neoliberalism; policy; social; state; world cache: seejph-1865.pdf plain text: seejph-1865.txt item: #172 of 508 id: seejph-1866 author: Groote, Per M. von; Comanescu, Gabi M.; Ungureanu, Claudia; Bickenbach, Jerome E.; Lavis, John N. title: Developing an implementation strategy for a World Health Organization public health report: The implementation of the International Perspectives on Spinal Cord Injury (IPSCI) in Romania date: 2018-02-26 words: 11460 flesch: 36 summary: In the context of this research, the impact includes the effect that mechanisms for implementation strategy development can have on their own or in combination as a process. In this sense, standard implementa- tion outcome variables used in implementation research (29) show the appropriateness of the mechanisms, and the fact that in this setting and with this target audience it was possible to successfully engage participants to contribute to the development of the implementation strategy. keywords: cord; core; developing; development; february; health; health organization; health report; implementation; implementation group; implementation strategy; injury; ipsci; lavis; leader; people; perspectives; policy; project; report; research; romania; spinal; world health cache: seejph-1866.pdf plain text: seejph-1866.txt item: #173 of 508 id: seejph-1867 author: Gutema, Keneni; Mariam, Damen Haile title: Does health sector aid matter? Evidence from time-series data analysis in Ethiopia date: 2018-04-04 words: 5070 flesch: 59 summary: The choice of this variable is by evidence of an earlier finding that when women are educated, they become aware of issues related to health development at household level, such as, nutrition, immunization, health seeking behaviour (26,27); - FEMED can exceed 100% due to the inclusion of over-aged and under-aged students because of early or late school entrance and grade repetition, however, it can provide a valid evidence. Results: Development assistance for health expenditure (lagged one and two years) had a significant positive effect on life expectancy at birth in Ethiopia. keywords: aid; analysis; assistance; data; development; ethiopia; health; leb; series; time cache: seejph-1867.pdf plain text: seejph-1867.txt item: #174 of 508 id: seejph-1868 author: Collaku, Ledio; Resuli, Margarita; Gjermeni, Ilir; Tase, Mihal title: Evidence of a higher burden of multimorbidity among female patients in Albania date: 2018-04-10 words: 3384 flesch: 45 summary: Keywords: Albania, female patients, internal medicine, male patients, multimorbidity, patients, sex. Conflicts of interest: None. Collaku L, Resuli M, Gjermeni I, Tase M. Evidence of a higher burden of multimorbidity among female patients in Albania (Original research). Discussion The main findings of this study consist of a significantly higher mean value of diseases among Albania female patients compared to their male counterparts, e finding which was evident irrespective of several demographic and socio-economic characteristics. keywords: albania; burden; conditions; diseases; multimorbidity; patients; study cache: seejph-1868.pdf plain text: seejph-1868.txt item: #175 of 508 id: seejph-1869 author: Laaser (editor), Ulrich title: THE GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH CURRICULUM: Specific Global Health Competences date: 2018-02-06 words: 12795 flesch: 41 summary: 2.5 Social determinants of health inequalities (Janko Jankovic) 2.6 Gender and health (Bosiljka Djikanovic) 2.7 Structural and social violence (Fimka Tosija) 2.8 Disaster preparedness (Elisaveta Stikova) 2.9 Millennium Development Goals (Marta Lomazzi) 2.10 Health and wellbeing (Francesco Lietz) 2.11Global financial crisis and health (Helmut Wenzel) 3.0 Governance of global public health 3.1 Global governance of population health and well-being (George Lueddeke) 3.2 Health programme management (Christopher Potter) 3.3 Role of the civil society in health (Motasem Hamdan) 3.4 Universal health coverage (Jose Moreno et al.) 3.5 Public health leadership in a globalised world (Katarzyna Czabanowska et al.) 3.6 Public health ethics (Alexandra Jovic-Vranes) 3.7 The global public health workforce (Milena Santric-Milicevic et al.) 3.8 Education and training of professionals for global public health (Suzanne Babic et al.) 3.9 Blended learning (Željka Stamenkovic-Nikolic et al.) 3.10 Global health law (Joaquin Cayon) 3.11 Human rights and health (Fiona Haigh) 3.12 Global financial management for health (Ulrich Laaser) 4.0 Going global (Ulrich Laaser) keywords: competences; development; doi; editor; february; global; health; health competences; health curriculum; health professional; impact; know; laaser; law; learning; prevention; public; reports; seejph-2018; social; unibi; violence cache: seejph-1869.pdf plain text: seejph-1869.txt item: #176 of 508 id: seejph-187 author: Adewole, David Ayobami; Ilori, Temitope title: Factors influencing the choice of facilities among enrolees of a prepayment scheme in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria date: 2023-01-24 words: 5533 flesch: 56 summary: Results: At unadjusted OR, older respondents (OR 3.24, CI = 2.52-4.18, p = <0.0001), and those who had attained the tertiary level of education (OR 3.30, CI 2.57-4.23, p <0.0001) were more likely to make a personal choice of health care facilities. However, at Adjusted OR, only high socio-economic status was a predic- tor of personal choice of health care facility (OR 1.92, CI 1.21-3.05, p = 0.005). keywords: care; choice; enrolees; facilities; facility; factors; health; ibadan; level; nigeria; scheme; study cache: seejph-187.pdf plain text: seejph-187.txt item: #177 of 508 id: seejph-1870 author: Holst, Jens; Breckenkamp, Jürgen; Burazeri, Genc; Martin-Moreno, Jose M.; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Laaser, Ulrich title: Five years of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH): Focusing on health systems in transition and global health date: 2018-09-23 words: 971 flesch: 45 summary: Current trends in global health include demographic and epidemiological transitions, the changing burden of disease, climate change, and the increasing awareness of both national and global disparities in health. The most frequently cited definition was crafted by Jeffrey Koplan and colleagues in 2009: “Global health emphasises transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions; involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration; and is a synthesis of population-based prevention with individual-level clinical care” (4). keywords: health; journal; seejph; south cache: seejph-1870.pdf plain text: seejph-1870.txt item: #178 of 508 id: seejph-1871 author: Alderslade, Richard; Fawcett-Henesy, Ainna; Ruseva, Maria title: On the perspectives of Public Health and what IHPA can contribute to its advancement in practice date: 2018-09-24 words: 1417 flesch: 46 summary: The IHPA and its members are driven by this view of public health, using their expertise to promote and protect health and well-being, preventing ill-health and prolonging life, through the organized efforts of societies, of professionals, leaders and community-based groups. Advancing public health research to inform policy and practice Today’s public health practice needs to tackle inequalities, promote equity in health, and work across sectors. keywords: health; ihpa; july; public cache: seejph-1871.pdf plain text: seejph-1871.txt item: #179 of 508 id: seejph-1872 author: Sirin, Hulya; Karasahin, Emine Fusun; Tezel, Basak; Ozbas, Sema; Keskinkilic, Bekir; Ozkan, Secil title: Pilot scheme assessment: Health development program for students at dormitories date: 2018-05-02 words: 5194 flesch: 59 summary: Those living at dormitories among university students constitute a group which has different social and emotional characteristics and which should be considered in terms of their needs and problems. A study made with university student in Germany, Poland and Bulgaria reported that more than half of the participants were normal weight and the overweight frequency was 11.6% (10). keywords: development; dormitories; health; pilot; program; scheme; smoking; students; study; university cache: seejph-1872.pdf plain text: seejph-1872.txt item: #180 of 508 id: seejph-1873 author: Kesselly, Roland Y.; Kwenah, Nuaker K.; Gonyon, Ernest; Byepu, Stephen; Bawo, Luke; Jacobs, George; Korvayan, Justin; Graeser, Melanie S.; Galakpai, Moses Kortoyassah; Wesseh, Sandford; Laaser, Ulrich title: The status of health services in the 15 counties of Liberia date: 2018-06-14 words: 5959 flesch: 54 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2018-190 6 1) Family planning Despite 88% of health facilities are offering family planning services, still there are significant disparities in the availability between counties (Figure 2). According to the SARA Report (6), Liberia still did not reach this threshold with an average 82% of health facilities offering child immunization and an average readiness score of 76% of facilities out of 701. keywords: availability; counties; facilities; grand; health; health services; liberia; ministry; population; readiness; services cache: seejph-1873.pdf plain text: seejph-1873.txt item: #181 of 508 id: seejph-1874 author: Marstein, Egil; Babich, Suzanne M. title: The corporatization of global health: The impact of neoliberalism date: 2018-06-14 words: 3356 flesch: 42 summary: The corporatization of global health: The impact of neoliberalism (Original research). The corporatization of global health: The impact of neoliberalism Egil Marstein 1 , Suzanne M. Babich 1 1 Department of Health Policy and Management, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA. Corresponding author: Egil Marstein, PhD Department of Health Policy and Management, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University; Address: Health Sciences Building (RG), 1050 Wishard Blvd. keywords: global; health; institutions; neoliberalism; ngos; paradigm; power; public; world cache: seejph-1874.pdf plain text: seejph-1874.txt item: #182 of 508 id: seejph-1875 author: Kamberi, Haxhi; Jerliu, Naim; Kamberi, Safete; Berisha, Idriz title: Knowledge about breastfeeding of children 0-6 months among mothers attending hospital services in Kosovo date: 2018-07-30 words: 4138 flesch: 57 summary: More importantly, although the sample was meant to be representative to Kosovo women with young children, the hospital-based selection approach does not allow generalization of the survey findings to all women in Kosovo. However, to date, the evidence about the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices related to breastfeeding of Kosovo mothers with infants and young children is scarce. keywords: breastfeeding; children; knowledge; kosovo; months; mothers; study; women cache: seejph-1875.pdf plain text: seejph-1875.txt item: #183 of 508 id: seejph-1876 author: Laaser (editor), Ulrich title: GLOBAL HEALTH COMPETENCES date: 2018-09-11 words: 11537 flesch: 43 summary: Nowadays, according to the emergence of the idea of global public health, a new concept -“Global Health Law”- has been born. In this context, an interdisciplinary approach to global public health inevitably requires the study of Global Health Law for any healthcare professional. keywords: competences; development; doi; editor; gender; global; health; health competences; health curriculum; health professional; impact; international; laaser; public; reports; seejph-2018; september; shortlist; social; unibi cache: seejph-1876.pdf plain text: seejph-1876.txt item: #184 of 508 id: seejph-1877 author: Surjadi, Charles; Jani, Dwi; Langoday, Ursula Yunita title: Geriatric curriculum at faculties of medicine in Indonesia date: 2018-07-30 words: 2312 flesch: 50 summary: Geriatric training is recommended to prepare lecturers in medical faculties. Our aim was to assess how geriatric training is organised in medical faculties in Indonesia. keywords: care; faculties; geriatric; indonesia; medical; medicine; training cache: seejph-1877.pdf plain text: seejph-1877.txt item: #185 of 508 id: seejph-1878 author: Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Cichowska Myrup, Anna; Aleksandrova, Olga title: Women leadership for public health: The added value and needs of women driving public health system reform in Ukraine date: 2018-09-20 words: 3445 flesch: 44 summary: The international, interdisciplinary and inter-professional faculty engaged in the interactive meaning making around such topics as: the self-assessment of leadership competencies, public health leadership, leadership theories, system thinking, dealing with interests, power and stakeholders, barriers to women leadership and methods to address them, special leadership tools for women empowerment and leading change, communication and impact. Day M, Shickle D, Smith K, Zakariasen K, Oliver T, Moskol J. Time for heroes: public health leadership in the 21st century. keywords: health; leadership; needs; participants; public; seminar; system; ukraine; women cache: seejph-1878.pdf plain text: seejph-1878.txt item: #186 of 508 id: seejph-1879 author: Brownell, Patricia title: Future directions for research on neglect, abuse and violence against older women date: 2019-02-19 words: 3472 flesch: 51 summary: It has also obscured an identified risk factor in elder abuse: abuse experienced earlier in the lifespan of elder abuse victims (16). Theoretical advances in understanding neglect, abuse and violence across the life course The field of elder abuse research has been hampered by lack of a unifying theory that explains abuse of older adults in domestic settings (22). keywords: abuse; life; neglect; perspective; research; stress; trauma; understanding; violence; women cache: seejph-1879.pdf plain text: seejph-1879.txt item: #187 of 508 id: seejph-188 author: Brauneis, Stefano; Sorrentino, Enza; Lisa, Vincenza Di; Galluccio, Gabriella; Piras, Barbara; Carella, Francesca; Palozzi, Edoardo; Generali, Carmela; Maggiacomo, Simona; Aurelio, SilviaD’; Backhaus, Insa; La Torre, Filippo; Villani, Ciro; La Torre, Giuseppe title: Assessment of the prevalence and risk factors of low back pain in operating room health workers: An observational study in Italy date: 2023-01-24 words: 6269 flesch: 63 summary: Assessment of the prevalence and risk factors of low back pain in operating room health workers: An observational study in Italy (Original research). Assessment of the prevalence and risk factors of low back pain in operating room health workers: An observational study in Italy (Original research). keywords: factors; health; italy; job; lbp; low; lumbar; operating; pain; prevalence; risk; room; study; work; workers cache: seejph-188.pdf plain text: seejph-188.txt item: #188 of 508 id: seejph-1880 author: Holst, Jens title: Designing Germany’s new global health strategy: Some important recommendations date: 2019-04-02 words: 2946 flesch: 48 summary: A comprehensive approach has to acknowledge that global health starts at home. The global health strategy should therefore:  call for a rapid transition to a carbon- neutral economy and society by means of emissions reductions, adequate taxation of fossil fuels and reduction of subsidies, which are harmful to the environment or the environment;  seek to use the additional funds for climate change and health;  financially and technologically support poorer countries to avoid development pathways based on environmental degradation and fossil energy generation;  understand global health as the health of human civilisation and its natural Holst J. Designing Germany’s new global health strategy: Some important recommendations (Editorial). keywords: germany; global; health; new; people; protection; public; social; strategy cache: seejph-1880.pdf plain text: seejph-1880.txt item: #189 of 508 id: seejph-1881 author: Spallek, Jacob; Breckenkamp, Jürgen; Kraywinkel, Klaus; Schwabe, Wolfgang; Krieg, Volker; Greiner, Wolfgang; Damm, Oliver; Razum, Oliver title: Need for nursing care support in cancer patients: Registry-linkage study in Germany date: 2018-10-19 words: 5378 flesch: 61 summary: Geriatric assessment with management in cancer care: Current evidence and potential mechanisms for future research. Nursing homes and cancer care. keywords: cancer; care; ekr; group; level; mdk; need; nursing; nursing care; patients; support cache: seejph-1881.pdf plain text: seejph-1881.txt item: #190 of 508 id: seejph-1882 author: Schröder-Bäck, Peter; van Duin, Claire; Brall, Caroline; Scholtes, Beatrice; Tahzib, Farhang; Maeckelberghe, Els title: Norms in and between the philosophical ivory tower and public health practice: A heuristic model of translational ethics date: 2019-04-16 words: 6026 flesch: 56 summary: Schröder-Bäck P, van Duin C, Brall C, Scholtes B, Tahzib F, Maeckelberghe E. Norms in and between the philosophical ivory tower and public health practice: A heuristic model of translational ethics (Original research). Corresponding author: Peter Schröder-Bäck Address: Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands; Email: peter.schroder@maastrichtuniversity.nl Schröder-Bäck P, van Duin C, Brall C, Scholtes B, Tahzib F, Maeckelberghe E. Norms in and between the philosophical ivory tower and public health practice: A heuristic model of translational ethics (Original research). keywords: autonomy; concepts; ethics; health; level; model; norms; practice; public; theory; tower cache: seejph-1882.pdf plain text: seejph-1882.txt item: #191 of 508 id: seejph-1883 author: Caushaj, Klevis; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Roshi, Enver; Muja, Herion; Burazeri, Genc title: Leadership competencies among male health professionals in a Western Balkan country date: 2019-04-26 words: 3896 flesch: 37 summary: Keywords: Albania, competency level, male health professionals, public health leadership, Western Balkans. The gap of leadership competency level (mean difference between the required and the current level of competencies) was higher for male health professionals working in top managerial positions (mean difference: 4.1) compared to those operating in middle managerial positions (mean difference: 3.2) and, particularly, individuals working in low managerial positions (mean difference: 1.5). keywords: albania; competencies; competency; health; leadership; level; professionals; public cache: seejph-1883.pdf plain text: seejph-1883.txt item: #192 of 508 id: seejph-1884 author: Jarke, Hannes; Džindo, Amra; Jakob, Lea title: Healthcare access in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the light of European Union accession efforts date: 2019-03-27 words: 4838 flesch: 56 summary: Although not necessarily systematic, studies further report distance from healthcare providers, alleged widespread corruption, discrimination of minorities and vulnerable populations, as well as vaccination gaps as problems in healthcare access for specific groups. Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina, European Union membership, healthcare access, healthcare access and quality index, inequality. keywords: access; accession; article; b&h; bosnia; european; healthcare; healthcare access; herzegovina; light; review; roma; system; union cache: seejph-1884.pdf plain text: seejph-1884.txt item: #193 of 508 id: seejph-1885 author: Sentell, Tetine; Aires da Câmara, Saionara Maria; Ylli, Alban; Velez, Maria P.; Domingues, Marlos R.; Bassani, Diego G.; Guo, Mary; Pirkle, Catherine M. title: Data gaps in adolescent fertility surveillance in middle-income countries in Latin America and South Eastern Europe: Barriers to evidence-based health promotion date: 2019-04-30 words: 9692 flesch: 53 summary: Adolescent health data in MIC can be found through national and cross-national surveillance systems. For instance, while adolescent health data is typically aggregated for 15-19-year-olds in many MIC, the pregnancy rate is higher among 18-19-yearolds than among 15-17- year-olds (14). keywords: america; article; birth; countries; data; eastern; europe; evidence; fertility; gaps; health; income; internet; latin; march; pregnancy; review; south; surveillance; women; years cache: seejph-1885.pdf plain text: seejph-1885.txt item: #194 of 508 id: seejph-1886 author: Macassa, Gloria title: Responsible leadership styles and promotion of stakeholders’ health date: 2019-03-08 words: 1566 flesch: 38 summary: The report first describes responsible leadership styles and then briefly discusses the potential connection with health promotion within the lens of the wider determinants of health and intersectorial collaboration. Integrative responsible leadership and health promotion share a common vision: to alter the economic, environmental, and social contexts in which decisions relating to health and well- being are made, thus affecting health equity. keywords: health; leadership; promotion; stakeholders; styles cache: seejph-1886.pdf plain text: seejph-1886.txt item: #195 of 508 id: seejph-1887 author: Chernyavskiy, Valery; Mikhailova, Julia title: Russia: A key partner in the Northern Dimension Partnership date: 2019-05-10 words: 1929 flesch: 45 summary: It provided a basis for community health activities including mandatory immunization and periodic health checks and it fostered a generation committed to solidarity in the provision of health care aiming at universal coverage and equitable access. This period allowed the partner countries to outline common problems in health and to define mechanisms of interaction and cooperation. keywords: dimension; federation; health; ndphs; partnership; russian cache: seejph-1887.pdf plain text: seejph-1887.txt item: #196 of 508 id: seejph-1888 author: Malik, Koussoh Simone; Adoubi, Anicet; Kouadio, Kouamé; Kouamé, Jérôme; Hounsa, Annita; Sackou, Julie title: Overweight and obesity among women living in peri-urban areas in West Africa date: 2019-09-09 words: 4873 flesch: 65 summary: Abdominal obesity was defined by waist to hip ratio greater or equal to 0.80. The prevalence of abdominal obesity was 90.6% among obese people. keywords: abdominal; africa; age; blood; obese; obesity; overweight; pressure; prevalence; study; women cache: seejph-1888.pdf plain text: seejph-1888.txt item: #197 of 508 id: seejph-1889 author: Laaser, Wolfram; Exeni, Cecilia title: Introduction of digital technologies in education - Concepts and experiences date: 2019-06-06 words: 3932 flesch: 49 summary: Laaser W, Exeni C. Introduction of digital technologies in education - Concepts and experiences (Review article). DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2019-220 Page 1 of 10 REVIEW ARTICLE Introduction of digital technologies in education - Concepts and experiences Wolfram Laaser1, Cecilia Exeni2 1 ex Fernuniversität, Hagen, Germany; 2 National University, Cordoba, Argentina. keywords: concepts; digital; education; introduction; learning; program; school; students; teachers; technologies cache: seejph-1889.pdf plain text: seejph-1889.txt item: #198 of 508 id: seejph-189 author: Stamenkovic, Zeljka; Wenzel, Helmut; Jankovic, Janko; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna title: Two sides of a broken medal: Disease prevention and health promotion in schools of public health date: 2023-01-24 words: 5909 flesch: 59 summary: Keywords: disease prevention, European region, health promotion, schools of public health. Health promotion is fundamen- tal to public health and forms an integral part of all public health activities. keywords: disease; disease prevention; european; health; health promotion; modules; prevention; programs; promotion; public; schools; survey cache: seejph-189.pdf plain text: seejph-189.txt item: #199 of 508 id: seejph-1890 author: Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Broniatowski, Raphael; Byepu, Stephen; Laaser, Ulrich title: Maternal and new-born health policy indicators for low-resourced countries: The example of Liberia date: 2019-08-19 words: 7468 flesch: 42 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2019-221 Page 4 of 17 Results 1) Review of health policy documents related to Maternal & New-born Health (MNH) DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2019-221 Page 13 of 17 - translating evidence into action through effective advocacy and accountability for maternal health. keywords: august; countries; health; indicators; liberia; maternal; ministry; monrovia; mortality; national; new; plan; policy; review; welfare cache: seejph-1890.pdf plain text: seejph-1890.txt item: #200 of 508 id: seejph-1891 author: Houghton, Frank; O’Doherty, Diane; McInerney, Derek; Duncan, Bruce title: Anti-tobacco text warnings in Italy: Geography, language and South Tyrol date: 2019-05-21 words: 1432 flesch: 59 summary: Houghton F, O’Doherty D, McInerney D, Duncan B. Anti-tobacco text warnings in Italy: Geography, language, and South Tyrol (Short report). Corresponding Author: Frank Houghton, PhD, MPHe, MA, MSc, Director HEALR Research Group; Department of Applied Social Sciences, Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland; Telephone: +353-87-7101346; Email: Frank.Houghton@LIT.ie Houghton F, O’Doherty D, McInerney D, Duncan B. Anti-tobacco text warnings in Italy: Geography, language, and South Tyrol (Short report). keywords: south; text; tobacco; tyrol; warnings cache: seejph-1891.pdf plain text: seejph-1891.txt item: #201 of 508 id: seejph-19 author: Hyska, Jolanda; Mersini, Ehadu title: Assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices about public health nutrition among students of the University of Medicine in Tirana, Albania date: 2023-01-24 words: 3700 flesch: 49 summary: Furthermore, several studies have shown that the vast majority of medical students and incoming interns are dissatisfied with their education in medical nutrition and feel unprepared to counsel patients on nutritional topics (6-8). In addition, medical students felt that the teaching curriculum should be more scientifically rigorous (mean score: 3.3) keywords: attitudes; health; knowledge; medicine; nutrition; students; tirana; university cache: seejph-19.pdf plain text: seejph-19.txt item: #202 of 508 id: seejph-190 author: Ylli, Alban; Jurgutis, Arnoldas; Burazeri, Genc; Bejtja, Gazmend; Artykova, Nazira; Sentell, Tetine title: Preventive check-up programme for strengthening people-centred primary health care services in Albania: Case study and lessons learnt date: 2023-01-24 words: 4808 flesch: 55 summary: The current analysis and presentation of findings were guided by the principles put forward by the European Framework for Action on Integrated Health Services Delivery and its approach to trans- forming the delivery of health services (9). Beyond informing and man- aging patients suspected of having a NCD, the check-up programme also brought about a number of key changes in the Albanian health sector: (i) It changed traditional atti- tudes that health services should only be used for perceived and disturbing health problems, with healthy people now attending check-ups aimed at the prevention and early detection of severe health problems, as described else- where (16); (ii) it increased trust and utiliza- tion of PHC services; and (iii) it increased the accessibility of health services for socially disadvantaged population groups, although more data are needed to confirm the extent of this (17). keywords: albania; care; check; health; people; phc; population; programme; services; tests cache: seejph-190.pdf plain text: seejph-190.txt item: #203 of 508 id: seejph-191 author: Mone, Iris; Kraja, Bledar; Hyska, Jolanda; Burazeri, Genc title: Chocolate intake is associated with a lower body mass index in adult men and women in transitional Albania date: 2023-01-24 words: 3912 flesch: 59 summary: DOI : 10.11576/seejph-4297 P a g e 2 | 9 Abstract Aim: In light of the controversial evidence regarding health effects of chocolate intake, we aimed to assess its association with body mass index (BMI) among adult individuals in Albania, a tran- sitional post-communist country in South Eastern Europe which has traditionally employed a Med- iterranean dietary pattern. Of these, 565 individuals (373 men and 192 women) provided data on chocolate intake and anthro- pometrics (77% of the sample). keywords: albania; bmi; body; chocolate; chocolate intake; intake; month; women cache: seejph-191.pdf plain text: seejph-191.txt item: #204 of 508 id: seejph-1910 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: Public Health Teaching Books (Open Access) date: 2017-11-14 words: 185472 flesch: 47 summary: And, later on, in 1948, when National Health Service in Great Britain was established, the general practitioner became the most important gate-keeper at the entrance to the other levels of health care system. Three generations of health care system reforms Health care systems are continuously evolving. keywords: accreditation; analysis; approach; assessment; canada health; care level; care management; care policy; care providers; care quality; care reform; care services; care system; care technology; case; changes; child health; clinical; community health; cost; countries; d. health; decision; disease; district health; ehr; european health; evaluation; financial; following; general; group; health activities; health administration; health authority; health boards; health bucharest; health care; health center; health conditions; health conference; health consultant; health data; health departments; health determinants; health development; health economics; health education; health effects; health events; health evidence; health examination; health expenditures; health expert; health facility; health field; health financing; health framework; health goals; health health; health improvement; health indicators; health inequalities; health information; health institute; health institutions; health insurance; health interventions; health interview; health legislation; health maintenance; health management; health ministers; health monitoring; health needs; health network; health objectives; health officers; health organization; health outcomes; health planning; health policy; health politicians; health prevention; health problems; health professionals; health programme; health promotion; health providers; health record; health reporting; health research; health resources; health revenues; health sciences; health sector; health security; health services; health situation; health spending; health statistics; health status; health strategy; health systems; health target; health technology; health threats; health units; health workers; hospital care; hospital health; hospitals; human; implementation; individual; information system; insurance system; international; job; keywords health; law; level; life; making; medical; medicine; methods; model; national health; new; number; objectives; order; organizations; patient; payment; people; population health; primary; process; programmes; project; public health; quality assessment; quality health; quality improvement; quality management; questionnaire; regional; results; role; set; social; specialist health; standards; state; students; study; support; systems development; systems management; targets; technology assessment; time; training; treatment; use; world health; years cache: seejph-1910.pdf plain text: seejph-1910.txt item: #205 of 508 id: seejph-1911 author: Popovic, Natasa title: Review of Costing Tools Health System in Liberia date: 2017-11-03 words: 5366 flesch: 43 summary: Main modules of MBB The bottlenecks identification module uses a country-specific data or default data and defines three main packages of health interventions. Elements in costing health interventions and health outcomes Source; WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and UNFPA, in collaboration with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the Norwegian Government (2008) TECHNICAL REVIEW OF COSTING TOOLS FOR THE HEALTH MDGS Final Report. keywords: analysis; bottlenecks; budgeting; care; costing; costs; coverage; health; intervention; liberia; management; plan; services; tool cache: seejph-1911.pdf plain text: seejph-1911.txt item: #206 of 508 id: seejph-1912 author: Danzon, Marc; Charpak, Yves title: Book Review: Politics and health updated date: 2017-11-06 words: 773 flesch: 42 summary: This 253 page book is presented as a dialogue between the two seasoned participants on the development of health services and their comparative performance. For Danzon and Charpak the important question is not why there is such a variation between countries in the number of hospital beds per thousand population, or the expenditure on health service per capita, but why such a big divide in expectation of life, and deaths from preventable illness and accidents. keywords: book; danzon; health cache: seejph-1912.pdf plain text: seejph-1912.txt item: #207 of 508 id: seejph-1914 author: Republic of Liberia, Ministry of Health, - title: The first comprehensive Health Sector Review and future Operational Plan of Liberia after the EBOLA crisis: Consolidated Operational Plan 2016-2017 date: 2017-11-06 words: 12034 flesch: 45 summary: The number of health facilities providing health services increased by 71 from 2014 – 2015 (656 in 2014 to 727 in 2015). With one decade of relative peace and stability, Liberia restored health services and started making enormous strives in childhood mortality reduction, decline in AIDS related deaths and expansion of health services. keywords: activities; central; community; conduct; consolidated; counties; county; county level; facilities; health; investment; level; level activities; management; ministry; monitoring; national; objective; plan; planning; quarterly; services; support; system; target; work; work plan cache: seejph-1914.pdf plain text: seejph-1914.txt item: #208 of 508 id: seejph-1915 author: Wales, Public Health title: Making a Difference: Investing in Sustainable Health and Well-being for the People of Wales date: 2017-11-06 words: 5437 flesch: 46 summary: Every £1 spent on motivational interviewing and supportive networks for people with alcohol dependence returns £5 to the public sector in reduced health, social care and criminal justice costs. The report has been informed by: ■ Research evidence ■ Professional guidance and expertise in public health, policy, social studies, equity and economics ■ Welsh priorities for health and well- being ■ Current Welsh policy and health context The report consists of three parts published separately: 1 Making a Difference: keywords: areas; costs; evidence; health; health wales; inequalities; interventions; people; public; social; wales cache: seejph-1915.pdf plain text: seejph-1915.txt item: #209 of 508 id: seejph-1916 author: Behbod, Behrooz; George, Lueddeke R title: Global Population Health and Well-Being in the 21st Century: Toward New Paradigms, Policy and Practice date: 2017-11-06 words: 284 flesch: 41 summary: Author: George R Lueddeke PhD A must read for public health, clinical, and social care students, teachers, and practitioners alike, including case studies to provide a thorough and up-to-date account of the past, present, and future of global public health. Dr Lueddeke presents a manifesto for collective public health action through the ‘One Health’ movement, recognising the inter-dependencies in the health of people, other animals and the environment we live in. keywords: health cache: seejph-1916.pdf plain text: seejph-1916.txt item: #210 of 508 id: seejph-1917 author: Roger France, Francis title: Biographical Lexicon of Public Health: Review date: 2017-11-06 words: 470 flesch: 48 summary: He also described historical milestones in the concepts of Social Medicine, Statistical Analysis, Epidemiologic Studies, Communicable Diseases Prevention, Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, Health Services Organization, Health Economics, Medical Record Linkage, Health Informatics, Quality of Care Indicators, Health Policies, Social Coverage, Risks Factors Intervention Trials, as well as key-role players in the former years for the advances in these various areas. Review of Biographical Lexicon of Public Health by Izet Masic, 410 pages ,2015 AVICENA, Sarajevo (ISBN 978-9958-720-60-4) At the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the publication of “Medical Archives”, its readers should be informed of the availability of a new book by its prolific Editor Professor Izet Masic. keywords: health; lexicon cache: seejph-1917.pdf plain text: seejph-1917.txt item: #211 of 508 id: seejph-192 author: Roshi, Dajana; Tresa, Eni; Lafranconi, Alessandra; Burazeri, Genc; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Brand, Helmut title: Pharmaceutical policies in post-communist Albania: Progress and challenges toward European Union membership date: 2023-01-24 words: 5244 flesch: 40 summary: The process of Europeaniza- tion of medicines regulations “involves har- monization and mutual recognition of regu- latory decision making as well as the transfer of some authority from Member States to su- pranational EU regulatory agencies” (8). Roshi D, Tresa E, Lafranconi A, Burazeri G, Czabanowska K, Brand H. Pharmaceutical policies in post-communist Albania: Progress and challenges toward European Union membership (Review article). keywords: albania; european; health; medicines; national; pharmaceutical; policies; price; regulation; review; union cache: seejph-192.pdf plain text: seejph-192.txt item: #212 of 508 id: seejph-193 author: Rashiti-Bytyçi, Albiona; Ramadani, Naser; Kalaveshi, Ariana; Muçaj, Sefedin; Gashi, Luljeta; Rashiti, Premtim title: Hepatitis C in several risk groups: Literature review date: 2023-01-24 words: 8288 flesch: 57 summary: The aim of the study was to screen for HCV antibody, and HCV RNA, but as well to determine genotype of hepatitis C and the treatment of HCV patients. de Jesus Rodrigues de Freitas M, Fecury AA, de Almeida MK, Freitas AS, de Souza Guimarães V, da Silva AM, da Costa YF, et al. Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection and genotypes in patient with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodial- ysis. keywords: cases; groups; haemodialysis; hcv; health; hepatitis; hiv; infection; patients; positive; rashiti; review; risk; rna; study; transmission; virus cache: seejph-193.pdf plain text: seejph-193.txt item: #213 of 508 id: seejph-194 author: Houghton, Frank title: Easter Eggs & ‘Easter Eggs’: Alcohol Branded Chocolate Eggs & Intoxigenic Environments in Ireland date: 2023-01-24 words: 1278 flesch: 48 summary: Two examples of such alcohol branded Easter Eggs were observed, positioned at a height of less than one metre, and surrounded by a selection of other well-known brands, including Cadbury’s Cream Eggs, Rolo, and Lion (see Figure One A-D). Keywords: alcohol branding, alcohol control, alcohol marketing, children, Easter eggs, Ireland. keywords: alcohol; easter; eggs; health; ireland cache: seejph-194.pdf plain text: seejph-194.txt item: #214 of 508 id: seejph-196 author: Petrela, Kreshnik; Roshi, Meri; Laaser, Ulrich; Burazeri, Genc title: Survey exploring the opinion of corresponding authors of articles published in the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health during 2014-2021 date: 2023-01-24 words: 1653 flesch: 55 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4585 P a g e 1 | 6 SHORT REPORT Survey exploring the opinion of corresponding authors of articles published in the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health during 2014-2021 Kreshnik Petrela1, Meri Roshi1, Ulrich Laaser1, Genc Burazeri1 1 South Eastern European Journal of Public Health. Keywords: author survey, corresponding author, scientific journal, South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH). keywords: authors; health; journal; seejph cache: seejph-196.pdf plain text: seejph-196.txt item: #215 of 508 id: seejph-197 author: Siepmann, Ines; Chen, Tara; Andelic, Petra title: How can we champion young women working in public health? date: 2023-01-24 words: 1888 flesch: 28 summary: Siepmann I, Chen T, Andelic P. How can we champion young women working in public health? How can we champion young women working in public health? keywords: doi; health; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?8kbwo1 https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?8kbwo1; public; women; workforce cache: seejph-197.pdf plain text: seejph-197.txt item: #216 of 508 id: seejph-198 author: Burazeri, Genc; Roshi, Meri; Laaser, Ulrich title: Editorial date: 2023-01-24 words: 214 flesch: 34 summary: The editors of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) proudly present a collection of papers authored by young African scientists in honor of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi (1876‒1928), the famous Japanese bacteriologist (see the introductory editorial information). The editors are very grateful for the permanent and effective support of Prof. Flavia Senkubuge, Chair WHO/Afro African Advisory Committee on Research and Development and President Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, Vice-President African Federation of Public Health Associations. keywords: health cache: seejph-198.pdf plain text: seejph-198.txt item: #217 of 508 id: seejph-199 author: Ledaga, Nathalie Ambounda; Mamche, Robertine; Woromogo, Sylvain Honore; Antaon, esse Saint Saba; Saar, Fatou Sow title: Contribution of Information-Education-Communication in the adoption of Universal Health Coverage by the populations in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa in 2020. date: 2023-01-24 words: 4370 flesch: 57 summary: Contribution of Information-Edu- cation-Communication in the adoption of Universal Health Coverage by the populations in the Eco- nomic and Monetary Community of Central Africa in 2020. DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4477 P a g e 1 | 12 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Contribution of Information-Education-Communication in the adoption of Universal Health Coverage by the populations in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa in 2020. keywords: africa; central; community; coverage; education; health; iec; uhc; universal cache: seejph-199.pdf plain text: seejph-199.txt item: #218 of 508 id: seejph-20 author: Brownell, Patricia title: Neglect, abuse and violence against older women: Definitions and research frameworks date: 2023-01-24 words: 5957 flesch: 47 summary: Older women are often absent from discussions about shelters and hotlines, and there is the lack of a debate on circumstances and special needs of older women victims of abuse that may affect help seeking behavior. It provides an overview of main approaches to addressing abuse of older women, and key interventions including policies and programs for the protection of older women victims of abuse along with outcomes where evaluations have been completed. keywords: abuse; age; definitions; elder; frameworks; health; human; neglect; research; rights; violence; women cache: seejph-20.pdf plain text: seejph-20.txt item: #219 of 508 id: seejph-200 author: Ahmad, Jameel Ismail; Jibril, Murtala; Ahmad, Barroon Isma’eel; Suleiman, Abdurrahman; Inuwa, Nasir Sani; Ali, Abdullahi Garba; Ismai, Salihu Ibrahim title: Digital and Home Healthcare Survey among Nigerians: Assessing Awareness, Preferences, and Willingness to Pay for an Integrated Healthcare Ecosystem to achieve Universal Health Coverage date: 2023-01-24 words: 5996 flesch: 54 summary: mHealth is a subset of eHealth and in- volves providing health services and infor- mation via mobile technologies such as mo- bile phones, tablet computers, and personal digital assistants. The role of DH cut across healthcare financing, health service delivery, human re- sources training, health system support, and health information system. keywords: ahmad; awareness; digital; ecosystem; healthcare; home; home healthcare; internet; nigeria; respondents; services; survey; willingness cache: seejph-200.pdf plain text: seejph-200.txt item: #220 of 508 id: seejph-201 author: AyobamiAdewole, David; Ilori, Temitope; Ladepo, Wuraola; Akande, Olusola Augustus; Owolabi, Ganiyu title: Pattern of population coverage of a social health insurance scheme in a Southwest Nigeria State: A 3-year post implementation evaluation date: 2023-01-24 words: 4925 flesch: 59 summary: Social health insurance scheme is capable of minimizing inequity of access to health services, and thereby enhance an improvement in population health outcomes. Challenges with social health insurance schemes in many of the SSA countries include poverty, low level of awareness, superstitious belief, poor technical skills of the personnel in the industry (8), and inability to differentiate it from other pre-existing microfinance schemes among others (9). keywords: coverage; health; health insurance; insurance; nigeria; pattern; population; scheme; social; state; year cache: seejph-201.pdf plain text: seejph-201.txt item: #221 of 508 id: seejph-202 author: Bop, Martial Coly; Akoetey, Kossivi; Gueye, Boubacar; Diop, Cheikh Tacko; Sow, Papa Gallo; Ka, Ouseynou; Diop, Abdoulaye; Sow, Fatou Sarr title: Evaluation of determinants of the use of health mutuals by the population of the Ziguinchor region in Senegal date: 2023-01-24 words: 4975 flesch: 61 summary: Here it represents MHI membership and is a binary qualitative variable with 1 if the patient is a member of a MHI and 0 if not; 𝜶 is the con- stant that explains the random part of MHI membership; 𝛽j represents the effect of an explanatory variable j in the model, i.e. the effect of determinants on MHI adherence; 𝑥𝑖j represents the explanatory variable j for an individual i of the model; 𝜺𝒊 represents the er- ror term. The results of the estimations showed that neither the income, nor the association mem- bership, nor the presence of children in the household, nor the age of the patients, nor the satisfaction linked to the treatments received nor the aforementioned waiting times have significant impact on MHI membership. keywords: diop; health; mhi; patients; population; region; sow; use cache: seejph-202.pdf plain text: seejph-202.txt item: #222 of 508 id: seejph-203 author: Fenomanana, Jocia; Ramaminiaina, Heritiana Gisèle; Randriatsarafara, Fidiniaina Mamy; Randriamanantany, Zely Arivelo title: Voluntary blood donation promotion in Haute Matsiatra region of Madagascar date: 2023-01-24 words: 5682 flesch: 63 summary: Promotion of blood voluntary donation should take into account the demotivating reasons for blood donation which calls gov- ernmental commitment and required the need to improve research evidence in this area of practice. The majority of respondents (60.0%) had never heard sensitization about blood donation. keywords: blood; blood donation; doi; donation; haute; madagascar; matsiatra; promotion; region; research; study; vol cache: seejph-203.pdf plain text: seejph-203.txt item: #223 of 508 id: seejph-204 author: Agwu, Prince; Onwujekwe, Obinna; Uzochukwu, Benjamin; Mulenga, Modest title: Improving service delivery at primary healthcare facilities for achieving Universal Health Coverage: Examining the effects of insecurity in such facilities in Enugu State, Nigeria date: 2023-01-24 words: 7426 flesch: 57 summary: An intersection of several factors could account for Nigeria’s slow pace toward UHC, of which the closure of health facilities at crucial periods ranks highly. Discussion A vital part of the UHC is to guarantee im- proved access to health facilities which seems suboptimal in the study area, espe- cially during dusk hours. keywords: enugu; facilities; facility; health; healthcare; nigeria; phc; primary; research; security; service; state; workers cache: seejph-204.pdf plain text: seejph-204.txt item: #224 of 508 id: seejph-205 author: Msokwa, Robert title: Improving access to health services in Malawi date: 2023-01-24 words: 3118 flesch: 61 summary: Malawians have sev- eral barriers to access health services (Figure 1) according to the study findings; 35% of study participants said that lack of drugs and medical equipment was a barrier to access health services while 25% of participants said that shortage of health care workers was a barrier to access health services. Common barriers to access health services which participants (35%) mentioned were lack of drugs and medical equipment, shortage of health personnel (25%), another 25% complained of long distance to nearest health facility. keywords: access; health; malawi; participants; services; study cache: seejph-205.pdf plain text: seejph-205.txt item: #225 of 508 id: seejph-206 author: Ledaga, Nathalie Ambounda; Mamche, Robertine; Woromogo, Sylvain Honore; Antaon, Jesse Saint Saba; Saar, Fatou Sow title: Contribution of Information-Education-Communication in the adoption of Universal Health Coverage by the populations in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa in 2020. date: 2023-01-24 words: 4370 flesch: 57 summary: Contribution of Information-Edu- cation-Communication in the adoption of Universal Health Coverage by the populations in the Eco- nomic and Monetary Community of Central Africa in 2020. DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4477 P a g e 1 | 12 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Contribution of Information-Education-Communication in the adoption of Universal Health Coverage by the populations in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa in 2020. keywords: africa; central; community; coverage; education; health; iec; uhc; universal cache: seejph-206.pdf plain text: seejph-206.txt item: #226 of 508 id: seejph-207 author: Ahmad, Jameel Ismail; Jibril, Murtala; Ahmad, Barroon Isma’eel; Suleiman, Abdurrahman; Inuwa, Nasir Sani; Ali, Abdullahi Garba; Ismail, Salihu Ibrahim title: Digital and Home Healthcare Survey among Nigerians: Assessing Awareness, Preferences, and Willingness to Pay for an Integrated Healthcare Ecosystem to achieve Universal Health Coverage date: 2023-01-24 words: 5996 flesch: 54 summary: mHealth is a subset of eHealth and in- volves providing health services and infor- mation via mobile technologies such as mo- bile phones, tablet computers, and personal digital assistants. The role of DH cut across healthcare financing, health service delivery, human re- sources training, health system support, and health information system. keywords: ahmad; awareness; digital; ecosystem; healthcare; home; home healthcare; internet; nigeria; respondents; services; survey; willingness cache: seejph-207.pdf plain text: seejph-207.txt item: #227 of 508 id: seejph-208 author: Hassan, Salisu; Mohammed, JamilaAliyu title: Effective communication approaches as tool for achieving Universal Health Coverage through social health insurance in Nigeria. date: 2023-01-24 words: 6421 flesch: 49 summary: Having ap- praised the principles/qualities that can make health insurance communication effective, it is plausible to evaluate the approaches used in the SHI communication in Nigeria to rec- ommend a better option. Finally, health communication also needs to be understandable. keywords: approaches; communication; coverage; health; health insurance; insurance; media; nhis; nigeria; scheme; social cache: seejph-208.pdf plain text: seejph-208.txt item: #228 of 508 id: seejph-209 author: Oduor, Kevin; Ogweno, Stephen; Ajwang, Danor; Okinyi, Nyawade title: Incorporating mHealth Interventions into Kenya’s Health Infrastructure to Augment Universal Health Coverage, Service Delivery Improvement Approach date: 2023-01-24 words: 5646 flesch: 55 summary: In the data extraction pro- cess, journal, study design, country of im- plementation, main findings, forms of mHealth intervention, challenges facing mHealth interventions, impact and effec- tiveness of mHealth interventions and Oduor K, Ogweno S, Ajwang’ D, Okinyi N. Incorporating mHealth Interventions into Kenya’s Health Infrastructure to Augment Universal Health Coverage, Service Delivery Improvement Ap- proach (review). For mHealth intervention to be fully optimized in Kenya, the different forms of mHealth interventions must ensure efficiency which is a component of usabil- ity (23). keywords: coverage; delivery; health; health coverage; health infrastructure; infrastructure; interventions; kenya; mhealth interventions; mobile; research; review; service; study cache: seejph-209.pdf plain text: seejph-209.txt item: #229 of 508 id: seejph-210 author: Ohia, Chinenyenwa; Ongolo-Zogo, Pierre; Fawole, Olufunmilayo Ibitola title: Digital health information technology utilization for enhanced health services delivery in Africa: Unravelling barriers to adoption among Primary healthcare providers date: 2023-01-24 words: 4913 flesch: 49 summary: Although the Primary Health Care remains at the core of the achievement of Universal Health Coverage, the utilization of digital health technologies remains very poor at the grassroots in Af- rica and this poses a huge barrier to effectiveness and quality of healthcare delivery. Summarily, a clear understanding of the contextual and implementation bottlenecks highlighted from such assessment(s), especially as it relates to individual African countries, will go a long way to guide decisions to address the low utilization of digital health technologies in health ser- vices delivery in Africa. keywords: adoption; africa; barriers; countries; coverage; delivery; digital; doi; health; healthcare; information; services; technologies; technology; uhc; utilization cache: seejph-210.pdf plain text: seejph-210.txt item: #230 of 508 id: seejph-211 author: Elhadi, Yasir Ahmed Mohammed; Adebisi , Yusuff Adebayo; Abel , Uchechukwu Victor; Daniel , Ekpoh Mfonobong; Zaghloul , Ashraf; Lucero-Prisno III, Don Eliseo title: National health systems strengthening as the primary strategy to achieve Universal Health Coverage in African countries date: 2023-01-24 words: 7283 flesch: 57 summary: The main objectives of the paper were to explore the complexities of the African health systems, subsequently highlighting major challenges to UHC and to provide a framework for strategic approaches to health system strengthening to ensure realization of UHC. Keywords: Universal Health Coverage, health system strengthening, Africa, framework, health sector reform. keywords: africa; countries; coverage; doi; elhadi; health; health coverage; health systems; national; population; rwanda; services; strategy; strengthening; systems; uhc; world cache: seejph-211.pdf plain text: seejph-211.txt item: #231 of 508 id: seejph-213 author: Simfukwe, Knovicks; Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo; Oladunni, Amos Abimbola; Mohammed, Salma Elmukashfi Eltahir; Lucero-Prisno II, Don Eliseo title: The role of health service delivery networks in achieving universal health coverage in Africa date: 2023-01-24 words: 6530 flesch: 56 summary: This situation creates a consid- erable gap between the demand and supply of health care services among a geographically marginalized population which potentially limits the implementation of HSDNs in af- fected African countries. HSDNs pro- pose models that facilitate the attainment of affordability and accessibility while maintaining quality in delivering health services. keywords: africa; articles; care; countries; coverage; delivery; delivery networks; doi; health; health service; hsdns; networks; population; quality; review; service delivery; services; uhc cache: seejph-213.pdf plain text: seejph-213.txt item: #232 of 508 id: seejph-214 author: Salawu, Mobolaji Modinat; Onwujekwe, ObinnaEmmanuel; Fawole, Olufunmilayo Ibitola title: Innovative Strategies to Strengthen Health Service Delivery for Universal Health Coverage in Africa – A Scoping Literature Review date: 2023-01-24 words: 6649 flesch: 48 summary: To achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), government alone are unable to solve the problems of health service delivery such as lack of good infrastructure, poor manage- ment, inter-cadre conflicts, lack of skilled birth attendants amongst others. This scoping review showed that private and philanthropist actors’ involvement in healthcare system have huge potentials to improve, restore and maintain health service delivery in African nations. keywords: africa; care; countries; coverage; delivery; health; health service; healthcare; literature; nations; philanthropy; review; sector; service; service delivery; uhc; universal cache: seejph-214.pdf plain text: seejph-214.txt item: #233 of 508 id: seejph-215 author: Adedeji, Oluwakorede Joshua; Babatunde, Yusuf Olalekan; Ib-rahim, Abdulmumin Damilola; Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo; Lucero-Prisno III, Don Eliseo title: Towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Relevance of Telemedicine and Mobile Clinics date: 2023-01-24 words: 5509 flesch: 54 summary: The use of mobile health clinics for primary healthcare delivery is not quite established in Africa. Mobile health clinics in the era of reform. keywords: africa; clinics; countries; coverage; health; health coverage; healthcare; implementation; journal; mobile; mobile clinics; projects; relevance; review; services; telemedicine; use cache: seejph-215.pdf plain text: seejph-215.txt item: #234 of 508 id: seejph-216 author: Amedari , McKing I.; Ejidike, Ifunanya Carista title: Post Covid-19 Agenda: Maximizing human resources for health towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa date: 2023-01-24 words: 6451 flesch: 54 summary: Labour market factors such as the dynamics of demand and supply of health workers determine the availability of health workers. Conclusion: Expanding the training opportunities for health workers and also increasing the fund- ing to human resources for health are useful policy options to consider. keywords: africa; community; coverage; covid-19; factors; health; health workers; information; post; resources; review; rural; technology; workers cache: seejph-216.pdf plain text: seejph-216.txt item: #235 of 508 id: seejph-22 author: Scholtes, Beatrice; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Mackay, Morag; Vincenten, Joanne; Brand, Helmut title: A practical and applied approach to assessing the cross cutting nature of child injury prevention as a basis for policy making at the local level date: 2023-01-24 words: 4409 flesch: 50 summary: Scholtes B, Schröder-Bäck P, Mackay M, Vincenten J, Brand H. A practical and applied approach to assessing the cross cutting nature of child injury prevention as a basis for policy making at the local level (Review article). A practical and applied approach to assessing the cross cutting nature of child injury prevention as a basis for policy making at the local level Beatrice Scholtes1, Peter Schröder-Bäck1, Morag Mackay2, Joanne Vincenten2, Helmut Brand1 1 Department of International Health, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 2 European Child Safety Alliance, Birmingham, United Kingdom. keywords: approach; benefits; child; factors; health; injury; injury prevention; level; policy; prevention cache: seejph-22.pdf plain text: seejph-22.txt item: #236 of 508 id: seejph-23 author: Jerliu, Naim; Ramadani, Naser; Mone, Iris; Brand, Helmut title: Public health in Kosovo after five difficult years of independence date: 2023-01-24 words: 4409 flesch: 50 summary: Scholtes B, Schröder-Bäck P, Mackay M, Vincenten J, Brand H. A practical and applied approach to assessing the cross cutting nature of child injury prevention as a basis for policy making at the local level (Review article). A practical and applied approach to assessing the cross cutting nature of child injury prevention as a basis for policy making at the local level Beatrice Scholtes1, Peter Schröder-Bäck1, Morag Mackay2, Joanne Vincenten2, Helmut Brand1 1 Department of International Health, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 2 European Child Safety Alliance, Birmingham, United Kingdom. keywords: approach; benefits; child; factors; health; injury; injury prevention; level; policy; prevention cache: seejph-23.pdf plain text: seejph-23.txt item: #237 of 508 id: seejph-2355 author: Kureta, Elona ; Basho, Mimoza ; Murati, Ermelinda ; Tomini, Eugena; Roshi, Enver ; Bino, Silvia title: Screening for viral Hepatitis B in the Roma community in Tirana, Albania date: 2019-10-03 words: 2758 flesch: 53 summary: Considering the high prevalence of HBV in Roma population and the problems that this vulnerable group has towards the vaccination process and difficulties accessing adequate healthcare, the Institute of Public Health (IPH) in collaboration with the Directorate of Public Health of Tirana have performed screening in some areas where Roma populations live. Due to this high prevalence of HBV and difficulties accessing adequate healthcare, a screening was performed in some areas where Roma populations live. keywords: albania; hbv; hepatitis; population; roma; tirana cache: seejph-2355.pdf plain text: seejph-2355.txt item: #238 of 508 id: seejph-2362 author: Hoxha, Rina ; Kosevska, Elena ; Berisha, Merita ; Ramadani, Naser ; Jerliu, Naim ; Zhjeqi, Valbona ; Gashi, Sanije title: Predictive factors for patient satisfaction in public and private hospitals in Kosovo date: 2019-10-08 words: 4174 flesch: 46 summary: Patient satisfaction will offer valuable and distinctive insights into daily medical care and is widely accepted as a freelance dimension of quality of care as a result of an analysis of patient satisfaction includes “internal” (inward-looking) aspects of hospital care, which regularly stay unrecorded, like communica tion, fellow feeling or interaction (2,3-5). Hoxha R, Kosevska E, Berisha M, Ramadani N, Jerliu N, Zhjeqi V, Gashi S. Predictive factors for patient satisfaction in public and private hospitals in Kosovo (Original research). keywords: care; factors; health; hospitalization; hospitals; kosovo; patient; predictors; public; satisfaction; stay; test; total cache: seejph-2362.pdf plain text: seejph-2362.txt item: #239 of 508 id: seejph-2373 author: Macassa, Gloria title: Integrated corporate social responsibility and human resources management for stakeholders health promotion date: 2019-10-14 words: 2589 flesch: 43 summary: Macassa G. Integrated corporate social responsibility and human resources management for stakeholders health promotion (Short report). HRM can help to create a win–win environment for business organizations Macassa G. Integrated corporate social responsibility and human resources management for stakeholders health promotion (Short report). keywords: corporate; csr; health; hrm; human; literacy; management; responsibility; stakeholders cache: seejph-2373.pdf plain text: seejph-2373.txt item: #240 of 508 id: seejph-24 author: Dyakova, Mariana; Drew, Christian; Wright, Nicola; Clarke, Aileen; Rees, Karen title: Systematic versus opportunistic risk assessment for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: Cochrane systematic review protocol date: 2023-01-24 words: 2370 flesch: 46 summary: We present the rationale and methodology of a Cochrane systematic review, assessing the effectiveness, costs and adverse effects of systematic risk assessment compared to opportunistic risk assessment for the primary prevention of CVD. Keywords: cardiovascular disease, Cochrane systematic review protocol, risk assessment. keywords: assessment; cochrane; cvd; disease; health; prevention; risk; systematic cache: seejph-24.pdf plain text: seejph-24.txt item: #241 of 508 id: seejph-26 author: Levett, Jeffrey title: Albanian castles in defence of Balkan public health date: 2023-01-24 words: 1711 flesch: 56 summary: It can help institutional renewal of public health, give a boost to investment in training for competence, promote Levett J. Albanian castles in defence of Balkan public health (Public Health Perspective). This network has an impressive list of publications covering a wide range of subject materials and books for students and has addressed the development of schools of public health and the need for a health curriculum for peace (4). keywords: balkan; europe; health; human; levett; public cache: seejph-26.pdf plain text: seejph-26.txt item: #242 of 508 id: seejph-27 author: Jankovic, Slavenka title: Request for the retraction of the manuscript “Public health in Kosovo after five difficult years of independence” (Review article). SEEJPH 2013 by authors Jerliu N, Ramadani N, Mone I, Brand H. date: 2023-01-24 words: 580 flesch: 32 summary: They analyze or discuss research previously published…They come in the form of systematic reviews and literature reviews and are a form of secondary literature (1). Review articles draw upon the articles that they review to suggest new research directions, to strengthen support for existing theories and/or identify patterns among existing research studies (3). keywords: review; seejph cache: seejph-27.pdf plain text: seejph-27.txt item: #243 of 508 id: seejph-29 author: Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Marinkovic-Eric, Jelena title: Letter to Editors: Misunderstanding should be avoided by precise formulation: Comment on Jerliu et al. “Public Health in Kosovo after five difficult years of independence” date: 2023-01-24 words: 859 flesch: 48 summary: However, as the authors write, “…the nineties left Kosovo with a very inefficient health system characterized by a lack of trained personnel, disparities in health force distribution, leading to variations in access to primary care, corruption and informal payments as well as deteriorated child and adult health indicators”. “Public Health in Kosovo after five difficult years of independence” (Letter to editors). keywords: april; health; kosovo cache: seejph-29.pdf plain text: seejph-29.txt item: #244 of 508 id: seejph-290 author: KarmaPhD, Emiljan; Gashi, Dr. Silvana title: Technical efficiency of Kosovo public hospitals date: 2023-01-24 words: 4878 flesch: 54 summary: Hospital efficiency results DMU Efficiency ranking (by model) x1 - CRS x2 - CRS y1 - CRS y2 - CRS Prizren 4 1 1 2 Peje 6 4 5 5 Gjilan 8 7 7 8 Vushtrri 1 1 1 1 Mitrovice 2 6 1 4 Gjakove 6 1 1 7 Ferizaj 3 8 8 6 QKUK 5 5 6 3 The efficiency rate of 8 general hospitals by models Mean 0,70 0,87 Karma E, Gashi S. Technical efficiency of Kosovo public hospitals (Original research). keywords: analysis; crs; dea; efficiency; health; hospitals; input; kosovo; model; number; public; research; technical cache: seejph-290.pdf plain text: seejph-290.txt item: #245 of 508 id: seejph-291 author: Kamberi, Haxhi; Tanushi, Vanesa; Kadrija, Muhamet; Kamberi, Safete; Jerliu, Naim title: Level of satisfaction and socio-demographic correlates among users of primary health care services in Kosovo date: 2023-01-24 words: 3703 flesch: 54 summary: Table 2 presents the association between summary score of satisfaction level with primary healthcare services and socio- demographic factors of study participants. In brief, upon simultaneous multivariable adjustment for all socio-demographic characteristics, mean summary score of satisfaction level with primary healthcare services was significantly higher among: low-educated individuals compared to highly educated participants (51.9 vs. 56.2, respectively); in low-income participants compared to high-income individuals (49.3 vs. 56.7, respectively); and ethnic Albanian participants compared to other ethnic groups (51.2 vs. 55.7, respectively) keywords: care; health; healthcare; kosovo; level; satisfaction; services; study cache: seejph-291.pdf plain text: seejph-291.txt item: #246 of 508 id: seejph-292 author: Çomo, Najada; Meta, Esmeralda; Qato, Migena; Gjermeni, Nevila; Kolovani, Entela; Pipero, Pellumb; Harxhi, Arjan; Kraja, Dhimiter title: Overview on epidemiological and clinical manifestation of COVID-19 in Albanian adults date: 2023-01-24 words: 3356 flesch: 58 summary: Keywords: adults, Albania, clinical manifestations, Covid-19, epidemiology. Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 in the general population: systematic review. keywords: adults; age; cases; cat; covid-19; symptoms cache: seejph-292.pdf plain text: seejph-292.txt item: #247 of 508 id: seejph-293 author: Kollçaku, Laurant title: Epidemiological features of New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in children and adolescent during 2010-2014 in Albania - a unique experience. date: 2023-01-24 words: 11267 flesch: 63 summary: It must be said that Kussmaul respiratory distress, polypnea/tachypnea, dyspnea, confusion and cerebral edema/coma appear to be significant predictive factors of the presence of DKA in diabetic children, but the absence of these signs in children without KAD made binary logistic regression analysis impossible. It can be seen from the Figure 7 that the progress of HbA1c over time is more favorable for diabetic children without KAD compared to diabetic children with KAD, since in diabetic children without KAD the average level of HbA1c is constantly lower than in children with KAD, while in children with KAD the average level of this parameter remains more or less constant but at quite high levels (between 8- 9%). keywords: age; albania; children; diabetes; diabetes mellitus; diagnosis; dka; dmt1; doi; epidemiological; family; features; history; incidence; mellitus; new; onset; study; type; years cache: seejph-293.pdf plain text: seejph-293.txt item: #248 of 508 id: seejph-294 author: Tomini, Eugena; Simaku, Artan; Kureta, Elona; Vasili, Adela; Bino, Silva title: Syndromic surveillance in early detection of outbreaks of infectious diseases date: 2023-01-24 words: 3002 flesch: 48 summary: Laboratory reporting and disease surveillance. Challenges for communicable disease surveillance http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/report/index.htm http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/report/index.htm Tomini E Simaku A, Kureta E, Vasili A, Bino S. Syndromic surveillance in early detection of outbreaks of infectious diseases (Review article). keywords: albania; article; detection; diseases; health; information; outbreaks; public; surveillance; system; tomini cache: seejph-294.pdf plain text: seejph-294.txt item: #249 of 508 id: seejph-295 author: Mone, Iris; Kraja, Bledar; Roshi, Enver; Burazer, Genc title: Overview on health status of the Albanian population date: 2023-01-24 words: 2345 flesch: 30 summary: The net migration rate in Albania is estimated to be between -5% to -10%, which involves a loss of more than 300,000 people only due to emigration in the past two decades (5). DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5913 P a g e 1 | 6 REVIEW ARTICLE Overview on health status of the Albanian population Iris Mone1, Bledar Kraja1, Enver Roshi1, Genc Burazeri1,2 1 Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 2 Department of International Health, School CAPHRI (Care and Public Health Research Institute), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. keywords: albania; deaths; health; mortality; population cache: seejph-295.pdf plain text: seejph-295.txt item: #250 of 508 id: seejph-296 author: Cela, Dritan; Abilaliaj, Valmira; Shpuza, Aldo title: Nonoperative management for major blunt hepatic trauma in a 3-year-old child date: 2023-01-24 words: 1868 flesch: 53 summary: 10.Norrman G, Tingstedt B, Ekelund M, Andersson R. Non-operative management of blunt liver trauma: feasible and safe also in centres with a low trauma incidence. The choice of trauma management is facilitated when the environment offers clinical monitoring and serial exam capabilities and an operating room available for emergency laparotomy (2,4). keywords: blunt; liver; management; patient; trauma; treatment cache: seejph-296.pdf plain text: seejph-296.txt item: #251 of 508 id: seejph-297 author: Hysk, Jolanda title: Improving nutrition and health among Albanian schoolchildren date: 2023-01-24 words: 3519 flesch: 52 summary:  Prevention can be achieved through various interventions that target the school environment, physical activity and diet, such as: high importance of physical activity; healthy foods in cafeteria, ban on sweetened beverages and energy- dense junk food; training of teachers regarding health education; incorporation of more knowledge about nutrition and physical activity and nutrition-related diseases in school curriculum, etc. (14). - Children’s positive attitudes toward healthy foods, healthy nutritional habits and health benefits do not often correlate with their nutritional practices (behaviours); They seem to know the benefits of eating fresh fruits and vegetables, with almost all of them saying that fruit is very good for their health (92%), actually less than three in five children consume fruits on a daily basis whereas vegetable consumption is far too lower (with a range: 20%- 30% in all three surveys). keywords: albania; children; development; food; health; nutrition; policy; school cache: seejph-297.pdf plain text: seejph-297.txt item: #252 of 508 id: seejph-30 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: Editorial comment on the editorial policy of SEEJPH with reference to the comments by Bjegovic-Mikanovic & Marinkovic, and by Jankovic date: 2023-01-24 words: 472 flesch: 51 summary: One of us, Prof. Slavenka Jankovic together with her colleagues from Serbia clearly marked this deficit in their recent comments and even more the reference to Independence of Kosovo in the title, which was declared unilaterally on February 17 th , 2008, however judged not to violate international law by the International Court of Justice (1). We always strive to improve the rigidity of our reviewers’ work and, therefore, I welcome the critique by Prof. Slavenka Jankovic from a scientific point of view. keywords: paper cache: seejph-30.pdf plain text: seejph-30.txt item: #253 of 508 id: seejph-306 author: Aburayya, Dr. Ahmad title: Modern Health Systems Developments In the United Arab Emirates date: 2023-01-24 words: 408 flesch: -14 summary: Assistant Executive Editor Kreshnik Petrela BA Tirana, Albania Email: kreshnikp@gmail.com Technical Editor Meri Roshi BA Tirana, Albania Email: meriroshi90@gmail.com Publisher Dr. Hans Jacobs Jacobs Publishing House Am Prinzengarten 1, D 32756 Detmold, Germany Email: info@jacobs-verlag.de The publication of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) is organised in cooperation with the Bielefeld University Library. In the United Arab Emirates Collection from the Frontline Jacobs Publishing House Executive Editor Prof. Dr. Genc Burazeri PhD Faculty of Medicine, St. Dibres, No. 371, Tirana, Albania, and CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands Email: genc.burazeri@maastrichtuniversity.nl and: gburazeri@gmail.com Skype: genc.burazeri Volume Editor Prof. Dr. Ulrich Laaser DTM&H, MPH Faculty of Health Sciences, Bielefeld University POB 10 01 31, D-Bielefeld, Germany Email: ulrich.laaser@uni-bielefeld.de Guest Editor Ass. keywords: aburayya; email; health cache: seejph-306.pdf plain text: seejph-306.txt item: #254 of 508 id: seejph-307 author: Alsharafi, Afrah title: An empirical study into factors that influence e-learning adoption by medical students in UAE date: 2023-01-24 words: 4532 flesch: 48 summary: Fortunately, this study identified the factors influencing intention of students studying in higher education institutes towards using e-learning system. This study starts with the literature review of the selected studies related to e-learning systems. keywords: acceptance; adoption; factors; influence; learning; model; research; students; system; technology; use cache: seejph-307.pdf plain text: seejph-307.txt item: #255 of 508 id: seejph-308 author: Alomari, Khaled Mohammad title: Predicting the intention to use social media among medical students in the United Arab Emirates: A machine learning approach date: 2023-01-24 words: 4626 flesch: 58 summary: Initially, by including Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and external variables, analyze the students' intention to use social media networks. According to the research findings, students' intention to utilize social media networks for learning is significantly predicted by “subjective norms, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use”. keywords: acceptance; arab; emirates; intention; learning; machine; media; model; research; students; united; use cache: seejph-308.pdf plain text: seejph-308.txt item: #256 of 508 id: seejph-309 author: Ravikumar, Rejitha; Kitana, Abdelkarim; Taamneh, Abdallah; Aburayya, Ahmad; Shwedeh, Fanar; Salloum, Said; Shaalan, Khaled title: The Impact of Big Data Quality Analytics on Knowledge Management in Healthcare Institutions: Lessons Learned from Big Data's Application within The Healthcare Sector date: 2023-01-24 words: 6891 flesch: 45 summary: The bibliometric analysis results as in figure 1 indicate that big data analytics in healthcare was more prominent than big data in higher education. This is where big data analytics comes in, providing rational methods for navigating enormous quantities of data to disclose knowledge that assists businesses and analysts in making faster and better decisions. keywords: analytics; big; data; data analytics; education; healthcare; impact; institutions; knowledge; management; research; salloum; sector; shaalan; use cache: seejph-309.pdf plain text: seejph-309.txt item: #257 of 508 id: seejph-31 author: Kola, Ermira; Çelaj, Ermela; Bakalli, Iliriana; Lluka, Robert; Kuli-Lito, Gjeorgjina; Sallabanda, Sashenka title: Efficacy of an IgM preparation in the treatment of patients with sepsis: a double-blind randomized clinical trial in a pediatric intensive care unit date: 2023-01-24 words: 4319 flesch: 50 summary: The pooled results showed a relative reduction in mortality of 34% in adult sepsis patients who received the adjunctive IgM preparation (relative risk: 0.66; P=0.0009). There were no statistical differences between treatment groups in baseline characteristics at PICU admission (Table 1). keywords: care; group; igm; immunoglobulin; intervention; patients; pediatric; preparation; sepsis; study; survival; treatment cache: seejph-31.pdf plain text: seejph-31.txt item: #258 of 508 id: seejph-310 author: Alawadhi, Maryam; Alhumaid, Khadija; Almarzooqi, Sameeha; Aljasmi, Shaima; Aburayya, Ahmad; Salloum, Said A.; Almesmari, Waleid title: Factors Affecting Medical Students’ Acceptance of the Metaverse System in Medical Training in the United Arab Emirates date: 2023-01-24 words: 5053 flesch: 50 summary: Multiple research studies have been conducted in universities and other learning institutions to investigate the effectiveness of metaverse as a learning tool. An updated and expanded assessment of PLS-SEM in information systems research. keywords: acceptance; factors; medical; metaverse; peou; research; students; study; system; technology; training; use cache: seejph-310.pdf plain text: seejph-310.txt item: #259 of 508 id: seejph-311 author: Aljasmi, Shaima; Aburayya, Ihssan; Almarzooqi, Sameeha; Alawadhi, Maryam; Aburayya, Ahmad; Salloum, Said A.; Adel, Khalid title: The Impact of Hospital Demographic Factors on Total Quality Management Implementation: A Case Study of UAE Hospitals date: 2023-01-24 words: 5476 flesch: 47 summary: The study used a binary logistic regression model to determine if hospital demographics affected TQM implementation. Thus, more research is required on how factors such as size determine TQM implementation in several organisations. keywords: aburayya; case; factors; hospitals; impact; implementation; management; quality; research; studies; study; total; tqm; uae cache: seejph-311.pdf plain text: seejph-311.txt item: #260 of 508 id: seejph-312 author: Dahu, Butros M.; Aburayya, Ahmad; Shameem , Beenish; Shwedeh, Fanar; Alawadhi, Maryam; Aljasmi , Shaima; Salloum, Said A.; Aburayya, Hamza; Aburayya, Ihssan title: The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Quality: A Systematic Review Study date: 2023-01-24 words: 7646 flesch: 53 summary: In addition, 5 papers focused on the association between the environmental factors, air pollution and air quality and COVID-19 mortality rate. Finally, 1 research study paper aimed to study the COVID-19 positivity rate and the effect of air quality during the stay-at-home order or the lockdown which was occurred in March 2020. keywords: aburayya; air; air quality; article; covid-19; impact; increase; lockdown; mortality; no2; pm2.5; pollution; rate; review; states; study; united cache: seejph-312.pdf plain text: seejph-312.txt item: #261 of 508 id: seejph-3129 author: Chernyavskiy, Valery ; Wenzel, Helmut ; Mikhailova, Julia ; Ivanova, Alla ; Zemlyanova, Elena ; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna ; Mikhailov, Alexander ; Laaser, Ulrich title: Successful reduction of premature mortality in the Russian Federation and the countries around the Baltic Sea working together on Health and Social Well-being date: 2019-10-30 words: 6219 flesch: 52 summary: e 1 | 20 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Successful reduction of premature mortality in the Russian Federation and the countries around the Baltic Sea working together on Health and Social Well-being Valery Chernyavskiy1, Helmut Wenzel2, Julia Mikhailova1, Alla Ivanova1,3, Elena Zemlyanova1,3, Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic4, Alexander Mikhailov1, Ulrich Laaser5 1 Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of the Russian Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russian Federation; 2 Independent consultant, Konstanz, Germany; 3 Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation 4 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Social Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia; 5 University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld School of Public Health, Bielefeld, Germany. Keywords: gap analysis, northern dimension, North West Federal Okrug, premature mortality, public health, Russian Federation. keywords: baltic; federation; health; mortality; russian; russian federation; sea cache: seejph-3129.pdf plain text: seejph-3129.txt item: #262 of 508 id: seejph-3130 author: Burazeri, Genc title: Mortality reduction in the Russian Federation: Significant progress contrary to Western beliefs date: 2019-10-30 words: 811 flesch: 46 summary: Thus, on average, mortality reduction levels amounted to 50% in North-Western Russia, suggesting an impressive progress. Burazeri G. Mortality reduction in the Russian Federation: keywords: federation; health; russian cache: seejph-3130.pdf plain text: seejph-3130.txt item: #263 of 508 id: seejph-314 author: Houghton, Dr. Frank; Scott, Dr. Lisa O’Rourke title: Addiction & Dependency date: 2023-01-24 words: 324 flesch: -24 summary: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health Special Volume No. 6, 2022 Addiction & Dependency Contributions to a major health problem Jacobs Publishing House Executive Editor Prof. Dr. Genc Burazeri PhD Faculty of Medicine, St. Dibres, No. 371, Tirana, Albania, and CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands Email: genc.burazeri@maastrichtuniversity.nl and: gburazeri@gmail.com Skype: genc.burazeri Volume Editors Dr. Frank Houghton Email: Frank.Houghton@TUS.ie Section Co-Editor Dr. Lisa O’Rourke Scott Email: Lisa.ORourkeScott@tus.ie Section Co-Editor Assistant Executive Editor Kreshnik Petrela BA Tirana, Albania Email: kreshnikp@gmail.com Technical Editor Meri Roshi BA Tirana, Albania Email: meriroshi90@gmail.com Publisher Dr. Hans Jacobs Jacobs Publishing House Am Prinzengarten 1, D 32756 Detmold, Germany Email: info@jacobs-verlag.de The publication of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) is organised in cooperation with the Bielefeld University Library. Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.ddb.de South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Open Access Journal). keywords: email; health cache: seejph-314.pdf plain text: seejph-314.txt item: #264 of 508 id: seejph-315 author: Scott, Lisa O’Rourke title: Utilising ‘new’ power strategies for public health education in addiction and dependency: learning from social media influencers date: 2023-01-24 words: 2615 flesch: 57 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5721 The traditional goal of work in public health is the promotion of population health (1). SO L. Utilising ‘new’ power strategies for public health education in addiction and dependency: learning from social media influencers. keywords: addiction; dependency; example; health; media; new; power; social; use cache: seejph-315.pdf plain text: seejph-315.txt item: #265 of 508 id: seejph-316 author: Heinz, Melinda title: The Potential of Men’s Sheds as a Resource for Men Coping with Mental Health Challenges and Addiction date: 2023-01-24 words: 1882 flesch: 57 summary: Men in need experience the benefits of receiving support from other men and feel that their levels of loneliness and depression declined after they joined the Men’s Shed. Men I interviewed spoke about the importance of having a place to gather with other men and the benefit of having a purpose when they got up each day. keywords: addiction; challenges; health; men; sheds; support cache: seejph-316.pdf plain text: seejph-316.txt item: #266 of 508 id: seejph-317 author: Hill, Margo title: Tribal Communities and Opioids date: 2023-01-24 words: 3691 flesch: 54 summary: Another indicator of substance abuse are Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs), such as exposure to alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, emotional neglect, incarceration of a parent, physical or sexual abuse (10). How do we stop opioid abuse in tribal communities? keywords: abuse; american; communities; drug; health; indian; opioid; overdose; pain; review; substance; tribal cache: seejph-317.pdf plain text: seejph-317.txt item: #267 of 508 id: seejph-318 author: Houghton, Frank title: Researching Gambling: Have we learned nothing from Big Tobacco’s overt manipulation of science? date: 2023-01-24 words: 3691 flesch: 54 summary: Another indicator of substance abuse are Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs), such as exposure to alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, emotional neglect, incarceration of a parent, physical or sexual abuse (10). How do we stop opioid abuse in tribal communities? keywords: abuse; american; communities; drug; health; indian; opioid; overdose; pain; review; substance; tribal cache: seejph-318.pdf plain text: seejph-318.txt item: #268 of 508 id: seejph-319 author: Finucane, Aisling; Stritch, Jennifer Moran title: Connecting the Person by Removing the Stigma: Why Ireland Should Follow the Portuguese Model of Drug Decriminalisation date: 2023-01-24 words: 2143 flesch: 43 summary: It is commonly acknowledged that heavier sanctions have a limited deterrent effect on drug use, while inadvertently harming users more than the substances themselves (9). Furthermore, studies undertaken in Irish jails have revealed a prevalent drug culture that potentially encourages drug use (14,15,16) suggesting that most inmates have serious drug addiction concerns. keywords: addiction; decriminalisation; drug; health; ireland; stigma cache: seejph-319.pdf plain text: seejph-319.txt item: #269 of 508 id: seejph-320 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: Public Health Teaching Books (Open Access) date: 2023-01-24 words: 185472 flesch: 47 summary: And, later on, in 1948, when National Health Service in Great Britain was established, the general practitioner became the most important gate-keeper at the entrance to the other levels of health care system. Three generations of health care system reforms Health care systems are continuously evolving. keywords: accreditation; analysis; approach; assessment; canada health; care level; care management; care policy; care providers; care quality; care reform; care services; care system; care technology; case; changes; child health; clinical; community health; cost; countries; d. health; decision; disease; district health; ehr; european health; evaluation; financial; following; general; group; health activities; health administration; health authority; health boards; health bucharest; health care; health center; health conditions; health conference; health consultant; health data; health departments; health determinants; health development; health economics; health education; health effects; health events; health evidence; health examination; health expenditures; health expert; health facility; health field; health financing; health framework; health goals; health health; health improvement; health indicators; health inequalities; health information; health institute; health institutions; health insurance; health interventions; health interview; health legislation; health maintenance; health management; health ministers; health monitoring; health needs; health network; health objectives; health officers; health organization; health outcomes; health planning; health policy; health politicians; health prevention; health problems; health professionals; health programme; health promotion; health providers; health record; health reporting; health research; health resources; health revenues; health sciences; health sector; health security; health services; health situation; health spending; health statistics; health status; health strategy; health systems; health target; health technology; health threats; health units; health workers; hospital care; hospital health; hospitals; human; implementation; individual; information system; insurance system; international; job; keywords health; law; level; life; making; medical; medicine; methods; model; national health; new; number; objectives; order; organizations; patient; payment; people; population health; primary; process; programmes; project; public health; quality assessment; quality health; quality improvement; quality management; questionnaire; regional; results; role; set; social; specialist health; standards; state; students; study; support; systems development; systems management; targets; technology assessment; time; training; treatment; use; world health; years cache: seejph-320.pdf plain text: seejph-320.txt item: #270 of 508 id: seejph-323 author: Popovic, Natasa title: Review of Costing Tools Health System in Liberia date: 2023-01-24 words: 5366 flesch: 43 summary: Main modules of MBB The bottlenecks identification module uses a country-specific data or default data and defines three main packages of health interventions. Elements in costing health interventions and health outcomes Source; WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and UNFPA, in collaboration with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the Norwegian Government (2008) TECHNICAL REVIEW OF COSTING TOOLS FOR THE HEALTH MDGS Final Report. keywords: analysis; bottlenecks; budgeting; care; costing; costs; coverage; health; intervention; liberia; management; plan; services; tool cache: seejph-323.pdf plain text: seejph-323.txt item: #271 of 508 id: seejph-3231 author: Lueddeke, George R. title: Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future date: 2019-12-16 words: 2633 flesch: 50 summary: In Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future, George R. Lueddeke, the chair of the One Health Education Task Force, shows how public health can be incorporated into a wide range of fields to address individual, population, and ecosystem health…’With respect to this, kindly let us know more. In this connection, PEAH had the pleasure to interview Dr. George R. Lueddeke as the author of the recently published cross-disciplinary book Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future Routledge, 1st edition, 2019. keywords: future; global; health; lueddeke; planet; survival; world cache: seejph-3231.pdf plain text: seejph-3231.txt item: #272 of 508 id: seejph-324 author: Danzon, Marc; Charpak, Yves title: Book Review: Politics and health updated date: 2023-01-24 words: 773 flesch: 42 summary: This 253 page book is presented as a dialogue between the two seasoned participants on the development of health services and their comparative performance. For Danzon and Charpak the important question is not why there is such a variation between countries in the number of hospital beds per thousand population, or the expenditure on health service per capita, but why such a big divide in expectation of life, and deaths from preventable illness and accidents. keywords: book; danzon; health cache: seejph-324.pdf plain text: seejph-324.txt item: #273 of 508 id: seejph-326 author: Liberia, Republic of; Health, Ministry of title: The first comprehensive Health Sector Review and future Operational Plan of Liberia after the EBOLA crisis: Consolidated Operational Plan 2016-2017 date: 2023-01-24 words: 12034 flesch: 45 summary: The number of health facilities providing health services increased by 71 from 2014 – 2015 (656 in 2014 to 727 in 2015). With one decade of relative peace and stability, Liberia restored health services and started making enormous strives in childhood mortality reduction, decline in AIDS related deaths and expansion of health services. keywords: activities; central; community; conduct; consolidated; counties; county; county level; facilities; health; investment; level; level activities; management; ministry; monitoring; national; objective; plan; planning; quarterly; services; support; system; target; work; work plan cache: seejph-326.pdf plain text: seejph-326.txt item: #274 of 508 id: seejph-327 author: Wales, Public Health title: Making a Difference: Investing in Sustainable Health and Well-being for the People of Wales date: 2023-01-24 words: 5437 flesch: 46 summary: Every £1 spent on motivational interviewing and supportive networks for people with alcohol dependence returns £5 to the public sector in reduced health, social care and criminal justice costs. The report has been informed by: ■ Research evidence ■ Professional guidance and expertise in public health, policy, social studies, equity and economics ■ Welsh priorities for health and well- being ■ Current Welsh policy and health context The report consists of three parts published separately: 1 Making a Difference: keywords: areas; costs; evidence; health; health wales; inequalities; interventions; people; public; social; wales cache: seejph-327.pdf plain text: seejph-327.txt item: #275 of 508 id: seejph-3271 author: Lafranconi, Alessandra; Meusel, Vera ; Caldeira, Sandra; Babich, Suzanne; Czabanowska, Katarzyna title: Facilitators and barriers to the use of economic evaluations in nutrition and public health date: 2020-01-13 words: 6803 flesch: 43 summary: This qualitative analysis aimed to identify key barriers and facilitators of performing public health economic evaluations and in including them in the development of policies in the area of nutrition and prevention of chronic diseases. “Lack of standardised methodologies and evidence based approaches, and no special focus of HTA units and bodies [are challenges encountered] in public health evaluations”. keywords: analysis; barriers; caldeira; evaluations; evidence; facilitators; health; interventions; nutrition; participants; phee; policy; public; research; use cache: seejph-3271.pdf plain text: seejph-3271.txt item: #276 of 508 id: seejph-3277 author: Italia, Salvatore ; Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Brand, Helmut title: Switching emergency contraceptives to non-prescription status and unwanted pregnancy among adult and teenage women: A long-term European comparative study date: 2020-01-17 words: 6486 flesch: 57 summary: DOI: 10.4119/seejph-3277 P a g e 11 | 16 available figures are from 2011/2012 and may have fallen since then) showed long- term trends towards higher abortion rates among teenagers after the switch, and in only seven countries total abortion rates were slightly higher in 2017 than at time of the switch. On average, abortion rates among women aged 15–49 years were 83% higher 15 years before (compared with the year of reference) and 14% lower 15 years after the switch. keywords: abortion; countries; emcs; emergency; european; pregnancy; prescription; rates; status; switch; women; years cache: seejph-3277.pdf plain text: seejph-3277.txt item: #277 of 508 id: seejph-328 author: Behbod, Behrooz; George, Lueddeke R title: Global Population Health and Well-Being in the 21st Century: Toward New Paradigms, Policy and Practice date: 2023-01-24 words: 284 flesch: 41 summary: Author: George R Lueddeke PhD A must read for public health, clinical, and social care students, teachers, and practitioners alike, including case studies to provide a thorough and up-to-date account of the past, present, and future of global public health. Dr Lueddeke presents a manifesto for collective public health action through the ‘One Health’ movement, recognising the inter-dependencies in the health of people, other animals and the environment we live in. keywords: health cache: seejph-328.pdf plain text: seejph-328.txt item: #278 of 508 id: seejph-331 author: France, Francis Roger title: Biographical Lexicon of Public Health: Review date: 2023-01-24 words: 470 flesch: 48 summary: He also described historical milestones in the concepts of Social Medicine, Statistical Analysis, Epidemiologic Studies, Communicable Diseases Prevention, Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, Health Services Organization, Health Economics, Medical Record Linkage, Health Informatics, Quality of Care Indicators, Health Policies, Social Coverage, Risks Factors Intervention Trials, as well as key-role players in the former years for the advances in these various areas. Review of Biographical Lexicon of Public Health by Izet Masic, 410 pages ,2015 AVICENA, Sarajevo (ISBN 978-9958-720-60-4) At the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the publication of “Medical Archives”, its readers should be informed of the availability of a new book by its prolific Editor Professor Izet Masic. keywords: health; lexicon cache: seejph-331.pdf plain text: seejph-331.txt item: #279 of 508 id: seejph-3311 author: Jovanovic, Dragana; Jankovic, Janko; Mirilovic, Nikola title: Socio-demographic inequalities in satisfaction with primary health care and utilization of chosen doctors’ services: a cross-sectional study date: 2020-02-11 words: 6073 flesch: 58 summary: Despite the fact that Serbia has a comprehensive universal health care system with free access to primary care services, inequalities in the utilization of health care services are present (6,15). 12 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Socio-demographic inequalities in satisfaction with primary health care and utilization of chosen doctors’ services: a cross-sectional study Dragana Jovanovic1, Janko Jankovic2, Nikola Mirilovic3 1 Department of Social Medicine with Informatics, Primary Health Center Valjevo, Valjevo, Serbia; 2 Institute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; 3 Zemun Gymnasium, Zemun, Serbia. keywords: care; doctor; health; inequalities; satisfaction; services; socio; socioeconomic; status; study; utilization cache: seejph-3311.pdf plain text: seejph-3311.txt item: #280 of 508 id: seejph-3322 author: Cuschieri, Sarah title: The diabetes epidemic in Malta date: 2020-02-19 words: 4003 flesch: 56 summary: However, this expenditure did not differentiate between newly diagnosed and previously diagnosed diabetes, as well as it was based on over- estimation of diabetes prevalence rate. Global diabetes prevalence levels by district in Malta 2014 – 2016 keywords: diabetes; expenditure; health; malta; population; prevalence; study; years cache: seejph-3322.pdf plain text: seejph-3322.txt item: #281 of 508 id: seejph-3347 author: La Torre, Giuseppe; De Paula Baer, Alice ; Sestili, Cristina ; Andrea Cocchiara, Rosario; Barbato, Domenico; Mannocci, Alice; Del Cimmuto, Angela title: Knowledge and perception about climate change among healthcare professionals and students: A cross-sectional study date: 2020-03-02 words: 8719 flesch: 65 summary: Now what do people know about global climate change? Knowledge and perception about climate change among healthcare professionals and students: A cross- sectional study (Original research). keywords: barbato; climate change; health; healthcare; knowledge; participants; perception; professionals; public; research; students; study; torre cache: seejph-3347.pdf plain text: seejph-3347.txt item: #282 of 508 id: seejph-336 author: Madhumita Dobe; Monalisha Sahu; Chandrashekhar Taklikar; Shibani Dutta title: A study on risk perception, cognitive awareness and emotional responses to identify unmet training needs of frontline health care workers for COVID-19 containment in India date: 2022-12-30 words: 3678 flesch: 46 summary: Dobe M, Sahu M, Taklikar C, Dutta S. A Study on risk perception, cognitive awareness and emotional responses to identify unmet training needs of frontline Health Care Workers (FLHCWs) for COVID-19 containment In India (Original research). mailto:drvikaspsm@gmail.com Dobe M, Sahu M, Taklikar C, Dutta S. A Study on risk perception, cognitive awareness and emotional responses to identify unmet training needs of frontline Health Care Workers (FLHCWs) for COVID-19 containment In India (Original research). keywords: covid-19; flhcws; health; ncov-19; perception; risk; study cache: seejph-336.pdf plain text: seejph-336.txt item: #283 of 508 id: seejph-3369 author: Tozija, Fimka; Lizana, Tona title: Migrant Health Policy in European Union (EU) and a non EU country: Current situation and future challenges for improvement date: 2020-03-16 words: 4394 flesch: 47 summary: Results: There are differences between Spain and Macedonia in health care coverage and access to health services for migrants. Targeted migrant health policies are stronger and services more responsive in Spain compared to Macedonia which offers migrants legal entitlements to healthcare, but health services should be more culturally responsive to migrant health needs. keywords: country; european; health; integration; macedonia; migrant; migration; policy; spain; union cache: seejph-3369.pdf plain text: seejph-3369.txt item: #284 of 508 id: seejph-337 author: Ulrich Laaser; Cheryl Stroud; Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic; Helmut Wenzel; Richard Seifman; Carter Craig; Bruce Kaplan; Laura Kahn; Rohini Roopnarine title: EXCHANGE AND COORDINATION: CHALLENGES OF THE GLOBAL ONE HEALTH MOVEMENT date: 2022-12-30 words: 11134 flesch: 36 summary: Keywords: One Health movement; trajectories, globalization; global health; organizational deficits; interaction; global One Health alliance. Health and well-being are both preconditions and outcomes of sustainable development. keywords: bjegovic; challenges; coordination; craig; doi; exchange; health; kahn; kaplan; laaser; mikanovic; movement; november; organizations; research; roopnarine; seifman; stroud; wenzel cache: seejph-337.pdf plain text: seejph-337.txt item: #285 of 508 id: seejph-338 author: Eliudi Saria Eliakimu; Linda Mans title: Taking up from COP26 going forward: contribution of the Book “Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future by George R. Lueddeke” date: 2022-12-30 words: 4963 flesch: 39 summary: Am J Public Health 2022; 112:850-2. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306846. _____________________________________________________________________ European Journal of Public Health 2021; Volume 31, Issue Supplement_3, ckab166.004. 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Taking up from COP26 going forward: contribution of the Book “Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future by George R. Lueddeke” (Commentary) SEEJPH 2022, posted: 16 December 2022. keywords: book; change; climate; cop26; covid-19; doi; future; george; global; health; lueddeke; need; planet; public; survival cache: seejph-338.pdf plain text: seejph-338.txt item: #286 of 508 id: seejph-339 author: Haxhi Kamberi; Vanesa Tanushi; Muhamet Kadrija title: Level of satisfaction among primary health care workers in Kosovo date: 2022-12-30 words: 4580 flesch: 49 summary: Conclusion: The evidence from this study conducted in Kosovo indicates no significant relationships of the level of satisfaction with demographic factors of primary healthcare workers, but a strong association with their working experience. Of note, assessment of satisfaction level of primary healthcare workers constitutes an important component of the overall assessment of health care services regarding quality and health care system responsiveness (5,6). keywords: characteristics; factors; healthcare; kosovo; level; primary; satisfaction; study; workers; years cache: seejph-339.pdf plain text: seejph-339.txt item: #287 of 508 id: seejph-340 author: Martial Coly Bop; Cheikh Tacko Diop; Bou Diarra; Boubacar Gueye; Ousseynou Ka title: Determinants of low birth weight in the health district of Bounkiling in Senegal date: 2022-12-30 words: 4310 flesch: 64 summary: Bop MC, Diop CT, Diarra B, Gueye B, Ka O. Determinants of low birth weight in the health district of Bounkiling in Senegal (Original research). DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5931 P a g e 1 | 9 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Determinants of low birth weight in the health district of Bounkiling in Senegal Martial Coly Bop1, Cheikh Tacko Diop1, Bou Diarra2, Boubacar Gueye1, Ousseynou Ka1 1 keywords: birth; birth weight; bounkiling; determinants; district; health; newborns; senegal; weight; women cache: seejph-340.pdf plain text: seejph-340.txt item: #288 of 508 id: seejph-3407 author: Husseini, Maha Nubani ; Donchin, Milka title: School-based intervention to promote healthy nutrition and physical activity in Palestinian girls - Process evaluation date: 2020-04-15 words: 6551 flesch: 51 summary: It is important to note that several of the schools had already been made aware of the aspects of the health promotion program through municipality programs designed to encourage “health promoting schools.” Intervention activities are presented in Table 2. keywords: activities; activity; committee; evaluation; girls; healthy; intervention; mothers; nutrition; palestinian; process; process evaluation; program; school; schoolchildren; teachers cache: seejph-3407.pdf plain text: seejph-3407.txt item: #289 of 508 id: seejph-341 author: Laurant Kollçaku title: Epidemiological features of New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in children and adolescent during 2010-2014 in Albania - a unique experience. date: 2022-12-30 words: 11267 flesch: 63 summary: It must be said that Kussmaul respiratory distress, polypnea/tachypnea, dyspnea, confusion and cerebral edema/coma appear to be significant predictive factors of the presence of DKA in diabetic children, but the absence of these signs in children without KAD made binary logistic regression analysis impossible. It can be seen from the Figure 7 that the progress of HbA1c over time is more favorable for diabetic children without KAD compared to diabetic children with KAD, since in diabetic children without KAD the average level of HbA1c is constantly lower than in children with KAD, while in children with KAD the average level of this parameter remains more or less constant but at quite high levels (between 8- 9%). keywords: age; albania; children; diabetes; diabetes mellitus; diagnosis; dka; dmt1; doi; epidemiological; family; features; history; incidence; mellitus; new; onset; study; type; years cache: seejph-341.pdf plain text: seejph-341.txt item: #290 of 508 id: seejph-342 author: Eugena Tomini; Artan Simaku; Elona Kureta; Adela Vasili; Silva Bino title: Syndromic surveillance in early detection of outbreaks of infectious diseases date: 2022-12-30 words: 3002 flesch: 48 summary: Laboratory reporting and disease surveillance. Challenges for communicable disease surveillance http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/report/index.htm http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/report/index.htm Tomini E Simaku A, Kureta E, Vasili A, Bino S. Syndromic surveillance in early detection of outbreaks of infectious diseases (Review article). keywords: albania; article; detection; diseases; health; information; outbreaks; public; surveillance; system; tomini cache: seejph-342.pdf plain text: seejph-342.txt item: #291 of 508 id: seejph-343 author: Anniek E. E. de Jong; Mirza Sarač; Wilko Verweij; Jovana Rašeta Bastić; Gertjan W. Geerling title: Human health in the flood risk management planning under the European Union Floods Directive: Pilot study in the Sava River Basin date: 2022-12-30 words: 4904 flesch: 41 summary: Keywords: EU floods directive, flood risk management, health risk. Furthermore, internationally recognized health risks of flooding are assessed in accordance with their relevance for the Sava River Basin based on (future possible) presence of pathogen and host/vector, environmental effects of climate change, and present infrastructure. keywords: basin; directive; european; flood; health; management; planning; risk; river; river basin; sava; sava river; water cache: seejph-343.pdf plain text: seejph-343.txt item: #292 of 508 id: seejph-3441 author: Beshir, Safia ; Shaheen, Weam; Saad-Hussein, Amal ; Saeed, Yuosra title: Aflatoxin B1 as an endocrine disruptor among miller flour workers date: 2020-05-04 words: 5113 flesch: 59 summary: DOI: 10.4119/seejph-3441 P a g e 1 | 12 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Aflatoxin B1 as an endocrine disruptor among miller flour workers Safia Beshir1, Weam Shaheen1, Amal Saad-Hussein1, Yuosra Saeed2 1Environmental and Occupational Medicine Department, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt; 2Air Pollution Research Department, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt. This study was proposed to clarify the possible effects of aflatoxin B1 as an endocrine disruptor on pituitary gland, thyroid gland and gonads among miller flour workers, and to evaluate its effects on human male sexual function. keywords: afb1; aflatoxin; aspergillus; endocrine; flour; fsh; hormone; male; miller; non; serum; study; testosterone; thyroid; workers cache: seejph-3441.pdf plain text: seejph-3441.txt item: #293 of 508 id: seejph-3442 author: Martin-Moreno, Jose M. title: Facing the COVID-19 challenge: When the world depends on effective public health interventions date: 2020-05-04 words: 1780 flesch: 55 summary: However, we cannot forget the relevance of all other essential operations, such as: the communication and social mobi- lization for health (EPHO 9); the one which allows us to articulate solutions for an effec- tive vaccine (EPHO 10 and 5); the health pro- tection interventions including environmen- tal, occupational, and food safety (EPHO 3); the promotion of population health and well- being tackling inequalities and the broader social and environmental determinants (EPHO 4); the proper health governance for health, together with reliable infrastructures and financing to ensure the resources and vi- ability of public health interventions (EPHO 6 and 8); and, the responsibility to ensure a competent workforce (EPHO 7). When the world depends on effective public health interventions Jose M. Martin-Moreno1,2 1Editorial Board, South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH); 2Department of Preventive Medicine & INCLIVA, University of Valencia, Spain. keywords: covid-19; doi; health; martin; public; world cache: seejph-3442.pdf plain text: seejph-3442.txt item: #294 of 508 id: seejph-3459 author: Ivanović , Marta; Mirjana, Đorđević ; Aleksandar MA, Klarić ; Filip, Mikanović ; Kristina, Nikolić ; Tamara, Perić ; Tamara, Savić ; Katarina, Steljić ; Lazar, Subotić; Marko, Todorović ; Irena, Todorovski ; Bojan, Totić title: Serbian Citizens’ Opinion on the COVID-19 Epidemic date: 2020-05-16 words: 3824 flesch: 57 summary: When comparing these results to the previous questions’, one could ask: If 55% of respondents think politicians are bringing discomfort and panic, while at the same time, 86% say they are not concerned about the virus, are the politicians losing the trust of the people? 5) How much traction have conspiracy theories gained among Serbian citizens? The results showcase a lack of motivation for including government institutions in solving this problem, as many respondents would rely on self-initiative. keywords: citizens; covid-19; opinion; public; respondents; virus cache: seejph-3459.pdf plain text: seejph-3459.txt item: #295 of 508 id: seejph-3469 author: Holst, Jens title: When the world depends on effective public health intervention – and public health does not deliver date: 2020-05-23 words: 2549 flesch: 45 summary: Pandemic challenging Public Health In spite of all declarations about the relevance of public health in a pandemic outbreak, it was not public and global health experts other than virologists and epidemiologists to be- come the second group to enter the global and national scenes. Moon S. Power in global govern- ance: an expanded typology from global health. keywords: covid-19; doi; global; health; public; world cache: seejph-3469.pdf plain text: seejph-3469.txt item: #296 of 508 id: seejph-3492 author: Kalaitzi, Stavroula title: Navigating barriers to gender equality in the European Union context: The case of healthcare sector date: 2020-06-01 words: 6587 flesch: 52 summary: The study applies the- ories of gender equality, women’s leadership, gender equality policy and implementation at EU and Member States level. On the grounds of the provided evidence-in- formed insights on the context sensitive and country specific gendered barriers, policy ac- tors and decision makers are invited to follow the “think globally – act locally” strategy in gender equality policies and practices in their efforts to close the gap between policy and reality. keywords: barriers; context; equality; european; gender; gender equality; healthcare; maastricht; policy; research; sector; study; union; women cache: seejph-3492.pdf plain text: seejph-3492.txt item: #297 of 508 id: seejph-35 author: Schröder-Bäck, Peter; Maeckelberghe, Els; Bordonada, Miguel Ángel Royo title: The Ethics effect date: 2023-01-24 words: 1260 flesch: 50 summary: To contribute to this endeavour, we welcome in this journal articles that have ethics integrated into the public health perspective; or articles that deal with public health ethics explicitly. Public health ethics: The voices of practitioners. keywords: ethics; health; public; schröder cache: seejph-35.pdf plain text: seejph-35.txt item: #298 of 508 id: seejph-3543 author: Abed, Yehia title: COVID-19 in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under the political conflict in Palestine date: 2020-06-27 words: 5766 flesch: 58 summary: Palestinians are facing the epidemic, with around 2 million inhabitants under siege in the highly populated Gaza Strip for the last 14 years. Keywords: control measures, COVID-19, Gaza Strip, Palestine. keywords: bank; cases; covid-19; gaza; gaza strip; health; palestine; palestinian; population; strip; west; west bank cache: seejph-3543.pdf plain text: seejph-3543.txt item: #299 of 508 id: seejph-36 author: Adogu, Prosper; Udigwe, Ifeoma; Nwabueze, Achunam; Adinma, Echendu; Udigwe, Gerald; Onwasigwe, Chika title: Sexual health knowledge, attitude and risk perception among in-school and out-of-school female adolescents in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria date: 2023-01-24 words: 5440 flesch: 59 summary: However, it was decided to recruit a total sample of 800 female adolescents (400 among in-school adolescents and 400 among out-of school adolescents) in order to considerably increase the power of the study. Involvement in schools and plans to attend higher education are all related to less sexual risk- 8 Adogu P, Udigwe I, Nwabueze A, Adinma E, Udigwe G, Onwasigwe C. Sexual health knowledge, attitude and risk perception among in-school and out-of-school female adolescents in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria (Original research). keywords: adolescents; attitude; girls; health; hiv; knowledge; nigeria; perception; risk; school; sexual cache: seejph-36.pdf plain text: seejph-36.txt item: #300 of 508 id: seejph-3614 author: Sahu, Monalisha ; Dobe, Madhumita title: How the largest slum in India flattened the COVID curve? A Case Study date: 2020-08-09 words: 5739 flesch: 48 summary: Majority of Dharavi population is made of migrants both formal and informal mostly from other districts of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujrat, UP and Bihar (5). Dharavi is the largest slum in India and one of the most densely populated areas in the world. keywords: august; case; case study; covid; covid-19; curve; dharavi; health; india; people; seejph; slum; study cache: seejph-3614.pdf plain text: seejph-3614.txt item: #301 of 508 id: seejph-363 author: Genc Burazeri; Sampath Emani; Ulrich Laaser title: Transfer of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health to the Netherlands Press date: 2022-03-21 words: 642 flesch: 52 summary: Posted: 21 March 2022 Page 1 Transfer of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health to the Netherlands Press Genc Burazeri1,2, Sampath Emani3, Ulrich Laaser4 1Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 2Department of International Health, School CAPHRI (Care and Public Health Research Institute), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 3The Netherlands Press B.V. 4Section of International Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. Genc Burazeri, Sampath Emani, Ulrich Laaser, Transfer of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health to the Netherlands Press. keywords: health; journal cache: seejph-363.pdf plain text: seejph-363.txt item: #302 of 508 id: seejph-3631 author: Peposhi, Ilir ; Tafa, Holta ; Bardhi, Donika ; Hafizi, Hasan title: Clinical and epidemiological evaluation of Tuberculosis in Albania during the period 2009-2018 date: 2020-08-16 words: 3411 flesch: 60 summary: The total number of TB cases increased from 440 to 447. Males prevail among TB cases and male-to-female ratio ranges from 2:1 to 3:1. keywords: albania; cases; incidence; period; proportion; tuberculosis cache: seejph-3631.pdf plain text: seejph-3631.txt item: #303 of 508 id: seejph-365 author: Ulrich Laaser; Seifman , Richard title: Oneness in One Health date: 2023-04-09 words: 1583 flesch: 44 summary: Modern and integrative terms such as “Global Health, Public Health, One Health, Planetary Health, and Environmental Health” appear in the names of accredited CSOs/NGOs only in 1.3% respectively 0.7%. Posted: 09-04-2023, Vol. XX, DOI: https://doi.org/10.56801/seejph.vi.365 Page 4 Even in a very broad definition of relevant terms Health, Medicine, and Environment, only 4.4% populate the United Nations list, however, 24.6% at the Council of Europe list (almost three quarters contributed by the term “Environment”). keywords: health; journal; laaser; oneness; organizations; ulrich cache: seejph-365.pdf plain text: seejph-365.txt item: #304 of 508 id: seejph-366 author: Phoebe W. Hwang; Mohammad Auais; Afshin Vafaei; Nicole T.A. Rosendaal; Yan Yan Wu; Catherine M. Pirkle title: Disentangling the relationship between falls, fear of falling, physical function and walking by applying a socioecological framework to the International Mobility in Aging Study date: 2023-04-10 words: 7288 flesch: 57 summary: Results: Estimated walking minutes was 52% lower for those with low SPPB compared to high SPPB, 20% lower for those with medium level fear of falling compared to low levels, and 50% lower for those with high level fear of falling compared to low levels. Estimated walking minutes are 52% lower for those with low SPPB compared to high SPPB, 20% lower for those with medium level fear of falling compared to low levels, and 50% lower for those with high level fear of falling compared to low levels. keywords: falls; fear; framework; function; individual; level; mobility; relationship; study; walking; yan cache: seejph-366.pdf plain text: seejph-366.txt item: #305 of 508 id: seejph-367 author: Juan Roman Mora Barrios; Anne van den Broek; Riccardo Buttarelli; Han Reuvers; Wiktoria Sobotka; Martina Paric title: Policy Recommendations to Improve Mental Health in Polish Prisons date: 2023-04-10 words: 6402 flesch: 56 summary: Leaving no one behind in prison health. Keywords: mental health, Poland, policy brief, health in prisons, prison health systems, health services. keywords: barrios; brief; den; european; health; mora; policy; polish; prisoners; prisons; recommendations; reuvers; system; van cache: seejph-367.pdf plain text: seejph-367.txt item: #306 of 508 id: seejph-368 author: Arianna Maviglia; Elvis Bitar; Jelena Schmidt; Philippe Winters; Sander de Souza; Timo Clemens title: Human Papillomavirus vaccines: Call for a European change to tackle current and future shortages date: 2023-04-10 words: 6282 flesch: 36 summary: In the European Union (EU), practices to define and monitor HPV vaccine shortages differ between the Member States. Altogether, these recommendations will give the EU more resilience towards HPV vaccine shortages. keywords: brief; change; dec; doses; european; future; health; hpv; policy; procurement; shortages; souza; vaccination; vaccines cache: seejph-368.pdf plain text: seejph-368.txt item: #307 of 508 id: seejph-3684 author: Kaur, Kiranjeet; Greco, Stefano; D. Saroj, Sunil ; Hossain, Shaikh Shah ; Sekhar Pradhan, Himanshu ; Singh, Sanjeev K. ; Clerici, Francesca ; Sood, Meenakshi ; Brand, Helmut ; John, Preethi; Schröder-Bäck, Peter title: Risk management and prevention of antibiotics resistance: The PREVENT IT project date: 2020-08-30 words: 7039 flesch: 50 summary: In the absence of real data reflecting the current effect of ABR Indian scenario, few reports (16) have identified it as an emerging threat to public health. In this regard, the innovative character of the PREVENT IT project is to create the first Indo-European collaboration aimed at devel- oping ABR specific curricula and disseminat- ing expertise in ABR prevention. keywords: abr; amr; antibiotics; antibiotics resistance; awareness; education; global; health; india; management; prevention; project; public; resistance; review; risk cache: seejph-3684.pdf plain text: seejph-3684.txt item: #308 of 508 id: seejph-369 author: Ciara Sheehan; Estefanía Callejas De Luca; Hélène Marguerite Leon; Simon Boch title: Beyond Silos: A Call to Include Hospital Support Staff in Cultural Competency Training date: 2023-04-10 words: 4980 flesch: 46 summary: Posted: 09 April 2023 Page 44 cultural competence is integrated into all organisational policies; (2) developing a strategic plan with anticipatory and long-term processes and objectives that emphasise the importance of cultural competence training; and (3) facilitating continuous monitoring and evaluating efforts in order to assess the level of cultural competence and whether objectives in developing cultural competence have been achieved. To understand the motivation for participating in CC training, several DE&I initiatives related to developing cultural competencies were listed for the respondents’ consideration. keywords: care; competency; de&i; hospital; hss; rmdh; staff; support; training cache: seejph-369.pdf plain text: seejph-369.txt item: #309 of 508 id: seejph-37 author: Skeraj, Fitim; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Bojaj, Gazmend; Burazeri, Genc title: Self-perceived level of competencies of family physicians in transitional Kosovo date: 2023-01-24 words: 4333 flesch: 45 summary: This is especially relevant for primary health care services which are considered as the most important level of health care in many developed countries (16), but also developing and transitional countries. Conclusion: Our study provides useful evidence on the self-assessed level of competencies of primary health care physicians in post-war Kosovo. keywords: care; competencies; family; health; kosovo; level; physicians; self; study cache: seejph-37.pdf plain text: seejph-37.txt item: #310 of 508 id: seejph-370 author: Zuwaira Paula Hashim; Jeny Aguilera-Cruz; Addiena Luke-Currier; Karolina Airapetian; Loredana Andreea Silaghi; Issam Alsamara title: On Urgently Tackling the Mosquito-Borne Diseases in the European Union date: 2023-04-10 words: 6809 flesch: 38 summary: 1. Surveillance systems for mosquitoes and MBDs should be implemented in all member states, and case definitions for these MBDs should be harmonised to enable coordination and consistency of MBDs surveillance across the European Union (EU). 2. Create an EU-level networks umbrella for financial and organisational coordination of Member States (MS)’ multi-sectoral collaboration on MBDs surveillance. keywords: airapetian; brief; control; cruz; currier; disease; european; health; luke; mbds; mosquito; policy; silaghi; surveillance; union; vector cache: seejph-370.pdf plain text: seejph-370.txt item: #311 of 508 id: seejph-371 author: Larissa Federmann; Merle Wilhelm; Lena Strohmaier; Andrea Fiallos Rodriguez; John Middleton title: Out of cars, onto the cycle paths: Aligning Granada's traffic infrastructure with the European Green Deal date: 2023-04-10 words: 5292 flesch: 63 summary: Therefore, Granada’s city council, Ayuntamiento de Granada, should make more efforts for a stronger reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from transport, aligning with the goal of the Green Deal’s Sustainable and Smart Mobility Federman L, Wilhelm M, Strohmaier L, Rodriguez AF, Middleton J. Out of cars, onto the cycle paths: Aligning Granada’s traffic infrastructure with the European Green Deal (Policy brief). Centro de Gestión Integral de Movilidad del Ayuntamiento de Granada. keywords: brief; cars; climate; cycle; cycling; deal; european; granada; green; health; infrastructure; mobility; paths; people; policy; spain; traffic; transport cache: seejph-371.pdf plain text: seejph-371.txt item: #312 of 508 id: seejph-372 author: Chungwan Lo; Selin Deniz; Jakob Hardt; Rosario Pérez López; Jule Pleyer; Suzanne M. Babich title: Sustainable Reform of European Union (EU): Common Fisheries Policy date: 2023-04-10 words: 5807 flesch: 55 summary: Gómez S, Maynou F. Balancing ecology, economy and culture in fisheries policy: Participatory research in the Western Mediterranean demersal fisheries management plan. The EU established in the Treaty of Rome, 2002, a Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) with the primary aim of ensuring sustainable fisheries and securing incomes and stable jobs (5). keywords: + +; brief; cfp; european; fisheries; fisheries policy; fishing; marine; mediterranean; policy; reform; sea; union cache: seejph-372.pdf plain text: seejph-372.txt item: #313 of 508 id: seejph-373 author: Konstantinos Angoumis; Amanda Langston; Kristin Mosler; Clémentine Rialland; Mathilde Veys; Jessica Neicun title: Reducing the Burden of HIV and HCV among Sex Workers Who Use Drugs in France date: 2023-04-10 words: 6042 flesch: 51 summary: When these services include substance use care and HIV services, uptake of these interventions and primary care utilisation increases due to enhanced accessibility. POCT can be coupled with PrEP to enhance HIV prevention care. keywords: brief; care; drugs; france; hcv; health; hiv; policy; prevention; services; sex; sex workers; swwud; use; workers cache: seejph-373.pdf plain text: seejph-373.txt item: #314 of 508 id: seejph-374 author: Marie Derstroff; Victoria E. Härtling; Wilhelmiina Hölttä; Mike H. Traub; Linda A.P.J. van der Linden; James C. Thomas title: Stemming the Tide of Disinformation in Public Health date: 2023-04-10 words: 4890 flesch: 47 summary: The mandate of the MLEG is focused on exploring good practices in the field of media literacy; facilitating networking between different stakeholders and exploring ways of coordinating EU policies, support programs and media literacy initiatives (17). How they relate to EU policy is visualized in Figure 1. keywords: der; disinformation; european; health; implementation; inoculation; literacy; media; policy; public; van cache: seejph-374.pdf plain text: seejph-374.txt item: #315 of 508 id: seejph-375 author: John Middleton; Katarzyna Czabanowska title: Advancing policies for public health benefit: A collection of policy briefs developed by the Maastricht University students date: 2023-04-09 words: 1826 flesch: 54 summary: This has not created the critical mass required to secure public health leadership in every country, every regional and local administration and through every academic institution where public health should be nurtured and supported. Modern day efforts seek to deliver health, which is more than the absence of disease and public health, which is the prevention of disease, the prolongation of life, and the promotion of health, through the organized efforts of society (2). keywords: health; maastricht; policy; public; university cache: seejph-375.pdf plain text: seejph-375.txt item: #316 of 508 id: seejph-376 author: Sanije Hoxha-Gashi; Musli Gashi; Naser Ramadani; Sefedin Muçaj; Myvedete Tërshnjaku title: Smoking prevalence among the adult population of Kosovo: Results of STEPS survey 2019 date: 2023-04-09 words: 3882 flesch: 72 summary: Respondents by age group and sex Age Group (years) Men Women Both Sexes n % n % n % 18-44 458 41.1 682 43.2 1140 42.3 45-69 657 58.9 898 56.8 1555 57.7 18-69 1115 100.0 1580 100.0 2695 100.0 More than a quarter of the population (25.7%) currently smoked tobacco. Percentage of current smokers by age group and gender – Kosovo STEPS survey 2019 Age Group Men Women Both Sexes P-value (years) n % Current smoker 95% CI N % Current smoker 95% CI n % Current smoker 95% CI 18-44 458 34.3 28.7-40.0 682 14.7 11.5- 18.0 1140 24.6 21.4-27.9 P<0.0001 Chi test=59.3 45-69 657 37.8 33.2–42.5 892 19.0 15.9- 22.2 1555 28.5 25.7-31.3 P<0.0001 Chi test=68.3 18-69 1115 35.3 31.1-39.5 1580 15.9 13.3- 18.6 2695 25.7 23.4-28.1 P<0.0001 Chi test=134.8 The majority of current smokers (90.1%) smoked tobacco products daily, with no significant difference among men (91.5% ) and women (87.1%), while the population in older age groups smoked more on a daily basis (Table 3). keywords: kosovo; prevalence; smoking; steps; survey; years cache: seejph-376.pdf plain text: seejph-376.txt item: #317 of 508 id: seejph-377 author: Pomo warih Adi; Singgih Hendarto; Sapta Kunta Purnama; Rumi Iqbal Doewes; Sugiyanto; Muchsin Doewes title: Methods Of Physical Exercise As A Way To Optimize The Physical Condition Of Football Players: A Systematic Review date: 2023-04-09 words: 8885 flesch: 60 summary: Physical conditioning training is the most important element in football training, aimed at increasing physiological potential and developing biomotor skills at the highest level. Strength training is strength training to improve muscle strength performance and reduce the incidence of injuries in football players aged 15-23 years keywords: doewes; et al; exercise; football; football players; performance; players; soccer; speed; sprint; strength; training cache: seejph-377.pdf plain text: seejph-377.txt item: #318 of 508 id: seejph-38 author: Farkas, Jerneja; Lainscak, Mitja; Kukec, Andreja; Kosnik, Mitja title: Health-related behaviour among managers of Slovenian hospitals and institutes of public health date: 2023-01-24 words: 5061 flesch: 49 summary: Conclusion: Our findings point to a high prevalence of overweight and obesity as well as workplace-related stress among Slovenian public health managers. According to reports of International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services, hospital management attitudes are crucial for clinical health promotion among patients, implementation of health promotion activities for employees and quality control (5- 8). keywords: behaviour; farkas; health; healthcare; hospitals; institutes; managers; public; respondents; risk; slovenian; stress; study cache: seejph-38.pdf plain text: seejph-38.txt item: #319 of 508 id: seejph-3813 author: Chernyavskiy, Valery ; Wenzel, Helmut; Mikhailova, Julia; Ivanova, Alla; Zemlyanova, Elena; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna ; Mikhailov, Alexander ; Laaser, Ulrich title: Can Russia’s high mortality return until 2030 to trajectory of the 1980-ies and reach the SDGs evenly across the country? date: 2020-12-09 words: 10608 flesch: 68 summary: STD Pi Di* (Remaining Years to Upper Age Limit) 0-4 10,565 9,050,624 80,269,483 0.00117 93,698 6,316,727 5-9 1,624 8,836,526 84,285,393 0.00018 15,494 966,888 10-14 1,912 7,591,733 85,828,597 0.00025 21,617 1,240,846 15-19 4,073 6,784,546 87,597,591 0.00060 52,592 2,755,719 20-24 7,026 7,112,528 82,619,776 0.00099 81,614 3,874,045 25-29 15,858 10,511,622 77,252,661 0.00151 116,545 4,952,301 Sum 41,058 49,887,579 497,853,501 0.00078 381,559 20,126,858.00 Standardized rate (per 100 000) 76.64 4,042.73 Russian Federation Age Groups 0-29 Standardized death rates 2018 Direct standardization Study Population (Russian Federation) Deaths Population (OECD 1980) STD Pi Di* (Remaining Years to Upper Age Limit) 30-34 44,424 11,503,330 73,604,119 0.00386 284,247 10,659,263 35-39 51,038 10,536,322 61,676,142 0.00484 298,762 9,709,774 40-44 53,882 9,656,787 57,394,499 0.00558 320,243 8,806,685 45-49 68,119 9,365,913 54,245,506 0.00727 394,534 8,877,020 50-54 111,658 11,310,282 52,537,987 0.00987 518,668 9,076,695 55-59 146,852 10,508,049 48,323,994 0.01398 675,339 8,441,739 60-64 177,781 8,819,230 36,727,063 0.02016 740,355 5,552,659 65-69 126,244 4,861,126 36,887,734 0.02597 957,981 2,394,951 Sum 779,999 76,561,038 421,397,044 0.01144 4,190,129 63,518,786.64 Standardized rate (per 100 000) 994.34 15,073.38 Russian Federation Age Groups 30-69 Standardized death rates 2013 Direct standardization Study Population (Russian Federation) Deaths Population (OECD 1980) keywords: chernyavskiy v; mikanovic v; mikhailova j; mortality; mortality return; pi di; russia; trajectory; vesna bjegovic cache: seejph-3813.pdf plain text: seejph-3813.txt item: #320 of 508 id: seejph-3845 author: Mansholt, Hilke; Czabanowska, Katarzyna ; Otok, Robert ; de Nooijer, Jascha title: Professionalization of Public Health – an exploratory case study date: 2020-09-28 words: 7837 flesch: 48 summary: DOI: 10.4119/seejph-3845 P a g e 2 | 16 Abstract Introduction: Public health is continuously challenged by a shortage of workforce. There are var- ious reasons for this: 1) public health is less visible than traditional health professions and people may be unfamiliar with the nature and opportunities involved in entering this career field; 2) lack of official recognition of public health as a professional category; and 3) no umbrella organization that supports its members and governs professional standards as is the case of other more estab- lished professions. keywords: case; doi; education; european; field; health; otok; profession; professionalization; public; research; students; study; workforce cache: seejph-3845.pdf plain text: seejph-3845.txt item: #321 of 508 id: seejph-386 author: Ulrich Laaser title: WFPHA Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Global Health Speech at the Award Ceremony date: 2023-05-05 words: 615 flesch: 58 summary: Ulrich Laaser, DTM&H, MPH Address: University of Bielefeld, School of Public Health, POB 10 01 31, D 33501 Bielefeld, Germany Email: ulrich.laaser@uni-bielefeld.de Ulrich Laaser, WFPHA Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Global Health. Posted: 05 May 2023 Page 2 Dear colleagues, I am extremely honoured to receive this award today from the President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA), Prof. Luis Eugenio de Souza. keywords: health; wfpha cache: seejph-386.pdf plain text: seejph-386.txt item: #322 of 508 id: seejph-387 author: Annapaola Rizzoli title: Climate and Health Action Award to the One Health Commission, Speech at the Award Ceremony date: 2023-05-15 words: 1193 flesch: 42 summary: Page 5 Dear Awards Committee and Governing Council of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA), and WFPHA Delegates, On behalf of the One Health Commission Executive Director Dr. Cheryl Stroud, who unfortunately could not be here today, we are incredibly honored to receive the Climate and Health Action Award assigned to the One Health Commission (OHC). South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), 2022. keywords: award; climate; commission; health cache: seejph-387.pdf plain text: seejph-387.txt item: #323 of 508 id: seejph-3890 author: W. Hwang, Phoebe; dos Santos Gomes, Cristiano ; Auais, Mohammad; L. Braun, Kathryn; M. Pirkle, Catherine title: Childhood adversity and leisure time physical and sports activity in older adults: A cross-sectional analysis from the International Mobility in Aging Study date: 2020-10-26 words: 6491 flesch: 58 summary: This may ex- plain why childhood adversity was associated with physical activity engagement in the mid- dle income sites. In Natal, pres- ence of childhood social adversity was signif- icantly associated with LTSA. Table 3. keywords: activity; adults; adversity; childhood; childhood adversity; engagement; high; income; leisure; ltpa; ltsa; study; time cache: seejph-3890.pdf plain text: seejph-3890.txt item: #324 of 508 id: seejph-39 author: Kurti, Vera; Hafizi, Hasan; Kurt, Bardhyl; Marku, Fitim; Mema, Donika; Burazeri, Genc title: Sex-differences in socioeconomic status and health-seeking behaviour among tuberculosis patients in transitional Albania in 2012-2013 date: 2023-01-24 words: 3256 flesch: 43 summary: Tuberculosis knowledge: Kurti V, Hafizi H, Kurti B, Marku F, Mema D, Burazeri G. Sex-differences in socioeconomic status and health- seeking behaviour among tuberculosis patients in transitional Albania in 2012-2013 (Original research). Relative income and acute coronary syndrome: A population-based case-control study in Tirana, Albania Kurti V, Hafizi H, Kurti B, Marku F, Mema D, Burazeri G. Sex-differences in socioeconomic status and health- seeking behaviour among tuberculosis patients in transitional Albania in 2012-2013 (Original research). keywords: albania; care; differences; health; patients; sex; tuberculosis cache: seejph-39.pdf plain text: seejph-39.txt item: #325 of 508 id: seejph-393 author: Jeffrey Levett title: Steer clear of red herrings: Grant v Mahler Hygiene’s philosophical advice to the World Health Assembly date: 2023-05-28 words: 1651 flesch: 53 summary: 75 World Health Assemblies ago the President of the first World Health Assembly, 1948 Andrija Štampar saw the World Health Organization as an instrument to solve global health problems in a spirit of true international cooperation. Fortunately, we remain enchanted with the magical buds of May and I want to think that your hands will come up full from positive deliberations of the 76th World Health Assembly. keywords: assembly; health; levett; philosophy; world cache: seejph-393.pdf plain text: seejph-393.txt item: #326 of 508 id: seejph-395 author: Edite Sadiku; Irgen Tafaj; Aldo Shpuza; Stela Taci; Bledar Kraja title: Predictors, severity and associate factors of acute pancreatitis: A tertiary hospital’s experience date: 2023-06-06 words: 6075 flesch: 52 summary: Comparing the overall mortality rate of acute pancreatitis (4-5%) with the mortality rate of severity acute pancreatitis (16%), the evidence shows that the timely prediction of severity with all the necessary diagnostic tools can significantly reduce the attributable risk of this pathology Nambi, D. and B. Giridharan, Comparison of Ranson’s and Glasgow criteria with revised Atlanta in prediction of mortality in acute pancreatitis patients. keywords: acute; classification; factors; hospital; pancreatitis; patients; predictors; rac; severity; study cache: seejph-395.pdf plain text: seejph-395.txt item: #327 of 508 id: seejph-3963 author: Dobe, Madhumita; Sahu, Monalisha title: How the Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh, India, fought Corona date: 2020-11-18 words: 3431 flesch: 38 summary: In-migration from other districts: By 4th May another 40,000 migrant workers re- turned to Kurnool district from other dis- tricts in the same state of Andhra Pradesh. Method: The authors compiled the publicly available information on different public health measures in Kurnool district and related them to the progression of COVID-19 from March to May 2020. keywords: andhra; cases; corona; district; india; kurnool; pradesh; state cache: seejph-3963.pdf plain text: seejph-3963.txt item: #328 of 508 id: seejph-3972 author: Grochtdreis, Thomas ; Schröder-Bäck, Peter ; Harenberg, Niels ; Görres, Stefan ; de Jong, Nynke title: National disaster preparedness and emergency response of nurses in Germany: An exploratory qualitative study date: 2020-11-29 words: 6250 flesch: 53 summary: According to international studies, require- ments for disaster preparedness were pre-reg- istering in a disaster registry, having experi- ence in disaster nursing and continuingly tak- ing part in trainings and drills (1,31,33-37). In order to prepare for emergency response, education within the field of disaster nursing is essential. keywords: care; disaster; disaster preparedness; emergency; experience; germany; health; national; nurses; nursing; participants; preparedness; qualitative; research; response; study cache: seejph-3972.pdf plain text: seejph-3972.txt item: #329 of 508 id: seejph-3996 author: Alderslade, Richard ; Kokeny, Mihaly ; Tsouros, Agis title: The health of the public: What has gone wrong? date: 2020-12-07 words: 4697 flesch: 43 summary: The authors suggest a fur- ther strengthening and re-design of WHO to protect and promote global public health, par- ticularly through the prevention, detection and response of future outbreaks. This paper will try to look behind what has gone wrong with our capacity to protect and secure the health of people-public health in our professional terminology- and to suggest what needs to be done now to safeguard the global population from such devastating events in the future. keywords: coronavirus; countries; covid-19; health; international; new; october; public; review; world cache: seejph-3996.pdf plain text: seejph-3996.txt item: #330 of 508 id: seejph-40 author: Laaser, Ulrich; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna title: The United Nations millennium development and post-2015 sustainable development goals: Towards long-term social change and social stability An Introduction date: 2023-01-24 words: 1277 flesch: 42 summary: This request corresponds in a way to the results of the global survey of the World Federation of Public Health Associations on the experience of public health professionals from 71 countries with the MDGs (7-9), where the importance of “politics” was ranked highest in all continents, in particular by official spokespersons of public health associations. The modern concept of public health carries a great potential for healthy and therefore less aggressive societies. keywords: development; health; june; public cache: seejph-40.pdf plain text: seejph-40.txt item: #331 of 508 id: seejph-400 author: Myriam Staub; Jens Holst; Franziska Satzinger title: How are the health needs of internally displaced persons adressed by international actors? date: 2023-06-15 words: 20322 flesch: 43 summary: Looking at existing data on IDPs health, several studies reported that IDPs face worse health outcomes than the baseline population in their country (Owoaje et al., 2016, p. 169). Recognizing humanitarian health as an integral part of global health is essential to prepare effective multi-agency health interventions (Thomas& Thomas, 2004, p. 125). keywords: agencies; aid; approach; cluster; conflict; coordination; country; crisis; development; displacement; emergency; global; health; health cluster; humanitarian; icrc; idps; internal; international; law; persons; principles; protection; refugees; response; rights; unhcr cache: seejph-400.pdf plain text: seejph-400.txt item: #332 of 508 id: seejph-401 author: Eva Patrizia R. Sander; Jens Holst; Kai Michelsen title: Increasing funding for Global Mental Health by drawing lessons from the case of HIV/AIDS date: 2023-06-15 words: 23588 flesch: 50 summary: The Inspector General is granted special access to all books and records concerning Global Fund funding as well as all implementation and program sites. In the case of Global Fund funding, inability to keep up reporting and meet indicator goals slowed down fund disbursement (results-based financing), as it was linked to regular implementa- tion monitoring and PRs showing Value for Money (VfM) (Brugha et al. 2004: 98). keywords: aids; countries; country; development; disorders; donors; et al; example; fight; fund; funding; geneva; global; global fund; gmh; health; hiv; knight; nations; need; new; online; organization; program; results; rose; search; title; unaids; united; work cache: seejph-401.pdf plain text: seejph-401.txt item: #333 of 508 id: seejph-4046 author: Macassa, Gloria ; Tomaselli, Gianpaolo title: Socially responsible human resources management and stakeholders’ Health Promotion: A conceptual paper date: 2020-12-22 words: 7255 flesch: 45 summary: Public health literacy is seen as a challenge for public health and health promo- tion as it represents a new, higher level of health literacy, through which the population as a whole (and within different arenas) can better understand health information related not only to the individual, but also to the com- munity (18). The framework proposes two potential mech- anisms: (i) socially responsible HR policies that include public health literacy (physical activity and mental health literacy); and (ii) integrative responsible leadership. keywords: business; csr; doi; employees; health; health literacy; hrm; human; literacy; management; organization; policies; promotion; resources; stakeholders; wellbeing cache: seejph-4046.pdf plain text: seejph-4046.txt item: #334 of 508 id: seejph-406 author: Saada Khadragy; Mohamed Elshaeer; Talal Mouzaek; Demme Shammass; Fanar Shwedeh; Ahmad Aburayya; Ammar Jasri; Shaima Aljasmi title: Predicting Diabetes in United Arab Emirates Healthcare: Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining Case Study date: 2022-07-26 words: 6786 flesch: 57 summary: Moreover, comprehensive analysis of healthcare data can drive innovation and inform business models in the healthcare industry. Although challenges exist in accessing and analyzing fragmented healthcare data, integrating and linking disparate datasets can unlock valuable insights for improved healthcare outcomes, resource allocation, and the development of innovative approaches in the field. keywords: age; data; diabetes; diabetic; disease; healthcare; individuals; mining; shwedeh; study; united cache: seejph-406.pdf plain text: seejph-406.txt item: #335 of 508 id: seejph-407 author: Ammar Jasri; Shaima Aljasmi; Ahmad Aburayya title: Employing PLS-SEM Analysis to Examine the Mediation Role of Artificial Intelligence in Physician Experience. An Empirical Study of the Effect of the Medical Smartwatch on Physician Satisfaction date: 2022-07-30 words: 6131 flesch: 49 summary: Discussion The primary objective of this research was to examine the utilization of AI-powered smartwatches for self-health monitoring and assess how physician experience affects satisfaction by employing a novel model built upon the integrated and innovative theory to explore the factors that determine physicians’ satisfaction with AI-driven MSW, with a particular focus on the mediating role played by AI experience. This study aims to examine the mediation role of artificial intelligence in physician experience toward using the medical smartwatch, particularly examining the effect of the medical smartwatch on physician satisfaction. keywords: aburayya; analysis; artificial; experience; intelligence; medical; physician; physician satisfaction; pls; research; role; satisfaction; sem; smartwatch; study cache: seejph-407.pdf plain text: seejph-407.txt item: #336 of 508 id: seejph-41 author: R.Lueddeke, George title: Towards an integrative post-2015 sustainable development goal framework: Focusing on global justice – peace, security and basic human rights date: 2023-01-24 words: 9656 flesch: 48 summary: In addition, she advocates the need for prioritizing policy, strategy and action based on accurate analysis of reliable health information and epidemiological data; engaging in collaborative partnerships and networks; promoting good governance and accountability; using national think tank groups; scaling up and sustaining critical intervention for sustainable health development; promoting and supporting problem solving research; and developing and using participatory monitoring and evaluation systems. Although the MDGs have raised the profile of global health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, underpinned by the urgent need to address poverty worldwide, progress has been uneven both between and within countries. keywords: development; e e; e n; global; goals; health; human; june; m e; n d; o n; peace; post-2015; security; sustainable cache: seejph-41.pdf plain text: seejph-41.txt item: #337 of 508 id: seejph-4116 author: Ljaljevic, Agima ; Wenzel, Helmut; Laaser, Ulrich title: Women in Montenegro exhibit a high degree of happiness and life satisfaction: Data from the Multiple Independent Cluster Survey 2018 date: 2021-01-27 words: 6417 flesch: 66 summary: Because of their high potential relevance we employed for two variables with a relatively high percentage of missing values (M7 - Mar- ried or lived with a man once or more than once and WAGEM - Age at first mar- riage/union of woman) a MD imputation us- ing a k-NN approach (14) to estimate missing values. Part I: Potential determinants of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Line numbers Variable Code Long name Variable format Missing values 11 WM6M Month of interview 2019 Cat. keywords: cat; data; degree; happiness; life; life satisfaction; montenegro; satisfaction; survey; values; women; yes cache: seejph-4116.pdf plain text: seejph-4116.txt item: #338 of 508 id: seejph-4164 author: Tafa, Holta; Mema, Donika; Mezini, Arian; Nikolla, Jolanda ; Teferici, Alma; Todri, Dafina; Burazeri, Genc; Hafizi, Hasan title: Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Albania date: 2021-02-09 words: 5112 flesch: 68 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4164 P a g e 1 | 12 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Albania Holta Tafa1, Donika Mema2, Arian Mezini1, Jolanda Nikolla3, Alma Teferici1, Dafina Todri1, Genc Burazeri4, Hasan Hafizi1 1 University Hospital “Shefqet Ndroqi”, Tirana, Albania; 2 Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania; 3 American Hospital, Tirana, Albania; 4 Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania. A literature review of the epidemiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease showed that the prevalence estimates varied widely, depending on the methods used for diagnosis and classification of COPD (16- 18). keywords: age; albania; copd; data; disease; prevalence; responders; smoking; spirometry; study; years cache: seejph-4164.pdf plain text: seejph-4164.txt item: #339 of 508 id: seejph-42 author: Masic, Izet title: Ethics in research and publication of research articles date: 2023-01-24 words: 3535 flesch: 40 summary: The Nordic countries proposed a much broader definition of fraud in scientific research describing it as “any degree of dishonesty”. There is no single solution that would allow full ethics in scientific research. keywords: article; authors; authorship; ethics; publication; research; results cache: seejph-42.pdf plain text: seejph-42.txt item: #340 of 508 id: seejph-4232 author: Burazeri, Genc; Laaser, Ulrich title: Health status of the populations in the Western Balkans region date: 2021-03-11 words: 963 flesch: 57 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4232 P a g e 1 | 3 EDITORIAL Health status of the populations in the Western Balkans region Genc Burazeri1,2, Ulrich Laaser3 1 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 2 Department of International Health, School CAPHRI (Care and Public Health Research Institute), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 3 Section of International Health, Faulty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. Health status of the populations in the West- ern Balkans region is characterized by an ex- cessive mortality compared with the EU av- erage (5). keywords: countries; health; region cache: seejph-4232.pdf plain text: seejph-4232.txt item: #341 of 508 id: seejph-4240 author: Brauneis, Stefano; Sorrentino, Enza ; Di Lisa, Vincenza ; Galluccio, Gabriella; Piras, Barbara; Carella, Francesca; Palozzi, Edoardo; Generali, Carmela ; Maggiacomo, Simona; D’Aurelio, Silvia; Backhaus, Insa ; La Torre, Filippo ; Villani, Ciro ; La Torre, Giuseppe title: Assessment of the prevalence and risk factors of low back pain in operating room health workers: An observational study in Italy date: 2021-03-17 words: 6269 flesch: 63 summary: Assessment of the prevalence and risk factors of low back pain in operating room health workers: An observational study in Italy (Original research). Assessment of the prevalence and risk factors of low back pain in operating room health workers: An observational study in Italy (Original research). keywords: factors; health; italy; job; lbp; low; lumbar; operating; pain; prevalence; risk; room; study; work; workers cache: seejph-4240.pdf plain text: seejph-4240.txt item: #342 of 508 id: seejph-4287 author: Adewole, David Ayobami ; Ilori, Temitope ; Ladepo, Wuraola ; Akande, Olusola Augustus ; Owolabi, Ganiyu title: Pattern of population coverage of a social health insurance scheme in a Southwest Nigeria State: A 3-year post implementation evaluation date: 2021-04-13 words: 4925 flesch: 59 summary: Social health insurance scheme is capable of minimizing inequity of access to health services, and thereby enhance an improvement in population health outcomes. Challenges with social health insurance schemes in many of the SSA countries include poverty, low level of awareness, superstitious belief, poor technical skills of the personnel in the industry (8), and inability to differentiate it from other pre-existing microfinance schemes among others (9). keywords: coverage; health; health insurance; insurance; nigeria; pattern; population; scheme; social; state; year cache: seejph-4287.pdf plain text: seejph-4287.txt item: #343 of 508 id: seejph-4297 author: Mone, Iris ; Kraja, Bledar ; Hyska, Jolanda ; Burazeri, Genc title: Chocolate intake is associated with a lower body mass index in adult men and women in transitional Albania date: 2021-04-07 words: 3912 flesch: 59 summary: DOI : 10.11576/seejph-4297 P a g e 2 | 9 Abstract Aim: In light of the controversial evidence regarding health effects of chocolate intake, we aimed to assess its association with body mass index (BMI) among adult individuals in Albania, a tran- sitional post-communist country in South Eastern Europe which has traditionally employed a Med- iterranean dietary pattern. Of these, 565 individuals (373 men and 192 women) provided data on chocolate intake and anthro- pometrics (77% of the sample). keywords: albania; bmi; body; chocolate; chocolate intake; intake; month; women cache: seejph-4297.pdf plain text: seejph-4297.txt item: #344 of 508 id: seejph-43 author: Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Flahault, Antoine; Otok, Robert; M. Shortell5, Stephen; Wisbaum, Wendy; Laaser, Ulrich title: What we need to improve the Public Health Workforce in Europe? date: 2023-01-24 words: 9184 flesch: 43 summary: Keywords: public health competences, public health education, public health workforce. From core public health functions to core competences, teaching curricula and public health performance Competence based education and training Public health competences may be defined as a “…unique set of applied knowledge, skills, and other attributes, grounded in theory and evidence for the broad practice of public health” (3). keywords: bjegovic; competences; czabanowska; development; education; european; health; health education; health workforce; laaser; leadership; learning; mikanovic; need; professionals; public; schools; skills; training; workforce cache: seejph-43.pdf plain text: seejph-43.txt item: #345 of 508 id: seejph-4312 author: Orellana García, Laura Patricia; Kaur, Kiranjeet ; Brand, Helmut; Schröder-Bäck, Peter title: Scenario planning: An alternative approach to European Commission for combating antimicrobial resistance by 2050 date: 2021-04-06 words: 5397 flesch: 54 summary: In fact, the EU is currently endorsing AMR measures in third countries through different actions, like promoting AMR-re- lated standards in its bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) (9). DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4312 P a g e 7 | 11 N e w a n ti m ic r o b ia l th e r a p ie s The EC has constantly been investing in AMR research. keywords: amr; antibiotics; antimicrobial; commission; european; health; planning; research; resistance; scenario; use cache: seejph-4312.pdf plain text: seejph-4312.txt item: #346 of 508 id: seejph-4317 author: Oduor, Kevin ; Ogweno, Stephen ; Ajwang’, Danor ; Okinyi, Nyawade title: Incorporating mHealth Interventions into Kenya’s Health Infrastructure to Augment Universal Health Coverage, Service Delivery Improvement Approach date: 2021-04-09 words: 5646 flesch: 55 summary: In the data extraction pro- cess, journal, study design, country of im- plementation, main findings, forms of mHealth intervention, challenges facing mHealth interventions, impact and effec- tiveness of mHealth interventions and Oduor K, Ogweno S, Ajwang’ D, Okinyi N. Incorporating mHealth Interventions into Kenya’s Health Infrastructure to Augment Universal Health Coverage, Service Delivery Improvement Ap- proach (review). For mHealth intervention to be fully optimized in Kenya, the different forms of mHealth interventions must ensure efficiency which is a component of usabil- ity (23). keywords: coverage; delivery; health; health coverage; health infrastructure; infrastructure; interventions; kenya; mhealth interventions; mobile; research; review; service; study cache: seejph-4317.pdf plain text: seejph-4317.txt item: #347 of 508 id: seejph-4318 author: Amedari , McKing I. ; Ejidike, Ifunanya Carista title: Post Covid-19 Agenda: Maximizing human resources for health towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa date: 2021-05-26 words: 6451 flesch: 54 summary: Labour market factors such as the dynamics of demand and supply of health workers determine the availability of health workers. Conclusion: Expanding the training opportunities for health workers and also increasing the fund- ing to human resources for health are useful policy options to consider. keywords: africa; community; coverage; covid-19; factors; health; health workers; information; post; resources; review; rural; technology; workers cache: seejph-4318.pdf plain text: seejph-4318.txt item: #348 of 508 id: seejph-4319 author: Agwu, Prince ; Onwujekwe, Obinna; Uzochukwu, Benjamin ; Mulenga, Modest title: Improving service delivery at primary healthcare facilities for achieving Universal Health Coverage: Examining the effects of insecurity in such facilities in Enugu State, Nigeria date: 2021-04-09 words: 7426 flesch: 57 summary: An intersection of several factors could account for Nigeria’s slow pace toward UHC, of which the closure of health facilities at crucial periods ranks highly. Discussion A vital part of the UHC is to guarantee im- proved access to health facilities which seems suboptimal in the study area, espe- cially during dusk hours. keywords: enugu; facilities; facility; health; healthcare; nigeria; phc; primary; research; security; service; state; workers cache: seejph-4319.pdf plain text: seejph-4319.txt item: #349 of 508 id: seejph-4352 author: Ylli, Alban; Jurgutis, Arnoldas ; Burazeri, Genc; Bejtja, Gazmend; Artykova, Nazira; Sentell, Tetine title: Preventive check-up programme for strengthening people-centred primary health care services in Albania: Case study and lessons learnt date: 2021-04-17 words: 4808 flesch: 55 summary: The current analysis and presentation of findings were guided by the principles put forward by the European Framework for Action on Integrated Health Services Delivery and its approach to trans- forming the delivery of health services (9). Beyond informing and man- aging patients suspected of having a NCD, the check-up programme also brought about a number of key changes in the Albanian health sector: (i) It changed traditional atti- tudes that health services should only be used for perceived and disturbing health problems, with healthy people now attending check-ups aimed at the prevention and early detection of severe health problems, as described else- where (16); (ii) it increased trust and utiliza- tion of PHC services; and (iii) it increased the accessibility of health services for socially disadvantaged population groups, although more data are needed to confirm the extent of this (17). keywords: albania; care; check; health; people; phc; population; programme; services; tests cache: seejph-4352.pdf plain text: seejph-4352.txt item: #350 of 508 id: seejph-4353 author: Kisangala, Ephraim; Mbivnjo, Etheldreda Leinyuy ; Okeah, Bernard Ojiambo ; Khan, Mohammed Azhar title: Community and Informal Care Providers at the Heart of Universal Health Coverage in sub-Saharan Africa: A Position Paper date: 2021-04-17 words: 6863 flesch: 59 summary: The intersectionality of gender dynamics, belief systems and percep- tions of health care and of health profession- als are notable factors (34). DOI : P a g e 5 | 15 CICPs in accelerating UHC Health systems in sub-Saharan Africa are grossly underfunded and this has a huge lim- itation on the extent to which health services are made available to citizens (20). keywords: africa; aug; care; cicps; community; coverage; health; healthcare; heart; informal; internet; khan; paper; position; position paper; providers; services; support; uhc cache: seejph-4353.pdf plain text: seejph-4353.txt item: #351 of 508 id: seejph-4380 author: Bop, Martial Coly ; Akoetey , Kossivi ; Gueye , Boubacar ; Diop , Cheikh Tacko; Sow, Papa Gallo; Ka , Ouseynou; Diop , Abdoulaye; Sow , Fatou Sarr title: Evaluation of determinants of the use of health mutuals by the population of the Ziguinchor region in Senegal date: 2021-04-25 words: 4975 flesch: 61 summary: Here it represents MHI membership and is a binary qualitative variable with 1 if the patient is a member of a MHI and 0 if not; 𝜶 is the con- stant that explains the random part of MHI membership; 𝛽j represents the effect of an explanatory variable j in the model, i.e. the effect of determinants on MHI adherence; 𝑥𝑖j represents the explanatory variable j for an individual i of the model; 𝜺𝒊 represents the er- ror term. The results of the estimations showed that neither the income, nor the association mem- bership, nor the presence of children in the household, nor the age of the patients, nor the satisfaction linked to the treatments received nor the aforementioned waiting times have significant impact on MHI membership. keywords: diop; health; mhi; patients; population; region; sow; use cache: seejph-4380.pdf plain text: seejph-4380.txt item: #352 of 508 id: seejph-4381 author: Ohia, Chinenyenwa ; Ongolo-Zogo, Pierre ; Fawole, Olufunmilayo Ibitola title: Digital health information technology utilization for enhanced health services delivery in Africa: Unravelling barriers to adoption among Primary healthcare providers date: 2021-08-20 words: 4913 flesch: 49 summary: Although the Primary Health Care remains at the core of the achievement of Universal Health Coverage, the utilization of digital health technologies remains very poor at the grassroots in Af- rica and this poses a huge barrier to effectiveness and quality of healthcare delivery. Summarily, a clear understanding of the contextual and implementation bottlenecks highlighted from such assessment(s), especially as it relates to individual African countries, will go a long way to guide decisions to address the low utilization of digital health technologies in health ser- vices delivery in Africa. keywords: adoption; africa; barriers; countries; coverage; delivery; digital; doi; health; healthcare; information; services; technologies; technology; uhc; utilization cache: seejph-4381.pdf plain text: seejph-4381.txt item: #353 of 508 id: seejph-4382 author: Ndejjo, Rawlance ; Musinguzi, Geofrey ; Musoke, David ; Wanyenze, Rhoda K. title: Unlocking the power of communities to achieve Universal Health Coverage in Africa date: 2021-05-26 words: 5305 flesch: 57 summary: Within communities, community action and outcomes go beyond the CHW as the most visible cadre with a no- table contribution of wider community actors and health system factors and thus the need to embrace community health systems (32, 53). The functionality and integration of the health system is paramount right from the CHWs, community health systems, PHC and the overall district health system. keywords: africa; care; communities; community; continent; coverage; disease; health; organization; phc; prevention; systems; world cache: seejph-4382.pdf plain text: seejph-4382.txt item: #354 of 508 id: seejph-4383 author: Msokwa, Robert title: Improving access to health services in Malawi date: 2021-04-26 words: 3118 flesch: 61 summary: Malawians have sev- eral barriers to access health services (Figure 1) according to the study findings; 35% of study participants said that lack of drugs and medical equipment was a barrier to access health services while 25% of participants said that shortage of health care workers was a barrier to access health services. Common barriers to access health services which participants (35%) mentioned were lack of drugs and medical equipment, shortage of health personnel (25%), another 25% complained of long distance to nearest health facility. keywords: access; health; malawi; participants; services; study cache: seejph-4383.pdf plain text: seejph-4383.txt item: #355 of 508 id: seejph-4384 author: Salawu, Mobolaji Modinat; Onwujekwe, Obinna Emmanuel ; Fawole, Olufunmilayo Ibitola title: Innovative Strategies to Strengthen Health Service Delivery for Universal Health Coverage in Africa – A Scoping Literature Review date: 2021-04-26 words: 6649 flesch: 48 summary: To achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), government alone are unable to solve the problems of health service delivery such as lack of good infrastructure, poor manage- ment, inter-cadre conflicts, lack of skilled birth attendants amongst others. This scoping review showed that private and philanthropist actors’ involvement in healthcare system have huge potentials to improve, restore and maintain health service delivery in African nations. keywords: africa; care; countries; coverage; delivery; health; health service; healthcare; literature; nations; philanthropy; review; sector; service; service delivery; uhc; universal cache: seejph-4384.pdf plain text: seejph-4384.txt item: #356 of 508 id: seejph-4395 author: Houghton, Frank title: Easter Eggs & ‘Easter Eggs’: Alcohol Branded Chocolate Eggs & Intoxigenic Environments in Ireland date: 2021-05-05 words: 1278 flesch: 48 summary: Two examples of such alcohol branded Easter Eggs were observed, positioned at a height of less than one metre, and surrounded by a selection of other well-known brands, including Cadbury’s Cream Eggs, Rolo, and Lion (see Figure One A-D). Keywords: alcohol branding, alcohol control, alcohol marketing, children, Easter eggs, Ireland. keywords: alcohol; easter; eggs; health; ireland cache: seejph-4395.pdf plain text: seejph-4395.txt item: #357 of 508 id: seejph-44 author: Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Laaser, Ulrich; Stjernberg, Louise title: Shaping and authorising a public health profession date: 2023-01-24 words: 3275 flesch: 44 summary: Firstly, we use the profession traits theory as a framework in arguing whether public health can be a legitimate profession in itself; secondly, we explain who public health professionals are and what usually is required for shaping the public health profession; and thirdly, we attempt to sketch the road to the authorisation or licensing of public health professionals. In order to discuss the shaping of a public health profession, a significant question relates to the extent that public health profession exhibits the characteristics of a profession. keywords: czabanowska; directive; european; health; profession; professionals; public; recognition; shaping cache: seejph-44.pdf plain text: seejph-44.txt item: #358 of 508 id: seejph-4420 author: Stamenkovic, Zeljka ; Wenzel, Helmut; Jankovic, Janko ; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna title: Two sides of a broken medal: Disease prevention and health promotion in schools of public health date: 2021-05-09 words: 5909 flesch: 59 summary: Keywords: disease prevention, European region, health promotion, schools of public health. Health promotion is fundamen- tal to public health and forms an integral part of all public health activities. keywords: disease; disease prevention; european; health; health promotion; modules; prevention; programs; promotion; public; schools; survey cache: seejph-4420.pdf plain text: seejph-4420.txt item: #359 of 508 id: seejph-4424 author: Siepmann, Ines ; Chen, Tara ; Andelic, Petra title: How can we champion young women working in public health? date: 2021-05-10 words: 1888 flesch: 28 summary: Siepmann I, Chen T, Andelic P. How can we champion young women working in public health? How can we champion young women working in public health? keywords: doi; health; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?8kbwo1 https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?8kbwo1; public; women; workforce cache: seejph-4424.pdf plain text: seejph-4424.txt item: #360 of 508 id: seejph-4425 author: Fenomanana, Jocia ; Ramaminiaina, Heritiana Gisèle ; Randriatsarafara, Fidiniaina Mamy ; Randriamanantany, Zely Arivelo title: Voluntary blood donation promotion in Haute Matsiatra region of Madagascar date: 2021-05-10 words: 5682 flesch: 63 summary: Promotion of blood voluntary donation should take into account the demotivating reasons for blood donation which calls gov- ernmental commitment and required the need to improve research evidence in this area of practice. The majority of respondents (60.0%) had never heard sensitization about blood donation. keywords: blood; blood donation; doi; donation; haute; madagascar; matsiatra; promotion; region; research; study; vol cache: seejph-4425.pdf plain text: seejph-4425.txt item: #361 of 508 id: seejph-4430 author: Adewole, David Ayobami ; Ilori, Temitope title: Factors influencing the choice of facilities among enrolees of a prepayment scheme in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria date: 2021-05-11 words: 5533 flesch: 56 summary: Results: At unadjusted OR, older respondents (OR 3.24, CI = 2.52-4.18, p = <0.0001), and those who had attained the tertiary level of education (OR 3.30, CI 2.57-4.23, p <0.0001) were more likely to make a personal choice of health care facilities. However, at Adjusted OR, only high socio-economic status was a predic- tor of personal choice of health care facility (OR 1.92, CI 1.21-3.05, p = 0.005). keywords: care; choice; enrolees; facilities; facility; factors; health; ibadan; level; nigeria; scheme; study cache: seejph-4430.pdf plain text: seejph-4430.txt item: #362 of 508 id: seejph-4445 author: Elhadi, Yasir Ahmed Mohammed; Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo ; Abel, Uchechukwu Victor; Daniel , Ekpoh Mfonobong; Zaghloul , Ashraf ; Lucero-Prisno III, Don Eliseo title: National health systems strengthening as the primary strategy to achieve Universal Health Coverage in African countries date: 2021-05-31 words: 7283 flesch: 57 summary: The main objectives of the paper were to explore the complexities of the African health systems, subsequently highlighting major challenges to UHC and to provide a framework for strategic approaches to health system strengthening to ensure realization of UHC. Keywords: Universal Health Coverage, health system strengthening, Africa, framework, health sector reform. keywords: africa; countries; coverage; doi; elhadi; health; health coverage; health systems; national; population; rwanda; services; strategy; strengthening; systems; uhc; world cache: seejph-4445.pdf plain text: seejph-4445.txt item: #363 of 508 id: seejph-4446 author: Joshua, Istifanus Anekoson ; Bauche, Joel ; Abdulla, Salim title: Managing Antimicrobial Resistance from Medical and Veterinary Health Sys-tems Perspectives to Achieving Universal Health Coverage in the African Re-gion date: 2021-05-17 words: 6080 flesch: 35 summary: The factors driving the development of AMR range from health systems to socio-economic and environmental factors. Strengthening of health systems from the medical and veterinary perspectives and univer- sal health coverage are critical in the fight against AMR. keywords: access; africa; amr; animal; antimicrobial; coverage; health; health coverage; health systems; perspectives; region; resistance; review; systems cache: seejph-4446.pdf plain text: seejph-4446.txt item: #364 of 508 id: seejph-4447 author: Leufak, Arlette Mouako ; Ndwandwe, Duduzile title: Applying innovative strategies to achieve Universal Health Coverage in the African Region date: 2021-05-17 words: 2830 flesch: 44 summary: Universal health coverage includes three related objectives: equity in access to health services (everyone who needs services should get them, not only those who can pay for them); the quality of health services should be good enough to improve the health of those receiving services; and people should be protected against financial risk, ensuring that the cost of using services does not put people at risk of financial harm. Protecting people from the financial consequences of paying for health services out of their own pockets avoids pushing poor people to extreme poverty (3). keywords: africa; coverage; health; region; services; uhc; universal cache: seejph-4447.pdf plain text: seejph-4447.txt item: #365 of 508 id: seejph-4448 author: Adedeji, Oluwakorede Joshua; Babatunde, Yusuf Olalekan ; Ibrahim, Abdulmumin Damilola ; Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo; Lucero-Prisno III, Don Eliseo title: Towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Relevance of Telemedicine and Mobile Clinics date: 2021-05-17 words: 5509 flesch: 54 summary: The use of mobile health clinics for primary healthcare delivery is not quite established in Africa. Mobile health clinics in the era of reform. keywords: africa; clinics; countries; coverage; health; health coverage; healthcare; implementation; journal; mobile; mobile clinics; projects; relevance; review; services; telemedicine; use cache: seejph-4448.pdf plain text: seejph-4448.txt item: #366 of 508 id: seejph-4449 author: Hassan, Salisu ; Mohammed, Jamila Aliyu title: Effective communication approaches as tool for achieving Universal Health Coverage through social health insurance in Nigeria. date: 2021-05-18 words: 6421 flesch: 49 summary: Having ap- praised the principles/qualities that can make health insurance communication effective, it is plausible to evaluate the approaches used in the SHI communication in Nigeria to rec- ommend a better option. Finally, health communication also needs to be understandable. keywords: approaches; communication; coverage; health; health insurance; insurance; media; nhis; nigeria; scheme; social cache: seejph-4449.pdf plain text: seejph-4449.txt item: #367 of 508 id: seejph-4470 author: Simfukwe, Knovicks ; Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo ; Oladunni, Amos Abimbola ; Eltahir Mohammed, Salma Elmukashfi ; Lucero-Prisno III, Don Eliseo title: The role of health service delivery networks in achieving universal health coverage in Africa date: 2021-05-26 words: 6530 flesch: 56 summary: This situation creates a consid- erable gap between the demand and supply of health care services among a geographically marginalized population which potentially limits the implementation of HSDNs in af- fected African countries. HSDNs pro- pose models that facilitate the attainment of affordability and accessibility while maintaining quality in delivering health services. keywords: africa; articles; care; countries; coverage; delivery; delivery networks; doi; health; health service; hsdns; networks; population; quality; review; service delivery; services; uhc cache: seejph-4470.pdf plain text: seejph-4470.txt item: #368 of 508 id: seejph-4471 author: Ahmad, Jameel Ismail ; Jibril, Murtala ; Ahmad, Barroon Isma’eel ; Suleiman, Abdurrahman ; Inuwa, Nasir Sani ; Ali, Abdullahi Garba ; Ismail, Salihu Ibrahim title: Digital and Home Healthcare Survey among Nigerians: Assessing Awareness, Preferences, and Willingness to Pay for an Integrated Healthcare Ecosystem to achieve Universal Health Coverage date: 2021-05-26 words: 5996 flesch: 54 summary: mHealth is a subset of eHealth and in- volves providing health services and infor- mation via mobile technologies such as mo- bile phones, tablet computers, and personal digital assistants. The role of DH cut across healthcare financing, health service delivery, human re- sources training, health system support, and health information system. keywords: ahmad; awareness; digital; ecosystem; healthcare; home; home healthcare; internet; nigeria; respondents; services; survey; willingness cache: seejph-4471.pdf plain text: seejph-4471.txt item: #369 of 508 id: seejph-4477 author: Ledaga, Nathalie Ambounda ; Mamche , Robertine ; Woromogo , Sylvain Honore ; Saba Antaon, Jesse Saint ; Saar , Fatou Sow title: Contribution of Information-Education-Communication in the adoption of Universal Health Coverage by the populations in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa in 2020. date: 2021-05-29 words: 4370 flesch: 57 summary: Contribution of Information-Edu- cation-Communication in the adoption of Universal Health Coverage by the populations in the Eco- nomic and Monetary Community of Central Africa in 2020. DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4477 P a g e 1 | 12 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Contribution of Information-Education-Communication in the adoption of Universal Health Coverage by the populations in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa in 2020. keywords: africa; central; community; coverage; education; health; iec; uhc; universal cache: seejph-4477.pdf plain text: seejph-4477.txt item: #370 of 508 id: seejph-4487 author: Rashiti-Bytyçi, Albiona ; Ramadani, Naser ; Kalaveshi, Ariana ; Muçaj, Sefedin ; Gashi, Luljeta ; Rashiti, Premtim title: Hepatitis C in several risk groups: Literature review date: 2021-05-31 words: 8288 flesch: 57 summary: The aim of the study was to screen for HCV antibody, and HCV RNA, but as well to determine genotype of hepatitis C and the treatment of HCV patients. de Jesus Rodrigues de Freitas M, Fecury AA, de Almeida MK, Freitas AS, de Souza Guimarães V, da Silva AM, da Costa YF, et al. Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection and genotypes in patient with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodial- ysis. keywords: cases; groups; haemodialysis; hcv; health; hepatitis; hiv; infection; patients; positive; rashiti; review; risk; rna; study; transmission; virus cache: seejph-4487.pdf plain text: seejph-4487.txt item: #371 of 508 id: seejph-4492 author: Satyamoorthy, Adhitya ; Brand, Helmut ; van Kessel, Robin title: How to minimize negative health effects in the European Union due to the Economic recession caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic date: 2021-06-02 words: 6297 flesch: 64 summary: Satyamoorthy A, Brand H, van Kessel R. How to minimize negative health effects in the European Union due to the Economic recession caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic (Original research). 15 ORIGINAL RESEARCH How to minimize negative health effects in the European Union due to the Economic recession caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic Adhitya Satyamoorthy1, Helmut Brand1,2, Robin van Kessel1,3 1 Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 2 Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karna- taka, India; 3 Maastricht Working on Europe, Studio Europa, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Nether- lands. keywords: available; covid-19; crisis; effects; european; health; health effects; march; measures; pandemic; recession; union; van cache: seejph-4492.pdf plain text: seejph-4492.txt item: #372 of 508 id: seejph-45 author: Vekov, Toni Yonkov title: Control of public expenditure on drug products in Bulgaria – Policies and outcomes date: 2023-01-24 words: 2924 flesch: 45 summary: The contemporary approaches to drug policy in a number of European Union (EU) countries include negotiating discounts and rebates between the health insurance funds and the pharmaceutical manufacturers, as well as agreements for risk sharing in order to reduce the impact of the new patented medicines on the public budget. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that the long-term results of drug policies on discounts and programs for the controlled access of patients are more effective in terms of public spending, than the independent application of a reference price system within the PDL. Vekov TY. keywords: access; agreements; bulgaria; drug; medicines; policies; products cache: seejph-45.pdf plain text: seejph-45.txt item: #373 of 508 id: seejph-4585 author: Petrela, Kreshnik ; Roshi, Meri; Laaser, Ulrich; Burazeri, Genc title: Survey exploring the opinion of corresponding authors of articles published in the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health during 2014-2021 date: 2021-07-10 words: 1653 flesch: 55 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4585 P a g e 1 | 6 SHORT REPORT Survey exploring the opinion of corresponding authors of articles published in the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health during 2014-2021 Kreshnik Petrela1, Meri Roshi1, Ulrich Laaser1, Genc Burazeri1 1 South Eastern European Journal of Public Health. Keywords: author survey, corresponding author, scientific journal, South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH). keywords: authors; health; journal; seejph cache: seejph-4585.pdf plain text: seejph-4585.txt item: #374 of 508 id: seejph-4604 author: Roshi, Dajana; Tresa, Eni ; Lafranconi, Alessandra ; Burazeri, Genc ; Czabanowska, Katarzyna ; Brand, Helmut title: Pharmaceutical policies in post-communist Albania: Progress and challenges toward European Union membership date: 2021-07-19 words: 5244 flesch: 40 summary: The process of Europeaniza- tion of medicines regulations “involves har- monization and mutual recognition of regu- latory decision making as well as the transfer of some authority from Member States to su- pranational EU regulatory agencies” (8). Roshi D, Tresa E, Lafranconi A, Burazeri G, Czabanowska K, Brand H. Pharmaceutical policies in post-communist Albania: Progress and challenges toward European Union membership (Review article). keywords: albania; european; health; medicines; national; pharmaceutical; policies; price; regulation; review; union cache: seejph-4604.pdf plain text: seejph-4604.txt item: #375 of 508 id: seejph-4608 author: Bishaw, Tewabech title: COVID -19 Pandemic - Increasing the African Access to Vaccination : A Strategy to Curb the Global Spread of Infection date: 2021-07-23 words: 2016 flesch: 41 summary: Through alliances with US CDC, aca- demia, scientific organizations, and other partners, Africa CDC developed and released training to address priority national response needs; as a result, COVID-19 laboratory test- ing capacity grew from two countries early in the outbreak to all 55 AU member states by August 2020. DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4608 P a g e 4 | 5 Urgent Appeal for 300 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines for Africa The Lancet COVID-19 Commission Africa Task Force June 30, 2021 On behalf of the people of Africa, we appeal urgently to the vaccine-producing nations for emergency donations and shipments of at least 300 million doses of vaccines to enable every country in Africa to fully immunize at least 20 percent of its adult population by end of August 2021.1 Africa is currently experiencing the third and deadliest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by the highly contagious Delta Variant that was responsible for the recent devastating surge of disease and deaths in India. keywords: africa; countries; covid-19; doses; health; pandemic cache: seejph-4608.pdf plain text: seejph-4608.txt item: #376 of 508 id: seejph-4674 author: La Torre, Giuseppe title: Recovery and resilience plan and health: The Italian experience date: 2021-08-16 words: 1040 flesch: 45 summary: La Torre G. Recovery and resilience plan and health: The Italian experience (Editorial). Corresponding author: Giusepe La Torre; Address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 – 00185 Rome, Italy; Email: giuseppe.latorre@uniroma1.it mailto:giuseppe.latorre@uniroma1.it La Torre G. Recovery and resilience plan and health: The Italian experience (Editorial). keywords: health; plan; recovery cache: seejph-4674.pdf plain text: seejph-4674.txt item: #377 of 508 id: seejph-4677 author: Czabanowska, Kasia title: Leading Policy Change In Public Health date: 2021-11-07 words: 1493 flesch: 33 summary: Public health professionals work at the intersection of practice, research, and policy; therefore, they need to identify and understand public health problems, use research and scientific evidence to prepare policy options, and make recommendations for policy change to improve health and wellbeing or effectively advocate for it. e 5 | 6 participants define and contextualise the problem, which requires policy change, research possible policy options, and develop recommendations for policymakers but also had to propose a plan for implementation of a selected policy option addressing the stakeholders, barriers, and facilitators of change using the Kotter Model. keywords: change; health; leadership; maastricht; policy; public; university cache: seejph-4677.pdf plain text: seejph-4677.txt item: #378 of 508 id: seejph-4680 author: van Ravenswaaij, Hilde ; Rojas, Daniela ; Sharjeel, Muhammed ; Slaats, Puck ; Andelic, Petra ; Paric, Martina title: Improving the health status of sex workers in Europe: a policy brief with recommendations date: 2021-08-19 words: 3644 flesch: 42 summary: van Ravenswaaij, H., Rojas, D., Sharjeel, M., Slaats, P., Andelic, P., Paric, M. Improving the health status of sex workers in Europe (Policy brief). DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4680 P a g e 1 | 9 POLICY BRIEF Improving the health status of sex workers in Europe: a policy brief with recommendations Hilde van Ravenswaaij1, Daniela Rojas1, Muhammed Sharjeel1, Puck Slaats1, Petra Andelic1, Martina Paric1 1 Department of International Health, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Corresponding author: Hilde van Ravenswaaij, hildevr@outlook.com, Couwenhoven 4215, 3703ED Zeist, the Netherlands. keywords: community; health; policy; sex; sex workers; status; workers cache: seejph-4680.pdf plain text: seejph-4680.txt item: #379 of 508 id: seejph-4681 author: Kusters, Joni ; Millner, Mareike Annemarie ; Omelyanovskaya, Karina ; Tangerli, Mehmet Mikail ; Laszewska, Agata ; van Kessel, Robin title: Addressing ableism in inclusive education policies: a policy brief outlining Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom date: 2021-08-19 words: 5393 flesch: 55 summary: Kusters, J.; Millner, M.A.; Omelyanovskaya, K.; Tangerli, M.M.; Laszewska, A.; van Kessel, R. Addressing ableism in inclusive education policies: a policy brief outlining Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (Policy brief). DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4681 P a g e 1 | 11 POLICY BRIEF Addressing ableism in inclusive education policies: a policy brief outlining Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom Joni Kusters1, Mareike Annemarie Millner1, Karina Omelyanovskaya1, Mehmet Mikail Tangerli1, Agata Laszewska2, Robin van Kessel1 1Department of International Health, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands 2Department of Health Economics, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Aus- tria Corresponding author: Robin van Kessel, PhD r.vankessel@maastrichtuniversity.nl mailto:r.vankessel@maastrichtuniversity.nl Kusters, J.; Millner, M.A.; Omelyanovskaya, K.; Tangerli, M.M.; Laszewska, A.; van Kessel, R. Addressing ableism in inclusive education policies: a policy brief outlining Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (Policy brief). keywords: ableism; brief; children; education; inclusive; netherlands; people; policies; policy; send; united cache: seejph-4681.pdf plain text: seejph-4681.txt item: #380 of 508 id: seejph-4682 author: Böbel, Simone ; Bormans, Max ; Siepmann, Ines ; Tirekidis, Ilia ; Wall, Kristin ; Kalaitzi, Valia title: Diverse and inclusive leadership teams in public health schools: the change agents for sustainable and inclusive public health education date: 2021-08-19 words: 4006 flesch: 41 summary: Keywords: diversity, inclusion, leadership, public health education, European Schools of Public Health Acknowledgments: However, little is known about the current diversity and inclusiveness profile of professionals, leaders and students of public health. keywords: change; d&i; diversity; education; health; health schools; leadership; policy; public; schools cache: seejph-4682.pdf plain text: seejph-4682.txt item: #381 of 508 id: seejph-4683 author: de Bruin, Jeanine ; Machado, Matilde ; Marie, Nabbe ; Saccà, Riccardo ; Verhoeven, Jeske ; Clemens, Timo title: Increasing influenza vaccination rates among healthcare workers by focusing on workplace and patient safety date: 2021-08-19 words: 4610 flesch: 57 summary: Keywords: Healthcare workers, information campaign, influenza vaccination, mandatory vac- cination, vaccine hesitancy Acknowledgments: This is a particular concern given the benefits associated with influenza vaccination in high-risk groups [5]. keywords: hcws; healthcare; influenza; information; policy; safety; vaccination; vaccine; workers; workplace cache: seejph-4683.pdf plain text: seejph-4683.txt item: #382 of 508 id: seejph-4684 author: Haque, Sharmi ; Terêncio Marques, Inês ; Stankutė, Ieva ; Bikniūtė, Inesa ; Staišiūnaitė, Agnė ; Czabanowska, Katarzyna title: Towards harmonisation of public health master education based on WHO-ASPHER Competency Framework for Public Health Workforce in the Euro-pean Region date: 2021-08-19 words: 5409 flesch: 50 summary: Content and Context Relations and Interactions Performance and Achievement Science and prac- tice Promot- ing Health Law, poli- cies and ethics One Health and Health security Leader- ship and systems thinking Collabora- tion part- nerships Communica- tion, culture and advocacy Govern- ance and resource manage- ment Professional development and reflec- tive ethical practice Organizational liter- acy and adaptability Introduction to Governance and Leadership in European Public Health X X X X X Public Health Leadership Strand X X X X Measuring and Comparing Health in Europe - Quantita- tive and Qualitative Ap- proaches X X X Identifying and Assessing Good and Best Practices in Health X X X X Europe as one Zone- Euro- pean Health Law and Poli- cies X X X X X Diffusion, Implementation and Quality Assurance of Health Innovations in Europe X X X X X Public Health Law and Gov- ernance X X keywords: aspher; competency; education; european; framework; harmonisation; health; public; region cache: seejph-4684.pdf plain text: seejph-4684.txt item: #383 of 508 id: seejph-4685 author: Bimczok, Simon Paul ; Godynyuk, Elizabeth Alexandra ; Pierey, Joris ; Roppel, Malin Siv ; Scholz, Mirjam Lisa title: How are excellence and trust for using artificial intelligence ensured? Evaluation of its current use in EU healthcare date: 2021-08-19 words: 6131 flesch: 44 summary: These parts go into depth on how AI training data should be regulated and how it should be stored. Human Oversight To implement the human-in-command governance approach to AI applications, this implies to train and accumulate personnel capacities able to oversee the AI application (background in governance, health, and life science as well as digitization and its implications). keywords: artificial; data; european; healthcare; intelligence; policy; protection; transparency; use cache: seejph-4685.pdf plain text: seejph-4685.txt item: #384 of 508 id: seejph-4686 author: Alaze, Anita Franziska; Coomans, Saskia Karina ; Dimitsaki, Persefoni ; Mol, Maud Alline ; Smith-Cornwall, Matilda title: Time for action towards a sustainable future: a policy brief for “Green Supermarkets” date: 2021-08-25 words: 5578 flesch: 33 summary: Carbon footprint of supermarket food waste. Policy Options: Three policy options are presented for discussion: reduction of food waste, reduce energy efficiency, reduce plastic packaging. keywords: change; climate; energy; european; food; green; health; packaging; policy; supermarkets; supply; waste cache: seejph-4686.pdf plain text: seejph-4686.txt item: #385 of 508 id: seejph-4687 author: van Asselt, Evelien ; Elamin, Abdullah ; González Sánchez, Clara ; Kalesi, Anastasia ; Majoor, Elodie title: Incorporating sustainability into food-based dietary guidelines by “Traffic Light Ecolabelling” date: 2021-08-19 words: 6291 flesch: 30 summary: The implementation of the EU ecolabelling for food products should be also accompanied by a campaign for raising awareness, both about food sustainability and the new label itself, since it has been shown that there is a correlation between the knowledge a consumer has of a label and his/her preference for the product carrying the label. As of now, these FBDGs lack information about the sustainability of food products. keywords: carbon; consumers; ecolabel; food; labelling; light; policy; products; sustainability; traffic cache: seejph-4687.pdf plain text: seejph-4687.txt item: #386 of 508 id: seejph-4688 author: Argyrou, Flora ; Hirschler, Josefine ; Karan, Filip ; Kugel, Raika ; Romancenca, Elena; Neicun, Jessica title: Committed collaboration to address homelessness in the Netherlands date: 2021-08-19 words: 8873 flesch: 31 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-4688 Page 2 | 26 Abstract Context: In the Netherlands, the number of homeless people increased from 17.800 in 2009 to 39.300 in 2018. Policy Options: To address the needs of homeless people, innovation is needed to overcome sectoral boundaries and to work collaboratively. keywords: address; brief; collaboration; data; european; homeless; homelessness; housing; national; netherlands; people; policy; services; support; working cache: seejph-4688.pdf plain text: seejph-4688.txt item: #387 of 508 id: seejph-47 author: Jakovljevic, Mihajlo; Laaser, Ulrich title: Population aging from 1950 to 2010 in seventeen transitional countries in the wider region of South Eastern Europe date: 2023-01-24 words: 5256 flesch: 56 summary: DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-42 2 Abstract Aim: Population aging has profoundly reshaped demographic landscapes in all South Eastern European (SEE) countries. The speed of population aging has vastly accelerated (with a 2.5 fold increase) over the past three decades. keywords: aging; countries; eastern; europe; health; jakovljevic; nations; population; region; south; transitional; years cache: seejph-47.pdf plain text: seejph-47.txt item: #388 of 508 id: seejph-4702 author: Qirjako, Gentiana; Qosja, Alketa ; Draçini, Xheladin; Çomo, Najada ; Hyska, Jolanda ; Fico, Albana; Bukli, Mariana; Burazeri, Genc title: Infection prevention and control in healthcare facilities in Albania date: 2021-08-20 words: 5228 flesch: 46 summary: More specifically, the online questionnaire included the following dimensions: IPC focal points at health facility level; presence of microbiological laboratory at health facility; IPC training; IPC funding; water availability; hand hygiene and sanitation facilities; power supply, ventilation and cleaning; patient placement and personal protective equipment; medical waste management and sewage; and decontamination and sterilization (9). Results: About 47% of health facilities did not have a designated focal point for IPC issues; the lack of one patient per bed standard was evident in more than one-third of health facilities (37%); and the lack of an adequate distance between patient beds was reported in a quarter of health facilities (which was twice as high among health facilities in urban areas compared to rural areas). keywords: albania; control; facilities; facility; health; infection; ipc; prevention cache: seejph-4702.pdf plain text: seejph-4702.txt item: #389 of 508 id: seejph-4728 author: Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Matovic-Miljanovic, Sanja; Seitalieva, Chinara ; Makarova, Tatyana ; Murzalieva, Gulgun ; Kozhokeev, Kanatbek title: Assessment of the training needs and interests among directors of health care services in the Kyrgyz Republic date: 2021-09-05 words: 5484 flesch: 43 summary: The respondents believe that health management training will help them to improve their theoretical knowledge (77.6%) and practical skills (70.7%). DOI: 10.11576/seejph- 4728 P a g e 8 | 13 they received certificates that prove their participation in health management training, while 20 out of 33 respondents used those certificates to confirm their managerial category. keywords: assessment; care; directors; health; kyrgyz; management; managers; needs; republic; respondents; services; training cache: seejph-4728.pdf plain text: seejph-4728.txt item: #390 of 508 id: seejph-4760 author: Lopes, Henrique ; Middleton, John title: Learning from the pandemic, building increased international cooperation date: 2021-09-26 words: 4504 flesch: 53 summary: 2PF-Strategy-operations concept Knowledge management The international body should have knowledge management competencies for the proactive monitoring of potential risks, anticipating as far as possible which bio- logical agents have pandemic capacity while designing strategic and tactical re- sponse plans that help containing the threat in early stages. The response to pandemics must be based essentially on international action and closer col- laboration between countries and regions. keywords: cooperation; countries; covid-19; framework; health; internet; national; pandemic; response; risk; world cache: seejph-4760.pdf plain text: seejph-4760.txt item: #391 of 508 id: seejph-4799 author: Houghton, Frank title: The Athena SWAN Process to Promote Gender Equity in Third-Level Education in Ireland date: 2021-10-12 words: 7040 flesch: 54 summary: It became clear that attaining Athena SWAN accreditation was a simple hurdle to be overcome, without any fundamental attempts to change institutional culture. Some of the negative issues associated with Athena SWAN include the administrative burden it places on institutions (17), as well as observations that women are undertaking the majority of Athena SWAN work, often at a cost to their own career and research (16,17,27-29). keywords: accreditation; athena; athena swan; education; equality; equity; gender; health; houghton; ireland; level; paper; position; process; staff; swan; swan process; women cache: seejph-4799.pdf plain text: seejph-4799.txt item: #392 of 508 id: seejph-48 author: D. Norman, Ishmael; N. Binka, Fred; H. Godi, Anthony title: Geophagia: A cultural-nutrition health-seeking behaviour with no redeeming psycho-social qualities date: 2023-01-24 words: 5767 flesch: 59 summary: Enzootic Geophagia of Calves and Lambs in Northern Cape and Northwest and the possible role of chronic manganese poisoning. Geophagia: keywords: behaviour; doi; earth; february; geophagia; ghana; health; nutrition; p<0.001; practice; qualities; research; study; women cache: seejph-48.pdf plain text: seejph-48.txt item: #393 of 508 id: seejph-4882 author: Burazeri, Genc; Roshi, Meri; Laaser, Ulrich title: Editorial date: 2021-11-07 words: 214 flesch: 34 summary: The editors of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) proudly present a collection of papers authored by young African scientists in honor of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi (1876‒1928), the famous Japanese bacteriologist (see the introductory editorial information). The editors are very grateful for the permanent and effective support of Prof. Flavia Senkubuge, Chair WHO/Afro African Advisory Committee on Research and Development and President Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, Vice-President African Federation of Public Health Associations. keywords: health cache: seejph-4882.pdf plain text: seejph-4882.txt item: #394 of 508 id: seejph-49 author: Pampuri, Orjola; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Hysa, Bajram; Roshi, Enver; Burazeri, Genc title: Public health leadership competency level among health professionals in a South Eastern European country date: 2023-01-24 words: 3329 flesch: 39 summary: Pampuri O, Czabanowska K, Hysa B, Roshi E, Burazeri G. Public health leadership competency level among health professionals in a South Eastern European country (Original research). “Aleksander Moisiu”, No. 88, Tirana, Albania; Telephone: +355672066183; E-mail: o.pampuri@yahoo.com Pampuri O, Czabanowska K, Hysa B, Roshi E, Burazeri G. Public health leadership competency level among health professionals in a South Eastern European country (Original research). keywords: competencies; competency; health; leadership; level; professionals; public cache: seejph-49.pdf plain text: seejph-49.txt item: #395 of 508 id: seejph-4924 author: Poirier, Mathieu JP; Hard, Julie; Holst, Jens title: COVID-19 pandemic providing a window of opportunity for higher education: Case study of a three-country teaching-learning experience date: 2021-11-22 words: 5836 flesch: 44 summary: List of potential topics for collaborative student group projects Acceptance (and denial) of COVID- 19 measures To what degree has the public accepted governments’ and scien- tists’ response to the pandemic, and how has this evolved since the start of the outbreak? Recurring comments revealed student appreciation for the online lecture format provided by different professors, the opportunity to hear different perspectives on topic areas, and the process of collabo- ration with international students. keywords: covid-19; education; experience; group; health; international; learning; pandemic; students; teaching; university cache: seejph-4924.pdf plain text: seejph-4924.txt item: #396 of 508 id: seejph-50 author: Q.Aigbokhaode, Adesuwa; C.Isah, Essy; R.Isara, Alphonsus title: Health seeking behaviour among caregivers of under-five children in Edo State, Nigeria date: 2023-01-24 words: 4757 flesch: 57 summary: The poor knowledge danger signs in a child that should necessitate health care seeking demonstrated by caregivers in this study may have contributed to this practice. Health care seeking behaviour among market traders in Ibarapa central local government, Nigeria. keywords: behaviour; caregivers; children; edo; health; nigeria; respondents; seeking; state; study; treatment cache: seejph-50.pdf plain text: seejph-50.txt item: #397 of 508 id: seejph-5043 author: La Torre, Giuseppe; Dorelli, Barbara; Lia, Lorenza; Grassucci, Daniele; Gelardini, Marcello; Ardizzone, Carla; Grassi, Maria Caterina; Mannocci, Alice title: Smoking E-CigaRette and HEat-noT-burn Products: the SECRHET study, a large observational survey among young people in Italy date: 2021-12-26 words: 6023 flesch: 74 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5043 P a g e 1 | 15 Abstract Aim: Electronic cigarettes (eCig) and heated tobacco products (HTP), that heat a solution (e- liquid) to create vapour and tobacco at a temperature below the point of combustion, respec- tively, are emerging forms of smoking device widely diffused. Keywords: electronic cigarettes, heat not burn tobacco products, Italy, smoking, young peo- ple. Conflicts of interest: None declared. keywords: burn; cigarettes; health; heat; italy; people; products; school; smoking; tobacco cache: seejph-5043.pdf plain text: seejph-5043.txt item: #398 of 508 id: seejph-5084 author: Younis, Wejdan Y; Abdalrahim, Maysoon S; Zeilani, Ruqayya S; Albusoul, Randa; Alosaimi, Dalyal; Hamdan-Mansour, Ayman M title: Feasibility and clinical utility of Bates-Jensen wound assessment tool among nurses caring of patients having pressure ulcers date: 2022-01-10 words: 4771 flesch: 62 summary: Nurses had a perception that using the BWAT enhances care of patients with wounds (M=3.36/4, SD=0.61) and makes communication easier between nurses and physicians. Nurses with graduate level of edu- cation had higher mean scores on the BWAT clinical utility than nurses with undergradu- ate level. keywords: assessment; bwat; feasibility; jensen; nurses; patients; pressure; tool; utility; wound cache: seejph-5084.pdf plain text: seejph-5084.txt item: #399 of 508 id: seejph-5091 author: Taryam, Manal; Alawadhi, Dhoha ; Aburayya, Ahmad; Mubarak, Sara; Aljasmi, Maryam; Salloum, Said A; Mouzaek, Talal title: Factors Affecting the Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccine among Dubai Airport's Professionals date: 2022-01-11 words: 6063 flesch: 60 summary: The current study concluded that COVID-19 vaccination is safe and that adverse effects from a vaccine are usually modest and affected by several factors such as age, gender, and COVID-19 infection history. Questions related to main factors affecting 'participants' vaccination de- cision making against COVID-19 included 6 factors and were assessed on a five-point Lik- ert scale (1) perceived knowledge on COVID-19 vaccination (5 items); (2) per- ceived beliefs on COVID-19 vaccination (4 items); (3) perceived vaccination safety (3 items); (4) perceived accessibility and afford- ability on vaccination (4 items); (5) perceived advice and information related to COVID-19 vaccination (4 items); (6) trust on vaccination (4 items). keywords: aburayya; airport; covid-19; covid-19 vaccine; doi; dubai; factors; study; symptoms; uptake; vaccination; vaccine cache: seejph-5091.pdf plain text: seejph-5091.txt item: #400 of 508 id: seejph-51 author: Harizi, Edlira; Rroji, Arben; Cekaj, Elton; Gabrani, Sazan title: Anatomical variations of the circle of Willis and cerebrovascular accidents in transitional Albania date: 2023-01-24 words: 3003 flesch: 46 summary: Of these, there were 22 (42.3%) cases with anatomical variations of the circle of Willis compared with no Harizi (Shemsi) E, Rroji A, Cekaj E, Gabrani S. Anatomical variations of the circle of Willis and cerebrovascular accidents in transitional Albania (Original research). Harizi (Shemsi) E, Rroji A, Cekaj E, Gabrani S. Anatomical variations of the circle of Willis and cerebrovascular accidents in transitional Albania (Original research). keywords: accidents; albania; circle; control; patients; variations; willis cache: seejph-51.pdf plain text: seejph-51.txt item: #401 of 508 id: seejph-5110 author: Bozikov, Jadranka title: THE POPULATION'S HEALTH: COULD SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE DO BETTER? date: 2022-01-22 words: 521 flesch: 2 summary: Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.ddb.de South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Open Access Journal). South Eastern European Journal of Public Health keywords: eastern; editor; health; south cache: seejph-5110.pdf plain text: seejph-5110.txt item: #402 of 508 id: seejph-5111 author: Kayacan, Zeynep Cigdem; Akgul, Ozer title: Climate change and its extensions in infectious diseases: South-Eastern Europe under focus date: 2022-01-20 words: 5315 flesch: 41 summary: Keywords: Climate change, Communicable diseases, Disease reservoirs, Europe, Vector- borne diseases Kayacan ZC, Akgul O. Climate change and its extensions in infectious diseases: South Eastern Europe under focus (Review article). Climate change is presenting itself today as an urgent global health threat, and it requires immediate international action with high priority. keywords: cases; change; climate; climate change; diseases; eastern; europe; global; health; human; infections; october; south; vector; virus cache: seejph-5111.pdf plain text: seejph-5111.txt item: #403 of 508 id: seejph-5112 author: Lirussi, Flavio; Ziglio, Erio title: Circular health: a needed approach to promote health and prevent pandemics and other health hazards date: 2022-01-20 words: 3843 flesch: 38 summary: Circular health goes beyond the biomedical concept of health, operating on the interface between individuals, microorganisms and ecosystems. The adoption of circular health is an urgent necessity in restructuring development policies and making them more effective and sustainable, and protecting and promoting individual and collective health. keywords: approach; circular; development; doi; hazards; health; lirussi; november; pandemics; ziglio cache: seejph-5112.pdf plain text: seejph-5112.txt item: #404 of 508 id: seejph-5113 author: Henke, Klaus-Dirk title: The Effectiveness of the Health Economy: A case study of the Federal Republic of Germany date: 2022-01-20 words: 2366 flesch: 56 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5113 P a g e 5 | 6 Appendix The role of health economy in some SEE countries (Croatia, Montenegro and Slovenia) based on empirical data and in comparison with the EU is presented in Tables 1-3 bellow. Health economy reporting in the Balkan states – Empirical data for Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro, Opatija, September 2018. keywords: care; economic; economy; germany; health; henke cache: seejph-5113.pdf plain text: seejph-5113.txt item: #405 of 508 id: seejph-5114 author: Theofilou, Paraskevi; Platis, Charalampos; Madia, Konstantina; Kotsiopoulos, Ioannis title: Burnout and optimism among health workers during the period of COVID-19 date: 2022-01-22 words: 4270 flesch: 56 summary: Theofilou P, Platis C, Madia K, Kotsiopoulos I. Burnout and optimism among health workers during the period of COVID-19 (Original research). DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5114 P a g e 1 | 11 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Burnout and optimism among health workers during the period of COVID-19 Paraskevi Theofilou1, Charalampos Platis2, Konstantina Madia3, Ioannis Kotsiopoulos1 1 Ministry of Health, Athens, Greece 2 Greek D.R.G. Institute SA, Athens, Greece 3 Aegean College, Athens, Greece Corresponding author: Paraskevi Theofilou Address: 12 Eratous, 14568, Athens, Greece Email: pardrothe@gmail.com https://www.scirp.org/journal/articles.aspx?searchcode=Greek+D.R.G.+Institute+SA%2c+Athens%2c+Greece&searchfield=affs&page=1 mailto:pardrothe@gmail.com Theofilou P, Platis C, Madia K, Kotsiopoulos I. Burnout and optimism among health workers during the period of COVID-19 (Original research). keywords: burnout; covid-19; exhaustion; health; level; life; optimism; period; research; theofilou; workers cache: seejph-5114.pdf plain text: seejph-5114.txt item: #406 of 508 id: seejph-5115 author: Donev, Doncho title: Pay-for-performance and tools for quality assurance in health care date: 2022-01-22 words: 6964 flesch: 41 summary: According to the Institute of Medicine in the United States (since 2015 the National Academy of Medicine), quality of health care is defined as the extent to which health care services provided to individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge and patient safety is no different from the provision of quality health services and care (10, 21). With S/N, CPW and CL, potential side effects of P4P models can be prevented and overcome, such as tunnel vision, one- sidedness, and superficiality, or a focus on quantitative aspects of clinical performance that can be easily measured, and neglect of unmeasured areas of health service quality, adverse selection or incentives to avoid the most difficult patients, undermining or potentially reducing the internal/intrinsic motivation of professionals as a key feature of quality health care, inequity - creating perverse incentives to exclude disadvantaged groups, overcompensating or rewarding providers who already meet or exceed the target threshold, and misreporting, gaming or cheating (11, 12). keywords: assurance; care; countries; cpw; health; health care; health services; p4p; pay; performance; quality; services; standards; tools; work cache: seejph-5115.pdf plain text: seejph-5115.txt item: #407 of 508 id: seejph-5198 author: Çomo, Najada; Meta, Esmeralda; Qato, Migena; Kraja, Dhimiter; Pipero, Pellumb; Fico, Albana title: Measles, a re-emerging disease in Albania: Epidemiology and clinical presentations date: 2022-02-04 words: 3091 flesch: 61 summary: Pneumonitis in measles patients takes two forms: primary by viral measles infection and secondary by bacterial or other viral coinfections. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical features and complications of hospitalized measles patients in Tirana, Albania, as related to age-group and risk factors. keywords: albania; cases; disease; hospital; infect; measles; patients; presentations; study; years cache: seejph-5198.pdf plain text: seejph-5198.txt item: #408 of 508 id: seejph-52 author: Ruseva, Maria; Chichevalieva, Snezhana; Harris, Meggan; Kostova, Neda Milevska; Jakubowsk, Elke; Kluge, Hans; M. Martin-Moreno, Jose title: The South Eastern Europe Health Network: A model for regional collaboration in public health date: 2023-01-24 words: 6096 flesch: 48 summary: The Third Ministerial Forum in 2011 brought the signing of the Banja Luka Pledge (25), with the ministers’ unanimous commitment to sustain and strengthen the regional cooperation in public health in SEE; achieve equity and accountability in health; strengthen public health capacities and services; and foster intersectoral collaboration within national governments, with regional and international partners, and among all stakeholders interested in promoting sustainable health and wellbeing for the population. The South Eastern Europe Health Network: A model for regional collaboration in public health (Review article). keywords: collaboration; development; eastern; eastern europe; europe; europe health; health; network; office; seehn; south; south eastern; states cache: seejph-52.pdf plain text: seejph-52.txt item: #409 of 508 id: seejph-5325 author: Sudra, Rano Indradi; Putra, Sarsintorini title: Legal protection of the patient's right to access medical records in Indonesia date: 2022-03-20 words: 4830 flesch: 46 summary: Regarding the manufacture of medical records, Regulation of the Minister of Health number 269 of 2008 concerning Medical Records Article 2 paragraph (1) states that Medical records must be made in writing, complete and clear or electronically. Access to an electronic system, including electronic medical records, can only be done if a person is authorized by the electronic medical record system (given the right to access). keywords: access; health; information; law; medical; number; patient; records; right cache: seejph-5325.pdf plain text: seejph-5325.txt item: #410 of 508 id: seejph-5326 author: Setijaningsih, Retno Astuti ; Suyoko, Suyoko ; Sukamto, Mellinia ; Wijayanti, Arinimar Shaffa ; Vaninda, Brissa Gustaviar ; Rochmah, Eva Nur; Wahyuni, Ngesti ; Nufus, Sabrina Hayatun ; Isworo, Slamet title: Management of Medical Record Unit Services for Covid-19 Patients in Type C Hospitals: A Study of Legal Aspects. date: 2022-03-20 words: 6215 flesch: 51 summary: For inpatients, there is a special procedure for handling Covid-19 patient medical record documents before being taken to the Nurse Station room. DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5326 P a g e 5 | 15 Table 1 summarizes the procedures of handling Covid-19 patients records. keywords: covid-19; documents; health; hospitals; information; legal; management; medical; patients; procedures; record; registration; research; services; unit cache: seejph-5326.pdf plain text: seejph-5326.txt item: #411 of 508 id: seejph-5327 author: Mahato, Sweta ; Younjan, Sanjeev ; Mahato, Anamika title: Fetal outcome of adolescent pregnancy in a tertiary care center in western Nepal: A case control study date: 2022-03-20 words: 2675 flesch: 60 summary: Mahato S, Younjan S, Mahato A. Fetal outcome of adolescent pregnancy in a tertiary care center in western Nepal: A case control study (Original research). DOI: 10.11576/ seejph-5327 P a g e 1 | 6 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Fetal outcome of adolescent pregnancy in a tertiary care center in western Nepal: keywords: age; case; control; fetal; group; nepal; pregnancy; study cache: seejph-5327.pdf plain text: seejph-5327.txt item: #412 of 508 id: seejph-5328 author: Rimawati, Eti ; Kristina, Tri Nur ; Nugraheni, Sri Achadi ; Margawati, Ani title: Assessing Reproductive Health Literacy: Terms of Sex Genital among Caregivers in Semarang city date: 2022-03-20 words: 2333 flesch: 58 summary: 3 1.3 Alat kelaminlaki-laki (male sex genital) 2 0.9 Testis 2 0.9 Male 1 0.5 Nanuk/manuk (local term for bird) 1 0.5 Seli (N/A) 1 0.5 Sombosamalase (N/A) 1 0.5 Totot (a local term for penis, bigger than female’s) 1 0.5 Untuk pipis (for pee) 1 0.5 Vagina 1 0.5 Total 224 100 Rimawati E, Kristina TN, Nugraheni SA, Margawati A. Assessing Reproductive Health Literacy: Nanuk/manuk (local term for bird) keywords: children; genital; health; sex; terms cache: seejph-5328.pdf plain text: seejph-5328.txt item: #413 of 508 id: seejph-5329 author: Mahato, Roshan Kumar ; Laohasiriwong, Wongsa ; Koju, Rajendra title: The role of Diabetes mellitus comorbidity on Tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Nepal: A prospective cohort study date: 2022-03-20 words: 5173 flesch: 73 summary: The TB cases (n=306) and TB with DM (n=102) cases were followed up for the estimation of blood glucose level, HbA1c level, and sputum examination on 2, 5, and 6 months after TB treatment started. Conclusion: The prevalence of worsening TB treatment among patients with TB and DM was significantly higher than those who had TB only. keywords: diabetes; mellitus; months; nepal; outcomes; patients; study; treatment; tuberculosis cache: seejph-5329.pdf plain text: seejph-5329.txt item: #414 of 508 id: seejph-5330 author: Mubarokah, Kismi ; Nurjanah, Nurjanah ; Handayani, Sri ; Astarini, Hermin Rhema ; Maharani, Adelia Wahyuningtyas ; Masitoh, Dewi ; Salisa, Merisha Dea ; Yulianah, Sri Dian title: Tuberculosis literacy and stigma: female activists in five areas with the lowest treatment success rate in Semarang, Indonesia date: 2022-03-20 words: 4667 flesch: 74 summary: Most of them showed low TB literacy (Me:60; SD±6.62) and high stigma (Me: 76; SD±10.36). The aims are to analyze the correlation between TB literacy and stigma expressed among female health and social activists. keywords: health; literacy; patients; people; stigma; tb patients; treatment cache: seejph-5330.pdf plain text: seejph-5330.txt item: #415 of 508 id: seejph-5331 author: Mahawati, Eni title: Effect of safety and hygiene practices on lung function among Indonesian farmers exposed to pesticides date: 2022-03-20 words: 4338 flesch: 53 summary: It is suggested that to improve management and regulation control of pesticide application, educational programs and reinforcement of safety and hygiene practices in the workplace as effective approaches for preventing respiratory disorders related to pesticide exposures. According to the research of pesticide exposures among farmworkers, workplace safety and hygiene habits are crucial for preventing pesticide exposures in the workplace (24). keywords: exposure; farmers; function; health; hygiene; lung; lung function; pesticides; practices; research; safety; spraying; study cache: seejph-5331.pdf plain text: seejph-5331.txt item: #416 of 508 id: seejph-5332 author: Yuantari, Catur ; Rachmani, Enny ; Kusuma, Edi Jaya ; Ariyanto, Amelia Devi Putri title: Implementation of health protocols in the workplace during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia date: 2022-03-20 words: 3421 flesch: 59 summary: Based on research conducted by Alanezi et al., more than 60% of health workers in seven selected hospitals in Saudi Arabia ignore health protocol regulations (12). Implementation of health protocols in the workplace during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia (Original research). keywords: covid-19; employees; health; indonesia; pandemic; protocols; research; workers; workplace cache: seejph-5332.pdf plain text: seejph-5332.txt item: #417 of 508 id: seejph-5333 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: YOUNG INDONESIAN SCIENTISTS WRITE ON PUBLIC HEALTH date: 2022-03-20 words: 728 flesch: 15 summary: Editorial The contributions assembled in this Special Volume have been selected from a large number of contributions to the International Seminar and Workshop on Public Health Action (ISWOPHA) 2021, organized by the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Science, Universitas Dian Nuswantoro, Semarang, Indonesia. Ulrich Laaser DTM&H, MPH Section of International Public Health School of Public Health, Bielefeld University POB 10 01 31, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany E-mail: ulrich.laaser@uni-bielefeld.de Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5889-4471?lang=en Assistant Executive Editor Kreshnik Petrela BA Tirana, Albania Email: kreshnikp@gmail.com Technical Editor Meri Roshi BA Tirana, Albania Email: meriroshi90@gmail.com keywords: editor; health; indonesia; jacobs; journal cache: seejph-5333.pdf plain text: seejph-5333.txt item: #418 of 508 id: seejph-5346 author: Naum, Alvi; Toçi, Ervin; Toçi, Dorina; Burazeri, Genc; van Kessel, Robin; Czabanowska, Katarzyna title: Correlates of level of satisfaction among primary health care workers in Albania date: 2022-03-23 words: 8603 flesch: 56 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5346 P a g e 2 | 17 Abstract Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the level of satisfaction of primary health care staff in Albania and the factors associated with it. Regarding the poten- tial bias of the selection of health care staff, we think that this bias has a low probability since the study was attended by over half of all health staff in the study centers. keywords: albania; care; health; health care; level; phc; phc staff; primary; satisfaction; staff; study; toçi; work; working cache: seejph-5346.pdf plain text: seejph-5346.txt item: #419 of 508 id: seejph-5349 author: Houghton, Frank ; O’Rourke, Lisa Scott title: Condemning the War in Ukraine & the Need for Peace date: 2022-03-23 words: 673 flesch: 51 summary: We are equally cognisant of the negative physical and mental impacts of the conflict upon invading Russian Federation forces and call on them to lay down their arms and refuse to continue to participate in this illegal and unprovoked war. War is anathema to health, health protection, and health improvement. keywords: health; russian cache: seejph-5349.pdf plain text: seejph-5349.txt item: #420 of 508 id: seejph-54 author: D. Goodman, Julien title: The history of European public health education accreditation in perspective date: 2023-01-24 words: 4462 flesch: 53 summary: The reviews took place between July and October 2014 based upon the search terms of “public health education accreditation”. Goodman J. The history of European public health education accreditation in perspective (Review article). keywords: accreditation; american; development; education; european; health; public; public health; review; schools; training cache: seejph-54.pdf plain text: seejph-54.txt item: #421 of 508 id: seejph-5454 author: Fani, Tiara; Saptorini, Kriswiharsi Kun; Anggreani, Aprilia Diah title: The willingness of COVID-19 vaccination and associated factors: A systematic review date: 2022-05-09 words: 4559 flesch: 52 summary: Methods Search Strategy We searched for articles indexed in the electronic databases of PubMed and Sciencedirect with the following key terms: Willingness, Acceptance, Acceptability, COVID-19 vaccine, and COVID-19 vaccination. Three articles reported that people showed more willingness with higher education (4,10,17) to get COVID-19 vaccine, while one article reported this for people with lower education (13). keywords: articles; covid-19; covid-19 vaccination; factors; general; health; online; review; survey; vaccination; vaccine; willingness cache: seejph-5454.pdf plain text: seejph-5454.txt item: #422 of 508 id: seejph-5458 author: Berisha, Merita; Ramadani, Naser; Basholli, Florie Miftari; Jerliu, Naim; Humolli, Isme; Tahirukaj, Ardita; Maraokuli, Maria; Martin-Moreno, Jose M. title: Self-assessment of essential public health operations in Kosovo date: 2022-05-11 words: 6053 flesch: 44 summary: The systematic process of the self-assessment of public health operations aimed to generate sufficient empirical evidence to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the country’s health services and functions to provide recommendations for future public health actions in Kosovo. Conclusion: The self-assessment revealed that, despite ongoing initiatives and measures to strengthen public health, the application of EPHOs has much room for improvement. keywords: assessment; epho; health; kosovo; national; operations; process; public; research; self; services; system cache: seejph-5458.pdf plain text: seejph-5458.txt item: #423 of 508 id: seejph-5471 author: Božikov, Jadranka title: The population's health: Could South Eastern Europe do better? date: 2022-05-21 words: 4502 flesch: 26 summary: Kunitz argued that the individual and social modernisation processes of the early 1980s did not lead to irreversible improvements in health and well-being, but the impact of the transition on population health was profound. Over the past three decades, health systems in SEE countries have undergone many reforms triggered by the search for more efficient management of health care and new sources of revenues able to answer cost pressures related to new technologies. keywords: countries; doi; eastern; europe; european; health; https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomtoselection=true&time=2022-01-01&facet=none&pickersort=asc&pickermetric=location&metric=people+fully+vaccinated&interval=cumulative&relative+to+population=true&color+by+test+positivity=false&country=gbr~deu~ita~alb~aut~bih~hrv~cyp~cze~grc~hun~isl~isr~lva~mne~mkd~nor~pol~prt~rou~srb~svn~svk~mda~mlt~owid_kos~ltu~lux~che~tur~bgr~fin~fra~dnk~bel~est~irl~swe~esp; population; school; seejph; south cache: seejph-5471.pdf plain text: seejph-5471.txt item: #424 of 508 id: seejph-5477 author: Gabriela Scintee, Silvia; Vladescu, Cristian title: Overview of the main incremental health care reforms introduced between 2014 and 2020 in Romania date: 2022-05-21 words: 5584 flesch: 37 summary: Keywords: Health care reform, health planning, health resources, quality of health care, Romania Conflict of interest: None declared. The main implemented or initiated incremental reforms, during the assessed period, were assigned to five main clusters: ”governance”, “resources for health”, “coverage and access”, “organization of health care”, “quality of care” and were analysed in accordance with the aim, the type, the implementation stage and the corresponding objectives of the Strategy. keywords: care; doi; european; health; health care; implementation; national; quality; reforms; romania; services; strategy cache: seejph-5477.pdf plain text: seejph-5477.txt item: #425 of 508 id: seejph-5478 author: Kragelj, Anja; Pahor, Majda; Zaletel-Kragelj, Lijana; Makivic, Irena title: Learning needs assessment among professional workers in community mental health centres in Slovenia: Study protocol date: 2022-05-21 words: 4773 flesch: 55 summary: Phase 3 In this phase, we will search for examples of good practice (from Slovenia or abroad) and review appropriate existing formal EPs for the education of mental health professionals, ideally in the form of multiple case study. With a pilot study, based on the presented concept of a model study, we will be able to assess what mental health learning content is not yet part of formal higher education for professionals working in community mental health centres, but has been identified as necessary for inclusion. keywords: education; health; kragelj; learning; needs; professionals; protocol; research; slovenia; study cache: seejph-5478.pdf plain text: seejph-5478.txt item: #426 of 508 id: seejph-5479 author: Panteli, Maria; Delipalla, Sofia title: Market and welfare valuation of the economic burden of diseases attributable to air pollution exposure in the Western Balkans date: 2022-05-21 words: 6119 flesch: 56 summary: For the three categories of air pollution under examination and their joint effect (total air pollution), the attributable healthcare expenditure is estimated as: 𝑨𝑷𝑨𝑬𝒊𝒋 = 𝑨𝑷𝑨𝑭𝒊𝒋 × 𝑻𝑯𝑬𝒋 (𝟏) where 𝐴𝑃𝐴𝐸𝑖𝑗 is the air pollution attributable healthcare expenditure by air pollution subcategory 𝑖 and country 𝑗, 𝐴𝑃𝐴𝐹𝑖𝑗 is the air pollution attributable fraction (mean value) based on data on death numbers by pollution subcategory 𝑖 and country 𝑗, and 𝑇𝐻𝐸𝑗 is total health spending by country 𝑗. Panteli M, Delipalla S. Market and welfare valuation of the economic burden of diseases attributable to air pollution exposure in the Western Balkans (Original research). Regarding the rest of the countries, the share of total cost from air pollution in GDP was smaller, 51.5 50.2 53.4 50.9 52.5 46.7 36.0 29.4 23.7 32.3 30.9 33.2 12.5 20.4 22.9 16.8 16.6 20.1 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Albania Bosnia & Herzegovina Croatia Montenegro North Macedonia Serbia P e rc e n t (o f to ta l co st ) Direct cost Mortality cost Morbidity cost Panteli M, Delipalla S. Market and welfare valuation of the economic burden of diseases attributable to air pollution exposure in the Western Balkans (Original research). keywords: air; air pollution; balkans; burden; cost; exposure; gdp; health; market; mortality; pollution; total; western cache: seejph-5479.pdf plain text: seejph-5479.txt item: #427 of 508 id: seejph-5480 author: Nurse, Joanna title: The InterAction Council date: 2022-05-21 words: 579 flesch: 4 summary: These meetings brought together a wide range of senior leaders and experts committed to working together to find solutions for a safe end to the pandemic, as well as strengthening global security for our future. Further opportunities were presented on the potential role of digital transformation for enhancing global security, including the Platform for Planet Place and People (P4PPP). keywords: health; security cache: seejph-5480.pdf plain text: seejph-5480.txt item: #428 of 508 id: seejph-5481 author: Djuric, Petar; Stevanovic, Aleksandar; Rajovic, Nina; Todorovic, Jovana; Laaser, Ulrich title: Reproductive health of medical students: exploring knowledge, experiences, and behaviors date: 2022-05-21 words: 5164 flesch: 53 summary: Knowledge and attitude as regards sexual health among medical students of Menoufia University, Egypt. Conclusions The results of our study show the diverse sexual life of young medical students in Djuric P, Stevanovic A, Rajovic N, Todorovic J, Laaser U. Reproductive health of medical students: exploring knowledge, experiences, and behaviors (Original research). keywords: behaviors; doi; experiences; health; knowledge; laaser; medical; reproductive; research; sexual; students; study; year cache: seejph-5481.pdf plain text: seejph-5481.txt item: #429 of 508 id: seejph-5494 author: Htut, Win Mya Mya; Sornlom, Kittipong; Loahasiriwong, Wongsa title: Health behavior, stress and obesity among working age women in Myanmar date: 2022-05-27 words: 8421 flesch: 73 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5494 P a g e 1 | 23 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Health behavior, stress and obesity among working age women in Myanmar Win Mya Mya Htut1, Kittipong Sornlom1, Wongsa Loahasiriwong1 1 Faculty of Public Health, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5494 P a g e 2 | 23 Abstract Aim: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity and to investigate the association between socioeconomic factors, health behaviors, health literacy, knowledge, attitude, physical and mental health status, and overweight and obesity among working age women in Myanmar . keywords: age; behavior; days; health; information; myanmar; obesity; overweight; research; stress; study; women; working; yes; |__| cache: seejph-5494.pdf plain text: seejph-5494.txt item: #430 of 508 id: seejph-55 author: Stein, Hans title: The Maastricht Treaty 1992: Taking stock of the past and looking at future perspectives date: 2023-01-24 words: 12204 flesch: 59 summary: Conclusion: For the future of EU health policy it is essential that its position is considerably strengthened, in order to assure that health interests of the EU population are sufficiently safeguarded. The establishment of a legal base for EU health policy has never been the object of an overall plan or strategy of any EU institution. keywords: article; commission; december; economic; eu health; european; future; health; health policy; maastricht; past; policies; policy; public; stein; treaty cache: seejph-55.pdf plain text: seejph-55.txt item: #431 of 508 id: seejph-5534 author: Ahmed, Parvez ; Eaty, Mahim ; Alam, Nazmul ; Anthony, Leela ; Yasmin, Nawzia title: Respiratory symptoms among urban traffic policemen in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study date: 2022-06-19 words: 4939 flesch: 59 summary: Z value=1.96, marginal error d=7% of p, n= Previously conducted epidemiological studies reported the association of occupational health hazards such as environmental pollution due to vehicular emission and adverse respiratory health outcomes in traffic police personnel (1,2). keywords: air; bangladesh; constables; coughing; doi; health; job; police; policemen; research; risk; study; symptoms; traffic cache: seejph-5534.pdf plain text: seejph-5534.txt item: #432 of 508 id: seejph-5599 author: Jagusiewicz, Agata ; Uteh, Cyril Onwuelazu ; Götz, Jan-Philipp ; Robertz, Jule; Zijlman, Minke Anna ; Siepmann, Ines title: Centralized vaccine procurement in the post-COVID-19 European Union date: 2022-06-23 words: 5782 flesch: 45 summary: Therefore, the aim of this policy brief is to develop a new strategy for vaccine procurement in the EU, built upon and informed by previous strategies throughout the world. Vogler S, Haasis MA, van den Ham R, Humbert T, Garner S, Suleman F. European collaborations on medicine and vaccine procurement. keywords: brief; covid-19; dec; european; health; june; pandemic; policy; procurement; robertz; union; vaccine cache: seejph-5599.pdf plain text: seejph-5599.txt item: #433 of 508 id: seejph-56 author: Laaser, Wolfram title: The rise and fall of the “Massively Open Online Courses” date: 2023-01-24 words: 4762 flesch: 56 summary: Bremer C, Thillosen A. Der deutschsrachige Open Online Course OPCO12. The definition of the so-called MOOCs, also referred to as a “disruptive educational innovation”, however, is not very precise and has led to some irritations and scepticism. keywords: article; courses; doi; education; fall; laaser; learning; moocs; november; online; open; review; rise cache: seejph-56.pdf plain text: seejph-56.txt item: #434 of 508 id: seejph-5600 author: Gobianidze, Mariam; Hammond, Jordan ; Jürgens, Kira ; Reisser, Katharina ; Kalaitzi, Valia title: Advancing the diversity and inclusion agenda in healthcare organizations: The case of German university hospitals date: 2022-06-23 words: 5405 flesch: 38 summary: Hence, broad internal acceptance of D&I policies will grow and Gobianidze, M., Hammond, J., Jürgens, K. & Reisser, K. Advancing the diversity and inclusion agenda in healthcare organizations: the case of German university hospitals (Policy brief). Gobianidze, M., Hammond, J., Jürgens, K. & Reisser, K. Advancing the diversity and inclusion agenda in healthcare organizations: the case of German university hospitals (Policy brief). keywords: brief; charter; d&i; dimensions; diversity; employees; healthcare; hospitals; inclusion; policies; policy; university hospitals cache: seejph-5600.pdf plain text: seejph-5600.txt item: #435 of 508 id: seejph-5601 author: Kurtz, Benedikt ; Hennenberg, Deirdre Norris ; Supke, Lea ; Nguyen, Thi Yen Chi title: Professionalize European Public Health Workforce: The need for a Minimum Dataset and Skills Passport date: 2022-06-23 words: 4445 flesch: 51 summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that delivery and coordination of public health is essential to national and global health and highlighted the problems of long-standing underfunding and underdevelopment of the PHW (2). Historically, the PHW has been difficult to accurately define due to its multidisciplinary, various occupational categories, unclear boundaries in the field of public health, and the absence of credential requirements for many of the disciplines involved. keywords: dataset; european; framework; health; minimum; passport; phw; policy; public; skills; workforce cache: seejph-5601.pdf plain text: seejph-5601.txt item: #436 of 508 id: seejph-5602 author: Reijnders, Anne Petronella Maria ; van den Eijnde, Sanne Quérine; Martin Janssen, Ruben Renerus ; van Kessel, Robin title: Autism and Inclusive Education: Recommendations for improvement during and after COVID-19 date: 2022-06-23 words: 5539 flesch: 19 summary: 8. Kessel R van, Hrzic R, Cassidy S, Brayne C, Baron-Cohen S, Czabanowska K, et al. Inclusive education in the European Union: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of education policy for autism. Subsequently, the European Union already invests in gamification, making the step smaller to invest in gamification for inclusive education. keywords: autism; children; covid-19; education; gamification; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?vr4tqv https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?vr4tqv; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?vr4tqv reijnders; interventions; kessel; learning; needs; pmi; policy; social; van cache: seejph-5602.pdf plain text: seejph-5602.txt item: #437 of 508 id: seejph-5603 author: Alsamara, Issam Moussa ; Beinert, Stefanie Felicitas ; de Jong, Jeanne Catelijne ; Klappe, Maaike Jeannette Barbara ; Marewski, Viktoria Sirkku ; Orhan, Rana title: IMPACT: Ideal Measures for Participation and Awareness of Climate Change: Stronger Together Citizen participation in achieving the European Green Deal in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion date: 2022-06-23 words: 5500 flesch: 49 summary: Policy Options: Citizens often do not feel responsible for taking climate action; however, everyone should contribute to achieving the biggest results in tackling climate change. Keywords: Citizen participation; Climate change; European Green Deal; Meuse-Rhine Euroregion Alsamara, I.; Beinert, S. F.; De Jong, J. C.; Klappe, M. J. P.; Marewski, V. S. (Policy brief). keywords: brief; change; citizen; climate; doi; emr; european; food; health; internet; june; policy; projects cache: seejph-5603.pdf plain text: seejph-5603.txt item: #438 of 508 id: seejph-5604 author: Tamminen, Alisa C. M. ; Duport, Gaetan ; Atienza Serrano, Rocío ; Babich, Suzanne M. title: Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in Ireland date: 2022-06-23 words: 3669 flesch: 56 summary: (9) consumption behaviour change could be reinforced by increasing awareness about nutrition and knowledge about the VAT reduction for fruits and vegetable policy and its intention to increase the intake of these goods. With regards to the effects of VAT policy on diet, it is essential to mention that whereas VATCA2010 incentivises fruit and vegetable consumption, it does not simultaneously discourage consumption of commonly consumed unhealthy foods such as cakes and biscuits (1, 6), which are taxed at a standard rate (23%) (7). keywords: consumption; foods; fruits; health; ireland; policy; vat; vegetables cache: seejph-5604.pdf plain text: seejph-5604.txt item: #439 of 508 id: seejph-5605 author: Eick, Donata ; Aubert, Océane ; Dempsey, Kendra ; Ozawa, Momone ; Van Eerd, Eveline; Neicun, Jessica title: The COVID-19 pandemic and the right to health of people who use drugs date: 2022-06-23 words: 8095 flesch: 54 summary: As COVID-19 rapidly spread across the globe, governments implemented various prevention measures which not only caused an increase in problem drug use (PDU) because of their negative impact on mental health and socioeconomic conditions but also prompted a decrease in drug services provided. COVID-19 increased the need to access drug services, healthcare, and support services creating an increased demand for opioid substitution therapy and other medication. keywords: apr; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; drug; drug policy; drug use; harm; health; internet; pandemic; people; policy; reduction; services; social; treatment; use cache: seejph-5605.pdf plain text: seejph-5605.txt item: #440 of 508 id: seejph-5606 author: Agarici, Sylvia ; Elabbasy, Darin ; Hirche, Anja ; Saha, Royina ; Witte, Jente ; Thomas, James C. title: Proposing a Code of Ethics for Public Health Professionals in Europe date: 2022-06-23 words: 7462 flesch: 60 summary: A story that celebrates the history of European PH ethics and that demonstrates the need for change, or, in other words, the need for a European code of ethics. So far, only an American Code of PH ethics was developed (7,8). keywords: brief; change; code; ethics; european; european code; health; health code; health ethics; policy; professionals; public; seejph; thomas cache: seejph-5606.pdf plain text: seejph-5606.txt item: #441 of 508 id: seejph-5626 author: Çomo, Najada ; Meta, Esmeralda ; Qato, Migena; Gjermeni, Nevila ; Kolovani, Entela; Pipero, Pellumb; Harxhi, Arjan; Kraja, Dhimiter title: Overview on epidemiological and clinical manifestation of COVID-19 in Albanian adults date: 2022-06-23 words: 3356 flesch: 58 summary: Keywords: adults, Albania, clinical manifestations, Covid-19, epidemiology. Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 in the general population: systematic review. keywords: adults; age; cases; cat; covid-19; symptoms cache: seejph-5626.pdf plain text: seejph-5626.txt item: #442 of 508 id: seejph-5672 author: Serling, Willa; Lotushko, Volodymyr; Bocken, Nick; Gietz, Lisa ; Paric, Martina title: LEADING POLICY CHANGE IN PUBLIC HEALTH date: 2022-06-24 words: 532 flesch: -2 summary: 1 South Eastern European Journal of Public Health Special Volume No. 3, 2022 LEADING POLICY CHANGE IN PUBLIC HEALTH A Collection of Policy Briefs Jacobs Publishing House 2 Executive Editor Prof. Dr. Genc Burazeri PhD Faculty of Medicine, St. Dibres, No. 371, Tirana, Albania, and CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands Email: genc.burazeri@maastrichtuniversity.nl and: gburazeri@gmail.com Skype: genc.burazeri Volume Editor Prof. Dr. Kasia Czabanowska Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands Email: kasia.czabanowska@maastrichtuniversity.nl Assistant Executive Editor Kreshnik Petrela BA Tirana, Albania Email: kreshnikp@gmail.com Technical Editor Meri Roshi BA Tirana, Albania Email: meriroshi90@gmail.com The publication of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) is organised in cooperation with the Bielefeld University Library. keywords: email; european; health; jacobs; journal cache: seejph-5672.pdf plain text: seejph-5672.txt item: #443 of 508 id: seejph-57 author: Heinzelmann, Wilfried title: The German-Jewish paediatrician Albert Eckstein (1891-1950) exiled to Turkey: Pioneering modern paediatric care and social hygiene (health sciences) during World War II date: 2023-01-24 words: 4735 flesch: 55 summary: DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-37 3 Introduction During the great remodelling of the Turkish nation under the government of Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938), the German-Jewish physician and emigrant Albert Eckstein (1891-1950), also often mentioned as “Architect of the modern Turkish health-care system” (1), made significant efforts in lowering child mortality. Heinzelmann W. The German-Jewish paediatrician Albert Eckstein (1891-1950) exiled to Turkey: keywords: albert; ankara; care; children; der; eckstein; health; heinzelmann; hygiene; paediatrician; sciences; turkey; und; war; world cache: seejph-57.pdf plain text: seejph-57.txt item: #444 of 508 id: seejph-5708 author: Muçaj, Sefedin ; Ramadani, Naser; Kabashi-Muçaj, Serbeze ; Jerliu, Naim ; Rashiti-Bytyci1, Albiona; Hoxha, Sanije title: Epidemiological profile and incidence of brain tumors in Kosovo date: 2022-07-06 words: 4234 flesch: 60 summary: The ratio between supratentorial brain tumors and infratentorial 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 F M Ag e ye ar (M ea n ± SD ) 0 - 4 5 - 9 1 0 - 1 4 1 5 - 1 9 2 0 - 2 4 2 5 - 2 9 3 0 - 3 4 3 5 - 3 9 4 0 - 4 4 4 5 - 4 9 5 0 - 5 4 5 5 - 5 9 6 0 - 6 4 6 5 - 6 9 7 0 - 7 4 7 5 - 7 9 8 0 + N % 1 3 1 1 5 1 1 7 5 10 5 10 12 6 3 71 31.3 2 1 1 6 4 8 3 6 9 4 1 45 19.8 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 2 2 4 3 2 2 26 11.5 4 1 1 1 2 4 5 7 17 20 21 27 12 19 9 150 66.1 2 1 2 2 1 6 9 6 6 11 6 3 4 59 26.0 Male 2 1 1 2 4 1 8 14 15 16 6 16 5 91 40.1 Unknown 3 1 1 1 6 2.6 Female 2 1 1 4 1.8 Male 1 1 2 0.9 N 1 10 2 2 1 1 7 5 6 14 23 30 26 37 24 25 13 227 100.0 % 0.4 4.4 0.9 0.9 0.4 0.4 3.1 2.2 2.6 6.2 10.1 13.2 11.5 16.3 10.6 11.0 5.7 100.0 - Malignant Total Type of tumors by gender and age groups Age-groups Total Female Benign Female Male Muçaj S, Ramadani N, Kabashi- Muçaj S, Jerliu N, Rashiti-Byyci A, Hoxha S. Epidemiological profile and incidence of brain tumors in Kosovo (Original research). The average age of brain tumor patients was 58.4±18.3 years. keywords: age; brain; cancer; cases; incidence; kosovo; tumors; years cache: seejph-5708.pdf plain text: seejph-5708.txt item: #445 of 508 id: seejph-5709 author: Hyska, Jolanda title: Improving nutrition and health among Albanian schoolchildren date: 2022-07-06 words: 3519 flesch: 52 summary:  Prevention can be achieved through various interventions that target the school environment, physical activity and diet, such as: high importance of physical activity; healthy foods in cafeteria, ban on sweetened beverages and energy- dense junk food; training of teachers regarding health education; incorporation of more knowledge about nutrition and physical activity and nutrition-related diseases in school curriculum, etc. (14). - Children’s positive attitudes toward healthy foods, healthy nutritional habits and health benefits do not often correlate with their nutritional practices (behaviours); They seem to know the benefits of eating fresh fruits and vegetables, with almost all of them saying that fruit is very good for their health (92%), actually less than three in five children consume fruits on a daily basis whereas vegetable consumption is far too lower (with a range: 20%- 30% in all three surveys). keywords: albania; children; development; food; health; nutrition; policy; school cache: seejph-5709.pdf plain text: seejph-5709.txt item: #446 of 508 id: seejph-5720 author: Houghton , Frank ; O’Mahony, Cáitlín title: An examination of the diversity of beer and cider products sold in Irish supermarkets in the context of health promotion advice date: 2022-07-11 words: 2891 flesch: 49 summary: The obvious answer is the enactment of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act, 2018, that has already been passed requiring alcohol containers to display the number of grams of alcohol contained. Further confusion is also possible as alcohol containers may contain information on both the alcohol by volume (ABV) percentage, and the more historical proof measurement of alcohol. keywords: alcohol; beer; cider; health; ireland; irish; supermarkets cache: seejph-5720.pdf plain text: seejph-5720.txt item: #447 of 508 id: seejph-5721 author: O’Rourke Scott, Lisa title: Utilising ‘new’ power strategies for public health education in addiction and dependency: learning from social media influencers date: 2022-07-26 words: 2615 flesch: 57 summary: DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5721 The traditional goal of work in public health is the promotion of population health (1). SO L. Utilising ‘new’ power strategies for public health education in addiction and dependency: learning from social media influencers. keywords: addiction; dependency; example; health; media; new; power; social; use cache: seejph-5721.pdf plain text: seejph-5721.txt item: #448 of 508 id: seejph-5758 author: Aljasmi, Shaima ; Aburayya, Ihssan ; Almarzooqi, Sameeha ; Alawadhi, Maryam ; Aburayya, Ahmad ; A. Salloum, Said ; Adel, Khalid title: The Impact of Hospital Demographic Factors on Total Quality Management Implementation: A Case Study of UAE Hospitals date: 2022-07-25 words: 5476 flesch: 47 summary: The study used a binary logistic regression model to determine if hospital demographics affected TQM implementation. Thus, more research is required on how factors such as size determine TQM implementation in several organisations. keywords: aburayya; case; factors; hospitals; impact; implementation; management; quality; research; studies; study; total; tqm; uae cache: seejph-5758.pdf plain text: seejph-5758.txt item: #449 of 508 id: seejph-5759 author: Alawadhi, Maryam ; Alhumaid, Khadija ; Almarzooqi, Sameeha ; Aljasmi, Shaima ; Aburayya, Ahmad ; Salloum, Said A. ; Almesmari, Waleid title: Factors Affecting Medical Students’ Acceptance of the Metaverse System in Medical Training in the United Arab Emirates date: 2022-07-25 words: 5053 flesch: 50 summary: Multiple research studies have been conducted in universities and other learning institutions to investigate the effectiveness of metaverse as a learning tool. An updated and expanded assessment of PLS-SEM in information systems research. keywords: acceptance; factors; medical; metaverse; peou; research; students; study; system; technology; training; use cache: seejph-5759.pdf plain text: seejph-5759.txt item: #450 of 508 id: seejph-5760 author: Aburayya, Ahmad title: Modern Health Systems Developments In the United Arab Emirates date: 2022-07-25 words: 408 flesch: -14 summary: Assistant Executive Editor Kreshnik Petrela BA Tirana, Albania Email: kreshnikp@gmail.com Technical Editor Meri Roshi BA Tirana, Albania Email: meriroshi90@gmail.com Publisher Dr. Hans Jacobs Jacobs Publishing House Am Prinzengarten 1, D 32756 Detmold, Germany Email: info@jacobs-verlag.de The publication of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) is organised in cooperation with the Bielefeld University Library. In the United Arab Emirates Collection from the Frontline Jacobs Publishing House Executive Editor Prof. Dr. Genc Burazeri PhD Faculty of Medicine, St. Dibres, No. 371, Tirana, Albania, and CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands Email: genc.burazeri@maastrichtuniversity.nl and: gburazeri@gmail.com Skype: genc.burazeri Volume Editor Prof. Dr. Ulrich Laaser DTM&H, MPH Faculty of Health Sciences, Bielefeld University POB 10 01 31, D-Bielefeld, Germany Email: ulrich.laaser@uni-bielefeld.de Guest Editor Ass. keywords: aburayya; email; health cache: seejph-5760.pdf plain text: seejph-5760.txt item: #451 of 508 id: seejph-5761 author: Jerliu, Naim title: Health status of the populations and health sector reforms in Albania and Kosovo date: 2022-07-24 words: 449 flesch: -2 summary: 1 South Eastern European Journal of Public Health Special Volume No. 4, 2022 Health status of the populations and health sector reforms in Albania and Kosovo 2 Executive Editor Prof. Dr. Genc Burazeri PhD Faculty of Medicine, St. Dibres, No. 371, Tirana, Albania, and CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands Email: genc.burazeri@maastrichtuniversity.nl and: gburazeri@gmail.com Skype: genc.burazeri Volume Editor Dr. Naim Jerliu Faculty of Medicine, University of Prishtina and National Insitute of Public Health of Kosovo, Str. Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.ddb.de South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Open Access Journal). keywords: health; jacobs; kosovo cache: seejph-5761.pdf plain text: seejph-5761.txt item: #452 of 508 id: seejph-5766 author: Heinz, Melinda title: The Potential of Men’s Sheds as a Resource for Men Coping with Mental Health Challenges and Addiction date: 2022-07-26 words: 1882 flesch: 57 summary: Men in need experience the benefits of receiving support from other men and feel that their levels of loneliness and depression declined after they joined the Men’s Shed. Men I interviewed spoke about the importance of having a place to gather with other men and the benefit of having a purpose when they got up each day. keywords: addiction; challenges; health; men; sheds; support cache: seejph-5766.pdf plain text: seejph-5766.txt item: #453 of 508 id: seejph-5767 author: Hill, Margo title: Tribal Communities and Opioids date: 2022-07-26 words: 3691 flesch: 54 summary: Another indicator of substance abuse are Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs), such as exposure to alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, emotional neglect, incarceration of a parent, physical or sexual abuse (10). How do we stop opioid abuse in tribal communities? keywords: abuse; american; communities; drug; health; indian; opioid; overdose; pain; review; substance; tribal cache: seejph-5767.pdf plain text: seejph-5767.txt item: #454 of 508 id: seejph-5768 author: Finucane, Aisling ; Moran Stritch, Jennifer title: Connecting the Person by Removing the Stigma: Why Ireland Should Follow the Portuguese Model of Drug Decriminalisation date: 2022-07-26 words: 2143 flesch: 43 summary: It is commonly acknowledged that heavier sanctions have a limited deterrent effect on drug use, while inadvertently harming users more than the substances themselves (9). Furthermore, studies undertaken in Irish jails have revealed a prevalent drug culture that potentially encourages drug use (14,15,16) suggesting that most inmates have serious drug addiction concerns. keywords: addiction; decriminalisation; drug; health; ireland; stigma cache: seejph-5768.pdf plain text: seejph-5768.txt item: #455 of 508 id: seejph-5769 author: Houghton, Frank title: Researching Gambling: Have we learned nothing from Big Tobacco’s overt manipulation of science? date: 2022-08-14 words: 2454 flesch: 49 summary: The smoke you don’t see: uncovering tobacco industry scientific strategies aimed against environmental tobacco smoke policies. A useful primer to understand the machinations of the gambling industry is to examine how Big Tobacco operates. keywords: doi; gambling; health; houghton; industry; irish; manipulation; research; science; tobacco cache: seejph-5769.pdf plain text: seejph-5769.txt item: #456 of 508 id: seejph-5770 author: Houghton, Frank; O’Rourke Scott, Lisa title: Addiction & Dependency date: 2022-07-26 words: 324 flesch: -24 summary: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health Special Volume No. 6, 2022 Addiction & Dependency Contributions to a major health problem Jacobs Publishing House Executive Editor Prof. Dr. Genc Burazeri PhD Faculty of Medicine, St. Dibres, No. 371, Tirana, Albania, and CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands Email: genc.burazeri@maastrichtuniversity.nl and: gburazeri@gmail.com Skype: genc.burazeri Volume Editors Dr. Frank Houghton Email: Frank.Houghton@TUS.ie Section Co-Editor Dr. Lisa O’Rourke Scott Email: Lisa.ORourkeScott@tus.ie Section Co-Editor Assistant Executive Editor Kreshnik Petrela BA Tirana, Albania Email: kreshnikp@gmail.com Technical Editor Meri Roshi BA Tirana, Albania Email: meriroshi90@gmail.com Publisher Dr. Hans Jacobs Jacobs Publishing House Am Prinzengarten 1, D 32756 Detmold, Germany Email: info@jacobs-verlag.de The publication of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) is organised in cooperation with the Bielefeld University Library. Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.ddb.de South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Open Access Journal). keywords: email; health cache: seejph-5770.pdf plain text: seejph-5770.txt item: #457 of 508 id: seejph-5771 author: Karma , Emiljan ; Gashi , Silvana title: Technical efficiency of Kosovo public hospitals date: 2022-07-27 words: 4878 flesch: 54 summary: Hospital efficiency results DMU Efficiency ranking (by model) x1 - CRS x2 - CRS y1 - CRS y2 - CRS Prizren 4 1 1 2 Peje 6 4 5 5 Gjilan 8 7 7 8 Vushtrri 1 1 1 1 Mitrovice 2 6 1 4 Gjakove 6 1 1 7 Ferizaj 3 8 8 6 QKUK 5 5 6 3 The efficiency rate of 8 general hospitals by models Mean 0,70 0,87 Karma E, Gashi S. Technical efficiency of Kosovo public hospitals (Original research). keywords: analysis; crs; dea; efficiency; health; hospitals; input; kosovo; model; number; public; research; technical cache: seejph-5771.pdf plain text: seejph-5771.txt item: #458 of 508 id: seejph-5827 author: Alomari, Khaled Mohammad title: Predicting the intention to use social media among medical students in the United Arab Emirates: A machine learning approach date: 2022-08-20 words: 4626 flesch: 58 summary: Initially, by including Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and external variables, analyze the students' intention to use social media networks. According to the research findings, students' intention to utilize social media networks for learning is significantly predicted by “subjective norms, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use”. keywords: acceptance; arab; emirates; intention; learning; machine; media; model; research; students; united; use cache: seejph-5827.pdf plain text: seejph-5827.txt item: #459 of 508 id: seejph-5828 author: Czabanowska, Katarzyna title: Developing a new generation of public health leaders date: 2022-08-20 words: 909 flesch: 45 summary: The result of such collaborative process facilitated by public health or leadership experts is a collection of Policy Briefs that we present in this Special Issue. Yphantides N, Escoboza S and Macchione N (2015) Leadership in public health: new competencies for the future. keywords: health; policy; public cache: seejph-5828.pdf plain text: seejph-5828.txt item: #460 of 508 id: seejph-5836 author: Serling, Willa ; Lotushko, Volodymyr ; Bocken, Nick ; Gietz, Lisa ; Paric, Martina title: Policy Brief on Revising the TB Action Plan for the WHO European Region 2016-2020: What amendments are needed to reach the UN SDG3 to eliminate TB epidemics by 2030? date: 2022-08-26 words: 5509 flesch: 42 summary: DOI:10.11576/seejph-5836 P a g e 7 | 15 development of TB vaccines an accomplishment towards ending TB epidemics. Promote agenda setting and evaluated commitment at the national level The WHO European Region AP includes helpful guidance for better TB control, e.g., the collaborative monitoring of TB data as well as guidance for screening programs. keywords: action; brief; european; health; plan; policy; region; sdg3; tuberculosis cache: seejph-5836.pdf plain text: seejph-5836.txt item: #461 of 508 id: seejph-5902 author: Alsharafi, Afrah title: An empirical study into factors that influence e-learning adoption by medical students in UAE date: 2022-09-29 words: 4532 flesch: 48 summary: Fortunately, this study identified the factors influencing intention of students studying in higher education institutes towards using e-learning system. This study starts with the literature review of the selected studies related to e-learning systems. keywords: acceptance; adoption; factors; influence; learning; model; research; students; system; technology; use cache: seejph-5902.pdf plain text: seejph-5902.txt item: #462 of 508 id: seejph-5913 author: Mone, Iris ; Kraja, Bledar; Roshi, Enver; Burazeri, Genc title: Overview on health status of the Albanian population date: 2022-10-02 words: 2345 flesch: 30 summary: The net migration rate in Albania is estimated to be between -5% to -10%, which involves a loss of more than 300,000 people only due to emigration in the past two decades (5). DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5913 P a g e 1 | 6 REVIEW ARTICLE Overview on health status of the Albanian population Iris Mone1, Bledar Kraja1, Enver Roshi1, Genc Burazeri1,2 1 Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 2 Department of International Health, School CAPHRI (Care and Public Health Research Institute), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. keywords: albania; deaths; health; mortality; population cache: seejph-5913.pdf plain text: seejph-5913.txt item: #463 of 508 id: seejph-5921 author: Prifti, Enkeleda ; Vrapi, Enxhi ; Dervishi, Marjeta ; Shpuza, Aldo ; Kowalska, Justyna D ; Harxhi, Arjan title: Assessment of mother-to-child HIV prevention program in Albania date: 2022-10-06 words: 5165 flesch: 55 summary: This study aims to assess MCTC among HIV positive pregnant women in Albania. Regardless of advances made in managing HIV positive pregnant women to further reduce MTCT, controversy still exists when it comes to pregnancy related side effect such as preterm birth, low birth weight and small for gestational age. keywords: albania; child; delivery; hiv; mother; pregnancy; pregnant; prevention; program; study; therapy; transmission; women cache: seejph-5921.pdf plain text: seejph-5921.txt item: #464 of 508 id: seejph-5922 author: Kamberi, Haxhi ; Tanushi, Vanesa ; Kadrija, Muhamet ; Kamberi, Safete , ; Jerliu, Naim title: Level of satisfaction and socio-demographic correlates among users of primary health care services in Kosovo date: 2022-10-06 words: 3703 flesch: 54 summary: Table 2 presents the association between summary score of satisfaction level with primary healthcare services and socio- demographic factors of study participants. In brief, upon simultaneous multivariable adjustment for all socio-demographic characteristics, mean summary score of satisfaction level with primary healthcare services was significantly higher among: low-educated individuals compared to highly educated participants (51.9 vs. 56.2, respectively); in low-income participants compared to high-income individuals (49.3 vs. 56.7, respectively); and ethnic Albanian participants compared to other ethnic groups (51.2 vs. 55.7, respectively) keywords: care; health; healthcare; kosovo; level; satisfaction; services; study cache: seejph-5922.pdf plain text: seejph-5922.txt item: #465 of 508 id: seejph-5925 author: Cela, Dritan; Abilaliaj, Valmira ; Shpuza, Aldo title: Nonoperative management for major blunt hepatic trauma in a 3-year-old child date: 2022-10-06 words: 1868 flesch: 53 summary: 10.Norrman G, Tingstedt B, Ekelund M, Andersson R. Non-operative management of blunt liver trauma: feasible and safe also in centres with a low trauma incidence. The choice of trauma management is facilitated when the environment offers clinical monitoring and serial exam capabilities and an operating room available for emergency laparotomy (2,4). keywords: blunt; liver; management; patient; trauma; treatment cache: seejph-5925.pdf plain text: seejph-5925.txt item: #466 of 508 id: seejph-5929 author: Dahu, Butros M. ; Aburayya, Ahmad ; Shameem, Beenish ; Shwedeh, Fanar; Alawadhi, Maryam; Aljasmi , Shaima ; Salloum, Said A. ; Aburayya, Hamza ; Aburayya, Ihssan title: The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Quality: A Systematic Review Study date: 2022-10-09 words: 7646 flesch: 53 summary: In addition, 5 papers focused on the association between the environmental factors, air pollution and air quality and COVID-19 mortality rate. Finally, 1 research study paper aimed to study the COVID-19 positivity rate and the effect of air quality during the stay-at-home order or the lockdown which was occurred in March 2020. keywords: aburayya; air; air quality; article; covid-19; impact; increase; lockdown; mortality; no2; pm2.5; pollution; rate; review; states; study; united cache: seejph-5929.pdf plain text: seejph-5929.txt item: #467 of 508 id: seejph-5930 author: Tomini, Eugena ; Simaku, Artan ; Kureta, Elona ; Vasili, Adela; Bino, Silva title: Syndromic surveillance in early detection of outbreaks of infectious diseases date: 2022-10-10 words: 3002 flesch: 48 summary: Laboratory reporting and disease surveillance. Challenges for communicable disease surveillance http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/report/index.htm http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/report/index.htm Tomini E Simaku A, Kureta E, Vasili A, Bino S. Syndromic surveillance in early detection of outbreaks of infectious diseases (Review article). keywords: albania; article; detection; diseases; health; information; outbreaks; public; surveillance; system; tomini cache: seejph-5930.pdf plain text: seejph-5930.txt item: #468 of 508 id: seejph-5931 author: Bop, Martial Coly ; Diop, Cheikh Tacko ; Diarra, Bou ; Gueye, Boubacar ; Ka, Ousseynou title: Determinants of low birth weight in the health district of Bounkiling in Senegal date: 2022-10-10 words: 4310 flesch: 64 summary: Bop MC, Diop CT, Diarra B, Gueye B, Ka O. Determinants of low birth weight in the health district of Bounkiling in Senegal (Original research). DOI: 10.11576/seejph-5931 P a g e 1 | 9 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Determinants of low birth weight in the health district of Bounkiling in Senegal Martial Coly Bop1, Cheikh Tacko Diop1, Bou Diarra2, Boubacar Gueye1, Ousseynou Ka1 1 keywords: birth; birth weight; bounkiling; determinants; district; health; newborns; senegal; weight; women cache: seejph-5931.pdf plain text: seejph-5931.txt item: #469 of 508 id: seejph-5976 author: Dobe, Madhumita; Sahu, Monalisha; Taklikar, Chandrashekhar; Dutta, Shibani title: A study on risk perception, cognitive awareness and emotional responses to identify unmet training needs of frontline health care workers for COVID-19 containment in India date: 2022-10-29 words: 3678 flesch: 46 summary: Dobe M, Sahu M, Taklikar C, Dutta S. A Study on risk perception, cognitive awareness and emotional responses to identify unmet training needs of frontline Health Care Workers (FLHCWs) for COVID-19 containment In India (Original research). mailto:drvikaspsm@gmail.com Dobe M, Sahu M, Taklikar C, Dutta S. A Study on risk perception, cognitive awareness and emotional responses to identify unmet training needs of frontline Health Care Workers (FLHCWs) for COVID-19 containment In India (Original research). keywords: covid-19; flhcws; health; ncov-19; perception; risk; study cache: seejph-5976.pdf plain text: seejph-5976.txt item: #470 of 508 id: seejph-60 author: Burazer, Genc; Laaser, Ulrich; Martin-Moreno, Jose; Schröder-Bäck, Peter title: Complete Issue date: 2023-01-24 words: 38121 flesch: 48 summary: We have obviously travelled a very long way indeed from the arguments about whether the EU had a significant role in public health policy, let alone that it could have anything to do with the functioning of national health systems. The method used ambient air quality data [information received from the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning (MoEPP)] for PM10 and PM2.5, health statistics – annual deaths by disease type; frequency of chronic bronchitis, asthma, infant mortality; and health cost data (information received from the Institute of Public Health and Health Insurance Fund), exposure-response functions from health studies (information from international and local literature) and population characteristics – age groups, gender, urban/rural population (information from the state Statistics Bureau). keywords: age; air; albania; analysis; article; association; belgrade; birth; bmi; bone; bulgaria; centrality; children; cost; countries; data; density; development; doi; effects; european; factors; health; health care; health impacts; health insurance; health policy; health status; healthcare; information; kosovo; kovačic; level; lifestyle; low; maternal; medical; mineral; mortality; mothers; national; national health; network; new; osteoporosis; players; pleven; pm10; policies; policy; population; pregnancy; public; public health; reaction; research; results; risk; seejph; seejph-2014; self; serbia; smoking; social; socioeconomic; study; system; table; transition; weight; women; years cache: seejph-60.pdf plain text: seejph-60.txt item: #471 of 508 id: seejph-6026 author: Kamberi, Haxhi; Tanushi, Vanesa; Kadrija, Muhamet title: Level of satisfaction among primary health care workers in Kosovo date: 2022-11-07 words: 4580 flesch: 49 summary: Conclusion: The evidence from this study conducted in Kosovo indicates no significant relationships of the level of satisfaction with demographic factors of primary healthcare workers, but a strong association with their working experience. Of note, assessment of satisfaction level of primary healthcare workers constitutes an important component of the overall assessment of health care services regarding quality and health care system responsiveness (5,6). keywords: characteristics; factors; healthcare; kosovo; level; primary; satisfaction; study; workers; years cache: seejph-6026.pdf plain text: seejph-6026.txt item: #472 of 508 id: seejph-6076 author: Laaser, Ulrich; Stroud, Cheryl; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Wenzel, Helmut; Seifman, Richard; Craig, Carter; Kaplan, Bruce; Kahn, Laura; Roopnarine, Rohini title: EXCHANGE AND COORDINATION: CHALLENGES OF THE GLOBAL ONE HEALTH MOVEMENT date: 2022-11-22 words: 11134 flesch: 36 summary: Keywords: One Health movement; trajectories, globalization; global health; organizational deficits; interaction; global One Health alliance. Health and well-being are both preconditions and outcomes of sustainable development. keywords: bjegovic; challenges; coordination; craig; doi; exchange; health; kahn; kaplan; laaser; mikanovic; movement; november; organizations; research; roopnarine; seifman; stroud; wenzel cache: seejph-6076.pdf plain text: seejph-6076.txt item: #473 of 508 id: seejph-6078 author: Kollçaku, Laurant title: Epidemiological features of New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in children and adolescent during 2010-2014 in Albania - a unique experience. date: 2022-11-24 words: 11267 flesch: 63 summary: It must be said that Kussmaul respiratory distress, polypnea/tachypnea, dyspnea, confusion and cerebral edema/coma appear to be significant predictive factors of the presence of DKA in diabetic children, but the absence of these signs in children without KAD made binary logistic regression analysis impossible. It can be seen from the Figure 7 that the progress of HbA1c over time is more favorable for diabetic children without KAD compared to diabetic children with KAD, since in diabetic children without KAD the average level of HbA1c is constantly lower than in children with KAD, while in children with KAD the average level of this parameter remains more or less constant but at quite high levels (between 8- 9%). keywords: age; albania; children; diabetes; diabetes mellitus; diagnosis; dka; dmt1; doi; epidemiological; family; features; history; incidence; mellitus; new; onset; study; type; years cache: seejph-6078.pdf plain text: seejph-6078.txt item: #474 of 508 id: seejph-61 author: Bozikov, Jadranka title: E-health and m-health: Great potentials for health and wellbeing, but also for harmonization and European integration in health date: 2023-01-24 words: 3016 flesch: 44 summary: The Green paper on mobile health covered broad scope of m-health potential for both, healthcare and market. The Commission launched a public consultation on the Green Paper on mobile health (11) on 10th of April 2014. keywords: digital; european; health; mobile; october; wellbeing cache: seejph-61.pdf plain text: seejph-61.txt item: #475 of 508 id: seejph-6119 author: Eliakimu, Eliudi Saria; Mans, Linda title: Taking up from COP26 going forward: contribution of the Book “Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future by George R. Lueddeke” date: 2022-12-16 words: 4963 flesch: 39 summary: Am J Public Health 2022; 112:850-2. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306846. _____________________________________________________________________ European Journal of Public Health 2021; Volume 31, Issue Supplement_3, ckab166.004. 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Taking up from COP26 going forward: contribution of the Book “Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future by George R. Lueddeke” (Commentary) SEEJPH 2022, posted: 16 December 2022. keywords: book; change; climate; cop26; covid-19; doi; future; george; global; health; lueddeke; need; planet; public; survival cache: seejph-6119.pdf plain text: seejph-6119.txt item: #476 of 508 id: seejph-62 author: Wenzel, Helmut; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna; Laaser, Ulrich title: Piloting an advanced methodology to analyse health care policy networks: The example of Belgrade, Serbia date: 2023-01-24 words: 6439 flesch: 55 summary: DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-52 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Piloting an advanced methodology to analyse health care policy networks: Keywords: Belgrade‟s health care policy network, policy analysis, Serbia, social network analysis, sources of power. keywords: analyse; analysis; belgrade; care; centrality; health; health care; july; national; network; players; policy; research; serbia cache: seejph-62.pdf plain text: seejph-62.txt item: #477 of 508 id: seejph-63 author: Meisner, Craig; Gjorgjev, Dragan; Tozija, Fimka title: Estimating health impacts and economic costs of air pollution in the Republic of Macedonia date: 2023-01-24 words: 3504 flesch: 49 summary: Estimated health impacts of air pollution, urban and rural, 2010 (Source: World Bank, 2012) Health impacts DALYs /10,000 cases CP mortality (PM2.5) 80,000 LC mortality (PM2.5) 80,000 ALRI mortality (PM10) 340,000 Chronic bronchitis (PM10) 22,000 Hospital admissions (PM10) 160 Emergency room visits (PM10) 45 Restricted activity days (PM10) 3 Lower respiratory illness in children (PM10) 65 Respiratory symptoms (PM10) 0.75 Total Monetizing health impacts To create a set of bounds three alternative valuation approaches were used: the (adjusted) Human Capital Approach (HCA) [the adjusted version avoids the issue of assigning a value of zero to the lives of the retired and the disabled since the traditional approach is based on foregone earnings. A reduction of even 1μg/m 3 in ambient PM10 or PM2.5 would imply 195 fewer deaths and represent an economic savings of €34 million per year in reduced health costs. keywords: air; costs; health; impacts; macedonia; mortality; pm10; pm2.5; pollution cache: seejph-63.pdf plain text: seejph-63.txt item: #478 of 508 id: seejph-64 author: Jovic-Vranes, Aleksandra; Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna title: Health and health status of children in Serbia and the desired Millennium Development Goals date: 2023-01-24 words: 3498 flesch: 50 summary: More preventive approaches and consistent efforts for improvement are needed in Serbia, to ensure that child health receives the attention and resources needed and secure the benefits that children and families require. Progress in the reduction of child mortality is one of the leading public health challenges in all countries (1). keywords: children; health; millennium; mortality; roma; serbia; status cache: seejph-64.pdf plain text: seejph-64.txt item: #479 of 508 id: seejph-65 author: Hristova, Petkana Angelova; Georgieva, Stela Ludmilova; Khan, Azhar; Kamburova , Mariela Stefanova title: Adverse effects of maternal age, weight and smoking during pregnancy in Pleven, Bulgaria date: 2023-01-24 words: 4798 flesch: 60 summary: Campbell MK, Cartier S, Xie B, Kouniakis G, Huang W, Han V. Determinants of small for gestational age birth at term. Maternal characteristics correlated with normal birth-weight and low birth-weight (g) Characteristics Linear regression Logistic regression All (n=250) Low birth weight (N=58) Normal birth weight (N=192) Low birth weight P Mean±SE P Mean±SE P Mean±SE P OR (95%CI) keywords: age; birth; bmi; bulgaria; maternal; mothers; pleven; pregnancy; risk; smoking; study; weight cache: seejph-65.pdf plain text: seejph-65.txt item: #480 of 508 id: seejph-66 author: Kollcaku, Artur; Kollcaku, Julia; Dura, Valbona; Backa, Teuta; Tafaj, Argjend title: Lifestyle correlates of low bone mineral density in Albanian women date: 2023-01-24 words: 3827 flesch: 42 summary: Relative income and acute coronary syndrome: A population-based case-control study in Tirana, Albania Kollcaku A, Kollcaku J, Duraj V, Backa T, Tafaj A. Lifestyle correlates of low bone mineral density in Albanian women (Original research). DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-46 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Lifestyle correlates of low bone mineral density in Albanian women Artur Kollcaku1, Julia Kollcaku², Valbona Duraj1, Teuta Backa1, Argjend Tafaj1 1 Rheumatology Service, University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania; ² Ambulatory Health Service, Polyclinic, Tirana, Albania. keywords: bone; bone mineral; density; lifestyle; mineral; mineral density; osteoporosis; study; women cache: seejph-66.pdf plain text: seejph-66.txt item: #481 of 508 id: seejph-67 author: Vekov, Toni Yonkov; Aleksandrova-Yankulovska, Silviya title: Public expenditure and drug policies in Bulgaria in 2014 date: 2023-01-24 words: 3045 flesch: 37 summary: DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-48 2 Abstract Aim: The objective of this study was to provide an analysis of the factors which have a significant impact on the growth of public expenditure on medical products in Bulgaria. Results: The results from the current analysis indicate that the growth of public expenditure is directly proportional to the number of reimbursed medical products and that the pattern of prescriptions including the innovative medical products mainly for the treatment of oncological and rare diseases has a significant impact on it. keywords: bulgaria; cost; drug; expenditure; expenses; health; healthcare; policies; products; public cache: seejph-67.pdf plain text: seejph-67.txt item: #482 of 508 id: seejph-68 author: Qazimi, Musa; Cakerri, Luljeta; Tahiri, Zejdush; Burazeri, Genc title: Reaction to political and socioeconomic transition and self-perceived health status in the adult population of Gjilan region, Kosovo date: 2023-01-24 words: 4558 flesch: 33 summary: Qazimi M, Cakerri L, Tahiri Z, Burazeri G. Reaction to political and socioeconomic transition and self- perceived health status in the adult population of Gjilan region, Kosovo (Original research). “Avdulla Tahiri”, p.n. 60000, Gjilan, Kosovo Telephone: +381280323066; E-mail: micro_dental@hotmail.com Qazimi M, Cakerri L, Tahiri Z, Burazeri G. Reaction to political and socioeconomic transition and self- perceived health status in the adult population of Gjilan region, Kosovo (Original research). keywords: health; kosovo; population; reaction; self; status; study; transition cache: seejph-68.pdf plain text: seejph-68.txt item: #483 of 508 id: seejph-69 author: Merkel, Bernard title: A growing competence: The unfinished story of the European Union health policy date: 2023-01-24 words: 2729 flesch: 59 summary: In this review, I will entirely leave aside his general discussion of the overall evolution of the EU and its future prospects, and instead concentrate on a few specific points about the development of EU health policy to date. We have obviously travelled a very long way indeed from the arguments about whether the EU had a significant role in public health policy, let alone that it could have anything to do with the functioning of national health systems. keywords: article; health; public; treaty cache: seejph-69.pdf plain text: seejph-69.txt item: #484 of 508 id: seejph-70 author: Bozikov, Jadranka title: Obituary Professor Luka Kovacic, MD, PhD date: 2023-01-24 words: 2508 flesch: 65 summary: Poštovana obitelj Deželić, poštovana obitelj Kušan, poštovani kolege i prijatelji The Editors of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health express their deepest sorrow about the death of one of our most prominent members of the Editorial Board, Professor Luka Kovačić, founder of the Stability Pact’s Forum for Public Health in South Eastern Europe (FPH-SEE) in 2000/2001 and strong supporter of the creation of this journal. He graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb in 1965, and after a few years of medical practice he joined the Andrija Štampar School of Public Health which is a part of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. keywords: care; croatia; european; health; kovačić; luka; medicine; professor; public; school cache: seejph-70.pdf plain text: seejph-70.txt item: #485 of 508 id: seejph-73 author: Burazeri, Genc; Laaser, Ulrich; M. Martin-Moreno, Jose; Schröder-Bäck, Peter title: Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health date: 2023-01-24 words: 933 flesch: 61 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-89 1 EDITORIAL Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health Genc Burazeri 1,2 , Ulrich Laaser 3 , Jose M. Martin-Moreno 4,5 , Peter Schröder-Bäck 2,6 1 School of Public Health, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 2 Department of International Health, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 3 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; 4 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Valencia, Spain; 5 INCLIVA Research Institute, University of Valencia Clinical Hospital, Valencia, Spain; 6 Faculty of Human and Health Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Burazeri G, Laaser U, Martin-Moreno JM, Schröder-Bäck P. Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Editorial). keywords: health; public; seejph; south cache: seejph-73.pdf plain text: seejph-73.txt item: #486 of 508 id: seejph-74 author: B. Jakovljevic, Mihajlo; Souliotis, Kyriakos title: Pharmaceutical expenditure changes in Serbia and Greece during the global economic recession date: 2023-01-24 words: 5659 flesch: 46 summary: DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH- 2016-101 2 Abstract Aim: Clarity on health expenditures is essential for the timely identification of risks that jeopardize the democratic provision of health services and the credibility of health insurance systems. While health expenditure per capita (PPP$) in Serbia still succeeded to grow for 19.4%, the Greek one felt almost 14% during these six years. keywords: changes; economic; expenditure; gdp; greece; health; jakovljevic; pharmaceutical; public; recession; research; serbia; souliotis cache: seejph-74.pdf plain text: seejph-74.txt item: #487 of 508 id: seejph-75 author: Thomas-Reilly, R. Gregory; Tozija, Fimka; Soltan, Viorel; G. Nikovska, Dance; Crudu, Valeriu; Atun, Rifat; McKee, Martin title: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Moldova and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: The importance of health system governance date: 2023-01-24 words: 4428 flesch: 48 summary: This study examines the role of health systems in amplifying or preventing the development of MDR-TB. Methods: We present two comparative studies, which were undertaken in The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (TFYR Macedonia) and Moldova. Keywords: drug-resistance, Europe, health systems, MDR-TB, Moldova, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, tuberculosis. keywords: care; governance; health; informants; macedonia; mckee; moldova; republic; research; systems; tuberculosis cache: seejph-75.pdf plain text: seejph-75.txt item: #488 of 508 id: seejph-76 author: Nubani-Husseini, Maha; Berry, Elliot; Abdeen, Ziad; Donchin, Milka title: Dietary patterns and physical activity among Palestinian female schoolchildren in East Jerusalem date: 2023-01-24 words: 5749 flesch: 57 summary: The purpose of this paper is to describe nutritional and physical activity habits and their socio-demographic determinants among Palestinian girls in East Jerusalem schools of different types of ownerships. Methods: A cross-sectional study of grade 4 and 5 pupils (mean age: 11 years) in 14 all-girl schools in East Jerusalem, of four different types of school ownership (overall N=897), was conducted, using self-administered questionnaires and height and weight measurements. keywords: activity; breakfast; east; eating; health; jerusalem; obesity; overweight; palestinian; schoolchildren; schools; study cache: seejph-76.pdf plain text: seejph-76.txt item: #489 of 508 id: seejph-77 author: Laci, Ilirian; Spahiu, Alketa title: Concurrent validity of radiography and ultrasound examination for the diagnosis of aortic aneurisms in Albanian patients date: 2023-01-24 words: 3147 flesch: 41 summary: It should be noted that radiography played a major role in thoracic aortic aneurisms, but less so for abdominal aortic aneurisms, except for old abdominal aneurisms with wall calcifications which enabled a prompt diagnosis upon radiography. In particular, radiography played a major role for detection of thoracic aortic aneurisms, whereas in cases of abdominal aortic aneurisms it was less effective (valid). keywords: aneurisms; aortic; diagnosis; examination; patients; radiography; ultrasound cache: seejph-77.pdf plain text: seejph-77.txt item: #490 of 508 id: seejph-78 author: Wenzel, Helmut; Unger, Edgar title: Influence of a six-month strengthening programme on HbA1c, cholesterol and triglycerides in type II diabetics: A pilot study date: 2023-01-24 words: 5578 flesch: 59 summary: Resistance exercise training lowers HbA1c more than aerobic training in adults with type 2 diabetes. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-96 2 Abstract Aim: To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of resistance training on glycaemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes, the additional risk factors including low physical activity, measured by HbA1c, body weight, cholesterol and triglycerides. keywords: cholesterol; diabetes; hba1c; march; physical; pilot; research; resistance; risk; study; training; triglycerides; type cache: seejph-78.pdf plain text: seejph-78.txt item: #491 of 508 id: seejph-79 author: Laaser, Ulrich; Schröder-Bäc, Peter title: Towards a Code of Conduct for the European Public Health Profession! date: 2023-01-24 words: 2161 flesch: 51 summary: Even though the values we mentioned and affirmed above are somewhat reflected in the Code of the Leadership Society, values that seem particularly important for a European perspective on public health – namely solidarity and equity – are not explicitly mentioned. If we assume – what we do – that a Code of Conduct is important to function as an explicit normative compass for public health and to help building the public health profession for Europe, then such a Code of Conduct should be formulated and it will help to further professionalization of public health. Professionalization of public health is important to advance public health education, training, and practice. keywords: code; ethics; european; health; laaser; profession; public cache: seejph-79.pdf plain text: seejph-79.txt item: #492 of 508 id: seejph-80 author: Wiskow, Christiane; Ruseva, Maria; Laaser, Ulrich title: Ten years onwards: Comparison of the South Eastern European regional public health strategy 2004 and the South Eastern European 2020 strategy date: 2023-01-24 words: 9644 flesch: 45 summary: Public Health Strategies: A Tool for Regional Development, page 629] SEE regional public health strategy framework, 2005-2010 Goals and objectives Goal 1 Improving equity in health 1.1: Targeting vulnerable groups 1.2: Ensuring adequate and safe living conditions Goal 2 Strengthening social participation 2.1: Mapping social participation opportunities and initiatives 2.2: Awareness rising and empowerment of the public 2.3: Developing mechanisms to involve civil society in decision making processes Goal 3 Strengthening human resources in public health 3.1: Ensuring sustainable development of human resources 3.2: Keywords: public health strategy, regional collaboration, socioeconomic development. keywords: collaboration; countries; development; eastern; european; framework; health; health strategy; policies; public; regional; social; south; strategy; systems; years cache: seejph-80.pdf plain text: seejph-80.txt item: #493 of 508 id: seejph-81 author: Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna title: Governance and management of health care institutions in Serbia: An overview of recent developments date: 2023-01-24 words: 10738 flesch: 41 summary: Continuing education on health care management is being offered in Serbia at an increasing scale, in response to the health care system’s well-known deficits. Recently, at the Belgrade School of Medicine, a postgraduate Master’s program in health care management was established. keywords: article; bjegovic; board; care institutions; development; february; governance; health; health care; institutions; level; management; managers; mikanovic; organization; overview; serbia; services; system cache: seejph-81.pdf plain text: seejph-81.txt item: #494 of 508 id: seejph-83 author: Levett, Jeffrey title: First half century of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region date: 2023-01-24 words: 1390 flesch: 57 summary: No better gift can come from the political world than greater recognition of Schools and Institutions of Public Health in tandem with the ascendancy of public health up the political agenda. The celebration is hosted by the Hellenic School, an institution finally launched in 1929, following heroic efforts of Greek pioneers in malaria and after a bizarre pandemic of dengue fever and a little known, unique and short-lived revolution in public health, which hiccoughed its way into history (2-5). keywords: aspher; european; health; levett; schools cache: seejph-83.pdf plain text: seejph-83.txt item: #495 of 508 id: seejph-84 author: Bozikov, Jadranka title: Half century of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region: A significant contribution to public health education date: 2023-01-24 words: 2875 flesch: 54 summary: Participants of the first ASPHER General Assembly, convened from October 7-12, 1968, in front of the Andrija Stampar School of Public Health in Zagreb, Croatia The School of Public Health in Zagreb was established in 1927 by funds of the Rockefeller Foundation and the efforts of Dr. Andrija Stampar as one of the oldest Schools of Public Health in Europe. Corresponding author: Jadranka Bozikov, PhD Address: Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Rockefeller St. 4, Zagreb, Croatia; Telephone: +38514590101; E-mail: jbozikov@snz.hr Conflicts of interest: The author is the Director of the Andrija Stampar School of Public Health in Zagreb, Croatia, which is one of the founding members of ASPHER. keywords: andrija; aspher; association; health; public; schools; stampar cache: seejph-84.pdf plain text: seejph-84.txt item: #496 of 508 id: seejph-85 author: Mitevska, Lolita; Stanculescu, Manuela Sofia; Stikova, Elisaveta title: Performance of the public health care sector in the Republic of Macedonia date: 2023-01-24 words: 5415 flesch: 49 summary: Assessment of the performance of public health care system in the Republic of Macedonia ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PERFORMANCE CATEGORY NUMBER PERCENT SCORE (1-5) Availability of health care services Very poor 0 Poor 11 8.8 Medium 43 34.4 Good 48 38.4 Very good 23 18.4 Average Score 3.7 Quality of health-care services Very poor 1 0.8 Poor 11 8.8 Medium 52 41.6 The assessment of the expected and actual performances of public health care system was based on the data collected from 175 interviewed respondents: 125 knowledgeable observers (family physicians and medical specialists in hospitals or emergency centers), and 50 individual witnesses (patients or their family members who were diagnosed during the period between the 1 st of January 2010 to the 31 st of December 2011). keywords: care; health; health care; macedonia; performance; public; republic; services; system cache: seejph-85.pdf plain text: seejph-85.txt item: #497 of 508 id: seejph-86 author: Gjorgji, Petrit; Kruja, Jera title: Trends and demographic characteristics of hemorrhagic stroke in Albania during the period 2004-2015 date: 2023-01-24 words: 2774 flesch: 52 summary: Overall, there was evidence of a significant linear trend over time (Mann-Kendall test: P<0.01), indicating a gradual increase in the number of hemorrhagic stroke cases in Albania for the period 2004-2015. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJP-2016-123 4 Mann-Kendall test was used to assess the linear trend in the distribution of the number of hemorrhagic stroke cases in Albania for the period 2004-2015. keywords: albania; cases; period; stroke; years cache: seejph-86.pdf plain text: seejph-86.txt item: #498 of 508 id: seejph-87 author: Selli, Kristina; Czabanowska, Kasia; Danusevičienė, Lina; Butkevičienė, Rūta; Jurkuvienė, Ramunė; Overall, Judy title: Discrimination of elderly patients in the health care system of Lithuania date: 2023-01-24 words: 9353 flesch: 54 summary: One of the reasons for the incomplete implementation of human rights in elderly patient care is likely the non-binding character of many conventions and charters instead of binding legislation. Nevertheless even our small study reveals serious violations of elderly patients‟ rights and should arose the attention of politicians, stakeholders and professionals and help to initiate further studies to analyse the quantity and quality of human rights neglect in elderly patient care. keywords: age; care; court; discrimination; elderly; health; health care; human; lack; lithuania; november; patients; research; rights; system cache: seejph-87.pdf plain text: seejph-87.txt item: #499 of 508 id: seejph-88 author: Kollcaku, Julia; Kollcaku, Artur title: Correlates of rheumatoid arthritis among women in Albania date: 2023-01-24 words: 3300 flesch: 44 summary: Kollcaku J, Kollcaku A. Correlates of rheumatoid arthritis among women in Albania (Original research). DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-127 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Correlates of rheumatoid arthritis among women in Albania Julia Kollcaku1, Artur Kollcaku2 1 Ambulatory Health Service, Polyclinic No. 3, Tirana, Albania; 2 Rheumatology Service, University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania. keywords: albania; arthritis; factors; kollcaku; rheumatoid; study; women; years cache: seejph-88.pdf plain text: seejph-88.txt item: #500 of 508 id: seejph-89 author: Modisenyane, Moeketsi; Senkubuge, Flavia; Hendricks, Stephen JH title: Global health in foreign policy in South Africa – Evidence from state actors date: 2023-01-24 words: 6977 flesch: 54 summary: Keywords: diplomacy, foreign policy, global health, global health diplomacy, South Africa. Global health in foreign policy in South Africa – Evidence from state actors (Original research). keywords: actors; africa; diplomacy; doi; global; health; policy; research; respondents; south; south africa; state; study cache: seejph-89.pdf plain text: seejph-89.txt item: #501 of 508 id: seejph-91 author: Arenas-Monreal, Luz; Pacheco-Magana, Lilian E; Rueda-Neria, Celina; Carrillo-Estrada, Josue; Marquez-Serrano, Margarita; Magana-Valladares, Laura; Rivera-Pasquel, Marta title: An educational initiative for Mexican school-aged children to promote the consumption of fruit, vegetables and physical activity date: 2023-01-24 words: 5786 flesch: 58 summary: Effectiveness of a diet and physical activity promotion strategy on the prevention of obesity in Mexican school children. Conclusion: In addition to educational activities, schools need to implement strategies to improve the access and availability of fresh foods while limiting the access of high energy- density foods. keywords: activity; arenas; changes; children; community; consumption; food; fruit; health; initiative; magana; research; rivera; school; study; vegetables cache: seejph-91.pdf plain text: seejph-91.txt item: #502 of 508 id: seejph-92 author: Bozikov, Jadranka title: European and North American Schools of Public Health – Establishment, growth, differences and similarities date: 2023-01-24 words: 4872 flesch: 45 summary: As opposed to that, the North American model of Public Health education is unique due to the fact that American SPHs operate independently from the healthcare system. It seemed that the European scene of Public Health education had been changing but CEE countries showed to be polarized: in some countries US-type SPHs had been established, whereas in the others even the new initiatives were based at the training under the umbrella of MoHs, likely due to historical reasons as it was stated in the conclusion (9). keywords: american; aspher; education; european; health; institutions; medical; north; programmes; public; schools; sphs cache: seejph-92.pdf plain text: seejph-92.txt item: #503 of 508 id: seejph-93 author: Laaser, Ulrich; Lueddeke, Dr George; Nurse, Dr Joanna title: Launch of the ‘One Health Global Think-Tank for Sustainable Health & Well-being’ – 2030 (GHW-2030) date: 2023-01-24 words: 8973 flesch: 36 summary: Barbara RIMER Dean, University of North Carolina (UNC) GillingsSchool of Global Public Health. The South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) published several papers (Volumes 2,3,5) on the UN Global Goals (2, 3, 4). keywords: april; commonwealth; development; doi; education; ghw-2030; global; health; laaser; lueddeke; nurse; policy; public; report; secretariat; seejph; social; tank; think; think tank; unibi; university cache: seejph-93.pdf plain text: seejph-93.txt item: #504 of 508 id: seejph-95 author: Laaser, Ulrich title: Complete Issue date: 2023-01-24 words: 41491 flesch: 48 summary: In a response to solve this, researchers are constantly evaluating and checking their research work against ethical aspects of public health; assessing whether the recommendations that are or can be derived from their work can be ethically justified. Even though there has been a growing interest on how ethics applies to public health, it has not yet gained a prominent position in all public health research. keywords: achievement; adulthood; albania; article; characteristics; criteria; december; development; differences; disaster; disaster nursing; disaster preparedness; doi:10.4119; education; emergency; environmental; ethics; ethnic; european; experience; factors; health; health care; health ethics; health programme; health protection; health services; health values; high; knowledge; life; medical; national; need; non; nurses; nursing; order; patients; php; population; preparedness; principles; project; public; public health; quality health; research; response; review; role; roma; satisfaction; seejph; seejph-2017; smoking; strategies; study; table; time; trajectories; ukraine; unibi; university; women; work cache: seejph-95.pdf plain text: seejph-95.txt item: #505 of 508 id: seejph-96 author: Kalaitzi, Valia title: The mark of women’s leadership on solutions to global health problems date: 2023-01-24 words: 1120 flesch: 50 summary: Global health leadership falls behind in providing the opportunities and motivation to female leaders to unfold their talents and give their touch to new health challenges. That balance can be changed to benefit global health. keywords: global; health; leadership; women cache: seejph-96.pdf plain text: seejph-96.txt item: #506 of 508 id: seejph-97 author: Duval, Laetitia; Wolff, François-Charles; McKee, Martin; Roberts, Bayard title: Ethnic differences in smoking behaviour: The situation of Roma in Eastern Europe date: 2023-01-24 words: 6614 flesch: 61 summary: Previous research on Roma health tends to be restricted to a small number of countries, mainly Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (15,16,23,26), and which often use small sample sizes which make comparisons between Roma and non-Roma groups of population difficult. Our findings show that Roma respondents are more likely to smoke and are heavier smokers on average compared to non-Roma (with substantial heterogeneity in the gap between the Duval L, Wolff FC, McKee M, Roberts B. Ethnic differences in smoking behaviour: The situation of Roma in Eastern Europe (Original research). keywords: behaviour; cigarette; consumption; differences; discrimination; ethnic; europe; health; mckee; public; research; roma; smokers; smoking cache: seejph-97.pdf plain text: seejph-97.txt item: #507 of 508 id: seejph-98 author: Otenyo, Nelly K. title: The relevance of ethics in the European Union’s second public health programme date: 2023-01-24 words: 7872 flesch: 47 summary: Methodological and theoretical limitations including other potential challenges The results from this study will indicate whether ethical concepts and public health ethics are already a constituent part of public health projects particularly with regard to the Second EU Public Health Programme. Therefore, future public health programmes could use this as an opportunity to emphasis on the inclusion and application of ethical principles in public health projects. keywords: care; ethics; health; health care; php; principles; programme; project; public; quality; values cache: seejph-98.pdf plain text: seejph-98.txt item: #508 of 508 id: seejph-99 author: Piumatti, Giovanni title: Trajectories of life satisfaction during one-year period among university students: Relations with measures of achievement strategies and perception of criteria for adulthood date: 2023-01-24 words: 5112 flesch: 49 summary: Life satisfaction trajectories (mean values in a scale 1-7) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 T1 life satisfaction T2 life satisfaction T3 life satisfaction High stable (n = 52; 37%) Moderate decreasing (n = 82; 57%) Low stable (n = 9; 6%) Piumatti G. Trajectories of life satisfaction during one-year period among university students: Relations with measures of achievement strategies and perception of criteria for adulthood (Original research). First, starting from the non-significant findings, it appeared that the perception of the most important criteria for adulthood (i.e., family capacities, interdependence, norm compliance) are not correlated to life satisfaction trajectories, either low or high. keywords: achievement; adulthood; criteria; life; satisfaction; strategies; students; time; trajectories; university cache: seejph-99.pdf plain text: seejph-99.txt