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Community health workers and health equity in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and recommendations for policy and practice (2022)
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Background: The deployment of Community Health Workers (CHWs) is widely promoted as a strategy for reducing health inequities in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Yet there is limited evidence on whether and how CHW programmes achieve this. Th... Read More about Community health workers and health equity in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and recommendations for policy and practice.

Camera traps and guard observations as an alternative to researcher observation for studying anthropogenic foraging (2022)
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Foraging by wildlife on anthropogenic foods can have negative impacts on both hu-mans and wildlife. Addressing this issue requires reliable data on the patterns of an-thropogenic foraging by wild animals, but while direct observation by researchers c... Read More about Camera traps and guard observations as an alternative to researcher observation for studying anthropogenic foraging.

‘Medicine in Name Only’: Mistrust and COVID-19 Among the Crowded Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh (2022)
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This article is an anthropological examination of the health-seeking behaviours of Rohingya refugees living in crowded camps in Bangladesh, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. One international organisation providing medical care in the Kutupalo... Read More about ‘Medicine in Name Only’: Mistrust and COVID-19 Among the Crowded Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh.

Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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The COVID-19 pandemic and ‘lockdown’ restrictions have affected people's health and wellbeing globally. Those who are clinically vulnerable to COVID-19 mortality due to living with long term conditions (LTCs) are at greater risk of negative impacts o... Read More about Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Implementing FCTC Article 17 through Participatory Research with Bidi Workers in Tamil Nadu, India (2022)
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Introduction: The exploitation, poor conditions and precarity in the bidi (hand-rolled leaf cigarette) industry in India makes it ripe for the application of the FCTC’s Article 17, ‘Provision of support for economically viable alternative activities’... Read More about Implementing FCTC Article 17 through Participatory Research with Bidi Workers in Tamil Nadu, India.

Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from a UK case study (2022)
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Accurate and precise density estimates are crucial for effective species management and conservation. However, efficient monitoring of mammal densities over large spatial and temporal scales is challenging. In the United Kingdom, published density es... Read More about Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from a UK case study.

Squatting, Pelvic Morphology, and a Reconsideration of Childbirth Difficulties (2022)
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Childbirth is commonly viewed as difficult in human females, encompassed by the “Obstetrical Dilemma” (OD) described by early palaeoanthropologists as an evolved trade-off between a narrow pelvis necessitated by bipedalism and a large-brained fetal h... Read More about Squatting, Pelvic Morphology, and a Reconsideration of Childbirth Difficulties.

Testing the Short-Term Effectiveness of Various Deterrents for Reducing Crop Foraging by Primates (2022)
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Crop foraging by wildlife is a major driver of negative interactions between farmers and wildlife, and yet there are few published examples of effective solutions to deter wildlife from crops. Here we investigate the effectiveness of six different me... Read More about Testing the Short-Term Effectiveness of Various Deterrents for Reducing Crop Foraging by Primates.

Social prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of service providers’ and clients’ experiences (2022)
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Background COVID-19 public health restrictions, such as social distancing and self-isolation, have been particularly challenging for vulnerable people with health conditions and/or complex social needs. Link worker social prescribing is widespread in... Read More about Social prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of service providers’ and clients’ experiences.

Frequency, modulation, and time in Amerindian art (2021)
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Gender and Pan-Species Democracy in the Anthropocene (2021)
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There are diverse historical trajectories in human societies’ relationships with the nonhuman world. While many small place-based groups have tried to retain egalitarian partnerships with other species and ecosystems, larger societies have made major... Read More about Gender and Pan-Species Democracy in the Anthropocene.

Laboring bodies and the quantified self (2022)
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How has the laboring body become so central to regimes of quantification and measurement, and how has this played out in literary and cultural representations of the quantified self? Through tracing narratives of entanglement of data and selves that... Read More about Laboring bodies and the quantified self.

Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth (2022)
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In 2013 we presented a model for identifying nursing behavior from primate teeth based on rapid postnatal concentration changes in the non-essential trace element barium. Here we leverage the permanent neonatal (birth) line in the enamel of several d... Read More about Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth.

Taboos, toilets and biogas: Socio-technical pathways to acceptance of a sustainable household technology (2021)
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Toilet-linked anaerobic digesters (TLADs) can provide users with a clean gaseous fuel and a fertiliser product as well as offer waste management services. Socio-cultural resistance towards domestic TLADs, due to the use of human excreta as a feedstoc... Read More about Taboos, toilets and biogas: Socio-technical pathways to acceptance of a sustainable household technology.

Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements (2021)
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We present novel co-created transdisciplinary research that uses arts and humanities methods to explore air pollution in an informal settlement (Mukuru) in Nairobi, Kenya. Air pollution is a well-documented major human health issue, but despite many... Read More about Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements.

Provision of social-norms feedback to general practices whose antibiotic prescribing is increasing: a national randomized controlled trial (2021)
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Aim: The Chief Medical Officer of England writes an annual social-norms-feedback letter to the highest antibiotic-prescribing GP practices. We investigated whether sending a social-norms-feedback letter to practices whose prescribing was increasing w... Read More about Provision of social-norms feedback to general practices whose antibiotic prescribing is increasing: a national randomized controlled trial.

Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology (2022)
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Human brains are exceptionally large, support distinctive cognitive processes, and evolved by natural selection to mediate adaptive behavior. Comparative biology situates the human brain in evolutionary context to illuminate how it has been shaped by... Read More about Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology.

Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action (2022)
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Discussions of how animal culture can aid the conservation crisis are burgeoning. As scientists and conservationists working to protect endangered species, we call for reflection on how the culture concept may be applied in practice. Here, we discuss... Read More about Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action.

Professional primate keepers and online primate imagery: an assessment of knowledge and attitudes (2021)
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In January 2021, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Primate Specialist Group Section for Human Primate Interactions (IUCN PSG SHPI) published best practice guidelines on the use of non-human primate imagery online. This paper ex... Read More about Professional primate keepers and online primate imagery: an assessment of knowledge and attitudes.

Assessing the status of leopard in the Cape Fold Mountains using a Bayesian spatial capture–recapture model in Just Another Gibbs Sampler (2022)
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Large carnivores are in decline globally. The leopard's (Panthera pardus) adaptability enabled its survival as the last remaining apex predator in the Western Cape, South Africa. Limited suitable habitat and anthropogenic activity imperil the continu... Read More about Assessing the status of leopard in the Cape Fold Mountains using a Bayesian spatial capture–recapture model in Just Another Gibbs Sampler.