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Oppressive Energopolitics in Africa’s Last Colony: Energy, Subjectivities, and Resistance (2021)
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Focusing on energy developments and energy infrastructure in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, this article engages with the politics of energy and energy citizenship in situations of conflict, authoritarianism and settler colonialism. We contribute... Read More about Oppressive Energopolitics in Africa’s Last Colony: Energy, Subjectivities, and Resistance.

Early Life, Life Course and Gender Influences on Levels of C-Reactive Protein among Migrant Bangladeshis in the UK (2021)
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Background and objectives: Humans co-evolved with pathogens, especially helminths, that educate the immune system during development and lower inflammatory responses. Absence of such stimuli in industrialized countries is associated with higher basel... Read More about Early Life, Life Course and Gender Influences on Levels of C-Reactive Protein among Migrant Bangladeshis in the UK.

Segmenting communities as public health strategy: a view from the social sciences and humanities (2020)
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Tides of Concrete: Sensing Infrastructural Times in a Former Socialist Model City (2021)
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This is an episodic sensorial biography (Desjarlais 2003) of a city made of concrete. It recounts how urban modernist infrastructures, shaped by their main construction material, created a new historical-sensorial experience. It tracks an infrastruct... Read More about Tides of Concrete: Sensing Infrastructural Times in a Former Socialist Model City.

Interrogating the World Bank’s role in global health knowledge production, governance, and finance (2021)
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Ecomorphology of the cervid calcaneus as a proxy for paleoenvironmental reconstruction (2021)
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This study presents new ecomorphological models for the cervid calcaneus that can be used to make predictions about the nature of ancient environments. Using geometric morphometrics to quantitatively assess the length of the articular surface support... Read More about Ecomorphology of the cervid calcaneus as a proxy for paleoenvironmental reconstruction.

Data Performativity, Performing Health Work: Malaria and Labor in Senegal (2017)
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Metrics (2020)
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The role of support groups in the management of Parkinson’s disease in Kenya: Sociality, information and legitimacy (2021)
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease globally. It is a progressive neurological disorder which can lead to a decline in wellbeing and quality of life for people living with PD (PwP) and their families/caregiver... Read More about The role of support groups in the management of Parkinson’s disease in Kenya: Sociality, information and legitimacy.

Energy systems integration as research practice (2021)
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This article adopts frameworks and methods from Science and Technology Studies for examining Energy Systems Integration (ESI). ESI, the integrated operation and planning of multiple energy supplies and demands, can contribute to improvements in energ... Read More about Energy systems integration as research practice.

Low‐intensity environmental education can enhance perceptions of culturally taboo wildlife (2021)
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Traditional cultural beliefs influence perceptions of animals and can result in persecution of wildlife. In Africa, stigmas against species associated with witchcraft can act as a barrier to the uptake of sustainable practices such as reducing crop d... Read More about Low‐intensity environmental education can enhance perceptions of culturally taboo wildlife.

Essential universal health coverage needs local capacity development (2020)
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Lost in translation - the influence of language on infant sleep research (2022)
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Objectives: We consider whether language shapes cultural interpretations of sleep in the family context using ethnographic data from the Czech Republic to explore one of the methods employed by Czech parents in helping their children aged 0-3 years t... Read More about Lost in translation - the influence of language on infant sleep research.

Maternal Depression and Early Parenting: A Comparison between Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Australian born Mothers (2022)
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Objective: To examine the risk of perinatal depression, parenting stress and infant sleep practices in Australian culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) women. Method: Within the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Wellbeing Study, we examined 487 pr... Read More about Maternal Depression and Early Parenting: A Comparison between Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Australian born Mothers.

Which public health interventions are effective in reducing morbidity, mortality and health inequalities from infectious diseases amongst children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs): protocol for an umbrella review (2019)
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Introduction: Despite significant progress in the last few decades, infectious diseases remain a significant threat to children’s health in low-income and middle-income countries. Effective means of prevention and control for these diseases exist, ma... Read More about Which public health interventions are effective in reducing morbidity, mortality and health inequalities from infectious diseases amongst children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs): protocol for an umbrella review.

'Stay Home, Stay Safe': Proximity as Vitality and Vulnerability Under Lockdown (2021)
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From March to May 2020 in the UK, measures that became known across the world as ‘lockdown’ curtailed personal freedoms in order to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus. While initial criticisms of lockdown focused on the adverse impacts of... Read More about 'Stay Home, Stay Safe': Proximity as Vitality and Vulnerability Under Lockdown.

Universal health coverage, health systems strengthening, and the World Bank (2017)
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Metric partnerships: global burden of disease estimates within the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (2019)
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Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: results from a national survey (2022)
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We conducted a nationally representative survey of parents’ beliefs and self-reported behaviors regarding childhood vaccinations. Using Bayesian selection among multivariate models, we found that beliefs, even those without any vaccine or health cont... Read More about Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: results from a national survey.

The validity, reliability, and feasibility of measurement tools used to assess sleep of pre-school aged children: a systematic rapid review (2021)
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Background: Sleep of pre-school aged children is important for their health and development, but there are currently no standards for measuring sleep in this age group. We aimed to examine the validity, reliability and feasibility of tools used to as... Read More about The validity, reliability, and feasibility of measurement tools used to assess sleep of pre-school aged children: a systematic rapid review.