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Investigating the relationships between concentrated disadvantage, place connectivity, and COVID-19 fatality in the United States over time
BackgroundConcentrated disadvantaged areas have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 outbreak in the United States (US). Meanwhile, highly...
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Lost years, mortality burden: the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on premature death due to road traffic accidents in a northern state in Malaysia
BackgroundThis study addresses the persistent global burden of road traffic fatalities, particularly in middle-income countries like Malaysia, by...
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Hospital preparedness assessment for road traffic accidents with mass casualties: a cross-sectional study in Kurdistan Province, Iran
BackgroundRoad traffic accidents (RTAs) are predicted to become the world’s seventh leading cause of death by 2030. Given the significant impact of...
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Epidemiological variations and trends in glaucoma burden in the Belt and Road countries
BackgroundAnalyzing the glaucoma burden in "Belt and Road" (B&R) countries based on age, gender, and risk factors from 1990 to 2019 in order to...
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Assessing road criticality and loss of healthcare accessibility during floods: the case of Cyclone Idai, Mozambique 2019
BackgroundThe ability of disaster response, preparedness, and mitigation efforts to assess the loss of physical accessibility to health facilities...
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Genomic Exploration of the Brain in People Infected with HIV—Recent Progress and the Road Ahead
Purpose of ReviewThe adult human brain harbors billions of microglia and other myeloid and lymphoid cells highly susceptible to HIV infection and...
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Post-traumatic Headache and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Brain Networks and Connectivity
Purpose of ReviewPost-traumatic headache (PTH) consequent to mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a complex, multidimensional, chronic neurological...
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Points of divergence on a bumpy road: early development of brain and immune threat processing systems following postnatal adversity
Lifelong indices of maladaptive behavior or illness often stem from early physiological aberrations during periods of dynamic development. This is...
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Effects of neighborhood built environment on cognitive function in older adults: a systematic review
BackgroundIn the background of an aging population, the risk of cognitive impairment in the older population is prominent. Exposure to complex...
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Neighborhood’s locality, road types, and residents’ multimorbidity: evidence from China’s middle-aged and older adults
BackgroundNeighborhood factors have gained increasing attention, while the association between the neighborhood’s characteristics and multimorbidity...
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Systems Thinking in the Context of Road Safety: Can Systems Tools Help us Realize a True “Safe Systems” Approach?
Purpose of ReviewRoad traffic injuries are one of the leading causes of death in the USA and globally. We introduce the Safe Systems approach as a...
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Exploring the role of quadcopter technology in enhancing healthcare access in remote Himalayan Regions: a case study of Almora, Uttarakhand
BackgroundQuadcopters are employed in diverse civil applications, ranging from monitoring airports and disaster management to serving as public...
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Working Overtime: Altered Functional Connectivity in Working Memory Following Regular Cannabis Use in Young Adults
There is an emerging consensus that regular cannabis use may be detrimental to the develo** brain, including potential long-lasting changes in...
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GIS-Based Home Neighborhood Food Outlet Counts, Street Connectivity, and Frequency of Use of Neighborhood Restaurants and Food Stores
Researchers have linked neighborhood food availability to the overall frequency of using food outlets without noting if those outlets were within or...
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Does the neighborhood built environment moderate the effectiveness of a weight-loss intervention for mothers with overweight or obesity? Findings from the Healthy Eating and Active Living Taught at Home (HEALTH) study
BackgroundWomen of childbearing age are vulnerable to weight gain and experience a high prevalence of obesity due to pregnancy and stressors of...
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Disadvantaged groups have greater spatial access to pharmacies in New York state
BackgroundThe accessibility of pharmacies has been associated with overall health and wellbeing. Past studies have suggested that low income and...
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Technology Innovation and Guardrails in Elite Sport: The Future is Now
A growing number of companies are develo** or using wearable sensor technologies that can monitor, analyse and transmit data from humans in real...
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Need for operational simplicity and timely disbursal of benefits—a qualitative exploration of the implementation of a direct benefit transfer scheme for persons with tuberculosis in India
BackgroundNi-kshay Poshan Yojana (NPY) is a direct benefit transfer scheme of the Government of India introduced in 2018 to support the additional...
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Validation of desk-based audits using Google Street View® to monitor the obesogenic potential of neighbourhoods in a pediatric sample: a pilot study in the QUALITY cohort
BackgroundThe suitability of geospatial services for auditing neighbourhood features relevant to pediatric obesity remains largely unexplored. Our...
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Bringing revolution through quadcopter technology in the field of supplying medicine in the Himalayan regions of Uttarakhand: Case example of Pithoragarh
BackgroundQuadcopters are used in various forms in the civil arena, from crop insurance to agricultural drones, as loudspeakers for announcing...
