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The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientious...
Theory suggests that personality traits evolved to have costs and benefits, with the effectiveness of a trait dependent on how these costs and benefits relate to the present... -
Improving the Measurement of Maternal Mortality: The Sisterhood Method Revisited
BACKGROUND: Over the past several decades the efforts to improve maternal survival and the consequent demand for accurate estimates of maternal mortality have increased.... -
Incommensurable Worldviews? Is Public Use of Complementary and Alternative Me...
Proponents of controversial Complementary and Alternative Medicines, such as homeopathy, argue that these treatments can be used with great effect in addition to, and sometimes... -
Willingness to Participate in HIV Vaccine Trials among Men Who Have Sex with ...
Background Recruitment of low- and middle-income country volunteers from most-at-risk populations in HIV vaccine trials is essential to vaccine development. In India, men who... -
High risk sexual behaviors for HIV among the in-school youth in Swaziland: a ...
Background Global efforts in response to the increased prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are mainly aimed at reducing high risk sexual behaviors among young... -
The changes of nutrition labeling of packaged food in Hangzhou in China durin...
Objective To understand the changes of the nutrition labeling of packaged food in China two years after the promulgation of the Regulation for Food Nutrition Labeling, which... -
The Economic Value of Environmental Services on Indigenous-Held Lands in Aust...
Australians could be willing to pay from $878m to $2b per year for Indigenous people to provide environmental services. This is up to 50 times the amount currently invested by... -
Publication of Original Research in Urologic Journals – A Neglected Orphan?
The pathophysiologic mechanisms behind urologic disease are increasingly being elucidated. The object of this investigation was to evaluate the publication policies of urologic... -
Fitting Characteristics of N95 Filtering-Facepiece Respirators Used Widely in...
BACKGROUND: Millions of people rely on N95 filtering facepiece respirators to reduce the risk of airborne particles and prevent them from respiratory infections. However, there... -
Academic impact of qualitative studies in healthcare: bibliometric analysis.
Context Although qualitative studies are becoming more appreciated in healthcare, the number of publications of quality studies remains low. Little is known about the... -
How Important Is ‘Accuracy’ of Surrogate Decision-Making for Research Partici...
Background: There is a longstanding concern about the accuracy of surrogate consent in representing the health care and research preferences of those who lose their ability to... -
Measuring Health Literacy Regarding Infectious Respiratory Diseases: A New Sk...
Background There is no special instrument to measure skills-based health literacy where it concerns infectious respiratory diseases. This study aimed to explore and evaluate a... -
Heterogeneous Mobile Phone Ownership and Usage Patterns in Kenya
The rapid adoption of mobile phone technologies in Africa is offering exciting opportunities for engaging with high-risk populations through mHealth programs, and the vast... -
Communicating risk to aboriginal peoples: first nations and Metis responses t...
Developing appropriate risk messages during challenging situations like public health outbreaks is complicated. The focus of this paper is on how First Nations and Metis people... -
Identifying trustworthy experts: How do policymakers find and assess public h...
2012 Haynes et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and... -
Cause of death affects racial classification on death certificates.
Recent research suggests racial classification is responsive to social stereotypes, but how this affects racial classification in national vital statistics is unknown. This... -
Assessing the validity of sexual behaviour reports in a whole population surv...
Background Sexual behaviour surveys are widely used, but under-reporting of particular risk behaviours is common, especially by women. Surveys in whole populations provide an... -
A New Family of Cumulative Indexes for Measuring Scientific Performance
In this paper we propose a new family of cumulative indexes for measuring scientific performance which can be applied to many metrics, including h index and its variants (here... -
HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)—A Quantitative Ethics Appraisal
BACKGROUND:There is now strong evidence that preventive oral antiretroviral therapy can moderately reduce likelihood of HIV infection. This concept is called HIV pre-exposure... -
The Neighbourhood Method for Measuring Differences in Maternal Mortality, Inf...
In the absence of reliable systems for registering rare types of vital events large surveys are required to measure changes in their rates. However some events such as maternal...
