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Shaping Nursing Healthcare Policy: A View from the Inside - Chapter 7: The evolving role of social determinants of health to advance health equity

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Shaping Nursing Healthcare Policy: A View from the Inside, 2022, Pages 91-105
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by examining how and why social determinants differentially impact health, healthcare, and health outcomes.
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Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Social Determinants Of Health, Global

Nanotechnological Applications in Virology: Chapter 9 - Potential role of nanotechnology in the treatment of influenza and hepatitis viruses

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Nanotechnological Applications in Virology, Developments in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2022, Pages 195-218
This chapter aligns with the SDG goal 3 of good health and wellbeing by showing the role of nanotechnology in the diagnosis, treatment, and development of vaccines of these viral diseases. Nanotechnology could be a great ally for a new way to fight these viruses and treat these diseases.
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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Imperiled - The Present and Future Status of Ecosystem Services for Coral Reefs

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Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation, 2022, pp 46-54
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 13 and 14 by reviewing the range of ecosystem services provided by coral reefs, the human activities that threaten these services and proposing promising policy and management interventions to promote the maintenance of key coral reef ecosystem services into the future.
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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Oceans & Seas, Global

Predictive value of CD8+ T cell and CD4/CD8 ratio at two years of successful ART in the risk of AIDS and non-AIDS events

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eBioMedicine, Volume 80, June 2022
This Article supports SDG 3 by investigating the role of CD8+ T cell count on suppressive ART as a predictor of clinical progression in HIV, suggesting its potential use as a clinical biomarker in evaluations of novel therapies for ongoing immune dysfunction during treated infection.
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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation - Cultural Ecosystem Services—Key to Address Pressing Environmental Concerns of Climate Change and Biodiversity Decline

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Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation, 2022, Pages 216-221
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 11, 12, and 3 by highlighting the role of indigenous peoples and local communities’ cultural customs, lores, and practices in relation to managing their land and other natural resources; they need to be appropriately understood and acknowledged for public and environmental policy decision making.
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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Estimating the cost of achieving basic water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management services in public health-care facilities in the 46 UN designated least-developed countries: a modelling study

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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 10, June 2022

Background: An alarming number of public health-care facilities in low-income and middle-income countries lack basic water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and waste management services. This study estimates the costs of achieving full coverage of basic WASH and waste services in existing public health facilities in the 46 UN designated least-developed countries (LDCs). Methods: In this modelling study, in-need facilities were quantified by combining published counts of public facilities with estimated basic WASH and waste service coverage.

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Health and wellbeing; Water and sanitation; Capacity Building, Global

Implementation of hand hygiene in health-care facilities: results from the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework global survey 2019

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The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 22, June 2022
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 6 by assessing the level of hand hygiene implementation and its drivers in health-care facilities through a global WHO survey; 25% of health-care facilities in low-income and middle-income countries were found to lack basic hygiene services, including access to clean water.
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Health and population; Water and sanitation; Menstrual Hygiene, Global

The first WHO global survey on infection prevention and control in health-care facilities

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The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 22, June 2022,  P845-856
This study supports SDGs 3 and 6 by reporting findings from the first WHO global survey assessing infection prevention and control programme implementation at the facility level, and highlighting key gaps: for example, only 68% (302 of 446) of low-income countries had continuously available water services.
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Health and population; Water and sanitation, Global

Severe mental illness in cancer is associated with disparities in psycho-oncological support

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Current Problems in Cancer, Volume 46, June 2022
Globally, about 18 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed each year1 and 450 million people (equally composed of both sexes) suffer from severe mental illnesses (SMI). A significant subgroup of patients with cancer and SMI are disadvantaged in terms of screening for distress and psycho-oncological care.
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Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing, Global

Clinical Decision Support for Pharmacogenomic Precision Medicine - Chapter 4: Advancing equity in the promise of pharmacogenomics

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Clinical Decision Support for Pharmacogenomic Precision Medicine: Foundations and Implementation, 2022, Pages 85-106
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by bringing attention to the inequity in access to pharmacogenomic implementation efforts and how CDS can address this issues.
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