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Diabetes Digital Health: Chapter 11 - Socioeconomic factors: access to and use of diabetes technologies

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Diabetes Digital Health, 2020, Pages 145-157
This book chapter advances SDGs 3 and 10 by explaining how individuals with diabetes who are of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to have poorer diabetes-related outcomes. Digital health advancements provide unique opportunities to reduce health inequities for this high-risk group.
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Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Diabetes Mellitus, Global

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The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020 presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It highlights trends for selected targets within each goal and introduces concepts about how some SDGs are measured. Where data is available, it also highlights the emerging impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the SDGs.

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Data & Analytics; Indicators; Information for integrated Decision-Making & Participation, Global

Achieving an equitable transition to open access for researchers in lower and middle-income countries

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July 2020
As the world of research moves towards open access, publishers have a further task – ensuring the knowledge gap between the Global North and Global South continues to close. Contributing to SDGs 10 and 17, this paper provides an evidence base supporting practical recommendations towards the equitable and inclusive shift towards open access
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Scientific Reports

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Capacity Building; Multi-stakeholder partnerships; Data & Analytics; Open Access, Global

Control Theory in Biomedical Engineering: Chapter 8 - Wearable mechatronic devices for upper-limb amputees

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Control Theory in Biomedical Engineering Applications in Physiology and Medical Robotics 2020, Pages 205-234
This book chapter advances SDG3 Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG10 Reducing Inequalities by examining the research on wearable mechatronic devices for upper-limb amputees.
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Health and wellbeing; Diversity and inclusion; Health and population, Global

Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Systems - World Terrestrial Ecosystems

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Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Systems, Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes, 2020
This book chapter addresses SDGs 15, 12, and 11 by discussing the conservation of terrestrial, freshwater, and coastal/marine ecosystems, and how to identify global percent protection goals.
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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Sustainable consumption and production; Biodiversity and ecosystems, Global

Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Systems - Deserts: Life in the Extremes

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Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Systems, Encyclopedia of the World`s Biomes, 2020
This book chapter addresses goals 15, 13 and 11 by discussing how deserts are biodiverse places where life thrives in the extreme.
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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Sustainable cities and human settlements, Global

Chapter 8 - Mental and behavioral health in immigrant populations: Assessment and interventions for culturally competent practice

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Mental and Behavioral Health of Immigrants in the United States, Cultural, Environmental, and Structural Factors, 2020, Pages 157-178
This chapter addresses Goal 3 by examining the mental health of immigrants in the United States.
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Health and wellbeing; Health and population, Global

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology - Chapter 5 - Toward capturing the functional and nuanced nature of social stereotypes: An affordance management approach

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Advances in Social Psychology, Volume 62, Pages 245-304
This chapter addresses SDG10 and SDG16 by conceptualizing stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination in the context of people using them as tools to manage social opportunities and threats, enhancing understanding of how and why stereotypes develop.
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Health and wellbeing; Diversity and inclusion; Access to justice, Global

Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes - Chapter: Island Biogeography Revisited

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Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes, 2020. 
This book chapter advances SDGs 15 and 11 by looking at how island biogeography arose in the past and how it is now changing in the Anthropocene. Biogeography is determined by three processes: immigration, evolution, and extinction and in the Anthropocene, human impacts are increasingly more important to island biogeography.
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Small Island Developing States; Biodiversity and ecosystems; Sustainable cities and human settlements, Global

Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes - Human Impacts on Arctic Ecosystems

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Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes, 2020.
This book chapter advances SDGs 12, 13 and 14 by discussing the current warming of the Arctic climate caused by human exploitation activities and the potential impact these activities may have in driving a number of marine mammals and other vertebrate species to extinction, unless strong conservation initiatives are put in place immediately.
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Oceans & Seas; Sustainable consumption and production, Global

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