Medical Sciences Forum, Volume 19, Issue 1

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Health is a key aspect of our modern society that requires a multidisciplinary approach and that needs to bring together professionals, academics and decision makers in order to bridge the gap between current scientific knowledge and policies. The In...

An active break is an alternative short “lesson” (lasting about 15 min) aimed at improving body awareness, physiological activation, and emotional feelings. Their purpose is to reactivate attentional capability, activate musculoskeletal s...

Since 2020, the Catania-Messina-Enna Cancer Registry (CR) has operated a transformational and incremental program while also applying a Lean Six Sigma methodology (LSS) to optimize the processes and reduce waste. Each project aimed to raise the perfo...

In line with the United Nations’ (UN) sustainable development goal, value-based healthcare (VBHC) aims to deliver outcomes that truly matter to patients at a reasonable cost. A reimbursement system in VBHC encourages physicians to refrain from...

This study employs a survey to investigate the societal response to COVID-19 in Italy. Data were collected via snowball sampling during the period April 2020 to April 2021 using the ArcGIS Survey 123 survey instrument. The study collected and analyze...

The biting behavior of farmed fish on nylon netting raises concerns for microplastic accumulation in caged fish with potential influences on human health via consumption. Indeed, the reason for net biting is due to biofouling on the mesh being a tast...

A cross-sectional baseline survey was conducted at Kibaha Town Council (KTC), Pwani Region (Tanzania), to assess the awareness and practices of smallholder dairy producers towards antimicrobial use (AMU), a major cause of foodborne antimicrobial resi...

The paper examined legal impediments to sustainable health in Nigeria due to the impact of climate change (CC) exacerbated by coronavirus (COVID-19). COVID-19 has presented the world with a crisis greatly accentuated by the urgency with which we need...

The Project Planning, Monitoring, Systematizing, and Learning (PlaMSyL) method was developed in a period of ten years (1996–2005) and has expanded since then to improve the results of development and emergency projects in developing countries,...

Heat waves (HWs) are becoming more frequent due to climate change. Their impact on cardiovascular (CV) health has been widely studied, and results vary depending on the disease and the geographic area. Our aim was to study this phenomenon using emerg...

Evidence regarding the strong links between emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment, depersonalization, total occupational burnout and workplace environment, and their consequences for the general well-being of employees in public health inspec...

Introduction: The “migrant” term indicates a resident born in a country other than the host country. Resident foreigners made up 8.4% of the total Italian population in 2020. The Sicilian trend reflects the national one, with 190,974 resi...

In terms of evidence of the strong links between occupational risks, training needs, and quality, research on the occupational risks and their consequences to the general wellbeing of public health inspectors has been very limited, despite the fact t...

Microplastics (MPs) pollution has increasingly exposed the pelagic biota to physical harm. The small size of micro-particles makes them more suitable for passive ingestion by a wide variety of organisms with serious effects on growth rates, respirati...