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Household costs, catastrophic out-of-pocket payments and impoverishment related to accessing surgical care in rural Ethiopia

Yohannes Hailemichael, Tigist Eshetu, Sewit Timothewos, Andualem Deneke, Amezene Tadesse, Ahmed Abdella, Abebe Bekele, Andrew Leather, Girmay Medhin, Martin Prince, Charlotte Hanlon

published 06 Feb 2026

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Integrated environmental DNA analysis and population assessment revealed a biannual breeding season of the Korean clawed salamander (Onychodactylus koreanus)

Min-Woo Park, Jaejin Park, Jongsun Kim, Jiho Park, Narae Joo, Hahyun Nam, Daesik Park

published 05 Feb 2026

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Efficacy of a smartphone app to improve mental health among emergency service workers: A randomised controlled trial

Mark Deady, Mikayla Gregory, Quincy J. J. Wong, Denise Meuldijk, Daniel A. J. Collins, Lasse B. Sander, Richard Bryant, Samuel B. Harvey

published 05 Feb 2026

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Streamlining psychosocial risk assessment: An exploratory adaptation of the COPSOQ III for Flemish healthcare workers

Tahmineh Borhani, Hendrik Van Simaeys, Philippe Kiss, Els Clays

published 05 Feb 2026

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Spatiotemporal aggregation and population distribution characteristics of HIV/AIDS in Nanchang city: A monitoring analysis from 2012–2021

Li Wang, Liang Lu, Zhibin Tu, Liping Qiu, Xiaoqin Tong, Jinyi Sun, Rui Liu

published 05 Feb 2026

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Prior beliefs & automated fact checking: Limits on the effectiveness of AI-based corrections

Kelly M. Amaddio, Jacob T. Goebel, Jason K. Clark, Duane T. Wegener, R. Kelly Garrett, Mark W. Susmann, Srinivasan Parthasarathy

published 05 Feb 2026

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A cluster level study for the identification of the disparities in birth intervals between rural and urban areas of Bangladesh

Farzana Afroz, Fatima Tuz Zahura, Shahnaz Nilima, Sabina Akter

published 05 Feb 2026

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Teachers’ perspectives on barriers and motivators to physical activity participation in children from ethnic minority groups in Newcastle upon Tyne: A qualitative study

Joyce Ene Omenyo Omojor-Oche, Gavin Daniel Tempest, Florentina Hettinga, Kandianos Emmanouil Sakalidis

published 05 Feb 2026

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Does ChatGPT enhance equity for global health publications? Copyediting by ChatGPT compared to Grammarly and a human editor

Ella August, Rachel Gray, Zaria Griffin, Matilda Klein, Julie M. Buser, Kirby Morris, Tamrat Endale, Hana Teklu, Pebalo Francis Pebolo, Elizabeth Anderson, Frederique Laubepin, Yolanda R. Smith

published 05 Feb 2026

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Estimation of district-level fertility using age-structured census data and assessment of spatial–socioeconomic differentials in Botswana, 2022

Tiro Theodore Monamo, Kannan Navaneetham

published 05 Feb 2026

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Determinants of culinary Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: The role of social media use within dual-theory frameworks

Xinling Zhong

published 05 Feb 2026

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Investigating the effectiveness of structured mindfulness sessions in mitigating burnout among final-year dental students: A mixed-methods analysis

Aliya Islam, Javeria Rehman, Sumbul Mujeeb, Rubab Javed, Unaiza Hashmi, Tazeen Saeed Ali

published 05 Feb 2026

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Barriers and facilitators to the diagnosis of HIV and other STIs in primary care within publicly funded healthcare systems: A systematic review of qualitative studies

Pilar Galicia, Maria Jesús García de Yébenes, Consuelo Pascau, Juan Cuadros González, Loreto Carmona, Jose-Manuel Ramos-Rincón

published 05 Feb 2026

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