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Nurse Educ Today 2021 Apr 24;103:104923. Epub 2021 Apr 24.

Wuhan University, School of Health Sciences Faculty of Nursing, No. 115 Donghu Road, Wuchang, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430071, PR China. Electronic address:

Background: With the development of information technology, game-based teaching has continuously attracted the attention of nursing educators. It has been proven that games, as an auxiliary tool of traditional teaching, can improve students' learning motivation and learning effects. However, compared with the traditional scenario simulation teaching, whether game-based teaching has obvious advantages is still unknown. Read More

Health Secur 2021 May 7. Epub 2021 May 7.

Deliana Kostova, PhD, is a Senior Economist; Patricia Richter, PhD, is Branch Chief, Global Noncommunicable Diseases Branch; Michael Mahar, PhD, is a Public Health Advisor; and Ronald L. Moolenaar, MD, is Associate Director for Science; all in the Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Gretchen Van Vliet, MPH, is Senior Public Health Project Director, Global Public Health Impact Center, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC.

Noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors are important for all aspects of outbreak preparedness and response, affecting a range of factors including host susceptibility, pathogen virulence, and health system capacity. This conceptual analysis has 2 objectives. First, we use the Haddon matrix paradigm to formulate a framework for assessing the relevance of noncommunicable diseases to health security efforts throughout all phases of the disaster life cycle: before, during, and after an event. Read More

Risk Anal 2021 May 7. Epub 2021 May 7.

Research Protections Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

This article describes an interdisciplinary community resilience research project and presents a case study that supports bringing researchers together before a disaster to develop plans, procedures, and preapproved Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols. In addition, this article explains how researchers from various academic institutions and their federal agency partners can effectively collaborate by creating an IRB Authorization Agreement (IAA). Such preparations can support interdisciplinary rapid response disaster fieldwork that is timely, ethically informed, and scientifically rigorous. Read More

Front Med (Lausanne) 2021 20;8:647741. Epub 2021 Apr 20.

Department of Nephrology of West China Hospital, Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

Scientifica (Cairo) 2021 19;2021:8416410. Epub 2021 Apr 19.

Department of Research Administration and Development, University of Limpopo, P.bag X1106, Mankweng 0727, South Africa.

The livelihoods of rural people have been plagued by the precarious impacts of climate change-related disasters manifesting through floods, heat waves, droughts, cyclones, and erratic temperatures. However, they have not remained passive victims to these impacts. In light of this, rural people are on record of employing a plethora of adaptation strategies to cushion their livelihoods from climate change impacts. Read More