Mental health promotion and education efforts are needed to improve the general public's mental health literacy and to clarify misunderstanding about depression. Men need to be a particular target of these efforts.
Whilst COVID-19 vaccination strategies continue to receive considerable emphasis worldwide, the extent to which routine immunisation (RI) has been impacted during the first year of the pandemic remains unclear. Understanding the existence, extent, and variations in RI disruptions globally may help inform policy and resource prioritisation as the pandemic continues.
We modelled historical, country-specific RI trends using publicly available vaccination coverage data for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis-containing vaccine first-dose (DTP1) and third-dose (DTP3) from 2000 to 2019.
We report a 2·9% (95%
CI
: [2·2%; 3·6%]) global decline in DTP3 coverage from an expected 89·2% to a reported 86·3%; and a 2·2% decline in DTP1 coverage (95%
CI
: [1·6%; 2·8%]). These declines translate to levels of coverage last observed in 2005, thus suggesting a potential 15-years setback in RI improvements. Further research is required to understand which factors – e.g., health seeking behaviours or non-pharmaceutical interventions – linked to the COVID-19 crisis impacted vaccination coverage.
This article reports on a study designed to identify the authors of academic library home pages and to investigate the nature of their training and their use of newly-acquired Web design skills. The major finding of the study is that librarians more often than non-librarians are assuming the responsibility for writing home pages for academic libraries in very large public colleges and universities. In addition to professional identity, factors such as length of service to an institution, current job title, and prior education play a role in determining the likelihood that an individual will write the home page for his or her employing library. Learning the skills needed to write a home page requires time for training. Institutional support for training is considered vital and well worth the investment because training is very often disseminated beyond the home page authors. Teaching others Web construction skills is one of the ways library home page authors most frequently apply their newly acquired abilities.
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