When TCFD Meets TNFD: Can It Revolutionize Corporate Sustainable Risk Management? See

Amid escalating environmental risks, this study explores the novel integration of the Task Force on Climate‐related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) as a transformative approach to corporate sustainable risk management. Firms currently grapple&#x...

The survival effects of non-R&D induced innovation during crisis See

Using firm-level data from 41 countries, this study investigates how resource-constrained firms can strengthen their resilience to resist the COVID-19 crisis through non-R&D induced innovation. The empirical results show that firms in Middle- and Low-income countries, where access to government&#x...

The impact of policing and homelessness on violence experienced by women who sell sex in London: a modelling study See

Street-based sex workers experience considerable homelessness, drug use and police enforcement, making them vulnerable to violence from clients and other perpetrators. We used a deterministic compartmental model of street-based sex workers in London to estimate whether displacement by police and ...

Effect of police enforcement and extreme social inequalities on violence and mental health among women who sell sex: findings from a cohort study in London, UK See

Objectives: To examine legal and social determinants of violence, anxiety/depression among sex workers. Methods: A participatory prospective cohort study among women (inclusive of transgender) ≥18 years, selling sex in the last 3 months in London between 2018 and&#...

Policing and public health interventions into sex workers’ lives: necropolitical assemblages and alternative visions of social justice See

While extensive literature documents how criminalisation harms sex workers’ health and rights, limited research has critically examined how interactions between criminal-justice, health, and other systems shape support and justice for and by people who sell sex. We attend to this question by...

Self-reported poliomyelitis vaccination and documentation in adults indicates high uptake: a digital German epidemic panel, December 2024 See

Background: On 12 December 2024, the Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) recommended universal polio catch-up vaccination for children and adolescents up to 16, urging parents to check their children’s immunization status following detections of vaccine-derived poliovirus in wastewater. T...

Factors Influencing UK Medical Students’ Choice of General Practice: A Systematic Review See

Background: There are currently concerns about recruitment to UK general practice. There have been various efforts and approaches to increase recruitment to general practice, and we lack contemporary insights and knowledge about the factors that shape medical students’ career intentions. Aim:...

Socioeconomic inequality and access to emergency care: understanding the pathways to the emergency department in the UK See

Objective: To examine how socioeconomic deprivation influences referral pathways to emergency departments (EDs) and to assess how these pathways affect subsequent hospital outcomes. Design: Retrospective observational study. Setting: Emergency department of a large teaching hospital in...

Financial incentives and information provision for post-pandemic primary care quality recovery: a longitudinal study in Catalonia See

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted primary care services worldwide, reducing quality-of-care. Understanding the impact of quality improvement strategies can guide system resilience. Aim: To assess whether information provision and financial incentives to primary care professionals supported recovery of...