Development of a national Distress Brief Intervention: a multi-agency service to provide connected, compassionate support for people in distress by Ambrose J. Melson, Karen Wetherall, Kevin O’Neill, Margaret Maxwell, Eileen Calveley, Martin McCoy, Rory C. O’Connor

“…During the development phase, 525 intervention providers (n = 472 frontline statutory service staff; n = 53 third-sector community organisation staff) completed training programmes in four pilot areas in Scotland. …”
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Pro-environmental motivations of small businesses – Do indirect environmental impacts matter? by Mihály Dombi, Anita Kolnhofer-Derecskei, Regina Reicher, Zsuzsanna Győri

“…Previous studies have also examined whether these motivations vary among economic sectors or industries, described by direct environmental impacts. …”
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Unpacking food environment policy landscapes for healthier diets in “emerging” countries: the case of Viet Nam by Brice Even, Trang Thi Thu Truong, Hang Thi Minh Thai, Hang Thi Minh Thai, Huong Thi Mai Pham, Duong Thu Nguyen, Anh Thi Viet Bui, Christophe Béné, Christophe Béné

“…Recommendations from the experts focused on strengthening food composition standards, enhancing consumer education, and fostering inter-sectoral policy integration.ImplicationsThis study provides a comprehensive evaluation of Viet Nam’s food environment policies and offers actionable recommendations to foster food environments conducive of healthier diets. …”
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Exploring the legitimacy of industry-led farm animal welfare governance using examples of Canadian and United States dairy standards by Christine Kuo, Daniel M. Weary, Steven M. Roche, Marina A.G. von Keyserlingk

“…The governance of farm animal welfare is led, in certain countries and sectors, by industry organisations. The aim of this study was to analyse the legitimacy of industry-led farm animal welfare governance focusing on two examples: the Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Dairy Cattle and the Animal Care module of the proAction programme in Canada, and the Animal Care module of the Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) programme in the United States (US). …”
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Investigating the Usefulness of a New Electronic Error- Reporting System in Medical Error Management in the Shohadaye Haftom Tir Hospital in 2019-2020 by Shirin Nasrolahnejhad Tasouj, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Mehdi Nouri, Reza Mosaddegh, Samira Vaziri

“…In many cases, despite medical experts’ ethical and professional commitment to disclose errors, the error report among treatment staff is less than the actual rate. …”
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Global strategies and local implementation of health and health-related SDGs: lessons from consultation in countries across five regions by Sameen Siddiqi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Sara Causevic, Peter Friberg, Luis Huicho, Roman Mogilevskii, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui, Johanna Lindgren-Garcia, Anil Khamis, Mashal Murad Shah

“…Almost 120 representatives from health and non-health sectors participated. The assessment relied on a multidomain analytical framework drawing on existing public health policy frameworks. …”
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Balancing the economic and environmental impacts of net zero: an environmentally extended input-output approach by Matthew S B Lyons

“…The UK Government is committed to a transition to a low-carbon economy and achieving net zero. …”
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Developing stakeholder participation to address lack of safe water as a community health concern in a rural province in South Africa by Jennifer Hove, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Rhian Twine, Denny Mabetha, Maria van der Merwe, Ishmael Mtungwa, Sonto Khoza, Kathleen Kahn, Sophie Witter

“…The greatest gain reported was the development of dialogue in ‘safe spaces’ through which mutual understanding, insights into the functioning of other sectors and learning by doing were achieved. Conclusion Our process reflected willingness and commitment among stakeholders to work together collectively addressing local water challenges. …”
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Implementation of tobacco control policy at the local level in Thailand: Performance evaluation and associated factors by Chakkraphan Phetphum, Orawan Keeratisiroj, Artittaya Wangwonsin, Wutthichai Jariya

“…Conclusions PTPCCs should be strengthened through adequate access to policy information, sufficient media resources, and strong provincial leadership with multi-sectoral engagement, as these factors are critical to effective policy performance. …”
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Preface: AgriVoltaics World Conference 2024 by Alexis Pascaris, Jordan Macknick, Greg Barron-Gafford

“…The spirit of community and commitment to excellence of the 5th AgriVoltaics World Conference is embodied in these proceedings. …”
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The impact of environmental tax reform on industrial green development: evidence from China by Zhaoyang Lu, Diao Gou, Lanqin Yang, Ziyue Wu, Hailong Feng

“…This study addresses this gap by investigating how the reform affects green total factor productivity (GTFP) in key industrial sectors.MethodsWe build a Difference-in-Differences model to assess the causal impact of the 2018 environmental tax change, using it as a quasi-natural experiment. …”
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Improvement of China’s healthy city construction policies from the perspective of policy instruments by Quansheng Wang, Ziyao Zhou, Lansong Huang

“…At the national level, a strong commitment is made to promote healthy urban development. …”
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'“It’s Everyone’s Problem”:' Institutionalising Multisectoral Action for Maternal Health in Meghalaya, India by Sapna Desai, Sharmada Sivaram, S Ramkumar, Patricia Dohtdong, Ankit Nanda, Sowmya Ramesh, Sampath Kumar

“…Strength of participation by different sectors varied widely; non‑health cadres reported challenges such as being accountable to multiple departments. …”
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Systematic prioritization of e-business risks in China West Africa digital cooperation using empirical evidence from Ghana by Shurong Zhao, Dennis Akomanyi Darko, Lois Tweneboah Kodua, Ailing Luo, Tiantian Sun, Albert Awortwe Sagoe, Geoffrey Bentum-Micah

“…Drawing on empirical data collected from 40 experts across Ghana’s consumer electronics, telecommunications, digital payment, and online retail sectors, the research employs a hierarchical decision model and the Best–Worst Method to systematically identify and prioritize e-business risks. …”
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The Circumstances which Exculpate Responsibility for Delayed or Lower than Required Payment of the Social Insurance Contributions by Wojciech Bożek

“…Main aim of the study is to show the complexity of the issue that is analyzed and the diversities of factors that determine the punishment or the withdrawal objection of committing an act of Art. 14 point 1 of the above-mentioned the Act.…”
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Commons-Based Peer Production in the Work of Yochai Benkler by Vangelis Papadimitropoulos

“…This paper makes the case that there is a tension between Benkler’s liberal commitments and his anarchistic vision of the commons. …”
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Perpaduan Aspek Sosial-Budaya Melayu Dan Jawa Pada Kehidupan Ekonomi Masyarakat Nelayan Tradisional by Irawan Fakhrudin Mahalizikri

“…Meanwhile research on the background of people's lives shores relatively little, it was not completely regarding the activities of the fishermen in the field of marine fisheries, whereas although agriculture and gardener can be eye-main livelihood for most residents of Bengkalis islands, but marine fisheries besides having important meaning in the construction economy the local community, also used as a kind of "complementary" due to land in the islands on the island of Bengkalis and in accordance with studied Jonge (1989c), which states that in a statistical activity community economy coastal sector of marine fisheries is a sector of the economy the most important, after the agricultural sector and other research highly relevant to this study. …”
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The role of Pakistan Medical & Dental Council in steering undergraduate medical curriculum reforms in Pakistan by Gohar Wajid, Lubna Baig, Syeda Kauser Ali, Usman Mahboob, Ahsan Sethi, Rehan Ahmed Khan

“…There has been an exponential increase in the number of medical colleges in Pakistan over the past few decades, especially in the private sector. Pakistan has a strong medical education system with 48 public sector and 75 private sector medical colleges. …”
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Demand study of freight transportation via railway of four commodity groups: A case study on Costa Rica's Pacific Coast Route by Maria Estefania Coto-Solano

“…Having railway mobility as an option among transportation modes is of prime importance for the freight logistics of a country and the overall performance of its commerce sector. This work presents a case study in Costa Rica, where freight transportation via railway was formerly available during the last century but has not been in full service since 1995. …”
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Pedagogía y Didáctica de la Corporeidad. Una mirada desde la praxis (Pedagogy and Didactics of Corporeality. A look from praxis) by Jayson Bernate

“…The current challenges facing the educational sector with respect to the expectations and challenges that society demands in the 21st century require the training of teachers committed to social change in their pedagogical practice, teachers who transform their work with innovative proposals in their didactic, with an entrepreneurial character, creative, critical, competent in this digital culture that overwhelms us day by day, with social leadership, with an optimal degree of emotional well-being and, in this sense, a significant change in the role of the teacher is required , based on collaborative learning that allows the student to build their own knowledge from a close relationship between family, school and community, since education is the responsibility of the whole of society and not merely of institutional entities, school or university. …”
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