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Health behaviours and wellbeing of health workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Feei, Z., Li, H., & Sundarajoo, S. (2022). Health behaviours and wellbeing of health workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychosomatic Medicine Research, 4(2), 8. https://doi.org/10.53388/202208

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to heightened levels of anxiety and stress levels towards the health threats posed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. At least 10% of those infected were health workers. In addition, a large proportion o... Read More about Health behaviours and wellbeing of health workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Risk factors on healthcare-associated infections among tuberculosis hospitalized patients in China from 2001 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Ren, N., Ma, Z. F., Zhong, M., & Li, H. (2022). Risk factors on healthcare-associated infections among tuberculosis hospitalized patients in China from 2001 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Infectious Diseases, 22(1), Article 392. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07364-9

Background: China has been still suffering from high burden attributable to tuberculosis (TB) and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). TB patients are at high risk to get HAIs. Evidence-based guidelines or regulations to constrain the rising HAIs... Read More about Risk factors on healthcare-associated infections among tuberculosis hospitalized patients in China from 2001 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation (2022)
Journal Article
Wen, C., Wei, J., Ma, Z. F., He, M., Zhao, S., Ji, J., & He, D. (2022). Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation. Infectious Disease Modelling, 7(2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2022.02.001

Since March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 has been a global pandemic for more than one years due to a long and infectious incubation period. This paper establishes a heterogeneous epidemic model that divides the incubation period into infectious and non-infec... Read More about Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation.

Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: A national analysis across conterminous USA (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., Ma, Z. F., Yu, D., Jiang, Z., Wang, B., & Yuan, L. (2022). Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: A national analysis across conterminous USA. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 44(12), 4423-4436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-022-01204-0

Severe outcome particularly death is the largest burden of COVID-19. Clinical observations showed preliminary data that deficiency in certain trace elements, essential for the normal activity of immune system, may be associated with worse COVID-19 ou... Read More about Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: A national analysis across conterminous USA.