Voice-related quality of life after total laryngectomy: a scoping review of recent evidence by Tatiana Pourliaka, Efcharis Panagopoulou, Vassiliki Siafaka

“…Despite advances in surgical techniques and rehabilitation methods, patients continue to experience significant challenges in communication and social integration, which are crucial components of overall well-being. …”
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The Complexity of Social Networks in Healthy Aging: Novel Metrics and Their Associations with Psychological Well-Being by Sueur, Cédric, Fancello, Giovanna, Naud, Alexandre, Kestens, Yan, Chaix, Basile

“…., Bachelor, Master, PhD, etc.). Dimension 2 (social integration) and Dimension 3 (social support) were only linked to the number of people living (being in the same residence) with ego (i.e. the interviewed participant). …”
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The Roots of Single Parenting and Its Influence on the Socioeconomic Trajectories of Young Adults in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria by Ngozi U. Nwonye, Victoria V. Nkan, Ann E. Dijeh

“…Female respondents, in particular, reported greater difficulties in social integration and career progression. A unique aspect of this study is its localized focus on the dynamics of single-parenting in a rapidly urbanizing Nigerian city. …”
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Willingness to pay for landscape benefits: Examining variation by landscape type in Lower Silesia, Poland by Katarzyna Zagórska, Piotr Krajewski, Marta Sylla, Monika Lebiedzińska, Iga Kołodyńska, Marek Furmankiewicz, Mikołaj Czajkowski

“…There is a significant difference between urban, suburban, and rural respondents, especially in valuing travel time to basic facilities and the importance of place of social integration. Results guide directions for future changes in local landscapes as well as considerations for identifying and valuing landscape benefits in different landscape types.…”
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Can Table Tennis Extend Lifespan? An Analysis of Its Impact on Physical Health, Brain Function, and Mental Well-being by Patrycja Marta, Agata Ossolińska, Filip Huzarski, Gabriela Ferfecka, Klaudia Pawełek, Lucyna Stolarska, Magdalena Rosa-Bończak, Natalia Morawiecka, Olivier Carlton, Weronika Kłosowicz

“…Table tennis also enhances mental well-being by reducing stress levels and improving quality of life through social integration and satisfaction from the game. The collected data suggest that table tennis should be included in rehabilitation programs and health promotion activities for all age groups. …”
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The mechanism of urban-rural integrated development based on the “population-land-capital” factor flow: A case study of Jiangxi Province by YANG Jie, GE Dazhuan, SUN Pan, YUAN Ziyi

“…[Results] (1) The overall urban-rural integrated development level in Jiangxi Province exhibited an upward trend from 2000 to 2020, transitioning from relying on urban-rural ecological space development to achieving balance in economy, society, and ecology. (2) The urban-rural integrated development level in Jiangxi Province displayed significant geographical differences, with the economic integration level in northern Jiangxi surpassing central Jiangxi and southern Jiangxi; the social integration level in northern Jiangxi exceeding southern Jiangxi and central Jiangxi; and the ecological integration level in southern Jiangxi surpassing central Jiangxi and northern Jiangxi. (3) The flow of population factor, land factor, and capital factor all exhibited significant positive effects on urban-rural integrated development in Jiangxi Province, with population factor flow having the greatest driving effect. (4) Urban-rural factor flow can continuously optimize the urban-rural relationship, generating diffusion effects and spatial spillover effects, fostering the ongoing reconstruction and integration of urban and rural spaces in Jiangxi Province. …”
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Exploring segmented assimilation theory in health education utilization and its influencing factors among internal migrants in China: insights from the 2017 China migrants dynamic... by Ting Xu, Ting Xu, Zeyu Wang, Tingting Wang, Jiahua Shi, Aiyong Zhu, Enhong Dong, Enhong Dong

“…Additionally, factors such as ethnicity, marital status, employment status, educational attainment, hukou type, health insurance type, time of access to healthcare, social integration, social participation, establishment of health records, and issues encountered in host and origin places significantly influenced HEU.DiscussionThis study highlights diverse assimilation patterns among Chinese internal migrants regarding HEU, consistent with the theory of segmented assimilation. …”
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Mental Health Assessment of the Population: Study Protocol of the MAP Research Program in Ukraine (MAP-U) and in Zurich (MAP-Z) by Viktoriia Yasenok, Eileen Neumann, Alessia Raineri, Julia Kopp, Seraina Rüegger, Tala Ballouz, Marco Kaufmann, Andrii Loboda, Vladyslav Smiianov, Andreas M. Baumer, Andreas M. Baumer, Erich Seifritz, Heiko Fabian Königstein, Anja Frei, Viktor Von Wyl, Viktor Von Wyl, Susi Kriemler, Andriana Kostenko, Milo A. Puhan

“…Secondary endpoints include participants’ health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-5L and EQ-VAS), experiences of somatic distress syndrome (PHQ-15), social isolation, social integration, and mental wellbeing (SWEMWBS).ResultsBaseline assessment starts in March 2024 with follow-ups occurring every 3 months for at least 2 years.ConclusionMAP will generate reliable, comparable, and high-quality epidemiological data to inform public mental health and healthcare policies in the Ukrainian population.ISRCTN Registryhttps://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN17240415.…”
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Digital Transformation in Voluntary Sports Organizations: A Scoping Review on Multi-Level Drivers, Promoting Factors, Forms and Consequences by Pascal Stegmann, Grazia Lang

“…These organizations are central pillars of organized sports in Switzerland, playing a critical role in fulfilling the socio-political functions of sports, such as promoting public health, social integration, and civic engagement (Nagel et al., 2020). …”
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Mettre en question le grapho-phonocentrisme: la langue des signes au dix-huitième siècle by Edward Nye

“…The text thus reveals the same grapho-phonocentrism, though this time linked to a stronger pressure for social integration. Aliénor uses her hard-won oral competence to clearly affirm the patriarchal principles by which women are the devoted wives of men. …”
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IGJR 1/2020: Housing crisis: How can we improve the situation for young people? by IF and FRFG

“…The quality of housing is a key factor in living standards and wellbeing, as well as an integral element of social integration, yet in 2014 a total of 7.8% of young people in the European Union (aged between 15 and 29) were in severe housing need, 25.7% of the young people in the EU lived in overcrowded households, and 13.6% lived in households that spent 40% or more of their equivalised disposable income on housing (Eurostat 2016). …”
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IGJR 1/2020: Housing crisis: How can we improve the situation for young people? by IF and FRFG

“…The quality of housing is a key factor in living standards and wellbeing, as well as an integral element of social integration, yet in 2014 a total of 7.8% of young people in the European Union (aged between 15 and 29) were in severe housing need, 25.7% of the young people in the EU lived in overcrowded households, and 13.6% lived in households that spent 40% or more of their equivalised disposable income on housing (Eurostat 2016). …”
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La cultura de guerra franquista como pauta de regulación conductual by Fernando Ampudia de Haro

“…As I will sustain, war culture operates as an emotional and behavioral pattern, through which individuals would be socially integrated in a national community, sharing its values, beliefs and rules and establishing a radical difference from the emotional and behavioral patterns of those individuals, who had been vanquished.…”
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L’Université américaine entre 1865 et 1920 : un monde à part ? by Anne Ollivier-Mellios

“…Finally, it attempts to show that universities were more socially integrated at the end of this period.…”
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Les arrangements pour l’accès au foncier agricole périurbain by Camille Clément, Coline Perrin, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard

“…Arrangements, giving them the power to control their cultivated lands by others and lead to the exclusion of non-socially integrated farmers.…”
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Nouveaux territoires et nouvelles identités culturelles : revue des études sur la diaspora chinoise a l’ère d’Internet by Joy Raynaud

“…For over a thousand years, the Chinese Diaspora has been mainly based on structured networks supporting the individual and collective success socially (integration), economically (financial success) and culturally (preservation of Chinese cultural identity). …”
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Involving certain socio-demographic groups of the population in active entrepreneurship as a factor of sustainable regional economies by T. A. Ilyushnikova

“…The main results of   the work have showed that supporting participation of   the above-mentioned groups socially integrates them, stimulating economic growth, regional and national development. …”
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La estética mediante el peronismo y el antiperonismo by Florencia Amado Silvero

“…La Fundación Eva Perón y su directora entran al escenario argentino a fines de 1948, dejando atrás la beneficencia para darle paso a la justicia social integral. Su componente estética, encabezada por el neocolonial, provoca un diálogo arquitectónico no exento de roces, con su alteridad: los vestigios de la Sociedad de Beneficencia y un combativo antiperonismo. …”
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Bidrager online studiestartsforløb til social og faglig integration i overgangen til universitetet? by Laura Cordes Felby, Pernille Risør Elving

“…Med udgangspunkt i forskningslitteraturen om ”den gode” overgang undersøges det i artiklen, på hvilken måde et online studiestartsforløb kan støtte stude-rendes overgang til universitetet i relation til deres faglige og sociale integration. Artiklen trækker på data fra 829 surveybesvarelser fra studerende samt data om de studerendes interaktion med forløbet fra Brightspace. …”
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Tourism impact on quality of life in villages off the coast of Oman by Ali Manzam Ismailpor

“…Tourism while enhancing the rural development process through diversification of economic activities, maintaining social integrity, environmental protection, and positive spatial-physical changes in rural settlements can increase the quality of life in rural areas. …”
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