Serious Games, Mental Images, and Participatory Mapping: Reflections on a Set of Enabling Tools for Capacity Building

Increasing complexity of societal questions requires participatory processes that engage with capable participants.We adopted Horellis’ stance on participation as not an isolated event but a constant communication between different groups that can be assured by using enabling tools.We applied the Capability Approach to frame a capacity-buildi

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Impact of vaccination on epidemiology of diphtheria and pertussis

Whooping cough and diphtheria are vaccine preventable diseases.Diphtheria, due to Corynebacterium diphtheriae or Corynebactium ulcerans, two Gram positive bacteria, is a serious upper respiratory tract disease with high morbidity and mortality rates.Vaccination, via an acellular vaccine composed only of purified, detoxified diphtheria toxin, has si

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