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    Data were derived from two waves of the Canadian Quality of Work and Economic Life Study (C-QWELS), national surveys intended to examine social conditions and well-being among Canadians who were currently employed. Data were gathered by the study authors in cooperation with the Angus Reid Forum, a Canadian national survey research firm that maintains an ongoing national panel of Canadian respondents. ...

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    A. The C-QWELS I was gathered from September 19 to September 24, 2019, and was an online survey conducted among a represen- tative sample of 2,524 working Canadians.
B. The response rate was 42%, but results were statistically weighted according to the most current education, age, gender, and region census data to ensure a sample representative of working Canadians.
C. The C-QWELS II was conducted from March 17 to March 23, 2020 with another nationally representative sample of 2,528 working Canadians.
D. The response rate was 43%, and responses were similarly weighted.
E. Of the 5,052 total respondents, 4,923 were retained in the analytic sample (2019 sample = 2,477; 2020 sample = 2,446), a retention rate of over 97%, suggesting little bias due to listwise deletion.

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    In recent decades, wildfires, encompassing all types of fire in vegetated landscapes, have been increasingly reported worldwide. This trend is particularly evident in Australia, the Brazilian Amazon, Europe, Russia, Canada and the western United States. ...

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    A. Notably, Canada experienced a record-breaking series of wildfires in 2023, which burned an estimated 185,000 km2, impacting all provinces and territories.
B. Severe wildfires were also experienced in the United States and Europe during the 2023 fire season.
C. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency, duration and intensity of extreme wildfire events.
D. The global fire-prone area is projected to increase by 29%, by the end of the twenty-first century.
E. Wildfires harm human health primarily through wildfire smoke (for example, toxic gases and particles), of which ~90% of the total particle mass is comprised of fine particulate matter with diameters ≤2.5 μm (PM2.5).

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    We found that age, community income level, community non-wildfire PM2.5 level and country or territory significantly modi- fied the association between wildfire-specific PM2.5 and respiratory hospitalization risks. Specifically, individuals ≤19 or ≥60 years old presented a greater hospitalization risk in all-cause respiratory disease and pneumonia, compared with those aged 20-59 years old. ...

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    A. Greater risks were observed in communities with high non-wildfire PM2.5 levels for all-cause respiratory disease, COPD and pneumonia.
B. Furthermore, individuals in low-income communities experienced higher hospitalization risks from all-cause respiratory diseases, COPD and pneumonia, compared to higher-income communities.
C. Conversely, greater hospitalization risks for asthma were observed in high-income communities.
D. At the country and territory level, residents of Taiwan generally experienced higher cause-specific risks than other countries and territories.
E. Whereas greater risks were observed, for all-cause respiratory disease in Brazil, Thailand and Vietnam; asthma in New Zealand and Australia; COPD, influenza and pneumonia in Brazil; and AURI in Canada.

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    To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest study investigating the association between acute exposure to wildfire-specific PM2.5 and cause-specific respiratory hospitalizations. Overall, short-term wildfire-specific PM2.5 exposure was linearly associated with elevated risks in various respiratory hospitalizations, especially for influenza, individuals ≤19 or ≥60 years old, populations in low-income or high-polluted communities and residents of Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand and Taiwan. ...

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    A. An estimated 1.42% (1.15-1.69%) of all-cause respiratory hospitalizations were attributable to wildfire-specific PM2.5, increasing overall, in Australia, Taiwan and Vietnam during various periods between 2010 and 2019.
B. Compared with non-wildfire PM2.5, wildfire-specific PM2.5 posed a greater hospitalization risk for all the major type of respiratory diseases. Wildfire emerged as a notable source of PM2.5-linked respiratory hospitalizations overall, in Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Thailand and Taiwan.
C. Our findings of the linear C-R relationship20,21 and the elevated risks of respiratory hospitalizations with short-term exposure to wildfire-specific PM2.5 were broadly in line with previous studies.
D. However, they mostly focused on several cities or territories within a single country and reported highly heterogeneous risk estimates.
E. For example, a study in Darwin, Australia, found a 9.1% (RR = 1.091, 1.023-1.163) increase in all-cause respiratory hospitalizations per 10 μg m-3 increase in PM2.5 during bushfire events, one day after exposure22.

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    This study investigates how gendered welfare state policies, particularly defamilization policies, affect these dynamics. Defamilization policies, which aim to reduce individuals’ dependency on family for welfare and economic security, may influence the mental health of women by facilitating or hindering their ability to balance work and caregiving roles (Lohmann and Zagel 2016). ...

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    A. I examine the impact of such policies using SHARELIFE and country-year data covering 14 European countries to understand their role in the link between midlife work-family formation patterns and mental health later in life.
B. Given Europe's varied welfare state models and diverse cultural dynamics, this research provides insights into how policy environments interact with life trajectories to affect women's mental health.
C. By analyzing these relationships, the study seeks to understand how policy interventions might mitigate the health impacts of work-family conflicts.
D. The subsequent sections detail the theoretical frameworks, working hypotheses, methodologies, and findings, culminating in a discussion that contextu- alizes the results within the broader literature on health, life events, and welfare policy interaction.
E. Consequently, stable employment provides financial security and a sense of purpose and belonging, thereby bolstering mental health.

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    In this study, I aim to contribute to the existing literature by assessing how accumulated social advantages or disadvantages from work-family trajectories influence the mental health of European women over 50. I also examine the role of defamilization policies in moderating this effect, a perspective that has not been extensively explored in previous research. ...

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    A. Welfare states, as crucial pro- viders of welfare services and influencers of wellbeing (Bambra and Eikemo 2008; Esping-Andersen 1990), shape individual opportunities and life trajectories in both work and family spheres, thereby impacting health outcomes.
B. Esping-Andersen's (1990) influential work, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, provides a widely recognized framework for categorizing welfare states, including examples from Europe, the United States, and Japan.
C. This typology, which focuses on reducing market dependency and social stratification and delineating the welfare responsibilities between state, market, and family, informs much comparative welfare state research and is foundational in understanding varying work and family experiences (Corna 2013; Esping-Andersen 1997).
D. Notably, socialdemocratic welfare states mitigate the adverse health effects of specific old-age labor trajectories more effectively than corporatist states (Madero Cabib, Corna, and Baumann 2019).
E. However, the broad scope of these typologies can obscure the specific institutional configurations or policy areas that moderate the relationship between life course conditions and health.

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    To build work-family life histories, participants were prompted to recall significant milestones, such as job-related changes and key family events, annually. These included moving out of their parent's home, cohabiting, marriage, childbirth, wid- owhood, and divorce. ...

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    A. Leveraging these data, I crafted a life history data set in which each individual is observed annually from age 15 up to their age at the time of the survey.
B. Their recorded state remained unchanged until they indicated a change in status.
C. This information was used as an input for sequence analysis to construct work-family life histories, as detailed in the empirical strategy section.
D. For more information on the measurement of work-family statuses throughout the life course, see Appendix B in the online version of the article.
E. Regarding the moderating variable, defamilization, I used a country-year indicator elaborated by Zagel and Van Winkle (2020), which relies on principal components analysis, applied to indicators for six policy areas between 1924 and 2006 that seek to remove the burden of family work exclusively from women, as detailed in Appendix B in the online version of the article.

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    Health disparities between women and men in the United States are well documented. Women experience a higher incidence of chronic conditions, functional limitations, depression, and disability compared to men (Case and Paxson 2005; Leveille et al. 2000; Nolen-Hoeksema 2001), and rates of maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States have increased over the past several decades (Creanga et al. 2014). ...

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    A. Women also experience more barriers to health care access (Ng et al. 2010; Rustgi, Doty, and Collins 2009), which may exacerbate gender gaps in health.
B. Women are more likely to be adversely affected by barriers to health care access, in part, because women have greater need for health care services to manage chronic conditions and reproductive care (Case and Paxson 2005; Doyal 2000; Owens 2008).
C. Unmet health care need is associated with higher rates of morbidity and mortality for women and higher infant mortality (Atrash et al. 2006; Kent, Patel, and Varela 2012).
D. Availability of care describes the volume and selection of existing services, including ability to get care when needed, consistency and timeliness of care, and choice of providers (Penchansky and Thomas 1981).
E. Women are more likely than men to report unmet need for medical care (Long, Stockley, and Shulman 2011) and delays in receiving medical care (Ng et al. 2010).

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    State-level sexism is a robust predictor of women's morbidity and mortality, implicating gender inequities across economic, political, and cultural institutions as pathways leading to poorer health for women. Recent research documents higher mortality rates for women and infants residing in U.S. states with higher levels of economic inequity (Pabayo et al. 2019), and studies using state-level composite scores of economic inequity (e.g., gen- der gaps in wages, employment, and poverty) find higher mortality rates and poorer health for women residing in more inequitable states (Homan 2019; Montez et al. 2016). ...

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    A. Within the political domain, underrepresentation of women in state legislature is associated with higher rates of female and infant mortality (Homan 2017; Kawachi et al. 1999), and the implementation of state policies designed to promote gender equity (e.g., paid family and maternal leave, gun ownership restrictions for domestic violence offenders) predicts better health and lower mortality rates for women (Doran et al. 2020; Lee et al. 2020; Wisdom et al. 2005).
B. Finally, state-level policies regarding Medicaid eligibility and access to reproductive care have significant implications for the health of women (Hawkins et al. 2020; Johnston et al. 2018; Margerison et al. 2020).
C. Health care access and quality could underlie the robust associations between state-level sexism and women's health; however, existing literature has not adequately examined the relationship between state- level sexism and health care.
D. Because the U.S. health care system relies heavily on private, employer-based health insurance, systemic state- level gender gaps in wages and labor force participation may reduce both women's insurance coverage and ability to afford health care.
E. Indeed, women are more likely to depend on their spouses for health insurance and spend a higher share of their income on health care than men (Patchias and Waxman 2007), supporting the notion that gender inequalities in pay and employment increase barriers to care for women.

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    Of the 25,267 eligible participants in the AAMC survey, 24,250 (96%) participants had complete data for all variables in Stage 1 of the analysis (associations of state-level sexism with inability to access care and uninsured). The latter stages of the analysis were restricted to the 21,329 participants who had at least one medical care visit in the past year and had complete data for additional health care access and quality variables. ...

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    A. Supplemental analysis revealed that participants who were excluded from the analysis were more likely to be female, younger (ages 18-34), nonwhite, and unmarried.
B. We did not use multiple imputation to impute missing data because the source of nearly all missing data was dependent variables, and imputed values for dependent variables are not typically included in regression analy- ses (von Hippel 2007).
C. Individual-level data came from the December 2014 to January 2019 waves of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Consumer Survey of Health Care Access, a repeat cross-sectional, online survey of adults age 18 and older in the United States.
D. Surveys were conducted by an external firm that maintains an active panel of potential study participants. Stratified sampling was used to collect data based on age and health insur- ance status, with oversamples of various subpopu- lations of interest (minority, rural, Medicaid recipients, etc.) in particular survey waves.
E. U.S. census weights were available to account for non- probability sampling procedures.

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    As a persistent and ubiquitous global pollutant, Hg deposition of any species and concentration poses potential risks to humans and ecosystems1. Compared with terrestrial environments, coastal environments have many physical, ecological and biogeochemical characteristics that increase the accumulation of Hg and the production, release, bioaccumulation and risk of neurotoxic methylmercury (MMHg, the methylated form of Hg). ...

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    A. Therefore, Hg stored in coastal ecosystems poses more serious risks to human health and ecosystem safety
B. However, the sample size, spatial distribution and ecosystem type of coastal sediments in existing studies are extremely limited.
C. More critically, no attempt has been made to estimate the Hg stock in global coastal sediments, which is one of the fundamental constraints on determining Hg risks in global coastal ecosystems.
D. The term 'Blue C' entered the lexicon in 2009 and refers to organic C (OC) that is captured and stored by vegetated coastal ecosystems (VCEs, including seagrass meadows, tidal marshes and mangrove forests).
E. Recently, tidal mudflats have also entered the Blue C discourse.

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    In this Brief Communication, we carry out a targeted survey along Chinese coastlines to document the relationship between coastal habitat types and sediment Hg and OC contents. We find that the sediment of VCEs not only is OC-rich, but also is a Hg-rich system, and that there is a strong and positive correlation between OC contents and Hg concentrations in coastal sediments. ...

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    A. Notably, the Hg/OC ratio reported here (3.95 μg g-1) is ~2.5 times that of permafrost soils (1.6 μg g-1), indicating that coastal sediment is a more favourable environment for storing Hg under the same OC sequestration potential as permafrost soils.
B. The Hg release from anthropogenic activities around coastal regions could additionally increase the Hg/soil OC ratio of coastal sediments.
C. We combine the linear correlation between OC and Hg in all coastal sediments (N = 819) generated from our regional observational data and the Blue C stock in the top metre of sediment in different Blue C ecosystems compiled by others to roughly estimate the Hg stock in global Blue C ecosystems.
D. We find that over 95% of the Hg stock in global Blue C ecosystems is stored in VCEs.
E. Recently, tidal mudflats have also entered the Blue C discourse.

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    Our study reveals that extremely limited extents of VCEs (~0.2% of the ocean surface) and their substantial stock and burial flux of Hg highlight the disproportionate importance of the VCEs to global Hg storage and cycling. Blue Hg stock is therefore an important, dynamic, reactive but overlooked Hg pool in the global Hg cycle and health risk. ...

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    A. Blue C ecosystems can provide a range of ecosystem services such as protecting biodiversity and fisheries and increasing water quality.
B. However, the co-accumulation and contrary ecological effects of OC and Hg in coastal ecosystems indicate that expanding Blue C ecosystems are very likely to add to the Blue Hg stock, consequently resulting in an increase of Hg risk in global coastal seas.
C. Delay and failure to implement the Blue C strategies may well accelerate the impending climate catastrophe and other coastal and ecological disasters, inevitably resulting in substantial economic, ecological and human losses.
D. We refer to increased Blue Hg stocks and the risk caused by expanding Blue C ecosystems to mitigate climate change and achieve co-benefits as the 'Blue Hg dilemma'.
E. The close interactions between C and Hg in coastal ecosystems point to the importance of a holistic understanding of the benefits, risks and trade-offs of Blue C sequestration strategies.

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