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Women’s Water Access Is Associated With Measures of Empowerment and Social Support: A Cross-sectional Study in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hiliary Monteith, Davod Ahmadi, Kate Sinclair, Narges Ebadi et al. • Journal of Rural and Community Development (2020)

Water access is an important global issue that impacts health and wellbeing and has been recognized by the United Nations as a significant area for improvement. Despite some global improvements from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) t...

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The role of drug treatment and recovery services: an opportunity to address injection initiation assistance in Tijuana, Mexico

Stephanie A. Meyers, Claudia Rafful, Sonia Jain, Xiaoying Sun et al. • Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy (2020)

Abstract Background In the U.S. and Canada, people who inject drugs’ (PWID) enrollment in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) has been associated with a reduced likelihood that they will assist others in injection initiation events. We aime...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13011-020-00322-1

THE PREVALENCE OF LOW BACK PAIN IN NURSES AT A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN THE EASTERN AREA OF SÃO PAULO

FELIPE RAMALHO GUEDES, FERNANDA MINUTTI NAVARRO, RODRIGO YUITI NAKAO, ISABELA PAGLIARO FRANCO et al. • Coluna/Columna (2022)

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of low back pain in nurses at a university hospital in São Paulo and establish a relationship with social aspects. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out, through the application of...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1590/s1808-185120222102262474

SABERES DO CUIDADO NO TRABALHO DE TÉCNICAS DE ENFERMAGEM E ENFERMEIRAS EM UM HOSPITAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL | Caring knowledge in the work of nursing technicians and nurses in a hospital of Rio Grande do Sul state

Moacir Fernando Viegas • Trabalho & Educação (2018)

The article's theme is the dialogue between work and work knowledges in the production of health care, basing itself on the empyrical study realized by a hopsitalar institution in the Rio Grande do Sul. Our main objective is to describe and...

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Analysis of the Factors Determining the Probability of Registered or Informal Employment for Wage Earners in Turkey

Serdar Acun • Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi (2021)

Informal employment takes place in labor markets as a gray area between unemployment and employment. It effectively continues to exist as a temporary shelter for the unemployed in countries with higher unemployment rates. Although Turkey’s ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.26650/jspc.2021.80.0099

The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data.

Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Siddhartha Biswas, Krista M Perreira • PLoS ONE (2021)

PurposeThe Covid-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented stress to students and educational institutions across the world. We aimed to estimate the effect of the pandemic on the mental health of college students.MethodsWe used data on 419 fir...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247999

Miscellanea

• Babylonia (2005)

[Summary generated by ChatGPT] Overview: Babylonia 4/2005 is a miscellanea issue offering a wide range of reflections, research, and classroom practices rather than focusing on a single theme. Key concerns include language policy in Swis...

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Deployment-related mental health support: comparative analysis of NATO and allied ISAF partners

Eric Vermetten, Neil Greenberg, Manon A. Boeschoten, Roos Delahaije et al. • European Journal of Psychotraumatology (2014)

Background: For years there has been a tremendous gap in our understanding of the mental health effects of deployment and the efforts by military forces at trying to minimize or mitigate these. Many military forces have recently systematize...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v5.23732

Provoking Discomfort

Andreas Ring • Columbia Social Work Review (2019)

Triggered by differing responses of Columbia University School of Social Work students to a recent hate crime at neighboring Teachers College, this paper explores evidence that parts of the student body may, through lacking awareness of its...

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The works of А. N. Radishchev: A study of economic and anthropological interpretation

Vadim A. Maximov • Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия «Экономика. Управление. Право» (2022)

Introduction. A. N. Radishchev in his writings lays the foundations of a humanistic study of Russian society and an anthropological understanding of economic orders. Most of the works were not published during his lifetime; the scientific ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18500/1994-2540-2022-22-4-384-395

Problemáticas en torno de las ciberculturas. Una reflexión sobre las posibilidades y los límites de la etnografía virtual

Federico Álvarez Gandolfi • Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación (2016)

Resumen: Este artículo se propone presentar un acercamiento a los debates sobre la aplicación de técnicas propias del método etnográfico al estudio de comunidades que conforman y/o refuerzan lazos sociales en el ciberespacio. La necesidad d...

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Risk informed and resilient development: Engaging the private sector in the era of the Sendai Framework

Yoshiko Abe, Irina Zodrow, Debbra A.K. Johnson, Liza Silerio • Progress in Disaster Science (2019)

Businesses are increasingly aware of their responsibility to work with, and within, their communities towards a resilient and sustainable future for all. This is thanks, in part, to the Sendai Framework, which first recognized the critical ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.pdisas.2019.100020

Reconstructing lost memories: Social memory as a foundation for disaster mitigation in Pandai Sikek

Handrian Ginting Jonson, Afrida Afrida, Zulkifli Addina, Subhiati Nur et al. • E3S Web of Conferences (2025)

This study examines the 2024 flash flood in Pandai Sikek, West Sumatra, through the lens of disaster anthropology and social memory. Based on preliminary research and one week of ethnographic fieldwork, the research reveals that while extre...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202567702011

The impact of perception on institutional delivery service utilization in Northwest Ethiopia: the health belief model

Adane Nigusie, Telake Azale, Mezgebu Yitayal, Lemma Derseh • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2022)

Abstract Background Ethiopia has been striving to promote institutional delivery through community wide programs. However, home is still the preferred place of delivery for most women encouraged by the community`s perception that delivery i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-05140-w

Effectiveness, efficiency, and equity in jurisdictional REDD+ benefit distribution mechanisms: Insights from Jambi province, Indonesia

Riko Wahyudi, Wahyu Marjaka, Christian Silangen, Muis Fajar et al. • Trees, Forests and People (2024)

The jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+) mechanism, aimed at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, has been crucial in global climate change mitigation efforts. However, designing effective, efficient, and equitable benefit...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100726