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Civil society promoting government accountability for health equity in the Caribbean: The Healthy Caribbean Coalition

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020
Achieving health equity and addressing the social determinants of health are critical to attaining the health and health-related targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.
Trevor A. Hassell, Maisha T. Hutton, D. Beverley Barnett   +2 more
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Serological Evidence of Human Orthohantavirus Infections in Barbados, 2008 to 2016

Pathogens, 2021
Background: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is well-known in South and North America; however, not enough data exist for the Caribbean. The first report of clinical orthohantavirus infection was obtained in Barbados, but no other evidence of clinical
Kirk Osmond Douglas, Thelma Alafia Samuels, Rommel Iheozor-Ejiofor, Olli Vapalahti, Tarja Sironen, Marquita Gittens-St. Hilaire   +5 more
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EQ-5D self-reported health in Barbados and Jamaica with EQ-5D-5L population norms for the English-speaking Caribbean

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2021
Background The EQ-5D instrument is increasingly used in clinical and resource allocation decision making in developed and developing countries. EQ-5D valuation and population norms studies have been undertaken for Trinidad and Tobago, however no ...
Henry Bailey, Mathieu F. Janssen, Althea La Foucade, Girjanauth Boodraj, Marjorie Wharton, Philip Castillo   +5 more
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STATE REPRESSION IN BARBADOS: The Barrow government versus the Black Powerities 1968-1970

Revista Brasileira do Caribe, 2022
The Black Power movements in the English-speaking Caribbean territories faced tremendous repression from their governments during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Rodney Worrell
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Machine Learning for Surrogate Groundwater Modelling of a Small Carbonate Island

Hydrology, 2022
Barbados is heavily reliant on groundwater resources for its potable water supply, with over 80% of the island’s water sourced from aquifers. The ability to meet demand will become even more challenging due to the continuing climate crisis.
Karl Payne, Peter Chami, Ivanna Odle, David Oscar Yawson, Jaime Paul, Anuradha Maharaj-Jagdip, Adrian Cashman   +6 more
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Small Island Developing States and their suitability for electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid services [PDF]

, 2018
Small Island Developing States (SIDS), while at the forefront of international climate action, face a number of development challenges linked to their historic, geographic and socio-economic characteristics.
Gay, Destine, Rogers, Tom, Shirley, Rebekah   +2 more
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Transnational social capital: the socio‐spatialities of civil society [PDF]

, 2020
Civil society remains a contested concept, but one that is widely embedded in global development processes. Transnationalism within civil society scholarship is often described dichotomously, either through hierarchical dependency relations or as a more ...
Abrahamsen R., Barbados Advocate, Beckles H., Bourdieu P., Brizan G., Comaroff J., Della Porta D., Edwards M., Edwards M., Featherstone D., Ferguson J., Gilroy P., Hall S., Hashemi S., Herod A., Hinds-Harrison K., Keck M., King R., Lewis V., Mamdani M., Massey D., Massey D., Massey D., Massey D., Mawdsley E., Moloney M., Mosse D., Murray Li T., Nurse K., Obadare E., Payne A., Piper N., Pugh J., Pugh J., Putnam R., Steele B., Tvedt T., Urry J., Van Rooy A.   +38 more
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Notas sobre o status de Mulheres Negras no Pós-Abolição em Barbados a partir de um Femicídio [PDF]

História, 2019
RESUMO Este estudo propõe-se a discutir o femicídio, a partir do caso do assassinato de Millicent Gittens em Barbados, em 1916. Utiliza-se o termo femicídio conforme proposto por Diane Russell, como o crime perpetrado por homens contra mulheres, cuja ...
Elaine Rocha
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Meteorological studies conducted by contract NONR 4071 (00) : final report [PDF]

, 1966
During April and August 1963 the Barbados Weather Modification Project made extensive use of whole-sky, time-lapse and conventional photography to investigate cloud and rain formation over tropical heat sources.
Ronne, Claude
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Validating Salinity from SMAP and HYCOM Data with Saildrone Data during EUREC⁴A-OA/ATOMIC

Remote Sensing, 2022
The 2020 ‘Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate-Ocean-Atmosphere’ (EUREC4A-OA) and the ‘Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign’ (ATOMIC) campaigns focused on improving our understanding of the ...
Kashawn Hall, Alton Daley, Shanice Whitehall, Sanola Sandiford, Chelle L. Gentemann   +4 more
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