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Access to Transition Planning and Support for Young People Who Self‐Place When in Out‐Of‐Home Care: The Perspectives of Young People and Practitioners

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the experiences of young people in Queensland, Australia, under child protection orders who leave approved out‐of‐home care placements (e.g., foster; residential care) to stay in unapproved locations (e.g., sleeping on the streets; staying with friends, family/kin, or strangers).
Jemma Venables, Laura Simpson Reeves, Kathy Ellem, Karen Healy, Joel Cullin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Demand for Toilets Be Encouraged? Evidence from Indonesia [PDF]

, 2014
This paper looks at the impact evaluation of a program to foster demand for toilets by raising awareness -- instead of building sanitation facilities and hoping people would use them -- did show a boost in toilet construction and a drop in diarrheal ...

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Examining Hyper-Reactivity to Defecation-Related Sensations in Children With Functional Defecation Disorders (FDD)

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2020
Abstract Date Presented 03/27/20 This study investigated the relationship between sensory reactivity and FDD. Parents of three- to six-year-old children with and without FDD completed two questionnaires: the Toileting Habit Profile Questionnaire-Revised and the Short Sensory Profile.
Isabelle Beaudry-Bellefeuille, Alison E. Lane, Shelly J. Lane, Eduardo Ramos-Polo   +3 more
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Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak, Tamara Blakemore, Elsie Randall, Meaghan Katrak Harris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Ward-by-Ward Approach to Eliminating Open Defecation: Experience from Visakhapatnam, India [PDF]

, 2017
The Government of India launched the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) in 2014 with the ambitious aim to ensure hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation by the 150th anniversary of Gandhi's birth in October 2019.
Akhilesh Gautam, Sam Drabble
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Relationships and Identity: An Ethnographic Study With Young People in South‐East Queensland Who Had Left Out‐Of‐Home Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Young people who transition to adulthood while transitioning from out‐of‐home care, like their peers not in care may face several challenges in early adulthood. These include, high housing costs, fixed (often low) incomes, limited access to jobs and further education, developing and consolidating personal relationships and pressures from ...
Madonna Boman
wiley   +1 more source

Role of the employment status and education of mothers in the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in Mexican rural schoolchildren [PDF]

, 2006
<p><b>Background:</b> Intestinal parasitic infections are a public health problem in developing countries such as Mexico. As a result, two governmental programmes have been implemented: a) "National Deworming Campaign" and b ...
BD Cabrera, C Diaz, CF Contreras, CV Holland, D Prakash, D Sanjur, DAP Bundy, David WT Crompton, E Carrera, EK Markell, F Curtale, Gloria Morales, H Wamani, INEGI, J Navarrete, J Nematian, JF Lindo, JM Shield, KL Tucker, Luis Quihui, M Fallah, M Norhayati, Mauro E Valencia, MM Yassin, MS Prado, N Pearce, P Aimpum, P Payapvipapong, Paul Hagan, S Hayashi, SEDESOL, Silvia P Díaz-Camacho, SP Kan, SP Kan, Stephen Phillips, WHO, WHO   +36 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

“They Know What's Best for the Poor Little Black Fellows, Like They Did All Them Years Ago”: Continued Paternalism and Pressure to Place in the Australian Child Protection System

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems in Australia have been criticised for racialized policies that result in the over‐policing of First Nations families and the removal of First Nations children. Under current colonial structures, “protection from harm” is used to justify the removal of First Nations children from community—sometimes permanently—at the ...
James Beaufils, Tatiana Corrales, Aunty Deb Swan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Novel Bionics Assessment of Anorectal Mechanosensory Physiology

Bioengineering, 2020
Biomechatronics (bionics) is an applied science that creates interdisciplinary bonds between biology and engineering. The lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract is difficult to study but has gained interest in recent decades from a bionics point of view ...
Hans Gregersen
doaj   +1 more source