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Confronting the culture of care: a call to end disrespect, discrimination, and detainment of women and newborns in health facilities everywhere

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Quality and respect are increasingly recognized as critical aspects of the provision of health care, and poor quality may be an essential driver of low health care utilization, especially for maternal and neonatal care. Beyond differential access to care,
Emma Sacks, Emily Peca
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Seawater softening of suture zones inhibits fracture propagation in Antarctic ice shelves

Nature Communications, 2019
Suture zones are abundant on Antarctic ice shelves and widely observed to impede fracture propagation. Here we show that fracture detainment is principally controlled by the zones’ enhanced seawater contents, reducing fracture-driving stresses by orders ...
Bernd Kulessa, Adam D. Booth, Martin O’Leary, Daniel McGrath, Edward C. King, Adrian J. Luckman, Paul R. Holland, Daniela Jansen, Suzanne L. Bevan, Sarah S. Thompson, Bryn Hubbard   +10 more
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“Waking Up Every Day With the Worry”: A Mixed-Methods Study of Anxiety in Undocumented Latinx College Students

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
To date, little research has taken a mixed-methods strategy to consider the ways in which living “in the shadows” without recognized legal status may affect mental health.
Carola Suárez-Orozco, Guadalupe López Hernández   +1 more
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Challenging Involuntary Treatment and Confinement in Canada Through the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Studies in Social Justice
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) came into force in 2008. People with disabilities, including people with psychosocial disabilities, were instrumental to its development.
Russell Rozinskis, Chloe Rourke
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Perceptions of Social Mobility: Development of a New Psychosocial Indicator Associated with Adolescent Risk Behaviors

Frontiers in Public Health, 2015
Social class gradients have been explored in adults and children, but not extensively during adolescence. The first objective of this study was to examine the association between adolescent risk behaviors and a new indicator of adolescent relative ...
Miranda Lucia Ritterman Weintraub, Lia C. H. Fernald, Nancy eAdler, Stefano eBertozzi, Leonard eSyme   +4 more
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Public trust is earned: Historical discrimination, carceral violence, and the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

Health Serv Res, 2023
Objective To assess whether knowledge of Tuskegee, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's detainment of children, and satisfaction with the George Floyd death investigation were associated with trust in actors involved in the ...
Anderson A, Lewis DF, Shafer P, Anderson J, LaVeist TA.   +4 more
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The pains of detainment: Experience of time and coping strategies at immigration detention centres

Theoretical criminology, 2019
In most jurisdictions, immigration detention centres are seen as an important part of the immigration control system. Research suggests that stressful waiting and the experience of uncertainty are common at such institutions.
L. Gashi, W. Pedersen, Thomas Ugelvik
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The Threat of Outbreaks in US Border Patrol Detainment Centers

Pediatrics, 2019
Twelve minutes before the arrival of Christmas, medical staff at a county hospital in New Mexico declared an 8-year-old boy dead.1 He had arrived there unresponsive less than 1 hour before, his second visit to the hospital that day.
M. Travassos
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Doing Your Own Time: Peer Integration, Aggression and Mental Health in Dutch Male Detainment Facilities

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2016
Background Prior research demonstrates a strong positive association between social integration (e.g., strong social ties) and individual health. However, researchers also emphasize that this correlation may vary by context and potentially reverse ...
D. Kreager, H. Palmen, A. Dirkzwager, P. Nieuwbeerta   +3 more
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Brittney Griner, Intersectionality, and “Woke Politics”: A Critical Examination of Brittney Griner’s Return to the United States

Sociology of Sport Journal, 2023
In February of 2022, professional women’s basketball player Brittney Griner was detained in Russia on drug possession charges. Her detainment was a trending Twitter topic demonstrating the cultural, political, and social state of the United States ...
Ajhanai C. I. Keaton, E. Frederick, Keisha Branch, Ann Pegoraro   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source