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Self-care practices of professionals on residency programs in the state of Paraíba in Brazil and their implications for primary health care

BMC Primary Care
Background The aim of this study was to examine the self-care skills of residents and preceptors affiliated to the Family and Community Medicine (FCM) and Multiprofessional Family Health Residency (MFHR) programs in the state of Paraíba - Brazil as well ...
Ana Paula Ramos Machado, Élida de Fátima Diniz Souza, José Danúzio Leite de Oliveira, José Olivandro Duarte de Oliveira, Lauradella Geraldinne Sousa Nóbrega, Maysa Barbosa Rodrigues Toscano, Nayara Moreira Lacerda Massa, Ricardo Alves de Olinda, Alecsandra Ferreira Tomaz, Carla Campos Muniz Medeiros, David Matheson, Silvana Santos   +11 more
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

Health and Survival Impacts of Early Childhood Development Programmes: The Case of the Happy Child Programme in Brazil

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper adds to the growing evidence on the impacts of early childhood development (ECD) programming by examining one of the world's largest home visitation programmes, the Happy Child Programme in Brazil, and its impacts on child vaccination and preventable death rates.
Raquel Tebaldi, Franziska Gassmann, Bruno Martorano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Algorithmic Centralism in a Fragmented Welfare State: Institutional Logics and Legal Paradoxes in the Chilean Case

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While scholarship on the digital welfare state has effectively critiqued the rise of ‘digital dystopias’ in consolidated welfare systems, it has paid insufficient attention to how digitalization interacts with the structural fragmentation characteristic of many states in the Global South.
Viviana Ponce de León Solís
wiley   +1 more source

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Policy and Political Regime Change in Central America

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does democracy deliver more inclusive and transparent social policy in low‐capacity states? And how does democratic backsliding reshape social policy? Drawing on a comparative analysis of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, we examine how regime change and political ideology are associated with patterns of social policy access and ...
Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez‐Ancochea   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing the Right to Food Through Food Expenditure Burdens: Distributional Evidence Among Low‐Income Farming Families in Brazil (2012–2023)

World Food Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Household food expenditure continues to be a key factor in ensuring the realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food. Particularly in Brazil, access to food can be limited by economic constraints in vulnerable families, especially among farming families, who have been more vulnerable to food insecurity in recent years in the country.
Lucas de Almeida Moura, Flávia Mori Sarti, Carolina Ribeiro Xavier, Dirce Maria Lobo Marchioni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Co‐Designing Multimodal, Multilingual Text Sets: Centering Caregiver Choice

The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Early literacy instruction in the U.S. often centers monolingual, English‐dominant practices that marginalize multilingual learners and their families. This qualitative design‐based research study examines a family literacy initiative that engaged caregivers and teachers as co‐designers of a multilingual, multimodal literacy resource bag ...
Katie M. Crook, Emily Howell, Lindsey W. Rowe, Hazel Vega, C. C. Bates   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disaster Schooling Experiences and Emergent Crises: Lessons From Puerto Rico

Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the disaster schooling experiences of Puerto Rican educators, families, and students across multiple crises following Hurricane Maria. Drawing on 11 months of ethnographic research, we analyze how schooling unfolded across disasters and how long‐standing vulnerabilities and structural inequalities shaped responses. Findings
Melissa Colón, Rosalyn Negrón, Lisa Jahn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Faces of the Anti‐Inclusion Neoconservative Coin in Brazil: Neoliberalism and Far‐Right

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1778-1790, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Brazil has recently experienced the resurgence of the far‐right, a movement that has also occurred in other countries around the world. Given this context, this article seeks to understand the factors that enabled the union among neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and the far‐right in Brazil, demonstrating that in times of economic crisis the ...
Eloisio Moulin de Souza
wiley   +1 more source

Making a Living: The Digitization of Rebusques Among Colombians

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines making a living through the digitization of rebusque, a Colombian term for practices within the informal economy. Drawing on multi‐sited digital ethnography conducted between 2020 and 2025 with Colombian immigrants in Chile and in Colombia, I show how rebusques became central to economic survival during the COVID‐19 ...
Julián Andrés Riveros Clavijo
wiley   +1 more source