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Women with infertility complying with and resisting polygyny: an explorative qualitative study in urban Gambia

Reproductive Health, 2019
Background In many low-and middle-income countries women with infertility are often in polygynous marriages. From a human and women’s rights perspective, the practice of polygyny is commonly understood as harmful.
Susan Dierickx, Gily Coene, Bintou Jarju, Chia Longman   +3 more
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Lecture series on gender medicine at Innsbruck and Vienna medical universities: a teaching format in comparison

GMS Journal for Medical Education, 2020
Introduction: Diversity-specific differences in health, illness and access to a health system have meanwhile been studied well. Educating medical students offers good leverage for broadening this knowledge within the medical professions.
Steinböck, Sandra, Nachtschatt, Ulrike, Hochleitner, Margarethe   +2 more
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Land, informal employment, and fertility preferences in rural southwestern Uganda: A qualitative study

Global Public Health
Land and informal work remain central to rural livelihoods in Uganda, yet their role in shaping fertility preferences is not well understood. This qualitative study examined how land ownership and informal livelihoods influence men’s and women’s ...
Catherine Atahigwa, Gily Coene, Clementia Neema Murembe, Dirk Lafaut   +3 more
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A Queer Resilience: Reviving Indigenous-Pacific Perspectives and Practices

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
In the face of ongoing discrimination, stigma, ostracism, and violence, Pacific Islanders of Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, Intersex Expressions, and Sex Characteristics (PIDSOGIESC+) display a marked resilience.
Jioji Ravulo, Joel Hollier, Malakai Waqa, Isikeli Vulavou, Eroni Dina   +4 more
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Transgender people in Ukraine – the communities within the community (the results of the expert survey)

Український соціум, 2022
Transgender people, being stigmatized, discriminated against, abused, and having less access to social, health, and public health services appear to be a hard-to-reach group for researchers.
Kasianczuk M. H., Trofymenko O. V., Sheremet S. P.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender equality in marine sciences in Kiel, Germany: how project-funded measures can urge institutions to act [PDF]

Advances in Geosciences, 2020
In Kiel, in the north of Germany, marine research is rooted in a lively research community hosted mainly at Kiel University and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre. While the ratio of women and men is more or less balanced on all qualification levels with mainly
R. Kamm, C. K. Schelten, G. Braker
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Who is disabled? On whether the functional definition of disability targets the same individuals as the subjective definition

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023
With the increased attention to disability as a vulnerability criterion in the Sustainable Development Goals, international organizations and NGOs within the international development sector have started to pay explicit attention to persons with ...
Judith Baart, Willem Elbers, Alice Schippers   +2 more
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Sustained Therapeutic Efficacy of Intravenous Plasminogen Concentrate in Pediatric Patients With Type 1 Plasminogen Deficiency: An Analysis of Dosing Parameters and Clinical Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Type 1 plasminogen deficiency (PLGD‐1) is an ultra‐rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by variants in the PLG gene and affects approximately 1.6 individuals per million. The condition is characterized by decreased plasminogen levels and impaired function, resulting in fibrin‐rich lesions on mucous membranes throughout the body.
Charles Nakar, Karen Thibaudeau, Mary Mathias, Heather McDaniel, Madlen Reschke, Klaus Tenbrock, Joseph M. Parker, Amy Shapiro   +7 more
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Psychosocial Functioning After Pediatric Bone Sarcoma: Generic and Survivor‐Specific Outcomes in Adolescent and Young Adult Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric bone sarcoma patients and survivors may experience psychosocial challenges related to childhood cancer after their intensive, body‐altering treatment. This cross‐sectional study aimed to evaluate generic and survivor‐specific psychosocial outcomes in a national cohort of pediatric bone sarcoma patients and survivors, and ...
Hinke van der Hoek, Heleen Maurice‐Stam, Laura R. Beek, Jennifer van Dijk, Marjolein E. M. Langemeijer, Relinde W. Slooff‐Lentink, Alied M. van der Aa‐van Delden, Anne Westerweel, Marloes van Gorp, Hendrik W. B. Schreuder, Lianne M. Haveman, W. Peter Bekkering, Leonie G. Tigelaar, Johannes H. M. Merks, Martha A. Grootenhuis   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contested Collaborations. Diversity Change Agents Practicing Boundary Work in the Dutch Military

DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
Power and resistance are inherent to diversity work and, especially in large organizations, oftentimes multiple individual and collective actors will work on diversity change simultaneously.
Marieke Van den Brink, Nina van Douwen, Yvonne Benschop   +2 more
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