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Associations of attitudes and social norms with experiences of intimate partner violence among married adolescents and their husbands in rural Niger: a dyadic cross-sectional study

BMC Women's Health, 2022
Background Prior cross-sectional research suggests that both men’s and women’s attitudes towards intimate partner violence (IPV) are predictive of women’s IPV experience, although this can vary greatly by context.
Holly Baker Shakya, Beniamino Cislaghi, Paul Fleming, Ruti G. Levtov, Sabrina C. Boyce, Anita Raj, Jay G. Silverman   +6 more
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Associations between village-level norms on marital age and marital choice outcomes among adolescent wives in rural Niger

SSM: Population Health, 2020
Social norms, the often unspoken rules that dictate behavior, are increasingly understood to play a role in child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) practices, but are less frequently examined in quantitative research on CEFM.
Holly Baker Shakya, Jay Silverman, Kathryn M. Barker, Charlotte Lapsansky, Jennifer Yore, Sani Aliou, Mohamad I. Brooks, Anita Raj   +7 more
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Exploring the acceptability and impact of group antenatal care: a qualitative study among women in selected health facilities in Burkina Faso

Reproductive Health
Antenatal Care (ANC) models have evolved to increase maternal and child health service utilization, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Recently, group antenatal care (G-ANC), where cohorts of pregnant women with similar gestational ages are ...
Blami Dao, Yvette Ouedraogo, Maxwell Mhlanga, Andre Kone   +3 more
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Yemaya, No. 26, November 2007 [PDF]

, 2007
Asia/ India - Restricting Lives and Livelihoods. North America/ Mexico - Empowering Agenda?. Africa/ South Africa - Aren’t We Missing Something?. Africa/ Zanzibar - Winning Strategies.

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Growing inequities by immigration group among older adults: population-based analysis of access to primary care and return to in-person visits during the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia, Canada

BMC Primary Care
Background The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic drove a rapid and widespread shift to virtual care, followed by a gradual return to in-person visits. Virtual visits may offer more convenient access to care for some, but others may experience challenges ...
Cecilia Sierra-Heredia, Elmira Tayyar, Yasmin Bozorgi, Padmini Thakore, Selamawit Hagos, Ruth Carrillo, Stefanie Machado, Sandra Peterson, Shira Goldenberg, Mei-ling Wiedmeyer, M Ruth Lavergne   +10 more
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Negotiating equity in UK universities. [PDF]

, 2005
Description of the project The research involved six case studies of higher education institutions across England, Scotland and Wales. The project aims were:to explore staff experiences of equity issues and institutional equity policies.
Deem, R., Morley, Louise, Tlili, A
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Preventing sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) among sex workers: a critical review of the evidence on determinants and interventions in high-income countries

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Across diverse regions globally, sex workers continue to face a disproportionate burden of HIV and other sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs).
Elena Argento, Shira Goldenberg, Kate Shannon   +2 more
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Collaborating for Gender Equity in Christian Education

, 2020
This essay addresses the importance of teachers promoting gender equity. It explores potential causes for gender discrimination in Christian institutions including double standards, unequal representation, organizational culture and similarity attraction.
Castellon, Adrienne R., Sowerby, Stacy
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Girls vs. boys in mathematics: Test scores provide one interpretation girls narratives suggest a different story [PDF]

, 2011
This study seeks to provide a data based critique of the claims of gender equity in mathematics. Specifically, this paper is an analysis of the personal well-remembered events (WREs) told and recorded by women who are in the first course of their ...
Stoehr, Kathleen Jablon
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Targeting Mr Average: Participation, gender equity and school sport partnerships [PDF]

, 2008
The School Sport Partnership Programme (SSPP) is one strand of the national strategy for physical education and school sport in England, the physical education and school sport Club Links Strategy (PESSCL).
Anne Flintoff, Carroll B., Figueroa P., Flintoff A., Gard M., Hargreaves J., Hargreaves J., Houlihan B., Kay T., Kay T., Kirk D., Kirk D., Macbeath J., Martino W., Penney D., Penney D., Penney D., Penney D., Quick S., Skelton C., Skelton C., White A.   +21 more
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