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Promoting health equity: WHO health inequality monitoring at global and national levels [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2015
Background: Health equity is a priority in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda and other major health initiatives. The World Health Organization (WHO) has a history of promoting actions to achieve equity in health, including efforts to encourage
Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole Bergen, Anne Schlotheuber   +2 more
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Do Public Schools Fail Girls? A New Look at Gender Equity [PDF]

, 1999
The research is clear and conclusive. Strong and consistent public opinion also reinforces the fact many of America's public schools fail to provide a fair and equitable education to all children, especially poor children, children of color, and girls ...

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Gender equity in disaster early warning systems [PDF]

, 2015
Capacities of societies, communities and individuals or a social-ecological system to deal with adverse consequences and the impacts of hazard events define the resilience.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, De Silva, Kushani, Haigh, Richard   +2 more
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Gender Equity and Renewable Energies : Thematic Background Paper [PDF]

, 2004
The aim of this paper is to review existing evidence on the role of renewable energies in bringing gender equity. The paper first explores the evolution of thinking on gender and energy, in particular that practitioners no longer specifically focus on ...
Clancy, Joy, Oparaocha, Sheila, Roehr, Ulrike   +2 more
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Multi-level analysis of the determinants of physical domestic violence against children using longitudinal data from MINIMat mother–child cohort in Bangladesh

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectivesDespite high levels of physical violence against children (VAC) globally (40–50%), the literature on the determinants of VAC remains inconclusive. Most of the literature on this topic is based on cross-sectional data, and the multi-level nature
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Jannatul Ferdous Antu, Kausar Parvin, Shirin Ziaei   +3 more
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Exploring drivers and prevention strategies for sexual violence among adolescent girls and young women in Kicukiro, Rwanda

Frontiers in Reproductive Health
IntroductionSexual violence against adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) is a pervasive issue globally, with particularly high prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa.
Wongani Patricia Kawonga, Sam M. Livingstone, Augustine Ndaimani, Jean Pierre Sibomana, Tsion Yohannes Waka, Maxwell Mhlanga, Andrew Mclellan   +6 more
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Information technology and gender equality: a contradiction in terminis? [PDF]

, 1997
Using the data source of the Computers in Education (Comped) study, carried out under the auspices of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), the status of gender and computer use in education in a number of ...
Janssen Reinen, Ingeborg, Plomp, Tjeerd
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The relationship between neighbourhood income and youth mental health service use differs by immigration experience: analysis of population-based data in British Columbia, Canada

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background We investigated the relationship between neighbourhood income quintile and mental health service use by immigration experience among youth and explored changes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ridhwana Kaoser, Padmini Thakore, Sandra Peterson, Mei-ling Wiedmeyer, Cecilia Sierra-Heredia, Shira Goldenberg, Stefanie Machado, Selamawit Hagos, Elmira Tayyar, Yasmin Bozorgi, M. Ruth Lavergne   +10 more
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Male–female concordance in reported involvement of women in contraceptive decision-making and its association with modern contraceptive use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India

Reproductive Health, 2021
Plain language summary Evidence on women’s involvement in decision-making are limited to women’s self reports and often not specific to contraceptive decision-making.
Anvita Dixit, Nicole E. Johns, Mohan Ghule, Madhusudana Battala, Shahina Begum, Jennifer Yore, Niranjan Saggurti, Jay G. Silverman, Elizabeth Reed, Tarik Benmarhnia, Sarah Averbach, Anita Raj   +11 more
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Contraceptive decision-making and its association with contraceptive use among married adolescent girls in Niger

Reproductive Health
Objective Niger has among the highest rates of child marriage and lowest rates of modern contraceptive use in the world. This study analyzes the association between contraceptive decision-making and contraceptive use among married adolescent girls in ...
Jay G. Silverman, Shweta Tomar, Mohamad I. Brooks, Sani Aliou, Nicole E. Johns, Sneha Challa, Holly Baker Shakya, Sabrina C. Boyce, Anita Raj   +8 more
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