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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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Gender Transformative Philanthropy [PDF]

, 2012
As foundations and other philanthropic institutions assess where they can maximize the social return on their charitable investments, many are looking at issues of gender norms and gender equity.
Alicia Jay, Jacqueline Ebanks, Kimberly Otis, Riki Wilchins, Stephen Foster, Susan Wefald   +5 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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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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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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Transforming aquatic agricultural systems towards gender equality: a five country review [PDF]

, 2012
Aquatic agricultural systems (AAS) are systems in which the annual production dynamics of freshwater and/or coastal ecosystems contribute significantly to total household income.
Chiuta, T.M., Choudhury, A., Ferrer, A., Husken, S.M.C., Kantor, P., Kura, Y., Kusakabe, K., Madzudzo, E., Maetala, R., Naved, R., Schwarz, A., Weeratunge, N.   +11 more
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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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Women and children first? Child abuse and child protection in sport [PDF]

, 2004
Child welfare and women's rights both feature prominently in contemporary debates on equal rights. Whereas gender equity has been a policy objective for the past thirty years in sport organizations, however, child abuse and protection have only recently
Brackenridge, CH
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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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