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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. +11 more
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Gender Equity in Combating HIV
Nurse Educator, 2011 Almost 3 million people are newly diagnosed with HIV annually with only 1 in 8 receiving antiretroviral therapy.1 A new focus on this ongoing epidemic is needed. Healthcare personnel should examine what drives the spread of HIV in various populations to develop multifaceted prevention strategies.
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The Antecedents of a ‘Chilly Climate’ for Women Faculty in Higher Education [PDF]
, 2011 The literature on women’s under-representation in academia asserts that faculty women face a ‘chilly climate’, but there are few theoretically based studies examining this proposition.
Griffin, Andrea, Maranto, Cheryl
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BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Due to social-structural marginalization, sex workers experience health inequities including a high prevalence of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections, mental health disorders, trauma, and substance use, alongside a multitude of ...
Miriam T. H. Harris +4 more
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BMJ Global HealthIntroduction The global evidence base on intimate partner violence (IPV) prevalence and risk factors is predominantly cross-sectional, limiting clarity in changes over time.
Peter Gichangi +5 more
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Breaking the Barriers to Specialty Care: Practical Ideas to Improve Health Equity and Reduce Cost - Striving for Equity in Specialty Care [PDF]
, 2016 Tremendous health outcome inequities remain in the U.S. across race and ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and geography—particularly for those with serious conditions such as lung or skin cancer, HIV/AIDS, or cardiovascular
Chris Carlson +5 more
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The´Efficiency`of Equity [PDF]
In standard neo-classical economics, efficiency and equity issues are largely treated as separate and separable issues. In this paper, I will discuss findings from four strands of literature that challenge this separability and in fact suggest that ...
Stephan Klasen
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Efik traditional marriage rites- A gender perspective [PDF]
, 2016 This paper investigated Efik marriage rites from a gender perspective. Marriage in Africa is a union between a man and a woman (monogamy) or mainly between a man and women (polygyny), or between a woman and men (polyandry), though this is very rare.
Ubong Ekpenyong, E. Y. O.
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Norms shifting and behavior change in uncertain times: Assessing the state of the evidence
Global Public HealthThis commentary reflects on the current state of evidence on social norms interventions focused on improving health and economic outcomes for adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries.
Sohail Agha +9 more
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