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Gender disparities in childhood vaccination in India: exploring the role of son preference using NFHS-5 data

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
BackgroundEvery child has the fundamental human right to life-saving healthcare, including vaccination. Yet in India, this right is less accessible to girls in households shaped by son preference, a deep-rooted cultural bias that devalues girl children ...
Soumen Barik   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digital finance and migrant workers' urban integration: The mediation effect of the gender-earning gap

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
IntroductionIn the context of the wide application of digital finance, whether digital finance promotes or inhibits migrant workers' urban integration is an important issue.MethodsBased on microdata from the Chinese Social Survey (CSS) in 2019, we ...
Zhiheng Yang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate‐Smart Dairy Practices: The Role of Practice Clusters in Enhancing the Performance of Dairy Farms in Kenya

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Learns from Collaborative Digital Projects? Cultivating Critical Consciousness and Metacognition to Democratize Digital Literacy Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Collaborative group work is common in writing classrooms, especially ones assigning digital projects. While a wealth of scholarship theorizes collaboration and advocates for specific collaborative pedagogies, writing studies has yet to address the ways ...
Voss, Julia
core   +1 more source

Racial and Gender Wage Differentials in South Africa: What can Cohort Data tell? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Three subsequent years of the October Household Survey data are used to construct a synthetic panel. Preparing cross sectional data that way allows to better utilise individual information and to address temporal developments also in the absence of ...
Grün, Carola
core   +3 more sources

Impact of Sustainable Agricultural Practices on Labor Use Among Rice Farmers in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Mekong Delta (MKD), Vietnam has achieved high rice productivity through rapid intensification. However, this progress has led to environmental degradation and adverse economic and health effects. To mitigate these challenges, sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) have been promoted.
Nguyen Thi Thu Hien   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence and factors associated with covert contraceptive use in Kenya: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Family planning (FP) is a key intervention for preventing unplanned pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and maternal death. Involvement of both women and their partners promotes contraceptive acceptance, uptake and continuation, couple ...
Catherine Akoth   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A High‐Precision Dynamic Movement Recognition Algorithm Using Multimodal Biological Signals for Human–Machine Interaction

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This article describes a multimodal fusion data acquisition and processing system about electromyography for dynamic movement recognition and bioelectrical impedance for key posture recognition. In addition, a new dynamic–static fusion algorithm strategy is designed.
Chenhao Cao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remaining life expectancy among older people in a rural area of Vietnam: trends and socioeconomic inequalities during a period of multiple transitions

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2009
Background Better understanding of the trends and disparities in health at old age in terms of life expectancy will help to provide appropriate responses to the growing needs of health and social care for the older population in the context of limited ...
Phuc Ho D   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Structural problems without structural solutions? Youth leaders' perceptions of their community

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract As young people explore and reflect on the conditions of their neighborhoods and communities, they can forge a critical consciousness—merging their perspectives and analysis to direct both individual and collective actions. Photovoice is a methodological tool that allows participants to document their perspectives and analysis and discuss with
Linnea L. Hjelm   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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