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Understanding the experience of interacting with service providers from the perspective of homeless women: a phenomenological study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Homeless women have few sources of social support but often interact with service providers to obtain or maintain health enhancing and health sustaining services and resources.
Biederman, Donna J.   +1 more
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless Annual Report

open access: yes, 2018
Annual progress report for the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless (TICH) discussing the organization's work and specific actions in various initiatives during ...
Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless
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Street health: Practitioner service provision for Maori homeless people in Auckland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Drawing insights from interviews with Maori homeless people, health professionals, and relevant local and international literatures, this chapter focuses on the provision of medical care to homeless people.
Groot, Shiloh Ann Maree   +4 more
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
wiley   +1 more source

Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless Annual Report

open access: yes, 2019
Annual progress report for the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless (TICH) discussing the organization's work and specific actions in various initiatives during ...
Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless
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Opening the Door Wider to Community Support of People With Serious Mental Illnesses: What States Can Learn From the IDD Experience

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The federal government should provide states with authorities under Medicaid that allow greater use of home and community‐based services for people with serious and persistent mental illness. This requires deemphasizing authorities that require budget neutrality in a post‐institutionalization world (Section 1115 waivers) and relying on ...
HAROLD POLLACK   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

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