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Physical activity and cardiovascular disease among African-born people living in the US: a scoping review. [PDF]

BMJ Public Health
Jones A, Onyeise D, Wafford QE, Owusu B, Ibe-Lamberts K, Ajibewa T.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The monitoring of the rights of the child: a child rights-based approach

, 2007
PhDDue to the lacunae between legal obligations to human rights and the actual situation, monitoring is an essential component of the international and national human rights system.
Collins, Tara Maeve
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Urban health research: shaping integrated policies for health, equity, sustainability, and climate. [PDF]

Eur J Public Health
Subiza-Pérez M, Pérez K, Roué-Le Gall A, Pearce J, Lakerveld J, Franco M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Heterogeneity and Female-Headed Households in Sri Lanka: Vulnerability and Resilience in a Transitional Development Society

, 2014
Since the 1970s, female-headed households (FHHs) in developing countries have often been used in development literature as a proxy for poverty and vulnerability.
Adikaram Boyagoda, Adikaram Mudiyanselage Kumudika Suramya
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Moral distress among health care workers and decision-makers undermines tuberculosis infection screening and treatment programs for migrants in Canada: a reflexive thematic analysis. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Law S, Armstrong G, Schwartzman K, Campbell JR, Johnston J, Silva DS.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Women's March on Seattle: Marchers heading north on 4th Ave, at the corner of 4th Ave. and University St., Seattle, January 21, 2017

, 2017
Text on signs read: "Informed active citizenship is the foundation of democracy"; "I need you Planned Parenthood [with a drawing of an intra-uterine device]"; "Our family stands for helping others, science, equality, love, peace, women, family, respect ...
Richardson, Brian
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Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
wiley   +1 more source

Women's March on Seattle: Adult and child marching together, Seattle, January 21, 2017

, 2017
Text on clothing reads: "No limits for girls and women!". PH Coll 1467.ColmanJ121The Women's March on Seattle (also written as Womxn's March) was held on Saturday, January 21, 2017 to promote policies regarding civil and human rights and other issues ...
Colman, Jamie
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