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Perception of effective access to health services in Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation, one year after the peace accords in Colombia: a cross-sectional study [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2020
Backgrounds: The signing of the peace accords in Colombia created challenges that are inherent to post-conflict transitions. One of those is the process of reintegrating ex-combatants into society, in which ensuring their rights to health is a ...
Julián Alfredo Fernández-Niño, Lud Magdy Chavarro, Ana Beatriz Vásquez-Rodríguez, Maylen Liseth Rojas-Botero, Ginna Esmeralda Hernández-Neuta, Ana Maria Peñuela-Poveda, David Alejandro Rodríguez   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Women and migration. Introduction to migration

, 2015
Women and migration is part of the Introduction to Migration series from the Integration up North project. The series provides a basic guide to migration for people working in public sector organisations: local authorities (including health services ...
Smith, Kate, Migration Yorkshire
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High prevalence of current tobacco smoking among patients with tuberculosis and people living with HIV in Jordan: A cross-sectional survey

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2023
Introduction Continued smoking by patients with tuberculosis (TB) and people living with HIV (PLHIV) leads to adverse treatment outcomes. Estimates of tobacco use among the population are scarce in the Eastern Mediterranean region, where the burden of TB
Ayaka Teshima, Ayah A. Shatnawi, Srinath Satyanarayana, Yousef S. Khader, Ibrahim F. Maia, Nevin C. Wilson   +5 more
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Financial Constraints, Social Policy and Migration: Evidence from Indonesia [PDF]

, 2014
This paper combines insights from the New Economics of Labour Migration and Sen’s capability approach to analyse how financial constraints and social policy in the sending country influence migration decisions of households.
Mahendra, Edo
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Internal migration related factors among dengue patients in Western Province, Sri Lanka

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2019
Introduction: In recent years, Sri Lanka has experienced a surge in the incidence of dengue. Among other reasons, internal migration of people into dengue-high risk areas is thought to be an important factor for the rising case load.
Sharika Peiris, Indrakantha P. Welgama, Kolitha Wickramage, Chrishantha Abeysena   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

International migration: Trends, determinants and policy effects [PDF]

, 2018
What have been the main trends and drivers of international migration over the last century, and to what extent have migration policies been effective in shaping the volume, direction, timing, and selection of immigration and emigration?
Mahendra, E., Varela, M., Mahendra, Edo, Czaika, Mathias, Flahaux, M.-L., Flahaux, Marie Laurence, Marie‐Laurence Flahaux, Katharina Natter, Flahaux, Marie‐laurence, Vezzoli, S., Flahaux, Marie-Laurence, Mathias Czaika, Natter, Katharina, Czaika, M., Simona Vezzoli, María Villares‐Varela, Vezzoli, Simona, Hein de Haas, Villares-Varela, M., Haas, H. de, Natter, K., Edo Mahendra, de Haas, Hein, Flahaux, M.L., Villares‐, Haas, Hein, De, Vezzoli, Simona; id_orcid, Villares-Varela, Maria, Villares‐varela, María, Manhendra, Edo, de Haas, H., Villares‐Varela, M.   +31 more
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Migration transitions: a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the developmental drivers of international migration [PDF]

, 2010
This paper aims to advance a conceptual framework on the developmental drivers of international migration processes and to provide an empirical test drawing on the global migrant origin database.
de Haas, Hein
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The performance and yield of tuberculosis testing algorithms using microscopy, chest x-ray, and Xpert MTB/RIF

Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2019
Setting: The introduction of Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) and renewed interest in chest x-ray (CXR) for tuberculosis testing has provided additional choices to the smear-based diagnostic algorithms used by TB programs previously.
Jacob Creswell, Zhi Zhen Qin, Rajendra Gurung, Bikash Lamichhane, Deepak Kumar Yadav, Mohan Kumar Prasai, Nirmala Bista, Lal Mani Adhikari, Bishwa Rai, Santat Sudrungrot   +9 more
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Spousal violence against women and its consequences on pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health of women in India

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background Globally, one in three women experienced domestic violence. Alike the scenario observed in India, and a very few studies talk about violence and its consequences on women's health.
Mahadev Bramhankar, R. S. Reshmi
doaj   +1 more source

International migration and “educated unemployment” [PDF]

Journal of Development Economics, 2007
This paper provides a novel explanation of “educated unemployment”, which is a salient feature of the labor markets in a number of developing countries. In a simple job-search framework we show that “educated unemployment” is caused by the prospect of international migration, that is, by the possibility of a “brain drain”.
Stark, Oded, Fan, C. Simon
openaire   +5 more sources