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Beyond safety net value(s): Tourist hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the shape of care and value through an ethnographic study of an intensive, temporary housing intervention for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, California, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Building on a new anthropological theory of value, the results highlight the slipperiness between surveillance and care,
Naomi C. Schoenfeld
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Blood Lipid Level, Electrocardiogram and Myocardial Enzyme Level in Occupational Noise Exposure Population and Analysis of Health Education Effect.

Noise Health
Chen Y, Du P, Wu Q, Zhong X, Shi T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Association between individual occupational noise exposure and overweight/obesity among automotive manufacturing workers in South China. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Yu J, Cui J, Huang H, Zhang J, Li X, Ruan Y, Ou Z, Wang Z.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“We always heal like this”: Illness management and identity expression in Latin American migrants in Spain

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal occupational noise exposure during pregnancy and children's early language acquisition. [PDF]

PLoS One
Jungewelter S, Taskinen H, Sallmén M, Lindbohm ML, Airo E, Remes J, Huotilainen M, Jansson-Verkasalo E.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Deterministic Fetal Programming: Intrauterine Exposures and the Multifactorial Origins of Adiposity

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Excess adiposity is not a recently developed problem but has existed since at least the upper Paleolithic, allowing evolutionary selection pressures to adapt the physiology of the pregnant woman and the feto‐placental unit for maternal and fetal protection.
Gernot Desoye, Ursula Hiden, Evelyn Jantscher‐Krenn, Herbert Fluhr, Jonathan C. Wells, Sonja Entringer, Mireille N. M. van Poppel   +6 more
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Association of occupational noise exposure and shift work with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a cross-sectional study of male workers in the Chinese automobile manufacturing industry. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Zhang J, Zhang Y, Qiu CX, Zeng W, Ruan Y, Gao Y, Ma W, Wu K, Zhang J, Cui J, Ye C, Liang J, Wang Z.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Do Strikes and Lockouts Affect Applications to Danish Public Service Professional Education Programs? A Synthetic Control Analysis

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With fewer young people entering public service, public employers and the corresponding trade unions aim at signaling that they offer attractive working conditions. However, in the struggle for attractive conditions, labor market conflicts occur between public employers and public sector unions when bargains fail. According to signaling theory,
Christian Heide, Florian Keppeler
wiley   +1 more source

Structured Inequality, Uncertain Lifespans: Demographic Perspectives on Predicting Individual‐Level Longevity

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract There are striking disparities in life expectancy across sociodemographic groups in the United States, shaped by structural forces such as racism, class inequality, and policy environments. To what extent do sociodemographic characteristics structure—or fail to structure—individual lifespans? Using U.S.
Casey F. Breen, Nathan Seltzer
wiley   +1 more source