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Knowledge and Effects of Teenage Pregnancies Among the Adolescent Girls Between 13 To 19 Years at Mukono Parish Kanungu District – Uganda.

Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2020
Background:  Teenage pregnancy prevalence is at 25%, 16% of Ugandan women are married by the age of 15 years, and 53% by the age of 18 years. Available information reveals that teenage pregnancies carry a higher health risk and girls under 15 years are
Hubert Nkabura
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Life‐cycle living standards of male‐headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent research in economic history argues for using a household life cycle standard‐of‐living approach that includes the income and expenses of all household members and considers fluctuations in the household over the life course. This study builds on that approach by empirically examining the development of living standards in male‐headed ...
Anton Svensson
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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The mortality gradient in town and country: Social class and childhood mortality in Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines social‐class and urban–rural differentials in childhood mortality in Sweden from 1880 to 1910, a period of steady mortality decline, ongoing industrialization, and urbanization. Urbanization brought improvements in water quality and sanitation but also increased risks from overcrowding, pollution, and infectious diseases ...
Marcos Castillo, Martin Dribe
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Interpreting and Enacting the Sustainable Development Goals in Local Governments: Politicians’ and Managers’ Sensemaking and Sensegiving

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines how sensemaking and sensegiving processes shape the ways in which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) become meaningful and actionable in local governments. Drawing on a multiple case study of three Italian cities, it explores how politicians and managers engage with the SDGs.
Manuela Macinati, Francesca Manes‐Rossi   +1 more
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Hatching failure and embryo mortality in endangered populations of Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata)

Ibis, EarlyView.
Hatching failure represents a significant and growing barrier to reproductive success in threatened birds and yet is often poorly understood. Populations of the Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland have experienced significant declines over recent decades, and low breeding productivity is a major barrier to ...
Jamie Edward Thompson, Nicola Hemmings
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Does Deposit Insurance Promote Deposit Stability? Evidence from the Postal Savings System during the 1920s

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We evaluate whether deposit insurance (DI) promotes liquidity by influencing depositor behavior. We use the postal savings (PS) system and state‐adopted DI schemes during the 1920s to examine the effect of bank suspensions on PS deposit growth in pairs of border cities (DI versus non‐DI).
Lee K. Davison, Carlos D. Ramirez
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Eesti keel XVIII sajandi kirikumeetrikates

Keel ja Kirjandus
Since the second half of the 17th century, parish registers served as administrative documents in which local pastors recorded the births, marriages, and deaths of congregation members. The matrix language of the registers was German.
Kristiina Ross
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Modifiable Factors Associated With Substance Use Disorder Screening by Nurses: A Cross‐Sectional Survey

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To identify the training, organizational, attitudinal and competence factors associated with how frequently nurses screen patients for substance use disorder, and to determine which remain associated after demographic and structural characteristics are taken into account.
Gregory A. Carter, Wendy R. Miller
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Fertility decline in North-Central Namibia: An assessment of fertility in the period 1960-2000 based on parish registers

Demographic Research, 2005
This study examines fertility decline in North-Central Namibia in the period 1960-2000. A Scandinavian-type parish-register system, established in the beginning of 20th Century and still in use, provided register-based data for fertility analysis ...
Riikka Shemeikka, Veijo Notkola, Harri Siiskonen   +2 more
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