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Public Action for Public Goods [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Iyer, Lakshmi, Somanathan, Rohini   +2 more
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Public Health in Action [PDF]

American Journal of Public Health, 2014
IMPACT. 1: The focus of the class for 2012 and 2013 was poverty and privilege. Students learned about poverty as a social determinant of health and had an opportunity to examine personal privilege in a safe environment. -- 2.
Love, Randi
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Convening Publics: The Parasitical Spaces of Public Action [PDF]

, 2008
About the book:\ud \ud Political Geography is a core subdiscipline of Human Geography, the Handbook of Political Geography will provide a highly contextualised and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research. Edited by key scholars, with international contributions from acknowledged authorities on the relevant research, the Handbook of ...
Barnett, Clive
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Public Health Action for public health action [PDF]

Public Health Action, 2014
The last day of the final module of our Luxembourg based-Structured Operational Research Training Initiative (SORT IT) course has arrived. SORT IT supports countries to 1) undertake operational research in accordance with their own priorities, 2) develop adequate and sustainable operational research capacity in public health programmes, and 3) create ...
Anthony D, Harries, Laura, Bianchi, Paul M, Jensen, Moka, Pantages, Karen, Bissell, Ajay M V, Kumar, Sven Gudmund, Hinderaker, Katie, Tayler-Smith, Rafael, Van den Bergh, Wilma, van den Boogaard, Marcel, Manzi, Petros, Isaakidis, Anthony J, Reid, Rony, Zachariah   +13 more
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Association of identification of facility and transportation for childbirth with institutional delivery in high priority districts of Uttar Pradesh, India

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021
Background Timely and skilled care is key to reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. Birth preparedness involves preparation for safe childbirth during the antenatal period to reach the appropriate health facility for ensuring safe delivery.
Divya Rajvanshi, John Anthony, Vasanthakumar Namasivayam, Bidyadhar Dehury, Ramesh Banadakoppa Manjappa, Ravi Prakash, Dhanunjaya Rao Chintada, Shagun Khare, Lisa Avery, Maryanne Crockett, Shajy Isac, Marissa Becker, James Blanchard, Shiva Halli   +13 more
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The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in humanitarian settings: epidemiology, health service utilization, and health care seeking behavior in Bangui and surrounding areas, Central African Republic

Conflict and Health, 2023
Background Despite increasing evidence on COVID-19, few studies have been conducted in humanitarian settings and none have investigated the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic in the Central African Republic. We studied the COVID-19 epidemiology,
Chiara Altare, Natalya Kostandova, Gbètoho Fortuné Gankpe, Patricia Nalimo, Abdoul Azizi Almoustapha Abaradine, IMPACT CAR Team, Sophie Bruneau, Caroline Antoine, Paul B. Spiegel   +8 more
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Risk factors for childhood illness and death in rural Uttar Pradesh, India: perspectives from the community, community health workers and facility staff

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Uttar Pradesh (UP), India continues to have a high burden of mortality among young children despite recent improvement. Therefore, it is vital to understand the risk factors associated with under-five (U5) deaths and episodes of severe illness
Kanchan Srivastava, Ranjana Yadav, Lorine Pelly, Elisabeth Hamilton, Gaurav Kapoor, Aman Mohan Mishra, Parwez Anis, Maryanne Crockett   +7 more
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Association between sexual orientation acceptance and suicidal ideation, substance use, and internalised homophobia amongst the pink carpet Y cohort study of young gay, bisexual, and queer men in Singapore

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Gay, bisexual and queer (GBQ) men are frequently subjected to minority stressors that have negative impacts on their health. Milestones that include the acceptance and disclosure of sexual identity amongst GBQ men are hence key instruments in ...
Clarence Ong, Rayner Kay Jin Tan, Daniel Le, Avin Tan, Adrian Tyler, Calvin Tan, Chronos Kwok, Sumita Banerjee, Mee Lian Wong   +8 more
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Hunger and Public Action [PDF]

Choice Reviews Online, 1991
Abstract This book analyses the role of public action in solving the problem of hunger in the modern world. The study is divided into four parts. The first, making extensive use of the concepts of entitlements and capabilities explores the interaction of nutritional, economic, social, and political elements and their influence on hunger ...
Drèze, Jean, Sen, Amartya
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Social capital and chemsex initiation in young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men: the pink carpet Y cohort study

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2021
Background Young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (YMSM) are especially vulnerable to the risks associated with sexualized substance use, or ‘chemsex’.
Rayner Kay Jin Tan, Caitlin Alsandria O’Hara, Wee Ling Koh, Daniel Le, Avin Tan, Adrian Tyler, Calvin Tan, Chronos Kwok, Sumita Banerjee, Mee Lian Wong   +9 more
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