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Differential Impact of School Segregation in the Performance of Native and Non-Native Students in Spain

Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2021
There is evidence of the impact of school segregation on students’ academic achievement, but it is debated whether the extent of this impact is dependent on students’ socioeconomic status, or on their native or non-native condition.
Francisco Javier Murillo, Guillermina Belavi   +1 more
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Health and Social Justice [PDF]

The Lancet, 2004
AbstractEnvision a society in which all people have the ability to achieve the central health capabilities of avoiding premature death and escapable morbidity, and where everyone has comprehensive health insurance and access to high‐quality health care.
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Preferences for HIV testing services among young people in Nigeria

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Despite high HIV incidence rates among young people in Nigeria, less than 24% of this population have ever tested for HIV. These low HIV testing rates suggest that current testing services may not align with their testing preferences.
Ucheoma Nwaozuru, Juliet Iwelunmor, Jason J. Ong, Sawsan Salah, Chisom Obiezu-Umeh, Oliver Ezechi, Joseph D. Tucker   +6 more
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Is it time to RE-AIM? A systematic review of economic empowerment as HIV prevention intervention for adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa using the RE-AIM framework

Implementation Science Communications, 2020
Background Economic empowerment (EE) HIV prevention programs for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa are gaining traction as effective strategies to reduce HIV risk and vulnerabilities among this population.
Juliet Iwelunmor, Ucheoma Nwaozuru, Chisom Obiezu-Umeh, Florida Uzoaru, John Ehiri, Jami Curley, Oliver Ezechi, Collins Airhihenbuwa, Fred Ssewamala   +8 more
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Bounce Forward: A School-Based Prevention Programme for Building Resilience in a Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Context

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Socioeconomic status is a strong predictor of normative development and well-being in young people. It is well-known that growing up in a socioeconomically disadvantaged context may lead to negative outcomes, both in childhood and in adulthood.
Buket Kara, Rochelle Morris, Alice Brown, Pauline Wigglesworth, Joshua Kania, Angie Hart, Barbara Mezes, Josh Cameron, Suna Eryigit-Madzwamuse   +8 more
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Implementation Strategies to Enhance Youth-Friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2021
Introduction: Youth-friendly health service (YFHS) interventions are a promising, cost-effective approaches to delivering sexual and reproductive services that cater to the developmental needs of young people.
Chisom Obiezu-Umeh, Ucheoma Nwaozuru, Stacey Mason, Titilola Gbaja-Biamila, Titilola Gbaja-Biamila, David Oladele, David Oladele, Oliver Ezechi, Juliet Iwelunmor   +8 more
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A multidisciplinary definition and evaluation of resilience: the role of social justice in defining resilience

Social Science Research Network, 2019
This paper aims to explore how insights from the philosophical and social science literature can be incorporated into the definition of resilient infrastructure so that considerations of social justice can be accounted for and addressed more adequately ...
N. Doorn, P. Gardoni, C. Murphy
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Achieving Child Friendly Justice through Child Friendly Methods: Let’s Start with the Right to Information

Social Inclusion, 2017
Making the justice process ‘child friendly’ is a key priority for the children’s rights community. An abundance of commentary has been produced by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to highlight how justice proceedings can be made more ...
Helen Stalford, Liam Cairns, Jeremy Marshall   +2 more
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“…he’s going to be facing the same things that he faced prior to being locked up”: perceptions of service needs for substance use disorders

Health & Justice, 2023
Background High rates of substance use disorders (SUDs) exist among justice-involved populations (i.e., persons incarcerated or recently released).
Sara Beeler, Tanya Renn, Carrie Pettus
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Scientific Evidence of Social Impact to Eliminate Abuse: The PCCP Project of the Society of Jesus

RIMCIS
Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to benefit from scientific knowledge. In the case of the social problem of sexual abuse, we already have scientific knowledge about what actions are most ...
Sandra Racionero-Plaza, John Guiney
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