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Objectives. Housing conditions were assessed in 2 Canadian First Nations communities. Possible associations with tuberculosis (TB) were explored. Study design. Participatory community-based survey. Methods. Qualitative and quantitative data on housing and health were collected in the northern Dené c...
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PMID: 21524357
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Turkey has improved the status of women and the maternal and perinatal health statistics in the last decades. However, discrepancies between urban-rural and east-other regions continue, with some improvements. The education of girls is promoted and maternal age at marriage and at first delivery has i...
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PMID: 21534333
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This article presents a rights-based approach to the way occupational health and safety is understood, departing from medical, engineering, and technocratic approaches that dominated the field throughout the 20th century. Moving toward a 21st century concept of the good society - based on citizenship...
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PMID: 21447887
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This article examines the (re)presentations of militarised children in contemporary global politics. In particular, it looks at the iconic image of the 21st century's child soldier, the subject of which is constructed as a menacing yet pitiable product of the so-called new wars of th...
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PMID: 21961183
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Efforts to provide HIV prevention, treatment, and care to injecting drug users (IDU) are shaped by tensions between approaches that regard IDU as criminals and those regarding drug-dependent individuals as patients deserving treatment and human rights. Advocates for IDU health and human rights find...
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PMID: 21045602
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Human milk has been and it is an important means of survival for the human being. The history of the breastfeeding has been linked to the woman's social and cultural situation and it has gone by different vicissitudes. During a long period the breastfeeding was considered as an unsightly unworthy pra...
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PMID: 21322188
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All babies have a human right to breastmilk, based on the right to life, to adequate nutrition and to the highest attainable standard of health, and based on women's rights, which include the right to breastfeed, to breastfeeding education and to paid maternity leave. This article examines internati...
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PMID: 21226418
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The intensification of the use of terms from economics and management can be dated from the introduction of neo-liberal policies in our Western democracies, but the economic discourse circulates with a life of its own. The use of the language of economics and management has spread generally through...
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PMID: 20863178
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The aim of this paper is to discuss the restriction of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to the treatment of psychiatric disorders and the prohibition of psychosurgery and deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the NSW Mental Health Act 2007 (MHA), and to examine these restrictions from clinical and human ri...
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PMID: 20863180
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We show how each group has succeeded not only through building the 'voice' of the poor to make forceful demands, but also through facilitating the development of 'receptive social environments' in which the rich are willing to take these voices seriously. Community psychologists need to pay more att...
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PMID: 20631042
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The economic crisis in the United States has led to increased media coverage of older workers being laid off, forced to retire, or working longer than planned. Embedded in these reports are the intimations of workplace abuse. Social workers need to start taking into account ageism and abuse in the w...
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PMID: 20865626
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We describe four approaches (or tools) that can be used to improve social inclusion for people with mental disabilities: legislation, community-based supports and services, antistigma/antidiscrimination initiatives, and system monitoring and evaluation. While legislative solutions are the most preva...
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PMID: 20592591
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This study was done to develop a web-based education program for nurses working in nursing homes. The focus was on the rights of older adults.
The program was designed based on the Network-Based Instructional System Design (NBISD) model and was operated and evaluated between July 2007 and June 2008....
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PMID: 20820113
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This article examines state legislators' public position on gay and lesbian rights by using responses to survey data on their positions toward civil unions and inclusion of sexual orientation in anti-job discrimination laws. The research finds that although state legislators are mixed on their posit...
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PMID: 20665332
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This paper has been developed from a version originally submitted as an assignment for the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) Certificate in Health Services Leadership and Management Course. It has been revised in the light of the independent review led by Professor Jimmy Steele into National H...
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PMID: 20594427
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We combine considerations of a qualitative study carried out in São João de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro State, joining leaders from Pastoral da Criança in focal group sessions. The unemployment, the sub-employment and the difficulty in reaching the public health system, the social assistance and basic...
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PMID: 20694330
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We conducted a discourse analysis of news coverage from 2004-2005 of a trial in Cameroon on oral PrEP for HIV prevention, to identify messages, communication techniques, and sources of messages that were amplified via media. We identified two parallel discourses: one on ethical concerns about the Ca...
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PMID: 20569146
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The second conference of the European Association of Health Law took place in the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, Scotland on 15-16 October 2009. The event was generously sponsored by the British Academy and the AHRC/SCRIPT research centre based in the School of Law at the University of Ed...
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PMID: 20666289
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We undertook qualitative interviews with 209 injecting drug users (IDUs) (primarily heroin) in three Russian cities: Moscow, Barnaul, and Volgograd. We explored IDU's accounts of HIV and health risk. Policing practices and how these violate health and self, emerged as a primary theme. Findings show...
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PMID: 20397872
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This article explores the violence reduction potential in the intersection between health, criminal justice, and development. It emphasizes public health, rule of law, and equality-driven socioeconomic development as principal concerns in preventing violence. In parts of Latin America, violence has...
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PMID: 20602073
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Valuing people and Valuing people's oral health both advocate choice and inclusion for people with learning disabilities. Research suggests that services and policy and guidance, while prescriptive and available, have not been effective in reducing oral health inequalities for people with learning d...
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PMID: 20228748
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The New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) formed in 1987 with the intention of reforming the policy that governed prostitution. The Prostitution Reform Act 2003 was created to protect sex workers from exploitation and to give them the same rights as other workers by protecting their occupation h...
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PMID: 20357350
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During times of war, physicians are sometimes faced with the conflict of their professional duties to ensure the ethical principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, patient autonomy, and self-determination, within the framework of the proper ethical conduct in the practice of medicine, and the oblig...
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PMID: 20684174
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Genetic testing of children is the subject of ethical and legal debate. On the one hand, the literature emphasises the personal interests and rights of the individual child. On the other, the interests of the parents and the family as a whole are discussed. English law relies by and...
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PMID: 19609725
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Genetic testing of children is the subject of ethical and legal debate. On the one hand, the literature emphasises the personal interests and rights of the individual child. On the other, the interests of the parents and the family as a whole are discussed. English law relies by and...
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PMID: 19609725
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Genetic testing of children is the subject of ethical and legal debate. On the one hand, the literature emphasises the personal interests and rights of the individual child. On the other, the interests of the parents and the family as a whole are discussed. English law relies by and...
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PMID: 19609725
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Genetic testing of children is the subject of ethical and legal debate. On the one hand, the literature emphasises the personal interests and rights of the individual child. On the other, the interests of the parents and the family as a whole are discussed. English law relies by and...
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PMID: 19609725
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Genetic testing of children is the subject of ethical and legal debate. On the one hand, the literature emphasises the personal interests and rights of the individual child. On the other, the interests of the parents and the family as a whole are discussed. English law relies by and...
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PMID: 19609725
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