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Social Problems (20):
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We must take it as an object of ethnographic analysis and explore bow it is invoked, debated, and resisted in specific contexts. Critical ethnographies of right to health discourse and practice can enlighten us, and help us enlighten scholars in other fields, to the complexity, messiness, and "mushi...
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PMID: 22007560
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A visit to the ED represents a vital opportunity for victims of human trafficking to break free from their exploiters, but this opportunity is often lost, either because ED personnel don't recognize the subtle cues that a person may be a trafficking victim, or because they don't know how to handle th...
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PMID: 21809701
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Leprosy Review (82)1 2011
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Growing evidence suggests that experiences of financial strain and over-indebtedness can contribute to problems of physical and mental health. This article contends that there is a need to carefully examine recent neoliberally informed symbolic and material transformations in the practices and experi...
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PMID: 21842576
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The reliance on foreign nurses is symptomatic of ineffective staffing practices affecting health care professionals, particularly nurses, in the United States and other industrialized nations. This demonstrates a failure to alleviate the nursing shortage. The influx of foreign nurses (brain-drain) ha...
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PMID: 21941929
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Frontiers (Lincoln) (32)1 2011
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Third World Quarterly (32)4 2011
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Drawing on the relevant literature, this article explores key debates and controversies on child labour in the context of Africa and Asia. It first identifies and analyses three dominant discourses on child labour: 1) the work-free childhoods perspective; 2) the socio-cultural perspe...
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PMID: 21961185
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Third World Quarterly (32)4 2011
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This article uses recent experience in Angola to demonstrate that young fighters were not adequately or effectively assisted after war ended in 2002. The government's framework excluded children from accessing formal disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programmes, and...
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PMID: 21961184
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In Japan, national suicide countermeasures have been promoted since enactment of the "Basic Act on Suicide Countermeasures" in 2006, and the "Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Initiative" in 2007. The key element of the Japanese countermeasures is expressed by the word "comprehensive," which indicates...
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PMID: 21404636
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Urban Studies (48)8 2011
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For domiciled individuals, homeless people provide a disturbing reminder that all is not right with the world. Reactions to seeing homeless people frequently encompass repulsion, discomfort, sympathy and sometimes futility. This paper considers domiciled constructions of homeless peo...
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PMID: 21954486
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We used data from the General Social Survey to describe race-specific trends in the US population's attitude toward homosexuality, reporting of male same-sex sexual behavior, and behaviors that might mediate the relationship between stigma and HIV transmission among MSM.
The proportion of blacks who...
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PMID: 20838226
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The Lancet (376)9755 2010
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National and international efforts to eradicate tsetse fly-borne human and animal trypanosomiasis are critically evaluated, and possible reasons for their failure in many cases are discussed. Some formerly performed campaigns in specific areas with positive results cannot be taken as examples to solv...
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PMID: 21104211
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This study investigated the internal consistency, factor structure, and concurrent validity of the Social Problem Solving Inventory-Spanish Version for Hispanics (SPSI-R-Hispanic), a translation of the Social Problem Solving Inventory-Revised (SPSI-R; D'Zurilla, Nezu & Maydeu-Olivares, 2002), in a N...
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PMID: 21058813
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The Lancet (376)9739 2010
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Prevention Science (11)2 2010
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We examined whether the Communities That Care (CTC; Hawkins and Catalano 1992) model had a positive impact on risk/protective factors and academic and behavioral outcomes among adolescents in a quasi-experimental effectiveness study. We conducted a longitudinal study of CTC in Pennsylvania utilizing...
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PMID: 20020209
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We have virtually no access to individual terrorists; only their actions are visible. The founders of the Italian terrorist group, the Red Brigades, on the other hand, have written about their experiences and have exhaustively explained their motivations. The author's premise is that these autobiogr...
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PMID: 20590927
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American Historical Review (115)2 2010
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Teenage motherhood is routinely discussed in medical and nursing journals as a cause for concern and a social problem. Taking these accounts as a starting point, this paper uses discursive analysis to understand how the teenage mother is produced as an unsuitable mother. Beginning with a 'Public Hea...
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PMID: 20155532
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From the perspective of prosocial behavior, bystander intervention is conditioned by situational factors; from an informal social control perspective, bystander intervention has been demonstrated to be associated with level of crime and violence at the community level. By drawing on findings in two...
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PMID: 19270269
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Soins; la revue de reference infirmiere ()744 Suppl 2010
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Social Work (55)2 2010
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Since the 1988 passage of the Indian Gaming and Regulatory Act (IGRA), American Indian tribal communities have rapidly opened up casinos. American Indian participation in recreational gambling has increased, resulting in an increase in problem and pathological gambling. However, increased revenues f...
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PMID: 20408355
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Social Work (55)2 2010
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By now, most social workers are familiar with the issue of human trafficking. However, many are likely unfamiliar with research indicating that youths constitute the most vulnerable group in the United States for becoming victims of sex trafficking and that most women in prostitution actually entere...
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PMID: 20408359
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Social Work (55)2 2010
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Substance Use and Misuse (45)4 2010
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Data were available from general population surveys carried out in six countries in the years 2000 to 2005 under the auspices of Gender, Alcohol and Culture: An International Study (GENACIS). A total of 2089 adults aged 24-32 in the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Isle of Man, Spain, Sweden, and the Un...
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PMID: 20141463
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Gang membership among public school youth is about as prevalent in Trinidad and Tobago as it is in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, but further research is needed. Although risk factors associated with gang involvement were present in all four domains, peer-individual risk factors were...
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PMID: 20414508
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Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) is a very different kind of work from On the Origin of Species (1859). This "otherness" is most extreme in the character of the explanations that Darwin offers in the Expression. Far from promoting his theory of natural select...
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PMID: 20338535
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American Historical Review (115)1 2010
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International Migration (48)4 2010
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We envision human trafficking as a monopolistically competitive industry in which traffickers act as intermediaries between vulnerable individuals and employers by supplying differentiated products to employers. In the human trafficking market, the consumers are employers of trafficked labour and th...
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PMID: 20645472
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Hemingway Review (29)2 2010
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"The Porter" brings us close to the nightmare plaguing white America's collective imagination during the 20th century's formative years, when white and black collided and racial definition conflated. Hemingway's piece about a young white boy, his father, and the African-American porter who serves th...
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PMID: 20658775
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Social History (35)3 2010
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This paper notes the prominence of self-help groups (SHGs) within current anti-poverty policy in India, and analyses the impacts of government- and NGO-backed SHGs in rural North Karnataka. It argues that self-help groups represent a partial neoliberalisation of civil society in that they address po...
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PMID: 20645449
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Gender & History (11)1 2010
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World hospitals and health services : the official journal of the International Hospital Federation (46)4 2010
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Healthcare has as its framework, a culture of disease which primarily comes from biology, and is meant to: diagnose, cure, prevent and rehabilitate. Health problems show that the efforts and great advances in medicine are not enough. To improve actions within this same culture does n...
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PMID: 21391449
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New hibernia review (14)2 2010
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New Literary History (41)1 2010
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We offer the kind of individualized perspective on everyday life that other scholars have provided for high culture, but which does not exist for other realms of existence in Harlem, even in early twentieth century sociological studies of black life. Where scholars seeking to distinguish the neighbo...
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PMID: 21140932
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This study utilises eight alternative measures of institutions and the instrumental variable method to examine the impacts of institutions on poverty. The estimates show that an economy with a robust system to control corruption, an effective government, and a stable political system will create the...
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PMID: 20645460
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Kinderkrankenschwester : Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialpadiatrie und Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde (29)1 2010
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Mexican studies (26)2 2010
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In the early twentieth century, the concept of “degeneration” helped to turn “drugs” into a problem of national importance in Mexico. By invoking this concept, Mexico's sanitary authorities secured provisions in the Constitution of 1917 which specifically authorized a newly constituted Depar...
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PMID: 20821890
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These observations further our understanding of problem gambling among women in Canada and confirm that problem gambling among women is an important public health concern. Frequent VLT gambling, both outside and inside casinos, and other casino games are associated with the largest odds of problem g...
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PMID: 20113540
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Sociological 4 (51)3 2010
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Our study examines whether school-based segregation is predictive of arrests of juveniles for violent crimes in U.S. metro areas. Using Census, Uniform Crime Report, and Common Core data for 204 metro areas, a measure of school-based racial segregation, Theil's entropy index, is decomposed into two...
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PMID: 20607910
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Social Science 4 (91)3 2010
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We find that the local effect of social integration is dominant. The suicide rate when a state supports the losing candidate will tend to be lower than if the state had supported the winning candidate-4.6 percent lower for males and 5.3 percent lower for females. Conclusion: Social integration works...
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PMID: 20645463
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Catholic missionaries in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Africa more commonly than Protestants purchased slaves to build their mission stations. This article provides a micro-historical analysis of the redemption of child slaves by the Holy Ghost Fathers in Soyo, West Central Africa, in...
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PMID: 20099406
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American Historical Review (114)5 2009
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Perceptual and Motor Skills (109)3 2009
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In a nation sample of 75 countries around the world, higher suicide rates of the total male, and female population corresponded to higher levels on the superordinate K factor from differential K theory, thought to reflect a set of mutually interrelated life history and reproductive strategy traits....
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PMID: 20178273
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Revista de Salud Pública (11)6 2009
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Since 1997, the use of methamphetamine as a drug of abuse has been widespread in the United States. While several forms of amphetamine are useful in some areas of medicine, methamphetamine as an abused substance is associated with severe and multifaceted consequences. Problems associated with the ab...
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PMID: 19999677
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Australasian Psychiatry (17 Suppl 1) 2009
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Obstacles met during the course of this research project highlight the importance of developing methodologies able to capture the rich and specific outcomes of traditional activities in an Aboriginal context....
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PMID: 19579121
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I focus on issues related to the transformation of stereotypes in statements about gender differences that claim to be 'scientific'--outlining the socio-political agendas of such statements....
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PMID: 19306118
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