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To explore and compare attitudes of consumers (patients and their family members) and medical staff toward clinical … staff and consumers' attitudes and beliefs regarding clinical trials. Medical staff were more likely to have a favorable …
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rights. I argue that existing class, gender, and age hierarchies have shaped how the Defilement Law has been applied locally … men of lower social class) while simultaneously increasing the regulation of adolescent female sexuality and undermining … their autonomy. This paper demonstrates how ethnography and critical gender theory—which emphasizes the intersectionality of …
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sexuality and fertility of women, may be an obstacle to its diffusion. On the other hand, it may in the end be viewed as simply …
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reliance on gender socialization theory and a focus on straight (i.e., heterosexual) marriage. We extend this work with an …
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Critiques of gender mainstreaming (GM) as the officially agreed strategy to promote gender equity in health … internationally have reached a critical mass. There has been a notable lack of dialogue between gender advocates in the global north … debate on the shape of future action for gender equity in health, by uniquely bringing together the voices of disparate …
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In South Africa, both HIV and gender-based violence are highly prevalent. Gender inequalities give men considerable … evaluation of Stepping Stones, which is a participatory behavioural intervention for HIV prevention that seeks to be gender … change. They demonstrate the need to engage with women, both as victims of patriarchy and active supporters of the gender …
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This paper reports on a systematic review of qualitative research about vaginal practices in Sub-Saharan Africa, which used meta-ethnographic methods to understand their origins, their meanings for the women who use them, and how they have evolved in time and place. We included published...
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We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the United States using Logistic regression on a sample of over 16,000 individuals. We consider baselines from 1984 to 1993 and investigate mortality up to ten years from the baseline. We show that poor local...
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We incorporate anthropological insights into a stigma framework to elucidate the role of culture in threat perception and stigma among Chinese groups. Prior work suggests that genetic contamination that jeopardizes the extension of one's family lineage may comprise a culture-specific threat...
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Public attitudes and beliefs are relevant to both individual and structural discrimination. They are a reflection of … policy makers must confront when making decisions. Understanding and keeping track of these attitudes is critical to … phenomena. Practically nothing is known about how attitudes regarding individual and structural discrimination relate. Our study …
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