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An Ethnographic Study Of Injecting Drug Users And Men Who Have Sex With Men In Selected States In Nigeria, Enhancing Nigeria's Hiv/Aids Response (Enr) Programme Jan 2012

An Ethnographic Study Of Injecting Drug Users And Men Who Have Sex With Men In Selected States In Nigeria, Enhancing Nigeria's Hiv/Aids Response (Enr) Programme

HIV and AIDS

An ethnographic pre-assessment study of the behavioral dynamics of men who have sex with men (MSM) and injecting drug users (IDU) was conducted in 2009 as an integral part of the 2010 Integrated Biological and Behavioural Surveillance Survey (IBBSS). The study took place in Northern and Southern Nigeria and provided rich contextual information on the logistic and scientific factors that would aid successful conduct of the IBBSS and secure buy-in for it among study respondents. The study utilized a combination of rapid assessment procedures that were suitable to prevailing time exigencies and could foster preliminary understanding of the local contexts …

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Of Icebergs And Glaciers: The Submerged Constitution Of American Healthcare, Theodore Ruger Jan 2012

Of Icebergs And Glaciers: The Submerged Constitution Of American Healthcare, Theodore Ruger

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Debating The Cause Of Health Disparities: Implications For Bioethics And Racial Equality, Dorothy E. Roberts Jan 2012

Debating The Cause Of Health Disparities: Implications For Bioethics And Racial Equality, Dorothy E. Roberts

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Maintaining Friendships In Early Stage Dementia: Factors To Consider, Phyllis Harris Dec 2011

Maintaining Friendships In Early Stage Dementia: Factors To Consider, Phyllis Harris

Phyllis Braudy Harris

Friendships and the importance of social connectiveness play a critical role in aging well, regardless of gender, race, social class, or impairment. Yet, dementia takes its toll on social relationships, and many friends withdraw and ‘disappear’, because they can no longer bear to see the changes that are taking place in their diagnosed friend. The dementia care literature documents this abandonment; however, this study examines the opposite occurrence. In order to understand more clearly the role of long-term friendships and how such friendships remain and continue, despite the diagnosis of dementia, this qualitative study examines in depth eight people in …

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Perinatal Outcomes And Satisfaction With Care In Women With High Body Mass Index, Jan Thomas, Ingegerd Hildingsson Dec 2011

Perinatal Outcomes And Satisfaction With Care In Women With High Body Mass Index, Jan Thomas, Ingegerd Hildingsson

Jan Thomas

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The Role Of ‘Workplace Family’ Support On Worker Health, Exhaustion And Pain, Linda A. Treiber, Shannon N. Davis Dec 2011

The Role Of ‘Workplace Family’ Support On Worker Health, Exhaustion And Pain, Linda A. Treiber, Shannon N. Davis

Linda A. Treiber

The goal of this study was to improve understanding of the potential health benefits of social support at work. We utilized 2002 GSS data to examine the relative influence of workplace support on self-reported health, exhaustion and experience of persistent pain in a sample of 1602 workers. Building on previous Demand-Control-Support models, we examined co-worker, supervisor, and organizational safety support (conceptualized as ‘workplace family’) in concert with job demands, job control and work-family conflict as predictors of worker health measures. We further tested the extent to which work-family conflict acted as a mediator between family and work characteristics and worker …

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Neither Good Nor Useful: Looking Ad Vivum In Children's Assessments Of Fat And Healthy Boides, Valerie Harwood Dec 2011

Neither Good Nor Useful: Looking Ad Vivum In Children's Assessments Of Fat And Healthy Boides, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

Fat bodies are not, fait accompli, bad. Yet in our international research we found overwhelmingly that fat functioned as a marker to indicate health or lack of health. A body with fat was simply and conclusively unhealthy. This paper reports on how this unbalanced view of fat was tied to assessments of healthy bodies that were achieved by the act of looking. Despite the efforts of health education in each of the three countries in our study, children and young people cited the act of looking at bodies to assess health and when they did they arrived at the conclusion …

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De-Medicalizing Addiction: Toward Biocultural Understandings, Kerwin A. Kaye Dec 2011

De-Medicalizing Addiction: Toward Biocultural Understandings, Kerwin A. Kaye

Kerwin Kaye

This chapter critically examines efforts to destigmatize addiction through the creation of a diagnostic category and medicalization. It further critiques ‘‘realist’’ accounts of neuro-scientific knowledge, proposing instead a ‘‘biocultural’’ framework that enables a more multifaceted understanding of drug problems that leads back to questions of biopolitics.

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