Issue 1/2018
Content (44 Articles)
Does exposure to interparental violence increase women’s risk of intimate partner violence? Evidence from Nigeria demographic and health survey
Bola Lukman Solanke
Children with albinism in African regions: their rights to ‘being’ and ‘doing’
Anita Franklin, Patricia Lund, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Julie Taylor
Patterns of illness disclosure among Indian slum dwellers: a qualitative study
Moumita Das, Federica Angeli, Anja J. S. M. Krumeich, Onno C. P. van Schayck
A survey of health problems of Nepalese female migrants workers in the Middle-East and Malaysia
Padam Simkhada, Edwin van Teijlingen, Manju Gurung, Sharada P. Wasti
The HIV self-testing debate: where do we stand?
Marilou Gagnon, Martin French, Yamilee Hébert
Adolescents’ reproductive health knowledge, choices and factors affecting reproductive health choices: a qualitative study in the West Gonja District in Northern region, Ghana
Joseph Maaminu Kyilleh, Philip Teg-Nefaah Tabong, Benson Boinkum Konlaan
Study design and the estimation of the size of key populations at risk of HIV: lessons from Viet Nam
Ali Safarnejad, Wim Groot, Milena Pavlova
Realising the right to sexual and reproductive health: access to essential medicines for medical abortion as a core obligation
Katrina Perehudoff, Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Jelle Stekelenburg
Influence of indoor work environments on health, safety, and human rights among migrant sex workers at the Guatemala-Mexico Border: a call for occupational health and safety interventions
Shira M. Goldenberg, Teresita Rocha Jiménez, Kimberly C. Brouwer, Sonia Morales Miranda, Jay G. Silverman
Does the Stockholm Syndrome affect female sex workers? The case for a “Sonagachi Syndrome”
Abraar Karan, Nathan Hansen
Assessing refugee healthcare needs in Europe and implementing educational interventions in primary care: a focus on methods
Christos Lionis, Elena Petelos, Enkeleint-Aggelos Mechili, Dimitra Sifaki-Pistolla, Vasiliki-Eirini Chatzea, Agapi Angelaki, Imre Rurik, Danica Rotar Pavlic, Christopher Dowrick, Michel Dückers, Dean Ajdukovic, Helena Bakic, Elena Jirovsky, Elisabeth Sophie Mayrhuber, Maria van den Muijsenbergh, Kathryn Hoffmann
Small scale migration along the interoceanic highway in Madre de Dios, Peru: an exploration of community perceptions and dynamics due to migration
Kelly E Jensen, Nehal N. Naik, Christina O’Neal, Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich, Amy R. Riley-Powell, Gwenyth O. Lee, Stella M. Hartinger, Daniel G. Bausch, Valerie A. Paz-Soldan
Care-‘less’: exploring the interface between child care and parental control in the context of child rights for workers in children’s homes in Ghana
Ernest Darkwah, Marguerite Daniel, Joana Salifu Yendork
Socioeconomic and environmental determinants of under-five mortality in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia: a matched case control study
Girma Temam Shifa, Ahmed Ali Ahmed, Alemayehu Worku Yalew
Attitudes towards help-seeking for sexual and gender-based violence in humanitarian settings: the case of Rwamwanja refugee settlement scheme in Uganda
George Odwe, Chi-Chi Undie, Francis Obare
Bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed literature in transgender health (1900 – 2017)
Waleed M. Sweileh
Examination of the roles and capacities of duty bearers responsible for protecting the human rights to adequate food, nutritional health and wellbeing in Ugandan children’s homes
Monica Olafsen, Archangel Byaruhanga Rukooko, Per Ole Iversen, Bård A. Andreassen
Persons with disabilities as experts-by experience: using personal narratives to affect community attitudes in Kilifi, Kenya
Joseph K. Gona, Charles R. Newton, Sally Hartley, Karen Bunning
Causes of death among street-connected children and youth in Eldoret, Kenya
Lonnie Embleton, David Ayuku, Dominic Makori, Allan Kamanda, Paula Braitstein
Informal workers’ access to health care services: findings from a qualitative study in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Northern Ghana
James Akazili, Samuel Chatio, John Ele-Ojo Ataguba, Isaiah Agorinya, Edmund Wedam Kanmiki, Osman Sankoh, Abraham Oduro
Realization of the right to adequate food and the nutritional status of land evictees: a case for mothers/caregivers and their children in rural Central Uganda
Aziiza Nahalomo, Per Ole Iversen, Peter Milton Rukundo, Archileo Kaaya, Joyce Kikafunda, Wenche Barth Eide, Maritha Marais, Edward Wamala, Margaret Kabahenda
Factors shaping political priorities for violence against women-mitigation policies in Sri Lanka
Manuela Colombini, Susannah H Mayhew, Ragnhild Lund, Navpreet Singh, Katarina Swahnberg, Jennifer Infanti, Berit Schei, Kumudu Wijewardene
Language interpretation conditions and boundaries in multilingual and multicultural emergency healthcare
Christina Lundin, Emina Hadziabdic, Katarina Hjelm
Factors associated with sexual risk taking behavior by precarious urban migrants in French Guiana
August Eubanks, Marie Claire Parriault, Astrid Van Melle, Célia Basurko, Leila Adriouch, Claire Cropet, Mathieu Nacher
Registered or unregistered? Levels and differentials in registration and certification of births in Ghana
Fidelia A. A. Dake, Kamil Fuseini
Combining survey data, GIS and qualitative interviews in the analysis of health service access for persons with disabilities
Arne H. Eide, Karin Dyrstad, Alister Munthali, Gert Van Rooy, Stine H. Braathen, Thomas Halvorsen, Frans Persendt, Peter Mvula, Jan Ketil Rød
Determinants and perceptions of the utilization of tetanus toxoid immunization among reproductive-age women in Dukem Town, Eastern Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study
Meseret Delesa Anatea, Tesfaye Hambisa Mekonnen, Berihun Assefa Dachew
The burden of war-injury in the Palestinian health care sector in Gaza Strip
Marwan Mosleh, Koustuv Dalal, Yousef Aljeesh, Leif Svanström
Health expenditure, child and maternal mortality nexus: a comparative global analysis
Rezwanul Hasan Rana, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow
Shared latrines in Maputo, Mozambique: exploring emotional well-being and psychosocial stress
Tess Shiras, Oliver Cumming, Joe Brown, Bacelar Muneme, Rassul Nala, Robert Dreibelbis
Contemporary women prisoners health experiences, unique prison health care needs and health care outcomes in sub Saharan Africa: a scoping review of extant literature.
Marie Claire Van Hout, Rosemary Mhlanga-Gunda
Correction to: The burden of war-injury in the Palestinian health care sector in Gaza Strip
Marwan Mosleh, Koustuv Dalal, Yousef Aljeesh, Leif Svanström
Missing knowledge of gendered power relations among non-governmental organisations doing right to health work: a case study from South Africa
Mayara Fontes Marx, Leslie London, Alex Müller
Life after conflict-related amputation trauma: a clinical study from the Gaza Strip
Hanne Edøy Heszlein-Lossius, Yahya Al-Borno, Samar Shaqqoura, Nashwa Skaik, Lasse Melvaer Giil, Mads Gilbert
Global Abortion Policies Database: a new approach to strengthening knowledge on laws, policies, and human rights standards
Brooke Ronald Johnson Jr, Antonella Francheska Lavelanet, Stephanie Schlitt
Factors associated with extrajudicial arrest for syringe possession: results of a department-wide survey of municipal police in Tijuana, Mexico
Mario Morales, Claudia Rafful, Tommi L. Gaines, Javier A. Cepeda, Daniela Abramovitz, Irina Artamonova, Pieter Baker, Erika Clairgue, Maria Luisa Mittal, Teresita Rocha-Jimenez, Jaime Arredondo, Thomas Kerr, Arnulfo Bañuelos, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Leo Beletsky
HIV prevention: mapping Mozambican people’s views on the acceptability of the widow’s sexual cleansing ritual called pita-kufa
Germano Vera Cruz, Aniceto Mateus, Priscilla S. Dlamini
Critical assessment of refugees’ needs in post-emergency context: the case of Malian war refugees settled in Northern Burkina Faso
Idrissa Beogo, Amadou Darboe, A. Oluwafunmilade Adesanya, Bomar Mendez Rojas
Supporting ALL victims of violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation: guidance for health providers
Roderik F Viergever, Nicki Thorogood, Judith RLM Wolf, Mary Alison Durand
“We need good nutrition but we have no money to buy food”: sociocultural context, care experiences, and newborn health in two UNHCR-supported camps in South Sudan
Stephanie Gee, Josep Vargas, Angel M. Foster
Words matter: a call for humanizing and respectful language to describe people who experience incarceration
Nguyen Toan Tran, Stéphanie Baggio, Angela Dawson, Éamonn O’Moore, Brie Williams, Precious Bedell, Olivier Simon, Willem Scholten, Laurent Getaz, Hans Wolff
A harmful traditional practice exposing young girls to experience virgin pregnancy (Shilshalo): a qualitative study in Argoba community, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia
Yohannes Mersha Belete, Negesse Kebede Atlaw
Mandatory minimum sentencing policies and cocaine use in the U.S., 1985–2013
Lauryn Saxe Walker, Briana Mezuk
Global Abortion Policies Database: a descriptive analysis of the legal categories of lawful abortion
Antonella F. Lavelanet, Stephanie Schlitt, Brooke Ronald Johnson Jr, Bela Ganatra