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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Access to Basic Needs"”.
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A beautiful day in these neighborhoods: variations in access to school, food, and healthcare in neighborhoods along an urban to rural gradient
… for size, population, and orientation to basic amenities like food, healthcare and education. Most neighborhood level research has paid little attention to the contexts (urban, suburban, and rural) that neighborhoods are situated. The purpose of this research is to explore the …
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Present Limitations and Future Projections: Food Insecurity, Housing Insecurity and Optimism Among College Students
… has identified wide-ranging disparities in access to basic needs among university students. These differences, such as a lack of adequate food and housing during university, provide a negative environmental experience with potential to limit one’s optimism or hope for the future. This …
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Youth at War: The Impact and Effectiveness of International Laws against Child Soldier Recruitment
… Although numerous treaties, conventions and protocols within international humanitarian, human rights and international criminal law prohibit the practice, the recruitment of children into armed groups and forces remain widespread and consistent. This mini-thesis follows the legal developments …
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Family experiences and viewpoints of palliative and supportive care for children with cancer: Can we do better?
Background: The palliative and supportive care needs of children with cancer and their families are unique and require special attention. Children and their families in Africa facing lifethreatening/ life-limiting diseases have unique needs and have the right to achieve effective and evidence-based …
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Facilitating the mental health of individuals living with chronic mental illness in the Northwest health directorate - Northern Namibia: A community involvement approach
… fight against stigma and a daily struggle to make ends meet. The impact of living with the illness produces enormous subjective sufferings for the individuals, as well as untold psychological and financial burdens for many families. Through the researcher‟s interactions with individuals …
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Relationships between transport, mobility, sustainable livelihoods and social capital for poverty reduction
… discourse has shifted from economic growth to poverty reduction, leading to development of the Millennium Development Goals. An estimated 1.1 billion people in the world live in absolute poverty, 314 million of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Seventy five percent of the world's poor live in …
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Exploring Ethnocultural Differences in Distress of Newly Arrived Refugees During Early Resettlement: A Mixed Methods Dissertation
… every 3 months for 1 year, three approaches to propensity score analysis were performed with risk set matching on balancing time-varying covariates across treatment conditions at each time point. Subsequently, a three-way factorial ANOVA was conducted to examine mean differences in distress …
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Bringing Food Home: A Study on the Changing Nature of Household Interaction With Urban Food Markets in Accra, Ghana
… their food acquisition patterns in response to structural changes within the city. The investigation provides an in-depth analysis of the policy framework and socio-economic context for the delivery of, and access to, food in Accra, and probes the food situation as a window to investigate …
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The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Cardiometabolic Outcomes and Medication Adherence Among Vulnerable Populations in West Tennessee
… of health (SDoH) are non-medical risk factors that play a major role in shaping outcomes and can contribute to health disparities. It is critical to understand the effects of multiple domains of SDoH and their associations with cardiometabolic disease outcomes, especially among vulnerable …