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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Health justice"”.
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Health inequity by design: LGBTQ+ youth homelessness and a path towards health justice
The health inequities facing the LGBTQ+ community are well documented despite limited resources towards addressing these issues. Traditional frameworks have failed to account for the role of stigma at various levels, namely public, self and structural, that perpetuate these inequities. Health …
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"A Right to be Safely Born": The Quest for Health Justice for American Mothers and Children, 1890-1965
… government responsibility for maternal and child health represented a continuous and central goal that fueled programs and institutional networks of progressive and liberal social policy advocates. Beginning in the settlement houses of the 1890s, a cadre of female bureaucrats, social reformers, …
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Developing a Principles-Based Framework to Link the Governance of Genomics Research and Biobanking in Africa to Global Health Justice
… significant transformations in the way health research is traditionally structured. Firstly, genomics research often requires long-term storage of biological samples for future unspecified uses. Secondly, the stored samples may be shared with researchers across the globe for the purposes …
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Community-based doulas and their role in combating obstetric racism for marginalized BIPOC & migrant women: The Contigo Bilingual Doula Program
… that community-based bilingual doulas are a justice-based necessity in a maternity care system that has failed its most vulnerable patients. Using frameworks of health justice, reproductive justice, autonomy, and structural competency, I contend that the integration of community-based doulas …
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Health and justice: the capability to be healthy.
… for a moral entitlement to a capability to be healthy. Motivated by the goal to make a human right to health intelligible and justifiable, the thesis extends the capability approach, advocated by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, to the theory and practice of the human health sciences. Moral …
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Moving Toward Understanding: Negotiating Survival and Wellbeing while Living in Poverty
… my findings, I explore how individuals navigate health and wellbeing while experiencing poverty. I address the (in)accessibility to public and private spaces and emphasize the important role of care providers in space of care, like SMUN. I highlight throughout my findings how individuals in …
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An Ethical Justification for Post-Trial Access to Anti-Retroviral Drugs for Participants and Host Populations in Developing Countries: A Global Justice Perspective
… in developing countries engenders global health emergency which establishes the urgent need to address the issue of affordable access to anti-retroviral drugs in developing countries. The dissertation discusses an ethical justification for post-trial access to anti-retroviral drugs for …
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The Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect in Men
… and indirect—and decades of research and public health, justice, and social service investment in prevention and intervention, child maltreatment persists and affects large numbers of children each year.</p> <p>While there is an established body of research examining the causes and long-term …
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Global Health, Social Justice, and Corporate Accountability
… Murray Rothbard, and Jan Narveson claim that justice is achieved when and only when individuals are left alone to determine their own fate. Chapter two demonstrates that positive obligations arise from negative rights posited from a libertarian perspective. This approach is not to endorse …
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Role of healthcare in utilizing parenting programs to support childhood development: a bioethical analysis
… The four foundational ethical principles of Justice, Beneficence, Non-maleficence, and Autonomy are examined regarding how these programs should be used to uphold the ethical responsibilities of physicians. Ethical reasoning supports the claim that these programs should be provided to all …
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AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF NICOTINE NON-HIRING PRACTICES: SHOULD THIS POLICY BE SNUFFED OUT?
The deleterious health impacts of smoking are well established—but unemployment is bad for health too. In this article, I evaluate the ethics of nicotine non-hiring practices (NNPs) and use analogies to other health behaviors (obesity and alcohol use) to better examine the policy. First, I …
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BARRIERS TO ABORTION CARE ACCESS IN NORTH PHILADELPHIA: A CALL FOR BOTTOM UP CHANGE
… for abortion care services at Temple University Health System (TUHS), attitudes surrounding these services among providers and staff, and limitations in providing this care. A 13-question, anonymous survey was sent to the Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology departments at TUHS to …
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Gaps in the Mental Health System,Justice System and The Transition to Adulthood: An Analysis of Unmet Needs
… and young adults are interconnected with the justice system every year. An alarming number of transitional age young adults (ages 17-25 years) in the United States justice system suffer with serious emotional problems that have at least one diagnosable mental health illness. The multiple needs …