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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Women and families"”.
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Agency in the Midst of Illness Uncertainty: How Women and Families Live without a Diagnosis
… reside in an invisible margin of health and family research. The purpose of this study was to explore illness uncertainty as experienced by women and their families in the United States. I examined illness uncertainty through a feminist ecological interactionist (FEI) approach with three …
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How New Zealand women experience their partners' imprisonment : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University
In New Zealand in 2006 there were almost 6,000 men in prison, with predictions that the numbers may rise to 9,000 by the year 2010. Almost a quarter of those imprisoned men reported having a spouse or partner at home, and almost 600 reported one or more dependent children. This means that there are …
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The Effects of Maternal Distress and Social Support on Sleep Health in Rural Mothers
… with downstream negative health outcomes for women, and their families, during the postpartum and early years of motherhood. Little is known about the overall sleep health of rural mothers and how predictors of sleep health affect sleep health in rural populations. Therefore, the aims of this …
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Women Empowerment Through Improved Revolving Fund Scheme MMWASOVI) : The Case of Songea Rural District
… loans due to marginalization status meanwhile Women provide the lion share of the agricultural labour input, production. On the other side marketing of cash crops is the responsibility of men. Women often lack proper access to land and to capital, due to lack of awareness to their rights, they …
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Implementation & Evaluation of a Peer Mentor Walking Program for Transitionally Housed Women in Missoula, MT
Single women and families with children are rapidly growing segments of the homeless population (NCH, 2009b). Homeless women generally report a lower quality of life, and are at a greater risk for various physical and mental health issues than their housed counterparts (NCH, 2009a). Mental illness, …
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Implementation & Evaluation of a Peer Mentor Walking Program for Transitionally Housed Women in Missoula, MT
Single women and families with children are rapidly growing segments of the homeless population (NCH, 2009b). Homeless women generally report a lower quality of life, and are at a greater risk for various physical and mental health issues than their housed counterparts (NCH, 2009a). Mental illness, …
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Caregiver, child and family characteristics associated with parenting stress in rural KwazuluNatal
… PS have been shown to be fairly stable over time and thus unlikely to decrease without intervention. Understanding factors that contribute to PS is therefore important for developing preventative interventions. Despite this, PS has largely been understudied, particularly in low- and middle-income …
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The Meaning of Grief after Perinatal Loss to Nigerian Women
… of Grief after Perinatal Loss to Nigerian Women Laeticia N. Egesi Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon Department of Family & Child Nursing Perinatal loss can be a devastating event in the lives of families all over the world. In all cultures it is recognized …
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A study of Winifred Knights, 1915-1933
… or the lives of saints. She was not religious and I argue that these stories, which were well-known in Britain at the time, were vehicles to represent the lives of women and families in the unsettled years during and after WWI. Many women artists have depicted domestic scenes, but Knights chose …
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Motherhood, Family, and Inequality in Contemporary Japan
… explores how particular models of family and motherhood are reinforced in contemporary Japan, and give rise to significant social distinctions between families and mothers. Based on documentary research and forty life history interviews with single mothers conducted in Tokyo, I examine how …
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Searching the silences of war : a creative and theoretical exploration
Searching the Silences of War: A Creative and Theoretical Exploration consists of two parts: Part One, the creative component Finding Sophie, is a young adult novel and Part Two, Searching the Silence, is the accompanying exegesis. Both the novel and the exegesis explore the Anzac myth’s impact on …
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Women with children first? Parenthood, policies, and gender gaps in three European labour markets
Parenthood divides today the careers of women and men. A family gap has emerged in labour markets: Women pay economic and career prices for motherhood, while the career progression of men marches on come fatherhood. Gender inequality in paid work persists despite institutional change aimed at …
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Exploring socio-cultural factors that influence maternal mortality and perceived strategies for its reduction in south eastern Nigeria
… from avoidable complications during pregnancy and childbirth has declined significantly in high income-countries but has remained unacceptably high in most of the middle- and low-income countries. In Nigeria, pregnancy and childbirth have continued to represent a period of sorrow and tragedy …
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Change and Transition in a Professional Scots Family 1650-1900
… a family from their foundations as well-placed and successful burgesses and merchants-skippers in seventeenth century coastal Fife to professionals in Scotland and the British Empire. Whilst the necessary generalisations around much of the writing of Scottish history usually refer to the …