Youth Empowerment Programmes in Botswana: Overestimated or Under-researched?
AbstractYouth empowerment programmes seek to improve the lives of the youth by meeting their basic physical, developmental and social needs by helping them build competencies needed to become successful adults. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to document past and current youth empowerment programmes in Botswana from 1996 when the country enacted its first National Youth Policy to date. The paper posits that, currently, it is unclear as to how many youth empowerment programmes are operating in Botswana. Drawing on both the literature and mostly the results from a study on understanding youth development and socio-ec...
Source: Global Social Welfare - January 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Nutritional Deficiencies and Maternal Depression: Associations and Interventions in Lower and Middle-Income Countries: a Systematic Review of Literature
ConclusionOur review findings suggest that nutritional interventions are some of the most promising intercessions for mental health illnesses. Not all studies consistently associate poor diet quality with poor maternal and offspring mental health outcomes, and the majority of those that show are cross-sectional. Considering that most of these associations are cross-sectional, studies devoid of exposing causal relationship; thus, longitudinal studies are needed to confirm the associations towards sufficing as a window of opportunity for reducing the risk of mental disorders in mothers and offspring alike. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - January 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Employment Uncertainty and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Initial Social Distancing Implementation: a Cross-national Study
ConclusionFurther study is needed to assess mental health over time as the COVID-19 pandemic and employment uncertainty continues. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - January 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Not the Time to Take Chances! Why African Governments ’ Response to COVID 19 Matters
AbstractSince independence, African governments have been criticized for either their slow, ineffective, or lack of homegrown solutions when addressing challenges in their respective countries. From economic and development models to dealing with conflicts, governance practices, and planning, overreliance and dependence on external practices which sometimes fail to take into consideration the unique domestic challenges have characterized the response of many African governments. This has, in turn, tainted the image of the continent over their ability to adequately deal with disasters. As the rest of the world is struggling...
Source: Global Social Welfare - January 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Socially Endangered Families in the Solidarity Network
AbstractThe paper is oriented toward an empirical examination of the characteristics of social networks of socially deprived families. The topic is set within the context of previous sociological studies into this problem, and then observed in a wider milieu of social relations and mapped onto the social reality of socially deprived families in Serbia. The idea is to employ an analysis of the narratives from the respondents ’ in-depth interviews from a temporal perspective of the past and present so as to detect the changes in social networks with regard to the altered social context. The previous (socialist) period was ...
Source: Global Social Welfare - October 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Editorial Introduction: Traversing the Mosaic of ‘Community, Development and Welfare’ Experiences
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Source: Global Social Welfare - October 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Environmental Catastrophe of COVID-19: Disposal and Management of PPE in Bangladesh
AbstractAs COVID-19 spreads quickly across the whole of Bangladesh, the increased uses of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) could lead to secondary environmental catastrophes. It is urgent for respective authority to maintain a safe waste disposal system to save the environment and protect public health from impending health threats. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - October 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Ecologies of Care for Serious Mental Illness in Uganda: a Scoping Review
ConclusionPWSMI are often left with low-quality choices to access care. This study suggests that, by critically analyzing community needs and complimentary programs, the livelihoods of people with serious mental illness and their caregivers can be vastly improved. Although PWSMI struggle with mental, physical, and social concerns, they are largely undervalued in the Ugandan context and isolated from society. Their pathways to recovery are wrought with frustrating encounters with peers and painful side-effects of treatment. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - October 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Polygyny and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Ethiopian Women
AbstractPolygyny is marriage between a man and multiple women and is mostly practiced in sub-Saharan African countries. Some of the common attributes of this family structure include perennial conflicts and marital discord, which can expose women to intimate partner violence (IPV). Nonetheless, there is limited research on the intersection between such family structures and IPV in the Ethiopian context. Thus, we examined data from ever-married women (n = 4469) between 15 and 49 years of age collected in the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS-2016). Overall, the proportion of polygynous marriages among e...
Source: Global Social Welfare - October 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Out-of-Pocket Expenditure and Catastrophic Health Spending on Maternity Care for Hospital Based Delivery Care in Empowered Action Group (EAG) States of India
ConclusionFindings from this study assume importance in the context of reducing OPPE on maternity cost; the government needs to improve the financial cover for all types of cost incurred during the prenatal, delivery, and post-natal period under maternal health financing program and policies. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - September 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Welfare Participation and Depression Symptoms Among Youth in China
Conclusion and DiscussionThe relationship between welfare participation and symptoms of depression varies significantly by the characteristics of youths and their families. As a marker for collective disadvantage and adversity, welfare participation warrants research to study program processes and to distinguish pathways —possibly differentiated by gender—that may elevate risk for depression among Dibao program recipients. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - September 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Emotional Entanglement and Community Empowerment of Transnational Migrants ’ Families: a Cross-Sectional Study in Malaysia and Indonesia
This study draws upon in-depth interviews of 11 women migrants with at least 3 years of experience working in Malaysia and 13 families in East Java, Indonesia, and different sets of interview q uestions with 7 key informants as well as interviews with migration stakeholders ranging from policymakers to NGOs in Malaysia and Indonesia. Adopting Skrbiš thought on migration, emotions, and longing, this paper argues that albeit the reasons of breaking the tradition as well as a desire for self -achievement, these women juggle to compose their misery and their children’s emotional and social behavior. To overcome the drawbac...
Source: Global Social Welfare - September 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Impact of Acculturation on Dental Attendance of Preschoolers Among Filipino Immigrants in Edmonton, Canada
DiscussionExposure to the new culture of dental care in Canada caused a shift from an aggressive treatment-oriented to a more conservative preventive-oriented approach among Filipino immigrants in our study. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Social Protection as a Key Tool in Crisis Management: Learnt Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study aims to explore the current implementation of social protection programs during the COVID-19 pandemic in the most affected countries as well as to provide learned lessons from countries that had not previously considered implementing social protection programs up until the COVID-19 crisis. This review was carried out by searching through WOS, Google Scholar, ILO, World Bank reports, and Aljazeera Television. The search was conducted over literature and systematic reviews on the implementation of social protection programs during previous pandemic crises and especially in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The findin...
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Patterns of Living Environment Among Itinerant Elderly Community in Malaysia
AbstractThis qualitative research aims to explore the life stories of the itinerant elderly in shelter homes and vagrancy by the series of semi-structured interviews with fourteen folks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The data was collected using the snowball sampling and analyzed by using interpretative phenomenological analysis that managed to categorize the data into various themes and subthemes. Results showed that although there are variations in the living patterns and living environment at the care homes and public places, the destitute elderly ’s mental condition matched to a great extent because they were in the same...
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
