Delivering Financial Capability and Asset Building Curriculum: Strengthening the Competencies of Social Work Faculty
AbstractThe promotion of financial capability and asset building (FCAB) in Africa is an essential professional activity for social work to promote the socioeconomic well-being of individuals, families, groups, and communities. Yet, in many sub-Saharan African countries including Ghana, social work students are not adequately prepared academically and professionally with financial-related tools to assist their clients in that area of practice. Therefore, there is a need to integrate FCAB into the social work curriculum at universities in this region. This paper focuses on training of social work faculty members as the first...
Source: Global Social Welfare - October 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Burden of Teenage Alcohol Consumption in Andhra Pradesh State, India —Epidemiology and Social Context
ConclusionsThe findings could help guide the development of a comprehensive, evidence-based, and consensus-driven national alcohol control policy to lessen the burden of teenage alcohol consumption. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - October 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Effect of Structural Gender Inequality Revealed in Small for Gestational Age
ConclusionsOur findings advance the understanding of the role of gender inequality on SGA and reiterate the importance of considering structural violence in maternal and infant health research. These associations can support the message of designing public health and socioeconomic development as well as creating campaigns to promote gender equality in efforts to advance maternal and infant health and to prevent adverse birth outcomes across the globe. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - September 28, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Recounting the Blessings and Curses of Living with a Disability: The Experiences of Persons with Visual and Physical Impairment in Accra
AbstractStudies on the living conditions of persons with disability (PWD) in Ghana largely highlight the nonconformity between the physical environment and one ’s physical appearance. Even though these studies offer an opportunity to explore the living conditions of PWD’s, they rarely focus on PWD’s interpretation of how their disability influences the enjoyment of various opportunities. Employing an exploratory research design, this study engaged 28 visually impaired and 22 physically challenged persons from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly. Audio tapes from interviews were transcribed and coded using MaxQDA. Themati...
Source: Global Social Welfare - September 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Agriculture Productivity and Farmers ’ Health in Tanzania: Analysis on Maize Subsector
AbstractIn recent years, concerns over farmers ’ health and productivity have drawn great attention due to the global agenda on food security and the eradication of extreme poverty. Moreover, studies have proven that, the shortage of food in developing countries has been largely connected to climate change, but no study has examined to what ex tent diseases have affected agricultural productivity in these countries. This paper, therefore, examines the effects of farmers’ health on agricultural productivity focusing on Tanzania’s maize subsector using panel survey data 2019/20. The paper employed Ordinary least Square...
Source: Global Social Welfare - September 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Comparative Analysis on Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases on Catastrophic Spending and Impoverishment in Tanzania
AbstractThe question of whether communicable or non-communicable diseases have higher economic effects on households is rarely explored from the global to local level despite of their significant contribution in increasing household catastrophic spending and impoverishment. To shed light into this, therefore, this paper comparatively examines the economic effects of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Tanzania by the use of Tanzania Panel Survey data of 2019/2020 which has been used to analyze different parameters to provide needful information. The empirical analysis employed probit, two-stage residual inclusion...
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 26, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Financial Capability and Asset Building Curriculum for Social Work Students in the Kenyan Technical and Vocational Training Education System
AbstractSocial workers serve individuals and communities experiencing socio-economic and financial exclusion. However, research indicates that social work practitioners often lack the preparation, knowledge, skills, and attitudes to tackle clients ’ increasingly complex financial problems. Currently, the Kenyan social work curriculum does not offer content to support financial decision-making, self-sufficiency, and advocacy for financially excluded communities. This lack of knowledge has left graduating social workers with minimal tools to inform clients’ financial decision-making and address their personal financial i...
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 26, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Physical Violence Against Women by Their Partner: A Latent Class Measurement and Causal Analysis from Rural Counterparts of Dakshin Dinajpur District, India
ConclusionThe study findings suggest that more socialization, life-long learning and skill development, stimulating positive behavioural attitudes and strengthening voice and representation for rural women are very much required to break the contemporary undesirable ambience. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 23, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Correction to: Family Factors and Gender Norms as Protective Factors Against Sexual Risk ‑Taking Behaviors Among Adolescent Girls in Southern Uganda
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Source: Global Social Welfare - August 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
From Social Protection to Personal Protection: Implications for an Integrated Framework of Retirement Planning for Informal Workers in Ghana
AbstractWithout a mandatory retirement age, many informal workers are exploring diverse ways of ensuring their well-being as they age. This exploratory study focuses on the retirement plans of workers in Ghana’s informal sector to inform interventions to ensure their well-being. Findings from 35 in-depth interviews among self-employed informal workers in Adum-Kumasi, the largest hu b of Ghana’s informal work, highlight that retirement planning is centred on self-protection through investment in economic and non-economic activities. The study contributes to the discourse on extending social protection coverage to info...
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 18, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Victimization by Multiple Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Seeking its Factors via the Multiple Disadvantage Model
AbstractThe applied model —the multiple disadvantage model—examined factors related to victimization by multiple perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample was 3226 women completing the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. Logistic regression results showed likelihood of victimization by multiple IPV perpetrators to be associated negatively with being married/cohabiting, relatives’ helpfulness, friends’ helpfulness, mental health professionals’ helpfulness, mental health, and age, while being associated positively with education level, IPV perpetration by current partner, tel lin...
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Family Factors and Gender Norms as Protective Factors Against Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors Among Adolescent Girls in Southern Uganda
This study examines the protective role of family, social support factors and gender norms against sexual risk-taking behaviors among secondary school adolescent girls in Uganda. Baseline data from the National Institute of Mental Health-funded Suubi4Her study were analyzed. A total of 1260 girls aged 14 –17 years and enrolled in the first or second year of secondary school were recruited across 47 secondary schools. Hierarchical linear regression models were conducted to determine the role of family, social support factors and gender norms on sexual risk-taking behaviors. Results indicate that t raditional gender norms...
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Perceptions Regarding Education as a Way to Improve Living Conditions in Mexico: a Qualitative Exploration
This study explores perceptions about educational attainment as a way to improve living conditions in Mexico. We focus specifically on two questions: (1) What are people ’s perceptions towards educational attainment and improved living conditions?; and (2a) Do these perceptions differ by the level of education attained; (2b) Do these perceptions differ by gender? The research draws upon data from semi-structured interviews (N = 247) that were conducted in four Mexican states with different levels of social welfare: Mexico City, Tamaulipas, State of Mexico, and Oaxaca. The interviewees were selected using the snowball...
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 10, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Welfare Effects of Financial Inclusion Services in Ghana: A Comparative Analysis of Mobile Money and Other Financial Services
AbstractThe study examines the effects of financial inclusion services —mobile money and other alternative financial service options—on consumption expenditure and poverty status by employing the augmented inverse probability weighted (AIPW) estimator to address selection bias and unobserved heterogeneity in the adoption of these services. Using a nationally repres entative survey data in Ghana, the results show that adoption of financial inclusion services increases household consumption expenditure and also decreases the probability of being poor. Specifically, the effects are larger for adoption of other alternative...
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Locked Down: Economic and Health Effects of COVID-19 Response on Residents of a South African Township
This study investigated how COVID-19 and lockdown policies affected residents of Alexandra, one of Johannesburg, South Africa ’s lowest-income townships.MethodsWe conducted a telephone survey May 11 –22, 2020, while the lockdown and alcohol ban were in effect, of a spatially stratified sample of 353 adult Alexandra residents drawn randomly from voter registration, credit card application, and prior studies’ sampling frames. We examined economic consequences; health experiences, including CO VID-19 exposure and mental health symptoms; alcohol use; and personal experiences with violence.ResultsRespondents were aged 18 ...
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
