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Sustainable development goals and reproductive healthcare rights of internally displaced persons in India
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Ahead of Print. Purpose The internally displaced persons (IDPs) are often overlooked population, falling between the cracks of international and national commitments. Displaced women and children go through more hardship than the male counterpart, as they are frequently at greater risk and do not get adequate access to the reproductive healthcare rights; they suffer from poor health amid threats of eviction. The purpose of this paper is to look into the IDPs reproductive healthcare situation in India and sustainable development goal (SDG) role in addressing the reproduc...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - September 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Analysis of the Health Sector Evolution Plan from the perspective of equity in healthcare financing: a multiple streams model
This study gives a holistic view about health system policy setting that can be used for und erstanding policy-making streams to population. Originality/value This is the first study that has examined HSEP (the biggest health sector reform in Iran) from the perspective of agenda setting. In addition, using the popular and well-known Kingdon’s model to explain HSEP agenda setting is one of the strengths of this study. Furthermore, taking advantage of a wide range of related views by including highly informed people increased the strength of the results of the study. In addition, the short interval between the interview a...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - September 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Workplace violence against physicians and medical students in west part of Iran
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to survey the prevalence of exposure to workplace violence (WPV) including physical violence, verbal abuse, bullying as well as its related factors among physicians and medical students attending teaching hospitals of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences (KUMS). Design/methodology/approach This is a descriptive analytic as well as a cross-sectional study which was carried out on all physicians (general and specialists) and medical students attending teaching hospitals of KUMS in 2014. Overall, 400 participated in...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - September 17, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Socio-economic disparity in the occurrence of disability among older adults in six low and middle income countries
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Ahead of Print. Purpose Nearly 200m people in the world experience considerable functioning difficulties. Also, more than three-fourth of the population aged 50 years and over is suffering from some kind of disability in India, China, Ghana, Russia, Mexico and South Africa. Despite the compelling nature of this issue, evidence on socioeconomic disparity in the occurrence of disability is lacking throughout the world and particularly in the aforementioned countries. The purpose of this paper is twofold – first, to examine the socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalenc...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - September 17, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Reducing hypovitaminosis D among Somali immigrants in Minnesota: a narrative review
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Ahead of Print. Purpose Somalia is an East African nation with a history of civil unrest that produced a significant influx of refugees in the USA in the last 25 years. Between 2000 and 2010, 40 percent of all US Somali refugees settled in Minnesota, which produces new cultural and health challenges for local communities and the state government. One such challenge is vitamin D deficiency, or hypovitaminosis D (Hv-D). Hv-D is developed through insufficient exposure to sunlight and low nutrient intake leading to increased risk for weakness and inflammation, oral health p...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - September 17, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Moderating effects of age on personality, driving behavior towards driving outcomes
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the effect of people ’s personality on driving behavior and traffic accidents and violations in the province of South Sulawesi. Design/methodology/approach This research was conducted in order to determine the moderating effects of age on the relationship between personality variables, driving behavior and driving o utcomes. The research was conducted over two years. For the first year of this study, research was conducted in the city of Makassar, the capital of the South Sulawesi province, which has th...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - September 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Catastrophic healthcare expenditures among Iranian households: a systematic review and meta-analysis
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Ahead of Print. Purpose Protecting households against financial risks of healthcare services is one of the main functions of health systems. The purpose of this paper is to provide a pooled estimate of the prevalence of catastrophic healthcare expenditures (CHE) among households in Iran. Design/methodology/approach Both international (PubMed, Scopus and Clarivate Analytics (previously known as the Institute for Scientific Information)) and Iranian (Scientific Information Database, Iranmedex and Magiran) scientific databases were searched for published studies on CHE am...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - August 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Psychological Therapies for Survivors of Torture: A Human-Rights Approach with People Seeking Asylum
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare,Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 312-314, September 2018. (Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare)
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - August 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research