International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare 
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This study investigated the factors affecting online learning (OL) and stress and anxiety (SaA) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia.
This study used a quantitative study and a survey questionnaire to collect the cross-sectional data. The authors sent 500 survey questionnaires to the respondents of which 262 samples were returned. This represented a 52% response rate. Finally, this study used 260 valid samples to derive this study’s findings.
Through structure equation modelling analysis, this study’s findings demonstrate that lack of time and support, technical problems and lack of technical skills n...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - June 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nadia A. Abdelmegeed Abdelwahed
Mohammed A. Aldoghan
Mohamed A. Moustafa
Bahadur Ali Soomro Source Type: research
Guest editorial
Theo Gavrielides
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp.213-214 (Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare)
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - June 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Theo Gavrielides Source Type: research
Risk assessment of exposure to COVID-19 virus: a cross-sectional study among health-care workers
This study aims to assess COVID-19 risk in a health-care setting and recommend managerial strategies to cope with existing risk procedures.
This cross-sectional study was conducted among HCWs working in a general hospital in Qazvin, northwest of the country. A total of 310 employees working at different clinical and non-clinical occupational levels participated in the study. The WHO COVID-19 risk assessment tool categorised HCWs in high- or low-risk groups exposed to COVID-19 infection.
Findings revealed statistically significant relationships between workplace exposure to the COVID-19 virus and variables, includ...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - May 15, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Saber Souri
Zahra Nejatifar
Mohammad Amerzadeh
Fariba Hashemi
Sima Rafiei Source Type: research
The tension between INGOs ’ accountability to donors’ agendas and to the affected population and its impact on their access to human rights
The tension between INGOs’ accountability to donors’ agendas and to the affected population and its impact on their access to human rights
Tamara Zibin, Aseel Zibin, Ayman Al-Essa
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
This paper aims to discuss the main reasons behind the tension between accountability to donors and accountability to beneficiaries, in terms of obtaining the basic needs and human rights of the latter. Relying on three arguments; firstly, based on Angela Crack’s (2013) theory of the three waves of accountability, t...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - May 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tamara Zibin
Aseel Zibin
Ayman Al-Essa Source Type: research
Inequity in out-of-pocket expenditure and utilization of laboratory tests in Iran: lessons learned in human rights
This study aims to calculate the inequity in out of pocket expenditures and utilization of laboratory tests in Iran. Equal access to health services is an important part of human rights in health care. Out-of-pocket payment is a part of financial access to health care. In this study, the authors tried to find inequity in out-of-pocket payments and utilization of medical laboratory tests (MLTs) as a part of human rights in Iran in 2016.
Gini and concentration indices were calculated for this purpose, and regression models were estimated to show the relationship between different factors and utilization and out-of-pocke...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - April 15, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rauf Kord
Enayatollah Homaie Rad
Ali Davoudi Kiakalayeh Source Type: research
Psychological impact of domestic violence on women in India due to COVID-19
Priyanka Tripathi, Prabha S. Dwivedi, Shreya Sharma
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
The COVID-19 outbreak has significant psychological effects because of reduced support system and social quarantine, making women the worst-hit population of shadow pandemic, i.e. domestic violence. While food shortages, unemployment and increased domestic-work burdens are the immediate effects of the lockdown, women at home have to bear its far-reaching impacts in the long term in the form of domestic abuse, making the study of the psychological...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - April 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Priyanka Tripathi
Prabha S. Dwivedi
Shreya Sharma Source Type: research
The association between emotional maturity and domestic violence among infertile women
This study found that half of the surveyed women experienced domestic violence. Women’s emotional immaturity, as well as their spouses’ lower education level and type of occupation, were highly correlated with women’s experience of domestic violence. To help prevent domestic violence among couples, there should be couple training classes to improve women’s emotional maturity.” (Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare)
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - April 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Abdorrahim Afkhamzadeh
Hassan Mahmoodi
Khaled Rahmani
Simin Mohammadi
Mandana Haghshenas
Obeidollah Faraji Source Type: research
Self-reported unmet health needs of adults with disabilities in Kurdistan, Iran
This study aims to examine the pattern of unmet health services needs and barriers to use health services among people with disabilities.
This cross-sectional study was conducted among people with disabilities in Sanandaj, the capital of a less economically developed province in western Iran in 2020. In total, 548 samples were selected using random sampling, and data were collected using a questionnaire. Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were used to examine the relationship between independent variables including demographic variables and dependent variables. Statistical tests were performed using STATA softwar...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - April 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Arian Azadnia
Amjad Mohamadi Bolbanabad
Hossein Safari
Abdorrahim Afkhamzadeh
Bakhtiar Piroozi
Darya Ghamari
Shiva Khosravi
Zhina Banafshi
Ramazan Ebrahimi Source Type: research
COVID-19 responses, human rights and the cultural context of Global South
This study is a qualitative research based on secondary materials. It includes relevant scholarly articles, news reports and various reports from different national and international organizations. It critically reviews the current literature related to the topic to develop a theoretical understanding of human rights and public health in general and human rights challenges in COVID-19 in the Global South in particular. Existing international human rights principles in the case of public health were reviewed and discussed to identify the links between human rights laws in public health perspectives. Contents analysis was ca...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - March 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Md. Kamal Uddin
Muhammad Tareq Chy
Helal Uddin Ahmmed Source Type: research
Healthcare services utilization in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis
This study is a systematic review and meta-analysis conducted in 2020. The literature review was done by searching the databases of Google Scholar, Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, Science Direct, SID, Magiran and Irandoc from January 2010 to August 2020. Pooled utilization percentage (UP) was estimated by STATA 15 through random-effects meta-analysis with 95% confidence interval. The I2 statistic was used to investigate the possibility of heterogeneity of articles (I2 ≥ 50% indicate heterogeneity). A forest plot was applied to report the results. A funnel plot exploited due to publication bias assessment.
Approx...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - March 4, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bahman Ahadinezhad
Omid Khosravizadeh
Sima Rafiei
Aisa Maleki Source Type: research
Guest editorial
Michael Elnemais Fawzy
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp.1-3 (Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare)
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - February 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Michael Elnemais Fawzy Source Type: research
The urgency of legal protection for medical workers in combating COVID-19 in Indonesia
Sunny Ummul Firdaus
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
This paper explores the reasons why Indonesia must have legal regulations to provide protection and guarantees for health workers in carrying out the profession in overcoming corona virus disease (COVID-19). This paper also explains the legal regulations as the foundation for today’s medical workers’ protection. This paper also aims at providing an ideal legal construction that safeguards the rights and obligations of health workers in overcoming COVID-19.
In this pape...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - February 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sunny Ummul Firdaus Source Type: research
Barriers to the right to HIV prevention health care for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Barbados: an examination of anti-gay prejudice
This study provides insights into the trends in attitudes towards sexual minorities in a developing country. The main conclusion is that although health care is provided as a universal right to all Barbadians, a strictly medical approach to HIV prevention among MSM in countries with high levels of anti-gay prejudice is insufficient. (Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare)
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - January 31, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Alana Griffith
Mahalia Jackman Source Type: research
Public health insurance for elderly: did researchers recognise health as human right for elderly?
This study aims to shed some light on the subject matter of the exploration of public medical coverage and elderly done as such far across the world. To achieve this objective, a comprehensive bibliometric examination was used to investigate papers published between the years 1960 and 2020. An aggregate of 366 papers was selected and analysed for the same. The investigation endeavours to recognise the journals with outstanding performance in this field, distribution of papers concerning the year of their publication, most referred to papers. Then various maps depicting bibliometric networks are provided, namely, the joint-...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - January 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gaurav Agrawal
Aditi Mishra Source Type: research
A narrative study on the psycho-social impact of sex trafficking on victim ’s parents in the state of Karnataka
A narrative study on the psycho-social impact of sex trafficking on victim’s parents in the state of Karnataka
Indrajit Goswami, Sujatha M. Jithu, Nigel Raylyn Dsilva
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
The purpose of this study is to explore the life of the victim’s parents in Karnataka and to gain a better understanding of the consequences or impact of sex trafficking on them.
A narrative research design was used in the study. Applying the method of narrative inquiry and the concept of three common spaces, the study explor...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - January 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Indrajit Goswami
Sujatha M. Jithu
Nigel Raylyn Dsilva Source Type: research
