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Growing Feminization of Migration in Cuba Poses New Challenges
By Luis BrizuelaHAVANA, Aug 25 2023 (IPS) Emigrating from Cuba was an agonizing decision for Ana Iraida. She left behind family and friends; in her backpack she carried many hopes, but also the fear of facing dangers on the journey to the United States.
“My salary and that of my second job, as an editor, were insufficient. I wanted to prosper and help my parents. Nor did I want to have a child in a country where it is an ordeal to buy everything from disposable diapers to soap, not to mention food,” the 33-year-old philologist who, like the others interviewed for this story, asked to withhold her last name, tol...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Luis Brizuela Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Editors' Choice Featured Financial Crisis Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Latin America & the Caribbean Migration & Refugees Population Poverty & SDGs Regional Cat Source Type: news
Community health workers perspective on the COVID-19 impact on primary health care in Northeastern Brazil
This article evaluates the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on the Family Health Strategy (FHS) team's work routines across a range of northeast Brazilian cities as perceived by community health workers (CHW). Data on COVID-19, CHW activities, and FHS teams were collected in 2021 by a structured questionnaire. A total of 1,935 CHWs from four state capitals (Fortaleza - Ceará State, João Pessoa - Paraíba State, Recife - Pernambuco State, Teresina - Piauí State) and four hinterland cities (Crato, Juazeiro do Norte, Barbalha, Sobral - Ceará State) participated in the study. Most CHWs were women (82.42%), with mean age 46.25±8....
Source: Cadernos de Saude Publica - August 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anya Pimentel Gomes Fernandes Vieira-Meyer Franklin Delano Soares Forte Jos é Maria Ximenes Guimarães Sidney Feitoza Farias Andr é Luiz Sá de Oliveira Maria Socorro de Ara újo Dias Claudete Ferreira de Souza Monteiro Fernando Jos é Guedes da Silva J Source Type: research
An ecological analysis of hope amongst Asian rainbow young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
Cult Health Sex. 2023 Aug 11:1-17. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2023.2242443. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRainbow research tends to prioritise gender and sexuality experiences over the racialised experiences of Asian rainbow young people. Informed by an intersectional lens, we employed a hope-based ecological framework to examine how multiple overlapping axes of oppression (e.g. cisgenderism, heterosexism and racism) shape the aspirations of these youth. We drew on the voices of Asian participants from the 2021 Aotearoa New Zealand Identify Survey, who had responded to an open-text question on their hopes for rainbow young peop...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - August 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kyle Tan Rituparna Roy Alex Ker John Fenaughty Source Type: research
