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Heterogeneity in Disability and the Quality of Life of South African Children
In South Africa, fragmented research has shown that children with disabilities experience lower levels of education, poorer health and lower life...
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War-Affected South Sudanese in Settings of Preflight, Flight, and Resettlement: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Trauma-Associated Mental Disorders
BackgroundSouth Sudanese have experienced prolonged exposure to conflict and displacement regionally and globally, with studies in different settings...
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A Case Study of Community-based, Cross-sectoral Crisis Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Serving Racialized Immigrant Communities
Crises—such as the COVID-19 pandemic—bring about myriad problems in magnitude (severity), dynamism (quality), and urgency (timing). Collaborative...
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Adolescent Drug Use in Connecticut Private High Schools: Zero Tolerance, Contextual Peer Influence, and Deterrence Effectiveness
Criminological deterrence, the concept of deterring criminals and non-criminals from committing crimes, is central to the criminal justice system....
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Family-Centered Care Approaches for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Caring for Mothers and Infants
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a variable, complex, and incompletely understood spectrum of neonatal neurobehavioral dysregulation associated...
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Pulling through together: social media response trajectories in disaster-stricken communities
Disasters are extraordinary shocks that disrupt every aspect of the community life. Lives are lost, infrastructure is destroyed, the social fabric is...
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Drought’s Role in a Water Crisis
As the climateUS climate trends in the U.S. continues to get warmer, in large sections of the country, it is also getting dryer. When it stays dry...
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Tuberculosis Patients in Malda District of West Bengal, Eastern India: Exploring the Ground Reality
Tuberculosis is the leading casue of death worldwide. It is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is usually disseminated through...
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How to Assess the Child Poverty and Distributional Impact of COVID-19 Using Household Budget Surveys: An Application Using Turkish Data
This study presents a methodology to predict the child poverty impact of COVID-19 that can be readily applied in other country contexts where similar...
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Risky businesses: economic crisis in Argentina and the generative power of generations
How are risk orientations shaped in the sphere of work beyond proximate structuring institutions? In the absence of clear organizational imperatives...
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Socio-economic Drivers of Food Security among Rural Households in Nigeria: Evidence from Smallholder Maize Farmers
Issues relating to food availability, accessibility/affordability, and food utilization remain paramount among different stakeholders such as...
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Quality of Life of Older People with Dementia
As a result of an aging population and an increase in life expectancy, de-mentia is now a serious problem in public health. In elderly populations,...
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A Distributional Analysis of Uni-and Multidimensional Poverty and Inequalities in Ethiopia
This study analyzes uni-and multidimensional poverty and inequalities in rural and small towns in Ethiopia. Unlike the unidimensional measure, the...
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Community Energy and Community Resilience: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective
This chapter explores the mutually interdependent relationship between community energy and community resilience. The resilience of Community Energy...
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The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Caribbean
“Adverse childhood experiences” (ACEs) is a term which is used to encompass any potentially traumatic events that occur during childhood, including...
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Elite Environmental Aesthetics: Placing Nature in a Changing Climate
What does it mean to escape to nature in a changing climate? We investigate the properties that make a place resonant with ideas of “nature,”...
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Decongesting Global Cities as Part of Health Reform in the Era of COVID-19: Impacts and Implications for Zimbabwe
Since the year 2000, eight major disease outbreaks, including COVID-19 involving zoonosis of viruses, have occurred. Increasing population density,...
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Family Resilience Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Theory and Evidence
Family resilience raises the question of how family units adapt to external shocks. One notable form of such shocks are disasters. Research shows...
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Evaluation of a Brief Mindfulness Program for People with Multiple Sclerosis Delivered in the Community Over Five Years
This study evaluated the effectiveness, change mechanisms, and sustainability of a brief mindfulness intervention for people with multiple sclerosis...
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Prevention and mitigation measures against phishing emails: a sequential schema model
Phishing emails have permeated our digital communication, taking advantage of vulnerabilities that the information technology system poses to users....