More than 650 million women alive today were married as children. Relative to efforts to prevent child marriage, efforts to support child brides have received much less attention. This review set out to map and describe interventions that support child brides.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper concerns the dynamical study of the q-deformed homographic map, namely, the q-homographic map, where q-deformation is introduced by Jagannathan and Sinha with the inspiration from Tsalli's q-exponential function. We analyze the q-homographic map by computing its basic nonlinear dynamics, bifurcation analysis, and topological entropy. We use the notion of a false derivative and the generalized Lambert W function of the rational type to estimate the upper bound on the number of fixed points of the q-homographic map.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) was established in 2012 with the goal of expanding contraceptive access. By 2020, 46 countries had made commitments to FP2020. A sustained focus on adolescents and youth (AY) began in 2016.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This review considers trends in some of the major adolescent health outcomes and contextual influences since 2010, and explores the relevance of recent cultural, societal, and public health developments on adolescent well-being.
Methods: Based on a review of major reports published since 2010, we identified key topics of impact on adolescent health and development across several domains (education, economic opportunity, sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, and mental health) and ecological levels (from individual- to macro-level influences). Within these areas, we synthesized findings to describe recent trends, noting variation across countries/regions, gender/sex, and other social stratifications when possible.