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Front Public Health
December 2024
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Background: Substance use among youths is a significant global and local issue. Youth who engage in substance use often experience various psychosocial, health, economic, and other problems. While governmental and non-governmental organizations in North Wollo and Waghimra Zones offer social services, their effectiveness in preventing and controlling substance use remains largely unstudied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt Nurs Rev
November 2024
Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
Aim: To connect selected examples from Florence Nightingale's life with concerns for the distress nurses are experiencing worldwide.
Background: We live in turbulent times of disease, armed conflict, vast climate change, and social injustice-factors exacerbating illness and impacting health-factors Nightingale also addressed throughout her life.
Sources Of Evidence: The Theory of Integral Nursing (TIN) is introduced with related examples of nursing's problems and solutions seen through integral lenses at the individual, group, grassroots, and global levels.
Front Sociol
October 2024
Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic, as a holistic event of cultural trauma, significantly influenced social structures and behaviors globally. Under its impact, social movements leveraged digital platforms to sustain and amplify their causes, creating new forms of solidarity and resistance, and fostering a rise in digital and hybrid collective actions. Concurrently, social media thrived as a transformative tool for social change, revolutionizing communication, mobilization, and advocacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Law Med Ethics
October 2024
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA.
This column describes the history, mission, and work of Saint Louis University School of Law's service-learning course Health Law, Policy and Advocacy: Grassroots Advocacy. Grassroots Advocacy allows law students to work with advocacy organizations on state and federal health policy initiatives, engaging in legislative and administrative advocacy and public education. The course uses community collaboration, community-led advocacy, and collaborative learning to train the next generation of health policy advocates for Missouri and the nation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCult Health Sex
October 2024
Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
In December 2020, Argentina approved a new abortion law following decades of feminist and social advocacy. This paper presents qualitative findings from interviews and focus group discussions with people in local communities focusing on how individuals of reproductive age access and communicate sexual and reproductive health information, particularly regarding abortion. Sixteen in-depth interviews were conducted with key informants working in the field of SRHR and four focus group discussions took place with cisgender women and girls, transmasculine people and non-binary people of reproductive age.
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