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Front Public Health
December 2024
Department of Management, College of Business and Economics, Samara University, Semera, Ethiopia.
Background: The world faces great difficulty in continuing to provide essential maternity health care after the onset of COVID-19 pandemic Many women have trouble accessing maternity healthcare due to fear of infection. A decline in the utilization of maternity health services is suggested to worsen adequate antenatal care service utilization. Thus, this study aimed to determine the pooled estimate of adequate antenatal care service utilization after the onset of COVID-19 in Ethiopia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Public Health Policy
November 2024
School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.
COVID-19 translated African Americans' greater social, economic, and health-related risk, reflecting adverse Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), into greater COVID morbidity, hospitalization, and mortality, and it threatened to enlarge the very risks causing greater COVID suffering. However, following a federal policy response injecting trillions of dollars into the US economy, longstanding African American-White disparities in economic well-being, insurance coverage, vaccination rates, and evictions declined. On the other hand, troubling and consequential disparities in k-12 academic achievement and college attendance disparities widened.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Racial Ethn Health Disparities
September 2024
Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Background: While several reports confirm that long COVID is associated with poorer health, few studies explore how long COVID directly impacts the lives of Black Americans who experienced higher mortality rates early in the pandemic. Even fewer studies utilize both quantitative and qualitative methods to identify pertinent long COVID symptoms. The current study, therefore, sought to identify points of overlap and divergence when comparing qualitative vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFData Brief
October 2024
University of Rwanda College of Education (UR-CE), Kayonza P.O. Box 55 Rwamagana, Rwanda.
In recent years, teaching and learning organic chemistry have been troubled by limited engagement, and active participation among learners. As a result, there has been a growing need to develop innovative teaching methods that can address these educational challenges. Web-based discussion tools have emerged as a promising means of promoting engagement and critical thinking skills among learners.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Humanit
August 2024
Capilano University, North Vancouver, BC, Canada.
South African writer Phaswane Mpe (1970-2004) is often canonized and memorialized as a brave truth-teller who broke the silence on HIV/AIDS in the context of government silence and denial. And yet Mpe's writings-including poetry, short stories, a novel, and scholarly criticism-contemplate illness as a problem for truth and representation in works that linger in silence and ambiguity. This article analyses the tension between silence and speech in Mpe's creative writing in response to HIV/AIDS.
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