: Women in Accra: Options for Autonomy . Deborah Pellow.

XOMO: Understanding Development Options for Autonomy

We seek an AI agent that is fast enough to keep up with debates between humans and and can offer suggestions regarding what is the next most important issue to explore. To assess the merits of treatment learning for such an agent, this kind of learning was applied to three models of a mythical (but plausible) development project building software for autonomous systems. The models were the COCO...

The health of adult women in Accra.

The seven papers in this issue of the Journal highlight a number of wellknown but largely unquantified health issues facing adults in Accra, and by extension, other rapidly growing cities in West Africa. Much is written about the ‘second epidemiological transition’ and the ‘double burden’ of communicable and noncommunicable disease in post-transition populations. Here we present some new popula...

Autonomy, constraining options, and organ sales.

Although there continues to be a chronic shortage of transplant organs the suggestion that we should try to alleviate it through allowing a current market in them continues to be morally condemned, usually on the grounds that such a market would undermine the autonomy of those who would participate in it as vendors. Against this objection Gerald Dworkin has argued that such markets would enhanc...

Contraceptive use by women in Accra, Ghana: results from the 2003 Accra Women's Health Survey.

The study was to determine the predictors of use of modern contraception among women in Accra, Ghana. Data were collected by trained interviewers using questionnaires. Complete data for 2199 women were analysed using Stata 8.2. The study showed that educational status was the most significant predictor of contraceptive use. Women with no formal education had a 48% reduction in the odds of havin...

Deborah McCollister