OBJECTIVE Many Haitian migrants live and work as undocumented laborers in the Dominican Republic. This study examines the legacy of anti-Haitian discrimination in the Dominican Republic and association of discrimination with mental health among Haitian migrants. DESIGN This study used mixed methods to generate hypotheses for associations between discrimination and mental health of Haitian mig...

to become exclusively a medical institution focusing on curative procedures, and ultimately to expand its clientele to all levels of society. While large-scale involvement of medical men with hospitals doubtless preceded the administrative-institutional transformation of the latter (medical professionalization around the hospital clinic in France following the Revolution may have been one neces...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is a world-wide health problem and development of interventions to prevent or control it is a priority. Obesity is prevalent and on the increase among school-students in Iran, too. As the first step for development of an intervention, the current study was designed to complete our understanding of ideas, attitudes, beliefs, and preferences of primary school children...

deserved. Recipients who attribute the mistreatment to a noninternal cause (ie, an ineffective teacher or suboptimal learning environment) may feel guilt or humiliation but do not necessarily experience shame. Thus, the emotional outcome of the mistreatment must be analyzed to determine if particular treatment is “shaming.” The ability to receive mistreatment and not experience shame may actual...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the representations about domestic violence against women, among health professionals of Family Health Units. METHOD qualitative study based on the Theory of Social Representations. Data were collected by means of evocations and interviews, treating them in the Ensemble de Programmes Pemettant L'Analyse des Evocations software - EVOC and content analysis. RESULTS nurses...

BACKGROUND Many Jordanian university students complain of the behavior of some teaching staff. Also, they complain of the grading systems in universities. AIM This study concerns the occurrence of different forms of student mistreatment and student mistrust of the grading system in the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) as an example of universities in Jordan. METHOD A total...

OBJECTIVE How adverse outcomes and complaints are managed may significantly impact on physician well-being and practice. We aimed to investigate how depression, anxiety and defensive medical practice are associated with doctors actual and perceived support, behaviour of colleagues and process issues regarding how complaints investigations are carried out. DESIGN A survey study. Respondents we...