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Introduction Community participation is rapidly being viewed as a requirement for the successful acceptance of health services; it integrates a complicated process which involves customs, beliefs, culture and power relations, not only structures and policies. Yet, there is a wide knowledge gap and changes favouring community participation in primary health care is still minimal. This study aims...

Disclosure, or open communication, by female microbicide trial participants of their trial participation and use of an investigational HIV prevention drug to a sexual partner may affect participants' trial product usage behavior and contribute to poor adherence. With mixed results from recent microbicide clinical trials being linked to differing participant adherence, insights into the communic...

Violence against women is persisting in many parts of the world. At same time, there a global trend increased female labour force participation. In this paper we study effect on intimate partner violence large public work program India that explicitly encourages participation (MGNREGA). Based detailed administrative data, show leads to more women. We argue could be explained by male backlash me...

PURPOSE The purpose of this prospective study was to investigate the epidemiology of overuse injuries and to identify common risk factors for stress fractures among female and male recruits in a new light infantry basic training designed to minimize the incidence of overuse injuries. METHODS Study subjects were male and female recruits in the 16-wk light infantry basic training. A control gro...

Abstract We assess the impact of a rapid rise in Japanese import competition on growth racial earnings and employment gaps during 1970s 80s. Using commuting zone level variation exposure, we find led to decrease manufacturing labour force participation for blacks. This was driven by shift demand skill manufacturing. The difference effects between 10th percentile most least exposed equivalent 36...

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine the prevalence of college laboratory research apprenticeship (CLRA) participation among students considering medical careers and to examine the relationship between CLRA participation and medical-school acceptance among students who applied to medical school. METHODS We used multivariate logistic regression to identify predictors of: 1) CLRA participation in a...

BACKGROUND In the education of professionals in psychiatry, one challenge is to provide clinical placements with opportunities for students to interact and have direct contact with patients. The aim of this study was to explore Swedish psychiatric patients' perspectives on student participation in their care. METHOD In a cross-sectional survey design, 655 adult psychiatric patients at a unive...

The objective of this study was to examine the association between leisure participation and quality of life (QoL) in school-age children with cerebral palsy (CP). Leisure participation was assessed using the Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) and QoL using the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL). Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to examine the ...