List of Articles
- Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health
Water and Sanitation should be declared as human rights, and this must be available to all. A growing body of literature highlights how poor and inaccessible sanitation at school inhibits young girls, from safely and comfortably managing their menstruation, which may ultimately influence their social and educational engagement, concentration, and attendance. Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for all, are crucial to human health and wellbeing. Women’s Health and Education Center’s (WHEC’s) publications are aimed at a broad range of audience, and it is hoped that everyone who reads this comes away with a realization of the complexity of the issues at-stake, and an appreciation of the work that lay in front of us. Lower prevalence or incidence of diseases is associated with greater access to sanitation, particularly for diseases and conditions that continue to inflict a health burden in low-income settings including diarrhea, soil contaminated helminth infections, trachoma, cholera, schistosomiasis, and poor nutritional status. - LGBTQ+ Healthcare: Building A Foundation For Better Understanding
The review describes acceptable terms for gender and sexual identity in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) community. Summarizes challenges in the care of the LGBTQ+ community; outlines communication strategies to provide culturally correct evaluation and treatment; and explains the cultural competence in the care of LGBTQ+ community patients. Core mission of the Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) is to support the best interests of all children and adults, regardless of their home or family structure, on the basis of the common principles of justice. All children need support and nurturing from stable, healthy and well-functioning adults to become resilient and effective adults. Understanding the history the LGBTQ+ community both in American society and within the profession of psychiatry is essential in bring context to management. Members of the LGBTQ+ community have unfortunately experienced a challenging history, but health professionals can learn to provide compassionate, comprehensive, and high-quality care with education. Research on the influence of contextual factors (e.g., income, geographic location, race, ethnicity, stigma) on LGBTQ+ population health status is lacking. There are many opportunities for future research. - Homelessness, Health and Human Habitation
Homelessness should not be seen as a personal failure, but a societal one. The characteristics of homeless populations have become increasingly diverse in many countries. They include groups overrepresented among homeless in the past, such as single adult men, members of indigenous populations and people leaving institutional care, as well as older persons, youth, families with children, and migrants. Unaccompanied migrant adolescents experiencing homelessness are a growing concern, as their precarious living situations as asylum seekers often lead to homelessness and housing exclusion. Addressing homelessness requires comprehensive, inter-sectoral policy frameworks and rights-based housing- and health-strategies, in alignment with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The structural causes of homelessness should be effectively addressed through legal and policy responses at all levels. Appropriate types of policy interventions should be made for each category of homelessness and by distinguishing between chronic and transitional homelessness. Criminalization responses to homelessness are inhumane, do not solve the problem, and are subject to constitutional challenge. Cities can constitutionally and responsibly address the common interest of those who are homeless and those who are not. Ending Homelessness. - Healthy Ageing: A Call For Global Action
Populations around the world are rapidly ageing. Ageing presents both challenges and opportunities. Ageing is the progressive accumulation of changes with time that are associated with or responsible for the ever-increasing susceptibility to disease and death which accompanies advancing age. These time-related changes are attributed to the ageing process. Societies that adapt to this changing demographic and invest in Healthy Ageing can enable individuals to live both longer and healthier lives and for societies to reap the dividends. Current public-health approaches to population ageing have clearly been ineffective. A new framework for global action is required. This review offers a framework for all sectors focus on common goals so that action can be coordinated and balanced. It also explores what health might mean to an older person and how public-health strategy might be framed to foster it. Throughout this review it is emphasized that all aspects of an older person’s environment need to work together in an integrated way if healthy ageing is to be achieved. Finally, the review identifies the key steps that need to be taken next.
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