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- Why does Community-Based Rehabilitation fail physically disabled women in northern Thailand?
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Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) has been adopted in many countries to help disabled people. This article analyses the interplay between CBR and the self-alienation of physically disabled women from their communities. In-depth interviews with 40 wom ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:47
- Community-based rehabilitation and development: disabled children in Guyana
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This article examines the challenge facing the rehabilitation of disabled persons, particularly children, as we approach the end of the twentieth century. The potential of a community-based model of rehabilitation is considered in the light of experience ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Tensions in the psychosocial discourse: implications for the planning of interventions with war-affected populations
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Fundamental conceptual tensions underlie current debates regarding the implementation of psychosocial interventions with war-affected populations. Three particular tensions structuring current discourse concern the generalisability versus uniqueness of re ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Financing primary health care: an NGO perspective
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How is primary health care (PHC) to be funded in a climate of economic recession? The authors survey the financial implications of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Bamako Initiative of 1987. They draw on a survey of over 100 Oxfam-funded health pr ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:04
- Achieving behaviour change: Three generations of HIV/AIDS programming and jargon in Thailand
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NGOs have played an important role worldwide in trying to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through achieving behaviour change. NGOs have often been at the fore of innovative changes, influencing government and international programming activities. This pape ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- World Disasters Report 2000: Focus on Public Health
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Author: Walker, Peter and Walter, Jonathan (Eds.) Publisher: Geneva: Internati ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:52
- Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective
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Author: Adams, Vincanne and Stacy Leigh Pigg (eds.) Publisher: Durham, NC: Duk ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:57
- Educating the (neo-liberal) citizen: reflections from India
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Citizenship has gained considerable popular currency in development and is increasingly being used to represent its objectives and outcomes. The popular conceptualisations of citizenship have not remained unaffected by neo-liberalism, which has establis ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-15 10:13
- Understanding quality in services supporting women survivors of gender-based violence
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On the basis of participatory research with service providers, service users, and external actors in Guatemala, Mozambique, and Nicaragua, we have developed a novel framework to describe and assess the quality of services for women and girls who have ex ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-11-29 12:47
- Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh
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Based on primary research on the applicability of social exclusion frameworks to the experiences of people with leprosy in Bangladesh, this article compares two means of intervention: health education of society, and socio-economic rehabilitation of indiv ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52
