Offers an overview of poverty in Canada. Statistics Canada figures on the number of Canadians who were poor in 1992; Poverty and young Canadians; Defining poverty; Estimates on the number of homeless people in Canada; Social assistance and welfa...
Several unofficial poverty lines have been developed in Canada, but the poverty measures have not gone beyond head counts of people who fall below these lines. In an environment where the goal is to further progressive social development constrained by inadequate public resources, the emphasis has ...
Known as “The Land of Smiles,” Thailand has been perceived as an LGBT-friendly destination where people seem to have a higher level of acceptance towards the LGBT community, and transgender people can state explicitly their identities (Davis et al.,2019). In terms of the legal rights of t...
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Flood exposure and poverty in 188 countries Article Open access 28 June 2022 The wider the gap between rich and poor the higher the flood mortality Article Open access 17 April 2023 Introduction For historical and environmental reasons, a large number of impoverished people live in mountainous ...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty volume 13, Article number: 79 (2024) Cite this article 870 Accesses 1 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Background Rabies remains a major public health problem in low- and middle-income countries. However, human rabies deaths are rarely laboratory-confirmed or sequence...
BMC Health Services Research volume 14, Article number: 560 (2014) Cite this article 8783 Accesses 25 Citations 2 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Background There is a wide range of actions an individual could take when sick or injured such as self-care, consulting a traditional healer, or...
In all other regions, the share of the overall population exposed to unsafe PM2.5 concentrations is smaller, at 92–94 percent in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Europe and Central Asia (ECA), and the United States and Canada (USA & CAN), and 84 ...
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entitled “EcoHealth and EIDs - dynamics between environmental change, development and EIDs in Asia”, which was supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada and published with the aim to showcase and encourage trans-disciplinary EcoHealth research in Asia and beyond....