C-Change conducted a survey among 332 staff of health-care and social service agencies in Jamaica and The Bahamas to understand the levels of stigma toward people living with HIV (PLHIV), including MSM and SWs
They are equipped to provide services that patients need, something that is not available in Guyana. I have interacted with social workers when my family was undergoing surgery and during recovery and as a volunteer at Jamaica hospital. Primarily when my father was undergoing the process of quadru...
These huge population shifts, create ever more burden on social and health services and are estimated to vastly increase in the next decades. https://www.unhcr.org/uk/what-we-do/build-better-futures/environment-disasters-and-climate-change/climate-change-and. Another aspect of climate-related ...
On the eve of independence in 1962, malnutrition was the largest single cause of death in Jamaica for children under one. Although child malnutrition rates have rapidly declined since 1962, today Jamaica experiences a double burden of malnutrition: the c
of Business and Management, University of the West Indies, Jamaica ? Botho Limited, Kenya ? Intrac, Kyrgyzstan ? Tandemic, Malaysia ? Entrepreneurship and Organisation Management Research Centre at the University of Hassan II, Morocco ? Qualiquant Services, Nigeria ...
BMC Health Services Research (2015) 15:514 DOI 10.1186/s12913-015-1176-6 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Social accountability for maternal health services in Muanda and Bolenge Health Zones, Democratic Republic of Congo: a situation analysis Eric M. Mafuta1,3*, Marjolein A. Dieleman2, Lisanne ...
In 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson’s executive order 11246 amended “affirmative action” to include sex (gender). Next, “…the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was signed by President Richard M. Nixon and it required agencies to submit an affirmative action plan to the Equal Employment Opportunity...
In the article, “Cultural Considerations for Social Workers, a sociological perspective”, it talks about problems that Jamaica faces today relating to its society based on its goods and services. It talks about the past when African slaves worked on plantation for the Europeans and were the mai...
members at major locations across the system • Offering preflight COVID-19 testing for customers traveling to international destinations, starting with Jamaica and the Bahamas, with plans to expand the program to additional markets These are just some of the important safety measures we are ...
The results of this study can help policy makers, practitioners, funding agencies and other relevant stakeholders to improve Mozambican CMCs and leverage their community empowerment potential. Keywords: Community multimedia centers; Mozambique; social representations; community empowerment; education References ...