She was introduced to this line of work at age 19, when she left her family in rural Hosur. She dropped out of school in 5th grade. Her first contact in the city of Bangalore was a female USW, who then initiated her into the trade. Jaya is unmarried. She practices sex work at ...
Exploring quality of life among the elderly in Hai Duong province, Vietnam: a ruralÁurban dialogue Nguyen Thanh Huong1*, Le Thi Hai Ha2, Nguyen Thai Quynh Chi2, Peter S. Hill3 and Tara Walton4 1Department of Health Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Behaviour ...
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While most male involvement studies targeted communities in rural and urban settings, this study has focused on the often-neglected strategies used by health care providers to invite men into the facilities. The aim of this study was to explore and describe strategies that are used to invite men...
While rural to urban migration is at play, evidence suggests that about 75% of urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa is due to natural population growth (difference between births and deaths), with only about 25% accounted for by migration to urban areas [15, 16], pointing to the importance ...
north about the beginning of the 1st centuryce) make up the majority of the remainder of the people of Maharashtra. The state also has a significant population of those who were once called “untouchables” but are now officially classed as Scheduled Castes, most of whom live in rural areas...
Today Vleiland experiences the presence of apartheid spatial planning (delineating a ‘township’ for housing black people, who were formally confined to small areas of land known as homelands), and a contemporary proliferation of informal settlements, as rural–urban migration has increased in South...