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The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) would like to express concern about the increasing number of children going missing, those being killed and the frequent reports of the brutal attacks on school aged children. Recently, there were reports of a Trench Town child who attended Kingston Technica...
In that connection, Jamaica had established a male desk in its Bureau of Women’s Affairs to integrate the concerns of men and facilitate dialogue between men and women with a view to formulating strategies to eliminate gender-based violence. daccess-ods.un.org 为此,牙买加在女性事务局中 设立...
of experiences with physical violence and psychological violence that health staff have had in the workplace in Jamaica, and to identify factors associated with those experiences of violence.A total of 832 health staff answered the standardized questionnaire that was used in this cross-sectional study...
Experiences of violence in schools are encountered much more frequently than they used to be. The shocking repercussions of these acts are felt nation-wide and particularly impact school populations, families and communities. This book illuminates factors pertaining to the phenomenon of school violence....
in Jamaica.4 Likewise, 40% of Mongolian caregivers reported seeing someone in their home beat a child in the last month, and 44% of Gambian caregivers reported witnessing a child being hit with an object in the last month.2 At the other extreme, in 1979, Sweden became the first country...
[3]. Similarly, in Jamaica, the HIV prevalence rate in the general adult population is estimated at 1.6%, while prevalence among FSWs is estimated at 4.1%, prevalence among MSM is estimated at 31.4%, and estimates of prevalence among transgender women range between 25.2 and 52.9% [4,5,6,...
Results of an exercise to estimate the costs of interpersonal violence in Jamaica This report describes the application of a draft version of the World Health Organization (WHO)/ United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (... E Ward,T Mccartney,DW Brown,... - 《West Indian Med...
Confronting Organized Crime and Urban Violence in Latin America Vanda Felbab-Brown outlines key law enforcement and socioeconomic policy lessons from urban slums controlled by non-state actors in Latin American countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Jamaica. V Felbabbrown - 《Latin America...
Experiences of violence and deficits in academic achievement among urban primary school children in Jamaica. Child Abuse Negl. 2009;33(5):296–306. Article PubMed Google Scholar Gershoff ET. Spanking and Child development: we know enough now to stop hitting our children. Child Dev Perspect. ...