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Using Natural Language Processing to Understand the Political Perception of Disease: a case study on Ebola, Monkeypox (Mpox), and Zika
(2023-05-21)Infectious diseases are an omnipresent concern for society, and their risk of transmission has increased with the advent of international travel, trade, migration, and climate change. Because of their increasing prominence, ... -
Semashko’s Syndemic: The Impact of the Development of the Soviet Health Care System on HIV and Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Russia
(2023-05-21)In 1924, the Nikolai Semashko of the Soviet Ministry of Public Health inaugurated a universal state health care system that emphasized preventive outpatient treatment and primary care for all. Nearly a century later, an ... -
Insurance and its value: Ghana’s health system both before and in the 20 years since the establishment of the National Health Insurance Scheme
(2023-05-21)Insurance as a social good has a long history of improving equity in otherwise inequitable societies, however they are not without their own risks and shortcomings. In 2005, Ghana implemented the National Health Insurance ... -
Gender as a Weapon of War and a Tool of Peacebuilding: The Case of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence during the Colombian Conflict and the 2016 Peace Process
(2023-05-21)During periods of large-scale conflict and war, forms of gender-based violence are often weaponized and perceived as an appropriate means of interpersonal control. The Colombian conflict between the Republic of Colombia, ... -
Raptured Relationships with Rivers: The Failure of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Against the Invasion of Hydroelectric Development in Guatemala
(2023)From its conception in Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization: the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, the right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) has been a site of negotiation between ...
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