Gender Dimensions Of Alcohol Consumption And Alcohol Related Problems In Latin America And The Caribbean

Author : Hnin Hnin Pyne,Mariam Claeson,Maria Correia
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821351257

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Gender Dimensions of Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-related Problems in Latin America and the Caribbean by Hnin Hnin Pyne,Mariam Claeson,Maria Correia Pdf

While the World Bank has included the issue of alcohol consumption and production on its' agenda for the past ten years, it has not included gender dimensions in the issue. By focusing on alcohol consumption in Latin America and the Caribbean, the instances of death, disease and domestic violence arising from alcoholism were tracked.This study recommends an approach to dealing with the damage done by alcohol consumption and production that goes beyond controlling its' availability. Specifically the measures recommended include: • increasing knowledge through research; • developing indicators to measure consumption levels and patterns among men and women, and the economic and social consequence of alcohol use; • integrating the issue of alcohol use and related problems into consultations with governments and civil society organizations; and • investment lending where appropriate, to address the issue.

Author : Marijke Velzeboer
Publisher : Pan American Health Org
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789275122921

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Violence Against Women by Marijke Velzeboer Pdf

Produced in collaboration with the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), the Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD) and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)

Author : Scott C. Martin
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2281 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781483374383

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol by Scott C. Martin Pdf

Alcohol consumption goes to the very roots of nearly all human societies. Different countries and regions have become associated with different sorts of alcohol, for instance, the “beer culture” of Germany, the “wine culture” of France, Japan and saki, Russia and vodka, the Caribbean and rum, or the “moonshine culture” of Appalachia. Wine is used in religious rituals, and toasts are used to seal business deals or to celebrate marriages and state dinners. However, our relation with alcohol is one of love/hate. We also regulate it and tax it, we pass laws about when and where it’s appropriate, we crack down severely on drunk driving, and the United States and other countries tried the failed “Noble Experiment” of Prohibition. While there are many encyclopedias on alcohol, nearly all approach it as a substance of abuse, taking a clinical, medical perspective (alcohol, alcoholism, and treatment). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol examines the history of alcohol worldwide and goes beyond the historical lens to examine alcohol as a cultural and social phenomenon, as well—both for good and for ill—from the earliest days of humankind.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : NWU:35558005053729

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Alcohol Research & Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Agyemang,Ama de-Graft Aikins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134913800

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Culture, Ethnicity and Chronic Conditions by Charles Agyemang,Ama de-Graft Aikins Pdf

The global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, and of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, has a disproportionate impact on the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The pattern persists in African and Asian migrant populations in European and North American countries, despite the higher standards of living and improved health infrastructure. The consensus of experts is that pragmatic, cost-effective and sustainable interventions are required, and that these must prioritise the social determinants of NCDs as well as the social participation of affected communities. Despite the growing emphasis on the role of social processes in health system responses to chronic disease in LMICs, there has been no definitive volume that brings together LMIC perspectives on these issues. This book aims to address this major gap by presenting new conceptual and empirical perspectives on the interconnections between culture, ethnicity and chronic conditions in LMICs and their implications for research, intervention and policy. The chapters focus on lay and institutional meanings, experiences and responses to chronic conditions in selected countries in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnicity and Health.

Author : Patrice Franko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442212183

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The Puzzle of Latin American Economic Development by Patrice Franko Pdf

Thoroughly revised and updated, this foundational text provides the basic economic tools for students to understand the problems facing the countries of Latin America. In the fourth edition, Patrice Franko analyzes challenges to the neoliberal model of development and highlights recent macroeconomic changes in the region. Including charts and tables with the most current data available, the book also offers a wealth of new boxed discussions and vignettes.

Author : Torsten Kolind,Betsy Thom,Geoffrey Hunt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781473944190

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The SAGE Handbook of Drug & Alcohol Studies by Torsten Kolind,Betsy Thom,Geoffrey Hunt Pdf

A two-volume handbook on the subject of drugs and alcohol.

Author : Patricia A. Cholewka,Mitra M. Motlagh
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781420046915

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Health Capital and Sustainable Socioeconomic Development by Patricia A. Cholewka,Mitra M. Motlagh Pdf

Given ongoing worldwide calamities such as famine, natural disasters, and drug abuse, international attention has increasingly focused upon disease detection, prevention, containment, and treatment. Serving an unmet need in the marketplace, Health Capital and Sustainable Socioeconomic Development highlights mounting evidence of the st

Author : Ian Bannon,Maria Correia
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821365069

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The Other Half of Gender by Ian Bannon,Maria Correia Pdf

This book is an attempt to bring the gender and development debate full circle-from a much-needed focus on empowering women to a more comprehensive gender framework that considers gender as a system that affects both women and men. The chapters in this book explore definitions of masculinity and male identities in a variety of social contexts, drawing from experiences in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on a slowly emerging realization that attaining the vision of gender equality will be difficult, if not impossible, without changing the ways in which masculinities are defined and acted upon. Although changing male gender norms will be a difficult and slow process, we must begin by understanding how versions of masculinities are defined and acted upon.

Author : Caren Grown,UN Millennium Project,Geeta Rao Gupta,Aslihan Kes
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781844072224

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Taking Action by Caren Grown,UN Millennium Project,Geeta Rao Gupta,Aslihan Kes Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mike O’Donnell,Hoshang Noraiee,Dorrie Chetty,Elizabeth Waters,Samane Salimi-Tari,Şevket Alper Koç,Hakkı Cenk,Sermin Sarıca,Alexandra Kelbert,Horacio Gago Prialé,Arzu Culhaci,Sibel Fettahoğlu
Publisher : IJOPEC Publication
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 9780956825605

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Globalisation, Religion & Development by Mike O’Donnell,Hoshang Noraiee,Dorrie Chetty,Elizabeth Waters,Samane Salimi-Tari,Şevket Alper Koç,Hakkı Cenk,Sermin Sarıca,Alexandra Kelbert,Horacio Gago Prialé,Arzu Culhaci,Sibel Fettahoğlu Pdf

Globalisation, religion and development have sparked much interest and debates in the last two decades. The analysis of religion and especially Islam has been presented in a simplistic notion of linear development, and the supposed inability to adapt to modernity and capitalism. This journal will consider such views and assess their validity by focusing on: Part 1: introducing the theoretical issues and debates surrounding globalisation, religion and development, illustrating the often-contested nature of the concepts, and considering the implications for modernity and development. Part 2: continuing with the same theme but focusing on gender and development, representation of women, the effect of modernisation on the increasing consumption of alcohol in Kazakhstan, women's access to higher education in revolutionary Iran and finally women and domestic violence. Part 3: focusing on case studies to explore the implications of globalisation, regionalisation and development in Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Peru and Senegal.

Author : Sarah Tenney,Anne C. Salda
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780810878655

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Historical Dictionary of the World Bank by Sarah Tenney,Anne C. Salda Pdf

This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the World Bank shows the substantial progress the Bank has made, this mainly through the dictionary section with concise entries on its component institutions, related organizations, its achievements in various fields, some of the major projects and member countries, and its various presidents. The introduction explains how the Bank works while the chronology traces the major events over nearly 70 years. Meanwhile, the list of acronyms reminds us just who the main players are. And the bibliography directs readers to useful internal documentation and outside studies.

Author : Robin M. Murray,Kenneth S. Kendler,Peter McGuffin,Simon Wessely,David J. Castle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1385 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139473651

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Essential Psychiatry by Robin M. Murray,Kenneth S. Kendler,Peter McGuffin,Simon Wessely,David J. Castle Pdf

This is a major international textbook for psychiatrists and other professionals working in the field of mental healthcare. With contributions from opinion-leaders from around the globe, this book will appeal to those in training as well as to those further along the career path seeking a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of effective clinical practice backed by research evidence. The book is divided into cohesive sections moving from coverage of the tools and skills of the trade, through descriptions of the major psychiatric disorders and on to consider special topics and issues surrounding service organization. The final important section provides a comprehensive review of treatments covering all of the major modalities. Previously established as the Essentials of Postgraduate Psychiatry, this new and completely revised edition is the only book to provide this depth and breadth of coverage in an accessible, yet authoritative manner.

Author : Kate Bedford
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816665396

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Developing Partnerships by Kate Bedford Pdf

A nuanced critique of how the World Bank encourages gender norms through its policies, Developing Partnerships argues that financial institutions are key players in the global enforcement of gender and family expectations. By combining analysis of documents produced and sponsored by the World Bank with interviews of World Bank staffers and case studies, Kate Bedford presents a detailed examination of gender and sexuality in the policies of the world's largest and most influential development institution. Looking concurrently at economic and gender policy, Bedford connects reform of markets to reform of masculinities, loan agreements for export promotion to pamphlets for indigenous adolescents advising daily genital bathing, and attempts to strengthen institutions after the Washington Consensus to efforts to promote loving couplehood in response to economic crisis. In doing so, she reveals the shifting relationships between development and sexuality and the ways in which gender policy impacts debates about the future of neoliberalism. Providing a multilayered account of how gender-aware policies are conceived and implemented by the World Bank, Developing Partnerships demonstrates as well how institutional practices shape development.

Author : UN Millennium Project
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136550133

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UN Millennium Development Library: Taking Action by UN Millennium Project Pdf

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN Secretary General in January 2005. The core of the UN Millennium Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies, the World Bank, the IMF, and the private sector. This report lays out the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality. The Task Force recommends seven strategic priorities: strengthen postprimary education for girls while ensuring universal primary education; guarantee sexual and reproductive health and rights; reduce women's and girls' time burdens; guarantee property and inheritance rights; eliminate gender inequality in employment; increase women's participation in government; and significantly reduce violence against women. Action on these priorities will enable countries in every region of the world to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment by 2015.