This submission is based on Human Rights Watch research on human rights issues impacting older women, including domestic violence, abuse, and neglect in residential institutions for older people, abuses during armed conflict, and health disparities.
Department of Economics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Adolescents are slowly being recognized as a generation, worldwide, that may require different policy approaches to improve staggering statistics on their failing well-being, including mental health. By providing the support to allow the next generation to achieve better mental health outcomes, they are going to be more economically successful and the future economic growth of nations can be better assured. Adoption of mobile-based health interventions (e.g., mHealth) has garnered a lot of attention toward this end. While mHealth interventions are growing in popularity, many researchers/policy-makers appear to have neglected assessing potential (indirect) costs/negative consequences from their use. Evidence from the developed world shows strong associations between extensive cell phone use and negative mental health outcomes, but similar research is minimal in developing world contexts. Additionally, t
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MacDonald) The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened global awareness on the importance of understanding complex political, social, and behavioral factors influencing public acceptance of effective, scientifically rigorous, and ethically sound recommendations to reduce transmission, including future vaccine acceptance. The past 10 years have seen an increasing number of studies on the topic of vaccine hesitancy, which has been defined as the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite availability of vaccines. The phenomenon is complex and varies for different vaccines and across time and contexts. This review provides an overview of literature on the topic, starting with a discussion of terminology and concepts before looking at potential causes, consequences, and impacts of resistance to vaccination.
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Submission to the UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons on the human rights of older women
This submission is based on Human Rights Watch research on human rights issues impacting older women,[1] including domestic violence, abuse, and neglect in residential institutions for older people, abuses during armed conflict, and health disparities.
Violence against Older Women
Older women may be at heightened risk of domestic violence, by partners, adult children, or other family with whom they live, or from caregivers.[2] The World Health Organization regards violence against older people, including older women, as physical, psychological, and sexual violence, financial abuse, and neglect.[3] This violence can occur in but is not limited to homes, long-term care facilities, and the internet. Covid-19 lockdown orders, which in some places lasted longer or were exclusively targeted
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