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The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine: its potential social and economic impact.
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The research reported here was undertaken in 1997-8 and describes the potential medium to long term social and economic impact of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine using the concepts of risk environment, susceptibility and vulnerability.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2000-11-01. It has received 86 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population & Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).read more
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The ‘risk environment’: a framework for understanding and reducing drug-related harm
TL;DR: In this paper, a shift in focus towards the risk environment as a unit of analysis and change helps to overcome the limits of individualism characterising most HIV prevention interventions as well as to appreciate how drug-related harm intersects with health and vulnerability more generally.
Contribution of Hungarian demographic science and Hungarian demographers to the work of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development of demography in Hungary from 1928 to the present with a focus on the contribution of Hungarian demographers to the activities of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).
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HIV and risk environment for injecting drug users: the past, present, and future
Steffanie A. Strathdee,Timothy B. Hallett,Natalia Bobrova,Tim Rhodes,Robert E. Booth,Reychad Abdool,Catherine Hankins +6 more
TL;DR: It is estimated that, during 2010-15, HIV prevalence could be reduced by 41% in Odessa (Ukraine), 43% in Karachi (Pakistan), and 30% in Nairobi (Kenya) through a 60% reduction of the unmet need of programmes for opioid substitution, needle exchange, and antiretroviral therapy.
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Place, social exchange and health: proposed sociological framework.
TL;DR: A sociological framework is proposed to better understand how spatial characteristics translate into people's physical and psychosocial conditions that are relevant to their health and is applied to the explanation of the life expectancy gap between Western and Central/Eastern European countries.
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Situational factors influencing drug injecting, risk reduction and syringe exchange in Togliatti City, Russian Federation: a qualitative study of micro risk environment.
Tim Rhodes,Larissa Mikhailova,Anya Sarang,Catherine M Lowndes,Andrey Rylkov,Mikhail Khutorskoy,Adrian Renton +6 more
TL;DR: It is emphasised that risk reduction practices may be influenced less by availability of injecting equipment than by an interplay of situational and micro-environmental factors and the role of policing practices in influencing risk reduction.
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Contribution of Hungarian demographic science and Hungarian demographers to the work of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development of demography in Hungary from 1928 to the present with a focus on the contribution of Hungarian demographers to the activities of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).
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Dramatic decreases in brain reward function during nicotine withdrawal
TL;DR: It is shown that spontaneous nicotine withdrawal in rats resulted in a significant decrease in brain reward function, as measured by elevations in brain Reward thresholds, which persisted for four days, which is comparable in magnitude and duration to that of other major drugs of abuse.
The State in a Changing World. World Development Report, 1997.
Ajay Chhibber,Simon John Commander,Alison Margaret Evans,Harald Fuhr,Cheikh T. Kane,Chad Leechor,Brian Levy,Sanjay Pradhan,Beatrice Weder +8 more
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The black report and beyond what are the issues
TL;DR: The overall conclusion is that the authors need more detailed studies of the mechanisms which generate and maintain social inequalities in health, and of interventions to reduce such inequalities.