Opportunities for women

Forests, women and health: opportunities and challenges for conservation

Health issues of forest women in developing countries merit more serious attention. This paper reviews existing literature on the interface of women, health and forests to highlight conservation opportunities and challenges. Most women in forests are collectors and users of forest species. However, existing conservation efforts, deforestation, poor health services and household responsibilities...

Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general payoff functions. The model can be applied to several substantive issues. Here we use it to provide a novel understanding of the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education, employment, and timing of first birt...

Opportunities for soils studies in iran

HIV testing in women: missed opportunities.

OBJECTIVE To investigate opportunities for early human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing of women. METHODS A retrospective cohort study design linked case reports from HIV surveillance to several statewide health-care databases. Medical encounters occurring before the first positive HIV test (missed opportunities) were categorized by diagnosis/procedure codes to distinguish visits that wer...

Substance use among women in shelters for abused women and children. Programming opportunities.

OBJECTIVE This study explores changes in the use of alcohol and other substances by women in British Columbia as they moved into shelters for abused women and again three months later. We see this time as a key life transition, and potentially a rich opportunity for influencing women's substance use behaviour. The purpose of this study was to document changes in the level of use of alcohol and ...