A burial ground or graveyard is an integral part of any city. According to Max Weber, the city in the Occident was a unitary urban community, and that a common burial ground was one of the prerequisites for it. In the Orient, such an urban community never existed since the prerequisites for this...

Background: Annually, more than 379 000 motorcycle occupants across the world die in motor-vehicle collisions-84% of these fatalities occurred in Low- and Middle-Income countries. Recent studies suggest that the Uber's four-wheeler ride-sharing service (UberCAR) may reduce traffic fatalities....

PURPOSE: To replicate a prior study that found greater adolescent marijuana use in states that have passed medical marijuana laws, and extend this analysis by accounting for confounding by unmeasured state characteristics and measurement error. METHODS: We obtained state-level estimates of...

Purpose While only one aspect of fulfilling equal rights, effectively addressing workplace discrimination is integral to creating economies, and countries, that allow for everyone's full and equal participation. Design/methodology/approach Labor, anti-discrimination, and other relevant pieces of...

Critics of legislation requiring employers to provide paid sick days frequently argue that these measures will lead to job loss and raise the national unemployment rate. However, this issue brief shows that the experience of 22 countries with the highest level of social and economic development...

This report finds that the U.S. is the only country among 22 countries ranked highly in terms of economic and human development that does not guarantee that workers receive paid sick days or paid sick leave. Under current U.S. labor law, employers are not required to provide short-term paid sick...

Of the estimated total 39.5 million HIV/AIDS infections worldwide, 37.2 million are among working age adults. Addressing the needs of working adults who are HIV infected and also serve as HIV/AIDS caregivers is therefore crucial to addressing the impact of the pandemic on individuals, families,...

Empirical data on the aspirations of young women and girls in post-conflict settings are scarce. This article analyses the factors associated with the educational and career aspirations of 2,473 young women and girls in Sierra Leone. Findings indicated that over three-quarters of our sample...

Navigating the Evidence: Communicating Canadian Health Policy in the Media is a compilation of the EvidenceNetwork commentaries published in major newspapers in 2014, written by experts in the health policy field. These Op-Eds highlight the most recent evidence on a wide range of topics,...