{"title":"Reflections on the Social Determinants of the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme in Zimbabwe.","authors":"Noel Garikai Muridzo, Samuel Lisenga Simbine, Tapiwa Gladys Simango, Anesu Aggrey Matanga","doi":"10.1007/s41134-023-00240-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41134-023-00240-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Zimbabwe has not been spared by the coronavirus disease COVID-19 which has wreaked havoc throughout the world. The country is currently grappling with the pandemic against a background of multiple complex socio-economic conditions. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has escalated prevalent human rights concerns and challenges, including health disparities, poverty, child sexual abuse, access to education, and freedom of speech. Although vaccines are an important tool for reducing the incidence of life-threatening diseases, social determinants of health contribute to vaccine hesitancy. This paper is based on scoping literature review of various relevant materials on the social determinants of health that are inhibiting Zimbabwe's COVID-19 vaccination programme. This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing discourses on COVID-19. Four main themes are highlighted as social determinants of COVID-19 vaccination: (i) vaccination priority groups; (ii) vaccination hesitancy due to myths; (iii) social exclusion; and (iv) corruption. Findings are discussed in light of the implications to the right to health and other related rights. We recommend that governments of developing countries and stakeholders intensify myth-busting campaigns if vaccination programmes are to gain currency. We further call for the inclusion of priority groups such as persons with disabilities and the elderly on the vaccination priority list.</p>","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":" ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10140699/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9714926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Work Practice for Muslim Women Experiencing Domestic Violence in Australia, a Critical Approach to Practice","authors":"Rojan Afrouz","doi":"10.1007/s41134-023-00242-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-023-00242-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48497486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Exploration of the Vatsonga People’s Markers of Childhood","authors":"S. Simbine, L. L. le Roux, N. Muridzo","doi":"10.1007/s41134-022-00237-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-022-00237-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42643603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workplace Heterosexism and Well-being: Education, Social Class, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and Human Rights","authors":"Trevor G. Gates, C. Morse, Bindi Bennett","doi":"10.1007/s41134-023-00241-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-023-00241-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44585838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What We Need to Make Us More Humane","authors":"S. Gabel, Cathryne L. Schmitz","doi":"10.1007/s41134-023-00243-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-023-00243-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":"8 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46575522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transgender Family Policy and the Social Work Response","authors":"Alex Redcay, Wade Luquet","doi":"10.1007/s41134-022-00235-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-022-00235-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":"8 1","pages":"14-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48434368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Rights–Based Social Work and the Natural Environment: Time for New Perspectives","authors":"Ingo Stamm","doi":"10.1007/s41134-022-00236-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-022-00236-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":"8 1","pages":"42-50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44639406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women's Rights and Wellbeing: Analysis of the Ugandan Response to the Global Virus.","authors":"Hadijah Mwenyango","doi":"10.1007/s41134-022-00229-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-022-00229-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic caused dilemmas for the most vulnerable populations around the world. This article describes the gendered effects of the pandemic on Ugandan women's rights and wellbeing and provides suggestions for local and international practice. Mandatory lockdowns and movement restrictions created negative implications for women's attainment of economic, social, cultural, political and civil rights and intensified pre-existing gender inequalities between women and men. The findings of intensified gender inequities, gender-based violence, sexual abuse, scanty access to reproductive health services and social justice, and barriers to participation in education, employment and politics indicate that response measures were not aligned with the government's legal and policy framework for addressing gender inequities. This research indicates that governments, civil society organisations and the international community must undertake proper gender analysis in designing response measures and guidelines not only for COVID-19 but also in other emergencies. All response measures during emergencies must be coordinated, monitored and evaluated to ensure efficient and effective protection of the vulnerable and conformity to human rights standards.</p>","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":"8 1","pages":"105-113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9596342/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9361999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rag-Pickers and Their Young Children During COVID-19: Exploring Issues in Parenting and Feasible Social Work Response.","authors":"Aishwarya Gautam, Subhasis Bhadra","doi":"10.1007/s41134-023-00239-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-023-00239-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Strict lockdown measures and the pandemic brought immense risks and misery to those already living on the margins of society before the COVID-19 crisis even hit the world. The present study was conducted with rag-pickers, one of the marginalized groups living in Jaipur city of India. The lives of these marginalized populations became more complicated during the pandemic. Due to movement restrictions during the lockdown, access to primary resources was further reduced - from water and sanitation to food, health, and employment, impacting the care and protection they could provide their young children. Rag-pickers, one of the most marginalized communities that face social stigma, struggled to cope with daily life challenges. Young children in such families suffered alongside their parents when the families could not continue their livelihood and lost all sources of income. This paper aims to deepen the understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on the nurturing care of children below eight years of age living in Jaipur, India, accentuating the human rights violations they face right from birth. Many humanitarian relief measures poured in during the lockdown period distributing free food packets and dry rations to the marginalized families. COVID-19 increased parenting challenges for this community. Protection of these families during the ongoing pandemic as well as future pandemics must become a strategic imperative. The paper enumerates feasible social work responses to the issues rag-pickers and their children confront.</p>","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":"8 1","pages":"75-90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9995729/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9672589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EasyRights: Information Technology Could Facilitate Migrant Access to Human Rights in a Greek Refugee Camp","authors":"K. Nikolopoulou, O. Kehagia, Laura Gavrilut","doi":"10.1007/s41134-022-00233-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-022-00233-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":"8 1","pages":"22-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47431166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}