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Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Global Public Health Practice
Published in Vincent La Placa, Julia Morgan, Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health, 2023
Charles Oham, Maurice Ekwugha, Gladius Kulothungan
An assets-based approach requires that social innovation creates social value from innovative ideas, applications, and combinations of existing circumstances and resources (Young, 2006). Social innovation, which is the development of new ideas that work in solving problems, was found to have a close link with social entrepreneurship. When innovation, for example, the introduction of novel products and services, is used for social purposes, like improving the health and wellbeing of a population, it is classified as social innovation. Resource limitations can act as a push for social enterprises to be highly innovative and precipitate sustainability (Oham and Okeke, 2022). Social entrepreneurial philosophy proceeds beyond profit-making to innovation and resilience when challenges occur. ‘Sustainable Health Enterprises’ (SHE), based in Rwanda and East Africa, are involved in working with schools and stakeholders to address ‘period’ poverty amongst schoolgirls, who are unable to afford or access sanitary pads. Innovatively, SHE have also developed the use of banana tree fibres to manufacture high-quality sanitary pads (Beugre, 2017).
Poverty and health
Published in Sally Robinson, Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health, 2021
Elisabetta Corvo, Sally Robinson
Food insecurity includes hunger, food poverty and food malnutrition. The Trussel Trust (2019) found that each phrase can have different connotations in the UK. ‘Hunger’ may not sufficiently capture that people need premises to cook, pots, pans, plates, seasoning and somewhere to sit and eat. ‘Food poverty’ may be clearer to the public, but ‘food insecurity’ makes clear that we have people who are not hungry but are very malnourished and getting ill. For some, food poverty is poverty, and the underlying issue is not food but income: We do use the term food poverty … in relation to communicating with the public … in terms of more technical documents, we would use food insecurity.(Trussel Trust, 2019 p.20)You can start getting side-tracked by food poverty, period poverty, fuel poverty, because it’s poverty and poverty is what drives food insecurity …(Trussel Trust, 2019 p.20)
Climate change and sexual and reproductive health: what implications for future research?
Published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2023
Due to environmental awareness, individuals increasingly want to use ecofriendly menstrual products to reduce waste (e.g. reusable menstrual pads, silicone cups). These products are expensive and not readily available. Moreover, some are not as ecofriendly and safe as they claim, while toxic chemicals have been found in menstrual products.18,19 Ecofriendly – but expensive – menstrual products are not accessible to all, in a context where many menstruating people are faced with menstrual precarity.20 Menstrual precarity or period poverty refers to not having the financial means to buy sanitary protection on a regular basis.21,22 A US study found that 14.2% of university students reported experiencing menstrual precarity at least once a year, while a further 10% reported experiencing it every month.23 There is an environmental, social and health relevance to developing strategies to make ecofriendly products accessible and safe for all. Future research should also focus on how extreme climate events are contributing to increases in menstrual precarity and aim to develop resilient systems to reduce this effect. This would reduce the gender financial gap that contributes to women’s – and menstruating persons’ – vulnerability to climate change.9
Period poverty and mental health in times of Covid-19 in France
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2023
B. Gouvernet, F. Sebbe, P. Chapillon, A. Rezrazi, J. Brisson
In line with the work highlighting the intricacy between socioeconomic vulnerabilities and sexual health (Kismödi et al., 2017), we found that difficulties in accessing menstrual health products concerned the most economically vulnerable socio-professional categories. Among these, female students were the most frequently affected − 13.4% of them. We also found that the prevalence of menstrual poverty varies with the age of the participants: young women face twice as much menstrual poverty as older women. Thus, our study raises awareness on both the student issue and the accessibility of sexual health products to younger audiences. These results can be seen as arguments in favor of free menstrual protection for students because these interventions represent a means of access and response to the problems faced by youth. Period poverty is not specific to young adults, however. It also affects older women, although in a more anecdotal way: more than 5% of women aged 25-29 or 30-39 in our sample have experienced it. Researchers should therefore investigate this phenomenon in greater depth throughout the menstrual life of women.
Period Poverty in Lebanon: A Call for Action
Published in Women's Reproductive Health, 2023
Lea Sacca, Christelle Maroun, Stephanie Khoury, Veronica Maroun, Jason Khoury, Priscilla Bouery
It is estimated that half the world’s female population (more than 1.9 billion individuals) experience menstruation every month (Alvarez, 2019). Yet, as normal as it seems, menstruation is still stigmatized around the world, particularly in developing countries with inadequate access to menstrual management and hygiene provisions (Alvarez, 2019; Rodriguez, 2021). According to the American Medical Women’s Association, period poverty is defined as the inadequate access to menstrual hygiene tools and educational material, such as sanitary products, washing facilities, and waste management (Vardapetyan, 2021). The issues arising from period poverty hinder societies from attaining the United Nations goals of achieving gender equality by ensuring everyone accessible, affordable, and safe water and sanitation measures (Rodriguez, 2021).