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Mendola Daria
Family networks and refugees’ health conditions. A picture from Italian informal settlements
While the relationships between social networks and health are widely acknowledged in the literature, few of these studies have covered the population of refugees living in makeshift camps. In our analysis of a nationally representative Italian survey of individuals living in informal settlements, we find that many had weak family relations: only 10 per cent had one or more family members in their settlement. The paper analyses the effects of individual social network on two measures of health, and finds that the refugees’ health conditions were associated with both their personal characteristics and the characteristics of the settlement. The results show that more than 50 per cent of these…
"Badanti": I numeri, il regime giuridico e le condizioni lavorative
Il contributo illustra alcuni dati relativi alle caratteristiche socio-demografiche ed economiche dei badanti stranieri domestici in Sicilia, tenendo in considerazione anche le dinamiche del fenomeno dell’ultimo decennio. Inoltre, dopo aver analizzato il regime giuridico riguardante il lavoro domestico, vengono esaminate le condizioni in cui effettivamente molte delle assistenti familiari svolgono il proprio lavoro.
HIV Prevalence in some African Territories: Socio-Economic Drivers
In 2020, 35% of all HIV-positive people in the world lived in Eastern and Southern Africa. This work aims at assessing the relationship between socio-economic drivers and HIV prevalence at the sub-national level in these countries. The data used are drawn from the Demographic and Health Survey, in which a subset of respondents is tested for HIV. Using a fractional logistic regression model on clusters of individuals, middle-to-high wealth is positively associated with higher HIV prevalence, while a higher average number of children acts as a protective factor; moreover, higher proportions of people who have never been in sexual relationships lower their cluster’s HIV prevalence but HIV-posi…