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"Celebrating Women in Process Intensification. This special issue highlights and celebrates the diversity of career pathways of women in process intensification. This perspective article explores individuals research field."

This study provides initial insights into the understudied issue of revealing or concealing strategies adopted by women living with Obstetric Fistula through the lens of Communication Privacy Management Theory. The decision to disclose or not has been established as a complex process which happens not as a one-time event but changes over time. Therefore, women living with Obstetric Fistula are coupled with the added burden of who, when, what and how they manage their diagnosis information. Providing interventions geared toward disclosure and non-disclosure strategies after diagnosis can provide enormous relief for these women.

This chapter ties into Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action by focusing on the assessment and quantification of resilience to manage climate change risks and enhance adaptive capacity. By exploring methodologies, models, and real-world case studies, it provides valuable insights for stakeholders to effectively incorporate resilience metrics and climate change effects into research and policy.

Patients from groups that are racially or ethnically minoritized or of low socioeconomic status receive more intensive care near the end of life than others, in part, due to their higher propensity to be admitted to high treatment-intensity hospitals.