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Celebrity advocacy and public engagement: the divergent uses of celebrity [PDF]
, 2015 This article sounds a cautionary note about the instrumental use of celebrity advocacy to (re)engage audiences in public life. It begins by setting out the steps necessary to achieve public recognition of a social problem requiring a response.
Best J +20 more
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation Smoking prevalence is five-times higher among Australian mental health consumers than the general population.
Scott Walsberger +5 more
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The California Endowment: How Can This Leading Health Equity Funder Bolster Its Community Impact? [PDF]
, 2014 The California Endowment (TCE) is actively moving the needle toward health equity through its support of national health reform, changes in school discipline policies and focused attention on the urgent needs of boys and men of color.
Gita Gulati-Partee
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The benefits of and barriers to using a social robot PARO in care settings: a scoping review
BMC Geriatrics, 2019 Background Given the complexity of providing dementia care in hospitals, integrating technology into practice is a high challenge and an important opportunity.
Lillian Hung +9 more
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Measuring Impact: Advocacy Evaluation & Capacity Building [PDF]
, 2012 Developing up-front organizational advocacy capacity is important in the evaluation process. An organization should first assess its staff, knowledge, coalition partners and other resources to determine what may be needed for their upcoming advocacy ...
Sue Hoechstetter
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No Peace in the House: Witchcraft Accusations as an Old Woman\u27s Problem in Ghana [PDF]
, 2013 In Ghana, older women may be marginalized, abused, and even killed as witches. Media accounts imply this is common practice, mainly through stories of “witches camps” to which the accused may flee.
Crampton, Alexandra
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Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states [PDF]
, 2006 Pupavac examines the rise of linguistic human rights advocacy and its approach in a case study of language politics in the post-Yugolav states. A core concern of contemporary linguistic rights advocacy has been to tackle ethnically based discrimination ...
Pupavac, Vanessa
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation Lack of strong laws has led tobacco companies such as PMI, BAT, and Djarum to systematically target children in Indonesia to start smoking through aggressive marketing strategies, including placing cigarette ...
Geni Achnas, Lisda Sundari
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Current OncologyAdolescents and young adults (AYAs; 15–39 years) diagnosed with cancer face disparities in outcomes and survival. Patient advocacy organizations can play a pivotal role in advancing outcomes for underserved health conditions, such as AYA cancer.
Chantale Thurston +5 more
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Journal of Field Ornithology, 2023 Oscine birdsong signals species identity, and individual quality, and functions as a cue for mate selection. Thus, producing an atypical song may have deleterious fitness effects. Nevertheless, learning during song development deems the vocal phenotype
Melissa Grunst +6 more
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