Results 111 to 120 of about 33,562 (298)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley +1 more source
Improving Population Health Through Housing Policy: Lessons From the Public Housing Program
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Housing is a fundamental social determinant of health and is particularly amenable to policy intervention. Policies that seek to improve health should improve housing quality, affordability, and stability. The public housing program has improved health across the life course, but the structure of the program currently limits its ...
ANDREW FENELON
wiley +1 more source
Catastrophic Health Insurance: Medicare [PDF]
, 1987 Catastrophic medical costs are broadly defined as large unpredictable health care expenses; these are usually associated with a major illness or serious injury.
O'Sullivan, Jennifer
core
The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley +1 more source
The Analysis of Medical Behavior Before and After the Catastrophic Illness
, 2019 [[abstract]]重大傷病為我國全民健康保險的重要特色，領有重大傷病卡的病患可以享有免收部分負擔的權益。根據衛福部統計，全民健保開辦後國人領有重大傷病卡的人數從21萬人，至2017年年底為止成長4倍，人數已高達89萬8,732人。但是從2017所有的健保支出中發現，重大傷病患者的醫療費用接近總支出的27.3%，成為我國醫療費用的重大負擔。周立筠（2017）發現每年重大傷病患者罹病後的就診次數大約30次為非重大傷病患者的2倍。因此如何有效降低國人罹患重大傷病是我國醫療單位必需重視的議題 ...
竇文倩, TOU, WEN-CHIEN
core
The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
wiley +1 more source
Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
wiley +1 more source
Risk factors of catastrophic costs of tuberculosis illness and treatment in rural South Africa [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Eliminating the experience of catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis (TB) is a key goal of the WHO's End TB Strategy. We evaluated factors contributing to catastrophic costs among individuals treated for TB in rural South Africa.
Stracker, Norberth
core
ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley +1 more source
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
wiley +1 more source