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Equity - some theory and its policy implications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This essay seeks to characterise the essential features of an equitable health care system in terms of the classical Aristotelian concepts of horizontal and vertical equity, the common (but ill-defined) language of “need” and the economic notion of cost ...
Culyer, A.J.
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“What if There's Something Wrong with Her?”‐How Biomedical Technologies Contribute to Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
While there is a steadily growing literature on epistemic injustice in healthcare, there are few discussions of the role that biomedical technologies play in harming patients in their capacity as knowers.
Alexander Michelle   +33 more
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Understanding who volunteers globally through an examination of demographic variation in volunteering across 22 countries

open access: yesScientific Reports
Volunteering has been associated with enhanced individual and societal well-being around the world. While some prior research has assessed cultural and sociodemographic differences in volunteering, we know little about how volunteering differs across ...
Julia S. Nakamura   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Ecolinguistic Approach to Critical Discourse Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article explores the recently emerging area of ecolinguistics as a form of critical discourse study. While ecolinguistics tends to use the same forms of linguistic analysis as traditional critical discourse studies, the normative framework it ...
Stibbe, Arran
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The roots of belonging: childhood predictors of belonging in 22 countries

open access: yesScientific Reports
Belonging is a fundamental human need, yet its origins in childhood experiences remain underexplored. Childhood predictors of belonging in adulthood using nationally representative data have also largely been overlooked. This study analyzes data from the
Victor Counted   +3 more
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A Confucian Perspective on Tertiary Education for the Common Good [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Confucian education is best captured by the programme described in the Great Learning. Education is presented first as the process of self-cultivation for the sake of developing virtuous character. Self-cultivation then allows for virtue to be cultivated
Eh, Edmond
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Positive maternal mental health in pregnant women and its association with obstetric and psychosocial factors

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Objective To estimate the frequency of Positive Maternal Mental Health (PMMH) interpretation levels in pregnant women who attended prenatal consultation and to identify their association with obstetric and psychosocial factors.
Álvaro Monterrosa-Castro   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

What’s Wrong with “You Say You’re Happy, but…” Reasoning? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Disability-positive philosophers often note a troubling tendency to dismiss what disabled people say about their well-being. This chapter seeks to get clearer on why this tendency might be troubling.
Marsh, Jason
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Too Early for Global Ethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
C1 - Journal Articles Refereed© 2005 Cambridge University Press. Online edition of the journal is available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid ...
Ladikas, Miltos, Schroeder, Doris
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A cross-national analysis of demographic variation in belief in God, gods, or spiritual forces in 22 countries

open access: yesScientific Reports
Although prior research documents the importance of belief in God (e.g., for health and well-being), most of the research has focused on Western samples. Much less is known about how belief in one God, multiple gods, or spiritual forces (“Belief in God”)
Eric Y. Aglozo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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