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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of a Strength Training Program on Physical Performance in U10 Soccer Players: A Quasi-Experimental Trial

open access: yesChildren
Background/Objectives: The integration of strength training in grassroots youth soccer remains limited, often due to persistent myths regarding its safety and utility.
Adrián Torregrosa-Domínguez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Universal Ecology

open access: yesActa Neophilologica
This paper argues that Noam Chomsky’s universal grammar can be re-organized into a new concept for understanding climate change: universal ecology. Taking into account criticisms of Chomsky’s idea, we argue that the universal ecology approach focuses on
Brian Willems, Gianna Brahović
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Community Leadership in the Development of Grassroots Innovations

open access: yes, 2017
This article focuses on the role of community leadership in the development of grassroots innovations. It asks: When community leaders initiate energy projects, what types of skills and knowledge practices do they utilise to nurture grassroots ...
Mari Martiskainen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Building a Culture of Voice and Agency for Aboriginal Children in Out‐of‐Home Care: A Review of Policy in New South Wales and Victoria

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal children and young people in out‐of‐home care (OOHC), like all children and young people, have a fundamental right to be involved in decisions that affect them, to be afforded the opportunity for a voice, and to have that voice taken seriously.
Bradley Burns   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scaling-up and rooting-down: a case study of North-South partnerships for health from Tanzania [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2012
Background: North-South Partnership (NSP) is the mandated blueprint for much global health action. Northern partners contribute funding and expertise and Southern partners contribute capacity for local action. Potential Northern partners are attracted to
Gro Th. Lie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Driving Inclusiveness from the Grassroots: The Tambunan Inventors

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management, Finance and Accounting, 2021
Reviews of recent studies indicated the growing importance of development and attainment of inclusive societies via inclusive innovations. This is especially relevant for addressing the disenfranchised or those at the base of the economic pyramid (BOP ...
Kamarulzaman Abdul Aziz   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source

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