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Social factors influencing utilization of old age homes by elderly in urban area of South Chennai, Tamil Nadu

open access: yesIndian Journal of Community Medicine
Background: Currently, most old age homes in India are completely occupied. Nowadays, nuclear families are more than joint families, and due to various factors such as urbanization, the elderly are deprived of essential care at home and are moved from ...
Sujitha Pandian   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Practice Guidelines as a Medical Profession Government Technology in Medellín, Colombia

open access: yesSocieties
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are essential for current medical professions since they prevent clinical practice from being based on personal opinions, bias, or individual experience.
Diego Alejandro Estrada-Mesa   +2 more
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The MRC Medical Sociology Unit in Aberdeen: its development & legacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Chapter in a book to celebrate the Quincentenary of the University of Aberdeen. The chapter outlines the origins and the work of the Medical Sociology Unit at the University of Aberdeen. It grew out of the MRC's Obstetric Medicine Research Unit, set up
Barbour, Rosaline S.   +1 more
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Under-Utilization of Community Health Centers in Purworejo Regency, Central Java [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The basic strategy of the Ministry of Health to achieve Health For All In Indonesia 2010 is through health paradigm, decentralization, professionalism and health service management.
Triratnawati, A. (Atik)
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Emotion, empathy and exit: reflections on doing ethnographic qualitative research on sensitive topics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Within ethnography, observation and participation are interwoven as sociological research practice that involves watching, listening and asking questions about people’s daily lives and experiences, and the meaning they attach to these.
Watts, J. H.
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Physicists, stamp collectors, human mobility forecasters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
One of the two reviewers studied in high school to be a physicist. In the end, he became something else, but he never lost his awe of physics. The other reviewer never intended to become a physicist, but he sometimes asks himself why he didn’t become one.
Szakadát, István, Szántó, Zoltán
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Die Freien Berufe Laudatio zur Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwürde des Fachbereiches Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Lüneburg an Prof. J. F. Volrad Deneke [PDF]

open access: yes
The Department of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Lüneburg has appointed the 'Doctor honoris causa' to Professor J. F. Volrad Deneke on 7.5.1996. The Laudatio is published in this FFB-Discussion Paper. An appreciation of Professor J. F.
Joachim Merz
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The Effects of Disability Insurance: Evidence from Social Security's Disabled-Widow Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study measures the effect of disability insurance on labor supply and health insurance coverage. The effect is identified by a policy in 1990 that increased the generosity of Social Security's disabled-widow program.
Perry Singleton
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