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Costs in Pituitary Surgery: Racial, Socioeconomic, and Hospital Factors [PDF]

Journal of Neurological Surgery Part B: Skull Base, 2018
Objective To investigate the influence of patient demographic factors and hospital factors on cost and length of stay in patients undergoing pituitary surgery. Design/Setting A retrospective cross-sectional study of the 2008 to 2012 Nationwide/National Inpatient Sample. Participants Patient demographics and hospital
Arjun K, Parasher, Alan D, Workman, Sarah M, Kidwai, Erden, Goljo, Anthony Del, Signore, Alfred M, Iloreta, Eric M, Genden, Raj, Shrivastava, Amol, Navathe, Satish, Govindaraj   +9 more
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Topographies of Gendered Violence: (Trans)Forming Hospitality in Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars

Ilha do Desterro
In this article, I explore Ryka Aoki’s science fiction novel, Light from Uncommon Stars (2021) and its depiction of social and spatial violence against trans* women in a North American context.
Beatriz Hermida Ramos
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospital Admissions [PDF]

, 2020
AbstractImportanceCOVID-19 has affected millions of people worldwide. Furthermore, with its increasing incidence, more has been learned about the risk factors that can make certain groups more at risk of contracting the disease or have worse outcomes.
Violeta Álvarez Retamales, Oswaldo Madrid Suarez, Odalys E. Lara-Garcia, Suhayb Ranjha, Ruby Maini, Susan Hingle, Vidya Sundareshan, Robert L. Robinson   +7 more
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Racialized hospitality spaces: Food and drink in apartheid Johannesburg

Modern Geográfia
In parallel with trends in tourism scholarship historical research is beginning to gain slow recognition and acceptance in hospitality studies. Existing literature is dominated by studies in Europe and North America. The topic holds significance for both
Rogerson, Christian M.
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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Racial Discrimination in Tourism: The Record of Apartheid Cape Town

Modern Geográfia
This article contributes to international scholarship on racial discrimination in tourism, a literature dominated by studies on the United States which concentrate on the segregation era of Jim Crow.
Rogerson, Christian M., Rogerson, Jayne M.   +1 more
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Rallying Against Racism: Hospitals Join the Fight for Racial Justice [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2020
This article highlights the timely situation that resident physicians, faculty, and staff are facing after the recent highly publicized murders of Black Americans and its impact on our healthcare communities. We discuss our experiences of how the hospital can serve as a meeting place for anti-racism, as well as how anti-racist events at the hospital ...
Yvonne Okaka, Duaa AbdelHameid, Rose McKeon Olson, Miriam Kwarteng-Siaw, Nicholas Spanos, Valerie E. Stone   +5 more
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

British 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
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Beyond the Crisis Frame: Structural Insecurity and the Moral Politics of Displacement in European and North African Border Regimes

Changing Societies & Personalities
Structural insecurity is a central though overlooked force shaping contemporary displacement. Beyond conflict and climate change, displacement emerges from intersecting regimes of governance, including European Union border securitization, North African ...
Titilayo Lydia Bamidele, Beatrice Damilola Adeoye, Seun Bamidele   +2 more
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