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Scientific American, 1988
Another aspect of AIDS epidemic is the public reaction or treatment of the disease and its victims and the potential for discriminatory actions. The issues of discrimination and treatment are compounded by the fact that AIDS is a disease transmitted sexually and that the disease has hit fringe groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users the ...
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Another aspect of AIDS epidemic is the public reaction or treatment of the disease and its victims and the potential for discriminatory actions. The issues of discrimination and treatment are compounded by the fact that AIDS is a disease transmitted sexually and that the disease has hit fringe groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users the ...
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The Social Ecology of HIV/AIDS
Medical Clinics of North America, 2008The reasons that epidemics occur largely are a function of human behaviors and responses to environmental changes, known as the social ecology of infectious diseases. The AIDS epidemic began in remote parts of Central and West Africa and spread from rural areas to urban centers. The epidemic became a global pandemic. Although screening programs and use
Kenneth, Mayer +2 more
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AIDS training and social services
AIDS Care, 1989To be effective, AIDS training must be based on an understanding of the specific requirements of participants. Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour concerning AIDS have been investigated among the general public and a variety of health care professionals, but the needs of Social Services Department personnel have not been directly addressed.
J C, Samuel, M, Boyle
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EXTERNAL AIDS FOR SOCIAL MEMORY
Information, Communication & Society, 2001Collective or social memories are not just a way for accumulating and preserving but also for sharing and developing knowledge. Indeed, as knowledge is made explicit and elaborated by a community, it enriches the local culture and the current practices, becoming a basis for communication and learning. This paper addresses the concept of 'social memory'
Marti, Patrizia +2 more
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Brain and Development, 1990
One main point in today's discussion about handicapped people, and maybe especially children, in Sweden recently is that they should not be also socially and economically handicapped. Therefore the government in 1986 passed a new law, through which it was possible to put pressure on the local authorities to take more extensive responsibility for the ...
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One main point in today's discussion about handicapped people, and maybe especially children, in Sweden recently is that they should not be also socially and economically handicapped. Therefore the government in 1986 passed a new law, through which it was possible to put pressure on the local authorities to take more extensive responsibility for the ...
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AIDS, risk and social governance
Social Science & Medicine, 2000This paper considers the discursive properties of public health literature produced around AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s. Attention is focused upon the role of health promotion in the UK government's response to the epidemic and on the language used in the educational campaigns conducted by the Health Education Council and its replacement the ...
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AIDS and the social side of health
Social Science & Medicine, 1991The presence of AIDS in epidemic proportions in the African context can directly and indirectly affect the health of the majority of people. AIDS highlights the social side of health, those factors of a social nature that enhances or potentially weakens the health status of individuals and whole communities.
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AIDS: From Social History to Social Policy
Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1986Despite philosopher George Santayana's famous injunction that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it, history holds no simple truths. Nevertheless, there are a number of significant historical questions relating to the AIDS epidemic. What does the history of medicine and public health have to tell us about contemporary approaches
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Critical Social Policy, 1987
Social Policy responses to AIDS are much in accord with prevailing practice in other areas, the constructs used are typical of crime and disorder rather than illness and treatment. This article analyses the implications of this particularly as it relates to policy on prevention. It questions the value of using analytic frameworks evolved in identifying
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Social Policy responses to AIDS are much in accord with prevailing practice in other areas, the constructs used are typical of crime and disorder rather than illness and treatment. This article analyses the implications of this particularly as it relates to policy on prevention. It questions the value of using analytic frameworks evolved in identifying
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