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Social Change: Conflict and Competition

open access: gold, 2022
Conflict and competition arise when involved parties’ preferences and goals collide. This chapter highlights theoretical and empirical perspectives on the emergence and manifestations of conflicts. We outline how conflicts can occur from three perspectives: considering conflicts between individual actors, considering conflicts between individuals in ...
van Beest, I., Rahal, R.
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Social Change [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century, especially in sexual mores.
Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih
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Changing social relationships [PDF]

open access: yesQuality and Safety in Health Care, 2006
In his review of our paper on pro-anorexia internet communities,1 Dr Smith introduced one inaccuracy into an otherwise concise summary. He mistakenly attributed a quotation from a participant in the internet forum to our researcher. Angela (a pseudonym) …
N J, Fox, K, Ward, A, O'Rourke
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Decentralization and Regionalization of Surgical Care: A Review of Evidence for the Optimal Distribution of Surgical Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019
Background While recommendations for the optimal distribution of surgical services in high-income countries (HICs) exist, it is unclear how these translate to resource-limited settings.
Katherine R. Iverson   +8 more
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Integrated analysis of online signals and insight generation about digital conversations on COVID-19 vaccines in Eastern and Southern Africa: a longitudinal analysis of social listening data

open access: yesBMC Proceedings, 2023
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, social listening programs across digital channels have become an integral part of health preparedness and response planning, allowing to capture and address questions, information needs, and misinformation shared ...
Silvia Sommariva   +6 more
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Measuring behavioral and social drivers of COVID-19 vaccination in health workers in Eastern and Southern Africa

open access: yesBMC Proceedings, 2023
Background In 2021, twenty out of twenty-one countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region introduced COVID-19 vaccines. With variable willingness to uptake vaccines across countries, the aim of the present study was to better understand ...
Helena Ballester Bon   +6 more
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Accessing Antenatal Care (ANC) services during the COVID-19 first wave: insights into decision-making in rural India

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2022
Plain language summary This article highlights the status of ANC services during the nationwide lockdown imposed in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Data was collected through 12
Shweta Bankar, Deepika Ghosh
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A research tool for measuring non-participation of older people in research on digital health

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background Healthcare services are being increasingly digitalised in European countries. However, in studies evaluating digital health technology, some people are less likely to participate than others, e.g.
Arianna Poli   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financing surgical, obstetric, anaesthesia, and trauma care in the Asia–Pacific region: proceedings

open access: yesBMC Proceedings, 2023
Surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care saves lives, prevents disability, promotes economic prosperity, and is a fundamental human right. Session two of the three-part virtual meeting series on Strategic Planning to Improve Surgical, Obstetric ...
Rennie X. Qin   +7 more
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Globalization of national surgical, obstetric and anesthesia plans: the critical link between health policy and action in global surgery

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2020
Efforts from the developed world to improve surgical, anesthesia and obstetric care in low- and middle-income countries have evolved from a primarily volunteer mission trip model to a sustainable health system strengthening approach as private and public
Paul Truché   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

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