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Obesity stigma as a globalizing health challenge
Globalization and Health, 2018 Background Based on studies conducted in the global north, it is well documented that those who feel stigmatized by overweight/obesity can suffer extreme emotional distress, be subject to (often legal and socially-acceptable) discrimination, and adjust ...
Alexandra Brewis +2 more
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Strategic partnerships to improve surgical care in the Asia–Pacific region: proceedings
BMC Proceedings, 2023 Emergency and essential surgery is a critical component of universal health coverage. Session three of the three-part virtual meeting series on Strategic Planning to Improve Surgical, Obstetric, Anaesthesia, and Trauma Care in the Asia–Pacific Region ...
Rennie X. Qin +7 more
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Sustainability, 2019 Social entrepreneurship has been recognized as a tool to attain sustainable development. This paper highlights the role of social entrepreneurship in triggering social change and attaining sustainable development.
Sanchita Bansal, Isha Garg, G. Sharma
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The Etiology of Social Change [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2009 AbstractA fundamental aspect of human beings is that they learn. The process of learning and what is learned are impacted by a number of factors, both cognitive and social; that is, humans are boundedly rational. Cognitive and social limitations interact, making it difficult to reason about how to provide information to impact what humans know, believe,
Kathleen M. Carley +2 more
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Sexual Minority Youth, Social Change, and Health: A Developmental Collision
Research in Human Development, 2019 Few societal attitudes and opinions have changed as quickly as those regarding sexual minority people and rights. In the context of dramatic social change, there have been multiple policy changes toward social inclusion and rights for lesbian, gay, and ...
S. Russell, J. Fish
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BMC Proceedings, 2023 Surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care are required to treat one-third of the global disease burden. They have been recognised as an integral component of universal health coverage.
Rennie X. Qin +8 more
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Ecology and Society, 2010 Change in freshwater availability is arguably one of the most pressing issues associated with global change. Agriculture, which uses roughly 70% of the total global freshwater supply, figures prominently among sectors that may be adversely affected by ...
Oguzhan Cifdaloz +3 more
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BMJ Global Health, 2021 Introduction Global health conferences are important platforms for knowledge exchange, decision-making and personal and professional growth for attendees.
Samantha Ann Johnson +6 more
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"I feel Danish but...": a case study on national identity formation and ambivalence [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2013 Non-western minorities in Europe, one can argue, are experiencing particularly vulnerable processes of subjectification and identification. They are often caught between double processes of inclusion/exclusion, integration/segregation or identification ...
L. Koefoed, K. Simonsen
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A critique of the principle of error correction as a theory of social change
Language in society, 2018 This article assesses the historical failures and limits of the dominant ‘error correction’ approach within sociolinguistics. The error correction approach supposes that social change can be achieved when knowledge is shared by researchers with the ...
Mark C. Lewis
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