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The end of social Europe? Understanding EU social policy change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The financial and economic crisis has increased attention on EU social policy, yet little policy change has been realized. Drawing on Easton’s political system approach, we differentiate demand emanating from the difficult situation following the crisis ...
Graziano, Paolo, Hartlapp, Miriam
core   +1 more source

Strategic planning to improve surgical, obstetric, anaesthesia, and trauma care in the Asia–Pacific region: introduction

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

Sexual Minority Youth, Social Change, and Health: A Developmental Collision

open access: yesResearch 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social support, social control and health behavior change in spouses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Our work on support processes in intimate relationships has focused on how partners in committed relationships help one another contend with personal difficulties, and how partners elicit and provide support in their day-to-day interactions.
Bejanyan, Kathrine   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Robustness, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity in small-scale social-ecological systems: The Pumpa Irrigation System in Nepal

open access: yesEcology 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
doaj   +1 more source

Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In theory, improvements in healthy life expectancy should generate increases in the average age of retirement, with little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security programs prevent retirement ages from
Bloom, David E   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital

open access: yesAmbio, 2022
Social capital is considered important for resilience across social levels, including communities, yet insights are scattered across disciplines. This meta-synthesis of 187 studies examines conceptual and empirical understandings of how social capital ...
E. Carmen   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Short and long-term effects of disruptive animal rights protest

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
The climate crisis requires transformational changes to our food systems, which contribute around one third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Animal rights activists try to draw attention to this issue through direct action campaigns.
Markus Ostarek   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential Early Risk Biomarkers for Reduced Forced Expiratory Volume in Children Post‐Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We sought to identify potential early risk biomarkers for lung disease in children post‐allogeneic HCT. Patients with pulmonary function tests 3 months post‐transplant and plasma samples between days 7 and 14 post‐HCT were included. Six of 27 subjects enrolled had reduced forced expiratory volume 1 (FEV1) z scores.
Isabella S. Small   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

"I feel Danish but...": a case study on national identity formation and ambivalence [PDF]

open access: yesGeographica 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
doaj   +1 more source

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