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Assistive robots for the social management of health: a framework for robot design and human-robot interaction research [PDF]
International Journal of Social Robotics, 1-21 (March 2020), 2020 There is a close connection between health and the quality of one's social life. Strong social bonds are essential for health and wellbeing, but often health conditions can detrimentally affect a person's ability to interact with others. This can become a vicious cycle resulting in further decline in health.
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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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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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"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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The end of social Europe? Understanding EU social policy change [PDF]
, 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
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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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Multi-level strategy to promote equity through empowerment and participation
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019 Introduction: Health inequities are recognised as one of the core challenges faced affecting population health worldwide. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their focus on leaving no one behind have put equity at the centre of efforts to pursue
Anna Giné March +3 more
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Social support, social control and health behavior change in spouses [PDF]
, 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
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Profiling recent medical graduates planning to pursue surgery, anesthesia and obstetrics in Brazil
BMC Medical Education, 2019 Background Lack of providers in surgery, anesthesia, and obstetrics (SAO) is a primary driver of limited surgical capacity worldwide. We aimed to identify predictors of entry into Surgery, Anesthesia, and Obstetrics and Gynecology (SAO) fields and ...
Aline Gil Alves Guilloux +9 more
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Emergence of economic and social disparities through competitive gift-giving [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Several tiers of social organization with varying economic and social disparities have been observed. However, a quantitative characterization of the types and the causal mechanisms for the transitions have hardly been explained. While anthropologists have emphasized that gift exchange, rather than market exchange, prevails in traditional societies and
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