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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background An effective referral system is essential for a high-quality health system that provides safe surgical care while optimizing patient outcomes and ensuring efficiency.
Desmond T. Jumbam +13 more
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Understanding Social and Behaviour Change Communication [PDF]
, 2015 terms that should be understood first, as different words and second as an entity. SBCC is primarily a brand of communication that has long existed in the social and behavioural disciplines; in the social sciences and humanities.
Iyorza, Stanislaus
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Courts, Social Change, and Political Backlash [PDF]
, 2011 On March 31, 2011, Professor of Law, Michael Klarman of Harvard Law School delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s thirty-first annual Philip A. Hart Lecture: “Courts, Social Change, and Political Backlash.” Included here are the speaker\u27s notes from ...
Klarman, Michael
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Changing social contracts in climate-change adaptation [PDF]
, 2013 Risks from extreme weather events are mediated through state, civil society and individual action 1 , 2 . We propose evolving social contracts as a primary mechanism by which adaptation to climate change proceeds.
A De Sherbinin +22 more
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Othello and the Ambivalences of Italian Blackface
Multicultural Shakespeare, 2020 Blackface is a cultural practice that appears ubiquitously in Italian history cutting across the political spectrum; it also lends itself to suprising anti-racist actions.
Shaul Bassi, Igiaba Scego
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Dynamics of Opinions and Social Structures [PDF]
arXiv, 2007 Social groups with widely different music tastes, political convictions, and religious beliefs emerge and disappear on scales from extreme subcultures to mainstream mass-cultures. Both the underlying social structure and the formation of opinions are dynamic and changes in one affect the other. Several positive feedback mechanisms have been proposed to
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Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19
, 2020 The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is challenging the world. With no vaccine and limited medical capacity to treat the disease, nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) are the main strategy to contain the pandemic.
S. Gössling, D. Scott, C. Hall
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Caching Structures for Distributed Data Management in P2P-based Social Networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Distributed applications require novel solutions to tackle problems that arise due to the scarcity of resources such as bandwidth, memory and processing power. One of these challenges is seen in distributed data management. The challenge is the two part problem of ensuring that the content is valid when accessed and updating it immediately when changed.
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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.
Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih
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Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings [PDF]
, 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
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