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Perceptions of Intergenerational Inequality in Policymaking and Possible Responses: The Case of Australia

open access: yesYouth, 2022
Evidence suggests that, on average, younger citizens in advanced industrial democracies tend to have different policy preferences to those aged 65 and over.
Veronica Coram
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The Impact of Social Media Usage on Human societies

open access: yesAkofena
: Social media has gained significant importance in the intellectual arena, coinciding with the technological and digital revolution witnessed by the contemporary world.
The Impact of Social Media Usage on Human societies
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Personalisation schemes in social care and inequality: review of the evidence and early theorising

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Personalisation is a growing international policy paradigm that aims to create both improved outcomes for individuals, and reduce fiscal pressures on government, by giving greater choice and control to citizens accessing social services.
Gemma Carey   +2 more
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Factors associated with perceived health of school-aged children in rural Rwanda: an opportunity to leverage community health workers to enhance school health promotion and primary healthcare systems linkages

open access: yesBMC Primary Care
Background In many low-income countries, enhancing the health of school-aged children is often impeded by insufficient or limited knowledge regarding their health status. Further, hands-on health promotion interventions are nearly non-existent due to the
Anatole Manzi   +9 more
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Resisting the Far-Right: Indigenous Perspectives, Community Arts and Story-Based Strategy

open access: yesCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
This article explores how we might resist and confront anti-immigration and anti-refugee politics by addressing the social and historical well-spring from which these discriminatory and damaging politics emerge and take sustenance.
Chris D. Brown
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Mobile phone sleep self-management applications for early start shift workers: A scoping review of the literature

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
Poor sleep has significant impacts on both mental and physical well-being. This is especially the case for shift workers who rely on good sleep practices to manage the disruption caused by their working conditions.
Ben Bullock   +3 more
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Widow cleansing and inheritance among the Luo in Kenya: the need for additional women‐centred HIV prevention options

open access: yesJournal of the International AIDS Society, 2014
Introduction The customs of widow cleansing and widow inheritance are practiced in several communities throughout sub‐Saharan Africa. In the Nyanza Province of Kenya, according to tradition, Luo widows are expected to engage in sexual intercourse with a “
Brian Perry   +8 more
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Gender Equality and Its Significance for Scientific Research and Innovation Organisations: A Case Study

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
It is partly thanks to the European Commission and the ERA Strategy for Gender Equality that the path to gender equality has been facilitated, and that European research organisations have been encouraged to implement Gender Equality Plans (GEPs).
Cinzia Leone   +2 more
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Social Innovation - Scaling Social Impact

open access: yesCIRIEC Working papers, 2019
A recurring theme amongst policymakers and researchers concerned with social innovation is how to increase its social impact, or replicate it elsewhere. This paper draws on the literature to develop a typology of strategies for scaling social impact.
Spear,, Roger, Man Chan,, Carman Ka
openaire   +1 more source

The energy and carbon inequality corridor for a 1.5 °C compatible and just Europe

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
The call for a decent life for all within planetary limits poses a dual challenge: provide all people with the essential resources needed to live well and, collectively, not exceed the source and sink capacity of the biosphere to sustain human societies.
Ingram S Jaccard   +3 more
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