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Employment stability and mental health in Spain: towards understanding the influence of gender and partner/marital status

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background The growing demand for labour flexibility has resulted in decreasing employment stability that could be associated with poor mental health status.
Imma Cortès-Franch, Vicenta Escribà-Agüir, Joan Benach, Lucía Artazcoz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the concordance between individual-level and area-level measures of socio-economic deprivation in a cancer patient cohort in England and Wales

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Most research on health inequalities uses aggregated deprivation scores assigned to the small area where the patient lives; however, the concordance between aggregate area-level deprivation measures and personal deprivation experienced by ...
Lucy Elliss-Brookes, Aurélien Belot, Matthew Baker, Fiona C Ingleby, Iain Atherton, Laura M Woods   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

SOCIAL INEQUALITY, POVERTY AND SOCIAL REDISTRIBUTION

Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών, 2011
In this essay, I review developments in the ongoing debate about the causal connections between poverty, personal behaviour and social inequality. I also discuss the normative issues that arise in defining poverty and in deciding what role redistributive social policies ought to play in its prevention and relief.I go on to compare the behavioural ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Multiculturalism : From Heterogeneities to Social (In)Equalities

, 2011
Faist T. Multiculturalism : From Heterogeneities to Social (In)Equalities. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 3.
Faist, Thomas
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AI‐Assisted IoT‐Enabled ECG Monitoring: Integrating Foundational and Generative AI Tools for Sustainable Smart Healthcare—Recent Trends

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly advanced the field of electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, enabling real‐time, remote, and patient‐centric cardiac care. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of AI assisted IoT‐based ECG monitoring systems, focusing on the integration of emerging technologies such as ...
Amrita Choudhury, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Lachit Dutta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogeneous associations of polygenic indices of 35 traits with mortality: a register-linked population-based follow-up study

eLife
Background: Polygenic indices (PGIs) of various traits abound, but knowledge remains limited on how they predict wide-ranging health indicators, including the risk of death. We investigated the associations between mortality and 35 different PGIs related
Hannu Lahtinen, Jaakko Kaprio, Andrea Ganna, Kaarina Korhonen, Stefano Lombardi, Karri Silventoinen, Pekka Martikainen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source

Who funds the WHO Foundation? A transparency analysis of donation disclosures over the first 3 years of its operation

BMJ Global Health
Introduction The WHO Foundation (WHOF) was established in 2020 with the stated aim of broadening the donor pool to the WHO. Academics and civil society actors raised concerns regarding the potential nature and source of contributions from commercial ...
Jeff Collin, Nason Maani, Emily R Adrion
doaj   +1 more source

The Open‐Source Paradox: Africa's Digital Sovereignty and the Structural Limits of Artificial Intelligence Autonomy

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Open‐source artificial intelligence is widely promoted as a democratising pathway to digital sovereignty for African states, offering access to frontier architectures without prohibitive capital investment. This paper investigates whether open‐source AI represents a credible route to autonomy or generates a new form of structural dependency ...
Ololade A. Shonubi
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source