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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Background Elderly in need of long-term care tend to have worse health and have higher need of medical care than elderly without need for long-term care.
Maike Schulz +10 more
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The Noborder Movement: Interpersonal Struggle with Political Ideals
Social Inclusion, 2017 Over the last decade, self-organized refugee protests in Europe have increased. One strand of activism in Europe, noborder, involves a transnational network of people who are heterogeneous with regards to legal status, race, or individual history of ...
Leslie Gauditz
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The dilemma of “sustainable welfare” and the problem of the future in capacitating social policy
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022 This article discusses a dilemma of welfare states in the ecological transition. While the principle of “sustainability” is increasingly accepted, there are very different concrete declinations of it.
Francesco Laruffa
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Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2020 This paper investigates trends in Swiss women’s and men’s gender attitudes in the period 2000–2017 using the Swiss Household Panel data. Based on pooled OLS and fixed-effects models, we establish the following for women and men: (1) over this time period,
Bornatici Christina +2 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Digital nursing technologies (DNT) comprise an expanding, highly diverse field of research, explored using a wide variety of methods and tools.
Tobias Krick +4 more
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Social Justice and the Justification of Social Inequalities
, 2022 In this chapter, we introduce key research on social justice from an interdisciplinary social scientific perspective, focusing on questions of what (distributive justice), how (procedural justice) and who (recognition and scope). After discussing seminal theories on distributive justice (i.e., equity theory and relative deprivation), we introduce the ...
Bal, M., Van den Bos, K.
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Background While a large body of research has documented socioeconomic and migrant inequities in the effective use of healthcare services, the reasons underlying such inequities are yet to be fully understood.
Ivana Paccoud +2 more
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Social inequalities in cancer survival [PDF]
Population Studies, 2000 Social differentials in survival from 12 common types of cancer are assessed by estimating an additive-multiplicative hazard model on the basis of individual register and census data for the whole Norwegian population. The excess all-cause mortality among cancer patients compared with similar persons without a cancer diagnosis is significantly related ...
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Pathways and pitfalls: a qualitative study of student experiences in biomedical science education
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Biomedical science students from underrepresented backgrounds face barriers including financial strain, disrupted laboratory access and cultural exclusion. Peer networks provide vital support when institutional systems are difficult to navigate. To create inclusive learning environments and achieve academic success, educators should blend active, hands‐
Olivia J. Russell +8 more
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Inflation, Inequality, and Social Conflict [PDF]
IMF Working Papers, 2006 This paper presents and then tests a political economy model to analyze the observed positive relationship between income inequality and inflation. The model's key features are unequal access to both inflation-hedging opportunities and the political process.
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