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The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums.
The Lancet, 2017 Massive slums have become major features of cities in many low-income and middle-income countries. Here, in the first in a Series of two papers, we discuss why slums are unhealthy places with especially high risks of infection and injury.
A. Ezeh +12 more
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Enacting corporate governance of health care safety and quality : a dramaturgy of hospital boards in England [PDF]
, 2015 The research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) programme (grant no. 10/1007/02; project title ‘Effective board governance of safe care’; co-applicants R. Mannion, T.
Millar, Ross +8 more
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The Sociology of Global Health
Sociology of Development, 2019 Over the past two decades, a sociology of global health has emerged. While this new subfield takes up some themes and issues that are familiar to the discipline as a whole—among them organizations, social movements, and the social construction of illness—
Joseph Harris, Alexandre White
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A Comparative Sociology of Gypsy Traveller Health in the UK
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 This paper presents findings from a series of health-related studies undertaken between 2012 and 2017 with Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers living in different locations and in various forms of accommodation in southern England.
Miranda Millan, D. Smith
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Operationalising the collection of ethnicity data in studies of the sociology of health and illness [PDF]
, 2001 In response to the burgeoning interest in ethnic health issues and related published research, a number of recent contributors have attempted to clarify or systematize the usage of overarching terminology like 'ethnicity', 'race', 'culture', and ...
P. Aspinall
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Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2015 Introduction and objective The objective of the study was to present preliminary results of a pilot study concerning the level of knowledge of gynaecological prevention, conducted in teenagers referred by court rulings to a juvenile attendance centre ...
Marcin Bobiński +4 more
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Avaliação da qualidade em saúde. Reflexões teórico-metodológicas para uma abordagem multidimensional
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2009 Despite growing interest in recent years, the concept of quality represents a challenge for the majority of actors working in healthcare. Supported by a review of the international literature on the subject, this article proposes to contribute towards ...
Mauro Serapioni
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RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 In the contemporary society, under globalization, digitalization, urbanization and networkization, the body acquires new meanings, is included in new discourses and becomes a significant object of sociology.
D. A. Starostina
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Comparison of Health Perception and Health Anxiety Levels of Sociology and Medical Students
Ankara Medical Journal, 2020 INTRODUCTION: It is important to know medical students' perception and anxiety who confronts patient-disease concepts every day. Because, physicians' health perceptions are creating healthy living behaviors for them, affecting the process of helping and ...
NAZAN KARAOGLU +2 more
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'I've used the word cancer but it's actually good news' : discursive performativity of cancer and the identity of urological cancer services [PDF]
, 2017 © 2015 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness. Acknowledgements We are grateful to the patients and staff who took part in the study, and to two anonymous reviewers whose thoughtful comments helped refine our thinking.
Skea, Zoe Christina +1 more
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