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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology in Medical Undergraduate Education: A Survey in Greece

open access: yesInternational Medical Education
The integration of sociology into medical education is essential for cultivating a nuanced understanding of the complex interplay between social determinants and health outcomes.
Pelagia Soultatou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Abortion care in a pandemic: an analysis of the number and social profile of people requesting and receiving abortion care during the first COVID-19 lockdown (March 16 to June 14, 2020) in Flanders, Belgium

open access: yesArchives of Public Health, 2021
Background The COVID-19 pandemic and the national COVID-19 measures might have increased potential barriers to abortion care and created new ones, especially for vulnerable groups. This study documents the impact of the pandemic and the lockdown measures
Leen De Kort   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing an Indigenous Research Methodology to Develop a Culturally Appropriate Survey and Yarning Protocol: Challenges With Retention of the Aboriginal Health, Ageing and Disability Workforce

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal staff play a vital part in improving culturally safe and effective services and supports for Aboriginal people. Research on the Aboriginal workforce helps advance a culturally safe environment for workers and Aboriginal people accessing health and community services. This study aims to identify the barriers and enablers to workforce
F. Talbot   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Some social and physical correlates of intergenerational social mobility: evidence from the west of Scotland Collaborative Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Mainstream sociological studies of intergenerational social mobility have emphasised social factors such as education and the material and cultural resources of the family of origin as the main influences on the chances and direction of social mobility ...
Blane, D., Davey Smith, G., Hart, C.L.
core   +1 more source

Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology in Undergraduate Nursing Education in Greece: A Curricular Analysis

open access: yesInternational Medical Education
Sociology provides essential insights into the social and cultural determinants of health and is critical to holistic nursing education. However, its integration into Greek undergraduate nursing curricula remains underexplored.
Pelagia Soultatou, Charalambos Economou
doaj   +1 more source

Extent of illness and use of health services in a south Missouri county [PDF]

open access: yes, 1958
Report on Dept. of Rural Sociology project 201, Rural health--P.
Hassinger, Edward W., 1925-   +1 more
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Theorizing Beta Thalassemia Major: an Overview of Health Sociology

open access: yesRIMCIS, 2020
This research focuses on specific models of health and illness, explored by many researchers across the world. The sequential variations and critic of each model is summed up by researcher and the relevant theoretical orientations of beta thalassemia ...
Muhammad Abo ul Hassan Rashid   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

An institutional sociology perspective of the implementation of activity based costing by Spanish health care institutions [PDF]

open access: yes
According to institutional sociology, hospitals will respond to external environmental pressures and adopt Activity-Based-Costing (ABC). This theory overemphasizes conformity and fails to consider the advantages of organizational non-conformance.
Eriksen, Scott D., Urrutia, Ignacio
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