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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Structural Inequalities"”.
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The Social and Structural Contexts of Sexual Health Status: A Study of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Chicago Women
… health interventions must focus on the larger structural inequalities that drive risk behaviors in order to increase opportunities for empowered healthy decision-making. Implications for social work policy and practice include social welfare and public policy reform, reinvestment in and …
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Te tātari i te kaupapa
… theory, it espouses a position which rejects structural inequalities that perpetuate the subordinate positioning of Māori people through the development of culturally responsive assessment theories and practices in written language for teachers and children in Kura Kaupapa Māori which purport …
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Coping behaviour of low-income country researchers in global health collaborations with high-income country researchers
In this study, I investigated conditions of structural inequality that biomedical researchers based in low-income countries currently experience across key stages of collaboration with researchers based in high-income countries and the extent to which these conditions determine specific individual …
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Adolescent Male Perspectives’ on Civic Engagement: A Pilot Study on Youth Conceptualization of Citizenship and Social Participation in Southern Trinidad
… is necessitated by acute observations of the structural inequalities embedded in Trinidad and Tobago’s merit-based education system and the resultant disparity in learning outcomes. This thesis project is part of a larger study, and focuses on chapters1-3. There is limited understanding of …
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"Ceausescu's Orphans": Narrating the Crisis of Romanian International Child Adoption
… Adoption and perpetuate denial about structural inequalities involving class, race, ethnicity, and nationality.</p>
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Breastfeeding as foodwork in the workplace among black, low-income women in South Africa
… experiences and precarity in the workplace, (2) structural inequalities and foodwork, (3) gender norms and social class: shaping child care and foodwork and, (4) local knowledges and foodwork. With these findings, recommendations for improving workplace support for low-income mothers foodwork …
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The veil as exception and difference in French discourse and policy
… the way that the French State supports the structural inequalities that are often found in former colonizing states.</p>
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Understanding ECE Policies, Access to, and Learning Outcomes from ECE among Refugees and Nationals in Uganda: A Cross-Cohort Comparison
… improved learning outcomes, exposing enduring structural inequalities in provision quality. Finally, this thesis makes an original contribution to knowledge in three key areas. First, it provides new empirical evidence on differentiated pathways of access to ECE in Uganda, shaped by a dual …
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Humanizing the Migration Experience: The Stories and Struggles of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children from the Northern
… Race Theory (LatCrit), the study examines the structural inequalities and injustices that drive migration, as well as the impact of trauma and mental health issues on UICs. The paper also analyzes the policies and frameworks in place to protect UICs, such as the Flores Settlement Agreement and …
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Why Use Agent-Based Models To Explore Social Issues? The Case Of Intimate Partner Violence and Social Support Systems
… communities appears to be higher due to structural inequalities. Women from various socio-cultural and economic backgrounds also differ in ways of seeking help, utilizing services and disclosing abuse to family members, friends and formal sources of help. Building on socio-cultural and …
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Cultural Anxieties and Institutional Regulation: "Specialized" Mental Healthcare and "Immigrant Suffering" in Paris, France
… they relate to mental health pathology or structural problems--in terms of cultural difference. As a result, generic cultural representations of immigrants are uncritically reproduced, making it difficult to identify and address the structural inequalities that do engender suffering.</p>
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Teachers' Perspectives on Race and Gender: Strategic Intersectionality and the Countervailing Effects of Privilege
… and gender do not exist, and any connections to structural inequalities go unexamined or are</p><p>presented as historical facts.</p>
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Class, gender and cultural work in British documentary film production: Experiences, subjectivities and policy discourses
… marginalised positions are likely to be aware of structural inequalities, whereas privileged filmmakers are likely to reproduce discourses of meritocracy and postfeminism. A central aim of the thesis is to identify within independent film enterprises the workings of class and gender. The thesis …
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Contesting hegemony : civil society and the struggle for social change in Zimbabwe, 2000-2008
… but in ways devoid of a serious critique of the structural inequalities of a post-independent Zimbabwe.
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Utilizing the non-profit sector to advance social and environmental justice
… an active and political role in addressing the structural inequalities affecting communities of color. Results further highlighted the importance of representation in racially marginalized communities and involving participants in the research process. In regards to leisure practitioners, the …
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The Influence of Deprivation on Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) in Rural Indians
… programs, intervals in service distribution and structural inequalities continue to diagnose late diagnosis and poor management of CVD in rural adults aged 40 and above. Methods: A systematic literature review was performed after the Prisma guidelines to investigate the impact of CVD circulation, …
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Aggravating Factors, Migraine Severity, and Healthcare Access among UK South Asians: A Systematic Review
… language barriers, limited health literacy, and structural inequalities in healthcare access contribute to disparities in diagnosis and treatment for this population. Methods: A systematic literature review was conducted using databases such as PubMed, EBSCOhost, ScienceDirect, and Google …
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Mirroring Financial Speculation and Late Capitalism Through Speculative Fiction: Worker Gullibility and Guilt as Re-imagination of Human Value
… logic of financial speculation and in-built structural inequalities. This paper makes a case that a tragedy could be read into this worker’s seemingly stable situation in a way that can uncover the character’s truly sorry state from his illusion of privilege and choice. But first, readers …
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Double agents : queer citizenship(s) in contemporary South African visual culture
… cultural forms mandate a queerness that leaves structural inequalities intact. To look beyond this horizon I choose to explore dissident citizenship forms that intervene in dominant cultural narratives to expand the boundaries of belonging. Specifically, I concern myself with representations of …
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Corporate sustainability and responsibility in the Cape Winelands
… although the success of these in remedying deep structural inequalities remains unclear. Secondly, the findings provide evidence of paternalistic behaviours on wine estates operating within existing hegemonic power structures. The participants’ experiences of social initiatives largely equates to …
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