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Kiepal, Laura Christine, Peter J. Carrington, and Myrna Dawson. "Missing persons and social exclusion." Canadian Journal of Sociology 37, no. 2 (March 21, 2012): 137–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cjs10114.
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The concept of social exclusion is used to explore the relationship between people and groups who are socially and economically disadvantaged and the phenomenon of going missing. Police data about missing persons are compared to census data to determine whether groups who experience family dissolution, labour market exclusion, and other forms of disadvantage and social exclusion are overrepresented among missing persons compared to the general population. The analysis shows that disadvantaged youth, women, Aboriginal people, people who are not in the labour force, unemployed people, and homeless people are all overrepresented among missing persons. People occupying the intersections of multiple high risk categories are at particularly high risk of going missing. Linking missing persons with the concept of social exclusion shows that social and economic disadvantage lead directly and indirectly to peoples’ disappearances. (133 words)
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Balan, Aliona. "Social vouchers – tool for supporting disadvantaged people." EcoSoEn, no. 3-4 (December 2022): 14–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.54481/ecosoen.2022.3-4.02.
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The social protection system of the population in a welfare state must be built in such a way that it quickly and efficiently adapts to changes in the standard of living of the socially vulnerable segments of the population and, at the same time, does not hinder the economic development of the country. Solving this problem requires the implementation of new social protection tools for the population, taking into account the experience of foreign countries and national characteristics. The purpose of the article is to determine the role of social vouchers in supporting disadvantaged people, identifying the characteristics and benefits of their implementation.
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Nau, Tracy, Genevieve Nolan, and Ben J. Smith. "Enhancing Engagement With Socially Disadvantaged Older People in Organized Physical Activity Programs." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 39, no. 4 (January 14, 2019): 257–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272684x18821301.
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Background and objectives Participation in physical activity (PA) is low among older adults in developed nations and even lower among several socially disadvantaged groups. This study aimed to identify the actions that can be taken in the promotion, design, and implementation of organized PA programs to improve engagement with socially disadvantaged and underrepresented older people. Research design and methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 30 community service providers and 5 focus groups with 42 older participants in existing PA programs. Data were analyzed thematically, and the PRECEDE-PROCEED model for program planning was used to broadly categorize themes. Results: Helpful strategies for addressing predisposing factors such as social anxiety and lack of confidence included user-centered program design and sensitive, informative messaging and promotion. Key enabling strategies were transport assistance and minimizing fees. Facilitating gentle entry to groups and fostering inclusion and safety were identified as valuable reinforcing strategies. Providers regarded organizational networks as beneficial for facilitating referral and addressing resource constraints. Discussion and implications: A multifactorial approach addressing a range of predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors is likely to be necessary to enhance engagement in organized PA by socially disadvantaged and underrepresented older people. Key factors relate to creating a positive sociocultural environment, identifying activities of interest, and enhancing ease of access.
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Hlebova, Bibiana. "Children's Roma Literary Protagonist with a Social Disadvantage in the Emotional Education." Asian Journal of Social Science Studies 2, no. 1 (November 15, 2016): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v2i1.114.
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Author of the paper deals with the current issue which is the co-existence of Romany students (Roma minority social group) coming from the socially disadvantage backgrounds and marginalized Roma communities together with the non-Roma students from the major society in Slovakia in school inclusion settings. In this process, the author attaches significant importance for the development not only of cognitive (intellectual quotient – IQ), but also of emotional intelligence (emotional quotient – EQ) of all the students through artistic pictures of the Roma people coming from socially disadvantaged backgrounds marked by poverty a compliance with internal rules of the Roma identity (romipen) in the Slovak literature for children and youth. In this regard, author roots in the artistic delineation of emotional world of the Romany child protagonist – boy Lajko in an auto-biographical novel from Romany writer L'udovít Didi Stories blessed by the wind with the subtitle On the Romany soul, where the author displayed fates of people in very unusual way. Child literary protagonist from socially disadvantaged backgrounds perceives the social differences very sensitively in the intentions of own, minority society as well as in the co-existence of Roma and non-Roma people. Observation and empathetic experiencing of the negative emotional world of Romany child protagonist, the author used within emotional education and development of emotional intelligence of Roma and non-Roma students in the school inclusion settings in Slovakia.
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Norton, Clare. "Helping disadvantaged young adults prepare for employment." Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling 22, no. 1 (October 1, 2009): 20–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.2206.
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The 800 homeless young people that live with Centrepoint each day are amongst the most socially excluded and disadvantaged in the UK. Many of the young people Centrepoint supports have left home early as a result of abuse, neglect, family breakdown, drugs or depression. Many have been in care or prison and have not had the benefit of family support and encouragement. At school most were regular truants who did not achieve well, left school early or were excluded and generally had bad experiences within formal education. Around one in ten has a known mental health need and an increasing number are refugees with language, cultural and isolation obstacles to overcome, and qualifications that are not recognised in the UK.
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Milcarz, Marek, Kinga Polanska, Leokadia Bak-Romaniszyn, and Dorota Kaleta. "Tobacco Health Risk Awareness among Socially Disadvantaged People—A Crucial Tool for Smoking Cessation." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 10 (October 13, 2018): 2244. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102244.
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The goal of this cross-sectional survey was to assess the level of knowledge on harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure and active smoking among socially-disadvantaged people in Poland. The study was conducted among 1817 respondents aged 18–59 years, who used aid services from local social care institutions in Piotrkowski district. Majority of the participants were aware of the fact that smoking may cause serious diseases and lung cancer (92%). However, those percentages were lower for awareness of ETS and health risk (69.4%) and for awareness of smoking/ETS-associated risk of stroke and heart attack (57%, 68%). The male respondents and smokers had much higher odds of lacking knowledge that smoking causes serious diseases and lung cancer compared to the females (OR = 1.47 and OR = 1.86; p < 0.05) and non-smokers (OR = 2.35 and OR = 2.31; p < 0.001). In addition, those with temporary jobs and the unemployed had a higher risk of lack of knowledge on smoking and lung cancer risk (OR = 2.14 and OR = 1.66; p < 0.05) as well as ETS and the risk of stroke (OR = 1.52 and OR = 1.51; p < 0.05) as compared to those with permanent jobs. The smokers who were aware of four health consequences of smoking indicated an intention to quit smoking within the next month more frequently when compared to those who did not have the knowledge on all of the analyzed harmful effects of tobacco use (19.7% vs. 13.1%; p < 0.05). There is a need to improve knowledge on the dangers associated with active and passive smoking among socially disadvantaged populations.
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Albus, Christian. "Health literacy: Do we have effective interventions to enhance it in socially disadvantaged people?" European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 26, no. 16 (June 29, 2019): 1760–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2047487319861221.
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BAKER, STEVEN, JENI WARBURTON, SUZANNE HODGKIN, and JAN PASCAL. "The supportive network: rural disadvantaged older people and ICT." Ageing and Society 37, no. 6 (April 7, 2016): 1291–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x16000350.
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ABSTRACTThe rapid development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is profoundly transforming the social order, into what Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells calls the network society. Mobile technologies, such as smartphones and tablet computers, are perhaps the definitive tools of the network society; however, cultural and economic barriers exist that restrict access to these transformative tools and to the information networks in which they operate. One group that is particularly at risk is rural older people from disadvantaged backgrounds. This paper reports on one aspect of a larger action research project that involved working with a small group of rural, socially isolated older people with histories of homelessness and complex needs (N = 7) and their social workers. This paper focuses on the older participants who, having been provided tablet computers, were then supported to use the device in their homes over the course of eight months. Despite most participants having never used a computing device of any kind prior to the research project, findings suggested that participants gained confidence, independence and social engagement as a result of their ICT use. Results also highlighted that they experienced challenges in utilising ICT, specifically technical, economic and social barriers. Findings highlight the individual and structural issues that must be addressed to enable all citizens to participate fully in the network society.
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Horrill, Tara C., Annette J. Browne, and Kelli I. Stajduhar. "Equity-Oriented Healthcare: What It Is and Why We Need It in Oncology." Current Oncology 29, no. 1 (January 4, 2022): 186–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol29010018.
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Alarming differences exist in cancer outcomes for people most impacted by persistent and widening health and social inequities. People who are socially disadvantaged often have higher cancer-related mortality and are diagnosed with advanced cancers more often than other people. Such outcomes are linked to the compounding effects of stigma, discrimination, and other barriers, which create persistent inequities in access to care at all points in the cancer trajectory, preventing timely diagnosis and treatment, and further widening the health equity gap. In this commentary, we discuss how growing evidence suggests that people who are considered marginalized are not well-served by the cancer care sector and how the design and structure of services can often impose profound barriers to populations considered socially disadvantaged. We highlight equity-oriented healthcare as one strategy that can begin to address inequities in health outcomes and access to care by taking action to transform organizational cultures and approaches to the design and delivery of cancer services.
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Møller, Anne, and Camilla Hoffmann Merrild. "Exploring targeted preventive health checks in a socially disadvantaged neighborhood in Denmark." Health Promotion International 35, no. 5 (November 7, 2019): 1150–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daz110.
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Abstract Recently studies have focused on how health promotion interventions sometimes sideline issues of social context, framing health as a matter of individual choice and, by implication, a personal responsibility. Part of this criticism is that health promotion interventions often do not draw on situated understandings of the contextual aspects of health and illness practices. Theoretically, this study departs in practice theory and contemporary public heath discussions on targeted health promotion. Based on semi-structured interviews with 18 people living in a social housing association we explored the significance of participating in a preventive health check and how participation configured into everyday life. All participants in our study had been identified with a ‘risk’ health profile. Overall, we found that they were well aware of their health risks and challenges, and that they reflected a great deal on how their health status was intrinsically linked with their lifestyle and health practices, such as lack of exercise or smoking. The health checks were, however, not able to support or improve their general health, and did not seem to address the challenges the participants seemed to struggle with in life. By way of conclusion, we suggest that we implement a more practice-oriented form of public health that focus on the ‘lives’ that people live, and the problems that they face. Moreover, attention should be paid to how and to whom health promotion initiatives are offered, in order to ensure the relevance of targeted interventions.
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Russell, Meredith Jones. "All about … social isolation." Nursery World 2020, no. 1 (January 6, 2020): 15–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/nuwa.2020.1.15.
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Early years settings are helping to solve loneliness in their local areas by making links to isolated parents, older people, socially excluded teenagers and disadvantaged communities such as refugees. Meredith Jones Russell reports
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Fehsenfeld, Michael. "Inclusion of Outsiders Through Sport." Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research 65, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 31–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pcssr-2015-0009.
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Abstract Social work strategy is increasingly applying sports and physical activity programs as a vehicle for the social inclusion of outsiders. The underlying assumption is that interactions between diverse social groups generate social capital, which can potentially function as a social lever for socially disadvantaged groups. Knowledge about how and when this levering process occurs is, however, insufficient. The generation and acquisition of social capital requires adequate qualities in the relationship between social entities. Hence, meticulous research is essential to expound on the mechanisms and circumstances under which the socially disadvantaged can benefit from social capital generated through sports and physical activity. The article is primarily based on qualitative interviews with different groups of socially disadvantaged people. The interviews were conducted as part of a large-scale investigation of participation in sports in socially deprived neighborhoods. Subsequently, the findings from the qualitative interviews were triangulated with findings from an assessment of documentation and evaluation reports covering about 200 projects, and findings from a scientific literature review. The findings suggest that strategies aiming at social inclusion through sports and physical activities need to take social context into consideration
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Howard, Peter, Jude Butcher, and Luke Egan. "Transformative education: Pathways to identity, independence and hope." Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement 3 (November 25, 2010): 88–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ijcre.v3i0.1637.
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In 2008–2010, the Australian Government’s social inclusion agenda and the Bradley Review of Higher Education profiled the importance of education for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. This education needs to be transformative in both its nature and its outcomes. The Clemente Australia program is presented here as a means of providing such transformative education for people who are disadvantaged or socially isolated. This case study of Clemente Australia shows how the program is built upon a psychology of hope and provides pathways not only to new hope but also to a new sense of identity and independence.
Clemente Australia (CA) is an example of community embedded, socially supported university education (CESS). Essential elements of CA are respecting people for who they are and for where they are within their individual life journeys; building student capacity to be more proactive in reflecting upon and engaging with the world; learning with and relating to others; and promoting educative justice through the recognition of the students’ human rights to participate in tertiary education in a way that meets their personal and academic learning needs.
For the students, the university (Australian Catholic University) and other partners in CA, it is evident that there has been an ongoing shift from dependence upon the provision of materials and services to empowerment and enhanced capabilities in identifying the supports and processes required to meet the personal and professional needs of students, staff and community agencies. This shift has occurred through the scaffolding processes provided, the establishment of innovative partnerships and purposeful reflection. It has involved listening to one another, welcoming people into new worlds and challenging one another in the provision of transformative education to realise the fulfilment of hope for many Australians experiencing disadvantage.
key words: transformation; education; community; hope; homelessness; disadvantage
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Klassen, John. "The Disadvantaged and the Hussite Revolution." International Review of Social History 35, no. 2 (August 1990): 249–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859000009895.
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SummaryThe following survey regards the upper nobility, urban patricians and the clergy of medieval Bohemia as the more privileged, and groups such as the gentry, peasants and urban poor and women as the disadvantaged. There were exceptions within each group. The ethical and moral ideals of Hussite leaders addressed social and economic inequalities and gave hope that a society with greater benefits for the disadvantaged was possible. People from all groups participated in the revolution which in the end however did not produce the hoped for community. Economically, socially and politically Hussite society was not that different from the rest of Europe. Nevertheless, ideas such as religious toleration, popular sovereignty, the dignity of the common man and woman and the destructive powers of greed and violence all raised by the Hussites have survived within European civilization.
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Salonen, Anna Sofia, Maria Ohisalo, and Tuomo Laihiala. "Undeserving, Disadvantaged, Disregarded: Three Viewpoints of Charity Food Aid Recipients in Finland." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 12 (December 17, 2018): 2896. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15122896.
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Since the economic recession of the 1990s, Finland has experienced the proliferation of charity food aid as a means of helping people who are afflicted by poverty. However, so far little research has been conducted regarding the food aid recipients. This article gives discursive, demographic, and experiential insights into charity food provision and reception in Finland. Drawing on quantitative survey data, online discussion data related to news published on Finnish newspapers’ web pages, and observation and interviews with food aid recipients, this article sheds new light on Finnish food aid recipients from three perspectives. First, public perceptions about food aid often portray food recipients as dishonourable and responsible for their own poverty. Secondly, the survey data shows that the main reason for people resorting to charity food aid is deep economic disadvantage, and further, that there is an unequal accumulation of disadvantage among the food aid recipients, illustrating internal diversity. Third, observational and interview data show that from the food recipients’ perspective, the food aid system has only a limited ability to answer even their immediate food needs, and for the recipients, food aid venues can become not only socially significant, but also socially demanding and emotionally burdening places.
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Vasco-González, Margarita, Rosa M. Goig-Martínez, Isabel Martínez-Sánchez, and José Álvarez-Rodríguez. "Socially Disadvantaged Youth: Forms of Expression and Communication in Social Networks as a Vehicle of Inclusion." Sustainability 13, no. 23 (November 27, 2021): 13160. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132313160.
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Socially disadvantaged youth are a group to which prejudices are attached which question the appropriateness of their participation, communication and language in the digital setting. From this perspective, the aim of the present research proposes to identify the forms and expressions of communication used by socially disadvantaged young people from the city of Madrid in social networks. This will be examined as a tool for the development of interpersonal and social relatedness processes, which will enable inclusion and socialisation in contemporary society. To this end, a qualitative approach was proposed which enabled a set of core memos, codes, networks and categories to be established, through which study data were interpreted. WhatsApp images and interviews conducted with 78 informants were analysed using Atlas.ti 9 software. All participants belonged to a social group characterised by circumstances of social vulnerability. Of the main findings, it should be indicated that these young people exhibit a social network use that is not limited to engagement in digital leisure but, instead, is based on the exchange of communication. For this reason, these individuals have developed their own language, a fact that highlights specific traits of the digital culture to which they belong and contributes to disproving the idea that these young people use the digital setting inappropriately.
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Maqsood, Muhammad Haisum, Omer Kamal, and David Charytan. "Cardiovascular Issues Among Homeless People: An Issue that Needs Attention." Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology 14 (January 2020): 117954682097503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179546820975038.
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Cardiovascular disease is one of the most common causes of death with social factors increasingly recognized as determinants of cardiovascular prognosis. Homelessness, transient or chronic, may be one of the factors which predict treatment access and eventual outcomes as socially and economically disadvantaged group has high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors such as smoking, and delayed diagnosis and poor control of other risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension. This perspective article aims to discuss the issues associated with cardiovascular disease treatment, outcomes and future directions for homeless patients.
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Ma, Dandan, Jia Tina Du, Yonghua Cen, and Peng Wu. "Exploring the adoption of mobile internet services by socioeconomically disadvantaged people." Aslib Journal of Information Management 68, no. 6 (November 21, 2016): 670–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ajim-03-2016-0027.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify enablers and inhibitors to the adoption of mobile internet services by socioeconomically disadvantaged people: an understudied population adversely affected by digital inequality. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative study combining a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. In total, 32 socioeconomically disadvantaged people explored mobile lottery services and subsequently were asked a series of semi-structured questions about their perceptions of the technology. Findings Users’ attitudes toward mobile internet services were ambivalent. They experienced some advantages of smartphones (including escaping spatiotemporal constrains, fashionableness, privacy, and cost-effectiveness) and conceived of mobile internet services in terms of social advantages (including their ubiquitous nature, fitting in socially and fear of being “left behind”). However, they also experienced barriers and concerns, such as limited mobile data packages, external barriers from mobile services (including security concerns, complex online help tutorials, irrelevant pop-ups, and a lack of personalized services) and internal psychological barriers (including technophobia, self-concept, and habitus). Research limitations/implications The findings are of limited generalizability due to the small size of the sample. However, the study has implications for understanding the acceptance of technology among socioeconomically disadvantaged people. Social implications The study has social implications for bridging digital inequality in terms of socioeconomic status. Originality/value While previous studies have primarily focused on enablers of adopting mobile internet services by active users, this study reveals both the promise of and the barriers to the use of such services by inactive users who comprise an under-served population.
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Znyk, Małgorzata, Kinga Polańska, Leokadia Bąk-Romaniszyn, and Dorota Kaleta. "Correlates of Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Level Testing Among a Socially-Disadvantaged Population in Poland." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 6 (March 23, 2020): 2123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17062123.
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As part of cardiovascular disease prevention, the performance of BMI determination, blood pressure measurement, biochemical tests, as well as a lifestyle-related risk assessment are recommended. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlates of blood pressure and cholesterol level testing among a socially-disadvantaged population in Poland. This cross-sectional study was performed between 2015 and 2016 among 1710 beneficiaries of government welfare assistance. Face-to-face interviews conducted by trained staff at each participant’s place of residence allowed for completion of questionnaires that covered socio-demographic, health and lifestyle-related information. Sixty-five percent of the participants declared a blood pressure and 27% of them cholesterol level testing at least once within the year proceeding the study. A higher chance of having blood pressure testing was observed among the women (OR = 1.5; p = 0.002) and people with high blood pressure (OR = 3.9; p < 0.001). The women (OR = 1.4; p = 0.04) and older people (OR = 1.9; p = 0.02; OR = 2.6; p < 0.001, OR = 2.7; p = 0.002, for the following age groups: 30-39, 40-49, 50-59 years respectively), the respondents who declared health problems such as heart attack (OR = 3.0; p = 0.04), high blood pressure (OR = 2.3; p < 0.001) and type 2 diabetes (OR = 3.3; p = 0.004) and those with a family history of chronic diseases (OR = 1.5; p = 0.03) had a higher chance of cholesterol level checking. Higher healthy lifestyle index, indicating that the study participants have followed almost all of the studied lifestyle-related recommendations, was a significant correlate of cholesterol level testing (OR = 1.7; p = 0.006). Actions that promote lifestyle changes, blood pressure, and cholesterol level testing should take into account the needs of the disadvantaged population and should especially target men, people with existing chronic diseases, and those with unfavorable lifestyle characteristics. With respect to the socially-disadvantaged population, the social assistance institutions and outpatient clinics are the best places to conduct activities promoting a healthy lifestyle. The most commonly applied strategies to promote lifestyle changes can cover risk assessment, increasing awareness, emotional support and encouragement, as well as a referral to specialists.
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Nols, Zeno, Rein Haudenhuyse, and Marc Theeboom. "Urban Sport-for-Development Initiatives and Young People in Socially Vulnerable Situations: Investigating the ‘Deficit Model’." Social Inclusion 5, no. 2 (June 29, 2017): 210–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i2.881.
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Critical scholars have indicated that the assumptions underlying most sport-for-development (SFD) initiatives tend to align with a ‘deficit model’ of youth: young people from disadvantaged areas are uniformly deficient and in need of development, which can be achieved through sport (Coakley, 2011; Coalter, 2013). In this article, we investigated these assumptions within six urban SFD initiatives that work with young people in socially vulnerable situations in a ‘first’ world nation, Belgium. We conducted a survey at two moments in time amongst 14- to 25-year-old participants in order to test two assumptions: i) ‘participants are deficient and in need of development’; and ii) ‘participation in SFD initiatives leads to positive personal development’. We operationalised ‘development’ as the commonly used outcomes of perceived self-efficacy and self-esteem. These are ‘household words’ both inside and outside SFD research, practice, and policy and carry the assumption that boosting them will by itself foster positive outcomes. The findings refute the supposition that young people from disadvantaged urban areas are uniformly in need of more perceived self-efficacy and self-esteem and show that there is no simple and predictable change in participants’ ‘development’. We suggest that, in designing and researching programs, SFD stakeholders start from an open-ended bottom-up approach which is tailored to the actual life situations of young people and their individual differences and consider more interpersonal and critical conceptualisations of ‘development’.
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McAllister, Adrienne. "People who are 'socially disadvantaged' and the role of the aged care assessment team: a case example." Australian Health Review 27, no. 2 (2004): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah042720100.
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Adrienne McAllister is an Occupational Therapist with the Gold Cast Aged Care Assessment Team.The role of Aged Care Assessment TeamsAged Care Assessment Teams (ACAT) were developed as part of the aged care reforms that have been implemented in Australia over the last twenty years (Howe1997). Their role includes completion of comprehensive assessments, clarification of client needs, identification of care options to meet needs and assistance to access to services (CDH&AC 2000). They are described as having a coordinating role for clients with complex care or special needs (McCallum et al 1992, Gray 2001) and it is people with special needs, specifically those with social disadvantage, that are the focus of this paper.
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Streicher, Barbara, Kathrin Unterleitner, and Heidrun Schulze. "Knowledge◦rooms — science communication in local, welcoming spaces to foster social inclusion." Journal of Science Communication 13, no. 02 (May 6, 2014): C03. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.13020303.
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Socially inclusive science communication has to take place where people spend most of their time — within their communities. The concept of knowledge◦rooms uses empty shops in socially disadvantaged urban areas for offering low-threshold, interactive science center activities. The commentary carves out essential features that contributed to the success of the pilot project. Most importantly, the knowledge◦rooms had to be welcoming and comfortable for visitors of various backgrounds. The spaces were easy to access, the initiators were seen as trustworthy actors by temporarily becoming part of the community and the offer was respectful of the time and knowledge of its users.
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Winter, Liz. "Widening participation in psychology: Student perspectives through analysis of interviews on how an interest in psychology may be met for as many as possible." Psychology Teaching Review 16, no. 1 (2010): 84–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsptr.2010.16.1.84.
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Semi-structured interviews were conducted with teaching staff and students associated with a longstanding Certificate of Higher Education in Psychology course. Participants were invited to give their views upon why a declining number of people from ‘wider participation’ or ‘socially disadvantaged’ backgrounds come forward to register and seek a qualification or simply satisfy their thirst for studying psychology at a good level. After transcription and analysis the themes that emerged are considered and their implications for widening participation in the undergraduate study of psychology discussed. The results provide preliminary data for comparison with more mainstream degree level programmes. An attempt to define and distinguish between widening participation and students of a socially disadvantaged background is made through students’ interpretation of these concepts. The seeming lack of support for open-access, first level qualifications in psychology that offer part-time study to support educational or personal development alongside employment and other personal commitments are discussed.
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Hefler, Marita, and Stacy M. Carter. "Smoking to fit a stigmatised identity? A qualitative study of marginalised young people in Australia." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 23, no. 3 (November 30, 2017): 306–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459317745690.
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In countries with comprehensive tobacco control, smoking is increasingly denormalised, with smokers subject to social stigmatisation. Qualitative research and commentary about denormalisation and stigma has largely focused on the impact on current or former smokers. Little attention has been given to the interaction between existing stigma among socially marginalised and disadvantaged young people and its role in smoking uptake, maintenance and resistance to quitting, or remaining a non-smoker. This article draws on a qualitative (grounded theory) study of young people aged 16–25 years who attended social services for at-risk youth in an inner city area in Australia, to explore the intersection between stigmatised identity and smoking in a context of increasing smoking denormalisation. Drawing on theoretical conceptualisations of stigma, we outline processes by which participants accept and apply social labels, internalise or distance themselves from stigmatised identities, and the influence of labelling on smoking trajectories, to demonstrate how the persistent dilemma of stigma shapes and reinforces smoking behaviour. The study highlights the need for tobacco control initiatives to align and integrate with broader initiatives to address structural inequality and social disadvantage.
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ISAEV, A. V., and V. A. MATVIENKO. "SOCIALLY-ORIENTED PARTNERSHIP OF THE STATE AND RELIGIONS IN THE RETROSPECTIVE OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE «NEW» RUSSIA." JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AND MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION 11, no. 3 (2022): 98–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2225-8272-2022-11-3-98-110.
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The purpose of the article is to study certain issues of socially-oriented partnership between the Russian state and religions in the second half of the 20th – early 21st century. The methodological basis of the study is the unity of the substantive component of a number of interrelated concepts: «social policy», «social service», «socio-political partnership», «socially-oriented partnership». The authors emphasize that their direct synergy creates the necessary conditions for effective cooperation of all the parties involved such as public authorities and local self-government, business, religious de-nominations, etc. The authors conclude that a socially-oriented partnership made it possible not only to provide more targeted psychological and material assistance to disadvantaged people, but also to combine this activity with spiritual assistance in moral support for military personnel, or in educating the younger generation, etc.
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Ní Chlochasaigh, Karen, Pádraig Ó Duibhir, and Gerry Shiel. "Dearcthaí agus Cleachtais Ghairmiúla maidir le Tionchar an Tumoideachais ar Dhaltaí i nGaelscoileanna atá lonnaithe i gCeantair faoi Mhíbhuntáiste: Deiseanna agus Dúshláin." TEANGA, the Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics 25 (November 15, 2018): 74–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v25i0.50.
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Irish immersion education, although traditionally deemed as an advantage enjoyed principally by middle-class families where parents were a driving force of demand and promotion, has become increasingly available to a more diverse body of students throughout Ireland. Diversity takes shape mainly in the socio-economic, linguistic, ethnic and special educational needs of students from various backgrounds attending Irish-medium schools. Thirteen Irish-medium primary schools situated in designated areas of disadvantage throughout Ireland are part of the DEIS1 Plan, which offers additional support to improve the educational experiences and outcomes of young people who are at social disadvantage.
This paper examines the challenges and benefits of immersion for students in Irish-medium education in disadvantaged settings. We present data collected from school principals, teachers and special education teachers on the issues that impact the schools and their students. The main issues highlighted were poor acquisition of English as a first language, attending to the needs of children with learning difficulties, lack of awareness and diagnostic tools in Irish during psychological assessments, lack of parental support, deficiencies in appropriate teaching and assessment resources through Irish, the absence of language support for Irish and a language support teacher, and a need for a greater emphasis in teacher education on immersion education and on education in socially disadvantaged settings.
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Ramke, Jacqueline, Jennifer R. Evans, and Clare E. Gilbert. "Reducing inequity of cataract blindness and vision impairment is a global priority, but where is the evidence?" British Journal of Ophthalmology 102, no. 9 (May 29, 2018): 1179–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2018-311985.
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Throughout the world, people who are socially or economically disadvantaged disproportionately experience blindness and vision impairment caused by cataract. Reducing vision loss from cataract and its unequal distribution must be a priority if the WHO’s aim of ‘universal eye health’ is to be realised. To help achieve this, decision-makers and service planners need evidence on which strategies improve access to cataract services among disadvantaged populations, and under what circumstances. Unfortunately, despite many strategies to improve cataract services being implemented in recent decades, evidence of what works, for who and in what circumstances is not readily available. This paper summarises the extent of the evidence on interventions to reduce inequity of vision loss from cataract and makes suggestions for how the evidence base can be strengthened.
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Hahn, Lisa, Ashlee Rigby, and Cherrie Galletly. "Determinants of high rates of smoking among people with psychosis living in a socially disadvantaged region in South Australia." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 48, no. 1 (June 5, 2013): 70–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004867413491158.
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Pleasence, Pascoe, and Nigel J. Balmer. "Justice & the Capability to Function in Society." Daedalus 148, no. 1 (January 2019): 140–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00547.
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All over the world, civil legal problems are ubiquitous. But while all groups in every society that has been studied experience civil justice problems, these problems and their consequences do not fall equally. Socially disadvantaged people report more problems, more serious problems, and more negative consequences from them. The lack of legal capability-the lack of the capacity to understand and act on justice problems-plays a key role in creating these inequalities. A growing evidence base should support and enable global, national, and other policy-makers to achieve stated policy goals and enable people to respond effectively to the myriad legal problems that can threaten their aspirations and well-being.
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Pearson, David, Fiona Clare Kennedy, Suchetha Bhat, Vishal Talreja, and Katherine Newman-Taylor. "Thriving in adversity: Do brief milieu interventions work for young adults in the developing world? A pragmatic randomized controlled trial." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 49, no. 9 (September 1, 2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.10494.
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Adolescence may be a window of opportunity to attenuate the effects of early social adversity, which impedes cognitive, emotional, and social development, and increases risk of psychopathology into adulthood. We ran a pragmatic randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a brief intervention designed to facilitate life skills for psychosocial competence. Socially disadvantaged young people living in South India who had experienced early adversity (N = 645; age range = 17–22 years) participated in the intervention or were assigned to a wait-list control group. The intervention led to large differences in life skills between the two groups. This brief, scalable intervention can be made available to address the impact of early social adversity on young people's development.
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O'donnell, Meaghan L., and David Forbes. "Natural disaster, older adults, and mental health–a dangerous combination." International Psychogeriatrics 28, no. 1 (December 3, 2015): 9–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1041610215001891.
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Natural disasters by their very nature occur suddenly and have the potential to cause great harm at an individual, family, community, and societal level. They occur frequently, and with the escalation in extreme events related to climate change, the frequency, and severity of natural disasters will only increase (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2014). Globally, a growing number of people are being exposed to natural disaster; however, the vulnerability to exposure is not equally shared. Those who are socially, physically, economically, culturally, politically, institutionally, or otherwise disadvantaged are especially vulnerable to experiencing natural disaster.
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Ride, Katherine, and Samantha Burrow. "Review of diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people." Journal of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet 3, no. 2 (2022): 1–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.14221/aihjournal.v3n2.1.
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Diabetes is the fastest growing chronic disease condition globally. Type 2 diabetes in particular, has reached epidemic proportions, with the greatest burden falling on socially disadvantaged groups and Indigenous peoples. This review focuses primarily on type 2 diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, which is responsible for the majority of cases of diabetes in this population. It provides general information on the social and cultural context of diabetes, and the behavioural and biomedical factors that contribute to diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This review provides detailed information on: the extent of diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including incidence and prevalence data; hospitalisations; mortality and burden of disease the prevention and management of diabetes relevant programs, services, policies and strategies that address the health issue of diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people two special population groups: adolescents pregnant and post-partum women. This review concludes by suggesting possible future directions for combatting the growing epidemic of diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This review is part of a suite of knowledge exchange products that includes a summary, a video, and a fact sheet.
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Cianetti, Stefano, Chiara Valenti, Massimiliano Orso, Giuseppe Lomurno, Michele Nardone, Anna Palma Lomurno, Stefano Pagano, and Guido Lombardo. "Systematic Review of the Literature on Dental Caries and Periodontal Disease in Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Individuals." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 23 (November 24, 2021): 12360. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312360.
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Dental caries and periodontal disease represent a health problem and a social cost for the entire population, and in particular for socio-economically disadvantaged individuals who are less resistant to disease. The aim of this review is to estimate the prevalence and severity of the two dental pathologies, caries and periodontal disease, in the different classes of socio-economically disadvantaged subjects and to understand which of them are most affected. A systematic search of the literature was performed in MEDLINE (via PubMed), EMBASE and Web of Science after establishing a suitable search strategy for each database, using keywords related to socio-economically vulnerable classes and health outcomes. Socio-economically disadvantaged individuals are more susceptible to tooth decay and periodontal disease (with relative tooth loss) than non-vulnerable people. Additionally, when multiple vulnerabilities are combined in the same subject, these oral diseases worsen. There is no type of vulnerability more affected by caries and periodontitis than others, since overall they all have severe disease indices. The data from this systematic literature review might be useful for health policy makers looking to allocate more resources and services to socially disadvantaged individuals, resulting in making them more resilient to oral disease due to their social marginalization.
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Cersosimo, Giuseppina. "Salute e disuguaglianze. Percorsi analitici." SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE, no. 97 (September 2012): 50–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sr2012-097006.
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The essay mainly analyses the issue of inequalities and differences in health. At present, vulnerable and socially disadvantaged people throughout the world have lower access to healthcare, get sick more often and die earlier than those with a privileged social position. Despite general developments of global wealth and technological progress, inequalities have never grown so exponentially. Increasingly critical are the roles of social capital as well as that of the World Health Organization and of its policy, whose effects can, in the course of the time, reduce health inequalities and re-establish a principle of ethical and distributive justice.
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Smyth, John, and Peter McInerney. "Whose side are you on? Advocacy ethnography: some methodological aspects of narrative portraits of disadvantaged young people, in socially critical research." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 26, no. 1 (January 2013): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2011.604649.
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Olah, Branislav, Vladimír Kunca, and Igor Gallay. "Assessing the Potential of Forest Stands for Ectomycorrhizal Mushrooms as a Subsistence Ecosystem Service for Socially Disadvantaged People: A Case Study from Central Slovakia." Forests 11, no. 3 (February 28, 2020): 282. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11030282.
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Mushrooming is a widespread leisure activity for a significant part of the Slovak population. From the point of view of the ecosystem services, it combines a provisioning service (mushrooms as food or delicacies) and a cultural service (mushroom picking as physical activity in nature). For urban residents, the forest is a refuge from the daily work routine, and mushrooming contributes significantly to improving their quality of life. For mushroom pickers living in rural areas, the occurrence and availability of mushroom harvesting sites are often even more important since it contributes to their diet or even provides an occasional income. We summarised the ecological preferences of selected ectomycorrhizal mushrooms and applied them as parameters for modelling the potential of forest stands for mushroom growing in central Slovakia. In the second step, we analysed the theoretical demand for wild mushrooms as a subsistence provisioning service for the local population with a special focus on socially disadvantaged inhabitants. The results showed that there is a spatial overlap of forest stands with a high potential for mushroom growing and the districts with the highest proportion of unemployment or of inhabitants receiving social benefits, and the best mushroom forest stands are situated within walking distance from the settlements. This supports the initial assumption that wild mushrooms may contribute to a better life for disadvantaged local communities.
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Maceviciute, Elena, Thomas D. Wilson, and Zinaida Manžuch. "Assessing the Graphic Questionnaire Used in Digital Literacy Training." Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology 16 (2019): 113–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4301.
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Aim/Purpose: To capture digital training experiences, the paper introduces a novel data collection method – a graphic questionnaire. It aims to demonstrate the opportunities and limitations of this tool for collecting feedback from socially disadvantaged participants of digital literacy training about their progress. Background: In training of digital skills for disadvantaged audiences through informal educational interventions, it is important to get sufficient knowledge on factors that lead to their progress in the course of training. There are many tools to measure the achievements of formal education participants, but assessing the effectiveness of informal digital skills training is researched less. The paper introduces a small-scale case study of the training programme aimed at the developing of reading and digital skills among the participants from three socially disadvantaged groups – people with hearing impairments, children from low income families, and elderly persons. The impact of the training on participants was evaluated using different tools, including a short graphic questionnaire to capture the perceptions of the participants after each training. Methodology: We performed a thematic analysis of graphic questionnaires collected after each training session to determine how the students perceived their progress in developing literacy and digital skills. Contribution The findings of the paper can assist in designing assessment of digital literacy programmes that focus not only on final results, but also on the process of gaining digital skills and important factors that facilitate progress. Findings: The graphic questionnaire allowed the researchers to get insights into the perception of acquired skills and progressive achievements of the participants through rich self-reports of attitudes, knowledge gained, and activities during training sessions. However, the graphic questionnaire format did not allow the collection of data about social interaction and cooperation that could be important in learning. Recommendations for Practitioners: Graphic questionnaires are useful and easy-to-use tools for getting rich contextual information about the attitudes, behaviour, and acquisition of knowledge in digital literacy training. They can be used in applied assessments of digital literacy training in various settings. Their simplicity can appeal to respondents; however, in the long-run interest of respondents in continuing self-reports should be sustained by additional measures. Recommendations for Researchers: Researcher may explore the variety of simple and attractive research instruments, such as “honeycomb” questionnaires and similar, to facilitate data collection and saturate feedback with significant perception of personal experiences in gaining digital literacy skills. Impact on Society: Designing effective digital literacy programmes, including engaging self-assessment methods and tools, aimed at socially disadvantaged people will contribute to their digital inclusion and to solving the issues of digital divide. Future Research: Exploration of diverse research methods and expanding the research toolset in assessing digital literacy training could advance our understanding of important processes and factors in gaining digital skills.
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Teuscher, Dorit, Andrea J. Bukman, Marleen A. van Baak, Edith J. M. Feskens, Reint Jan Renes, and Agnes Meershoek. "Challenges of a healthy lifestyle for socially disadvantaged people of Dutch, Moroccan and Turkish origin in the Netherlands: a focus group study." Critical Public Health 25, no. 5 (September 30, 2014): 615–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2014.962013.
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Chakraborty, Jayajit, and Pratyusha Basu. "Air Quality and Environmental Injustice in India: Connecting Particulate Pollution to Social Disadvantages." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 1 (January 4, 2021): 304. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010304.
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While air pollution levels in India are amongst the highest in the world, the link between exposure to air pollution and social disadvantages has not been systematically examined. Using a distributive environmental justice framework, this study connects fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration data derived from satellite observations, a global chemical transport model, and ground-based measurements to district level socio-demographic information from the 2011 Census of India. The research objectives are to determine if annual average PM2.5 concentrations (2010) and recent increases in average PM2.5 concentrations (2010–2016) are unequally distributed with respect to socially disadvantaged population and household groups, after controlling for relevant contextual factors and spatial clustering. Overall, more than 85% of people and households in India reside in districts where international air quality standards for PM2.5 are exceeded. Although PM2.5 concentration levels are significantly higher in more urbanized districts located predominantly in northern India, recent increases have occurred in less urbanized areas located mainly in southern and central India. Multivariable statistical analysis indicated: (1) higher PM2.5 concentration in districts with higher percentages of Scheduled Castes (SCs), young children, and households in poor condition residence and without toilets; and (2) higher PM2.5 increases in less urbanized districts with higher percentages of SCs, females, children, people with disabilities, and households with no toilets. These findings thus highlight the need to consider the role of air pollution in exacerbating the consequences of social disadvantages in India.
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Botin, Lars, Pernille S. Bertelsen, Lars Kayser, Paul Turner, Sidsel Villumsen, and Christian Nøhr. "People Centeredness, Chronic Conditions and Diversity Sensitive eHealth: Exploring Emancipation of the ‘Health Care System’ and the ‘Patient’ in Health Informatics." Life 10, no. 12 (December 7, 2020): 329. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life10120329.
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Health care systems struggle to consistently deliver integrated high-quality, safe, and patient-centered care to all in an economically sustainable manner. Inequity of access to health care services and variation in diagnostic and treatment outcomes are common. Further, as health care systems become ever more complex, iatrogenesis and counter productivity have emerged as real dangers. In exploring this paradox, this paper considers a subset of those in society living with chronic conditions. Their attributes and circumstances have led to them being marginalized or excluded from ‘end-user’ engagement and/or from their requirements being incorporated into technology supported chronic disease management initiatives. Significantly, these citizens are often the most vulnerable and socially disadvantaged and tend to achieve poorer results and cost more per capita than the ‘average patient’ in their interactions with the health care system. Critically, this paper argues that a truly people-centered technology supported chronic care system can only be designed by understanding and responding to the needs, attributes and capabilities of the most vulnerable in society. This paper suggests innovative ways of supporting interactions with these ‘end-users’ and highlights how reflection on these approaches can contribute to emancipating the health system to move towards more socially inclusive eHealth solutions.
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Fagan, Abigail A., and John Western. "Escalation and Deceleration of Offending Behaviours From Adolescence to Early Adulthood." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 38, no. 1 (April 2005): 59–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/acri.38.1.59.
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Relatively little longitudinal research is available in Australia to describe the age/crime relationship in much detail, particularly patterns of offending occurring during the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. This paper addresses this issue using self-reported criminal involvement from a school-based sample, a group of socially disadvantaged individuals, and a group of officially identified offenders.The findings support the widespread research that rates of offending peak during adolescence, at which time offending is widespread, and that the criminal career is of relatively short duration. However, the results also demonstrate that the age/crime curve is not a unitary phenomenon.The type of offending behaviour being considered, the gender of the population, and the perpetrator's exposure to the criminal justice system contribute to the variability in the curve. In this study, the prevalence and mean level of overall offending for the total sample was higher during early adulthood than adolescence for vehicle offences and drug-use, rates of theft were similar in both periods, and vandalism and serious offending were lower. In addition, socially disadvantaged young people reported involvement in crime that peaked and desisted earlier in the life course compared to the school-based sample, and gender differences within these groups were also found. For the school-based sample, offending for females began and desisted earlier than for males, but within the at-risk group, the opposite was true. Implications for crime-prevention programming are discussed.
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Segovia-Vargas, María Jesús, María del Mar Camacho-Miñano, Fernanda Cristina Pedrosa Alberto, and Vera Gelashvili. "Sheltered Employment Centres: Sustainability and Social Value." Sustainability 13, no. 14 (July 15, 2021): 7900. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13147900.
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Sheltered employment centres are social enterprises where at least 70% of their workers have disabilities. They are a way of helping people with disabilities to work in good working conditions and of allowing disadvantaged people to live a full life. However, some people criticise these businesses for being ghettos where public subsidies are used inefficiently. Our paper aims to test if this criticism is valid by analysing whether these companies provide social and economic value to society in return for public funding and are also economically sustainable over time. Using a sample of 997 Spanish sheltered employment centres, a descriptive analysis of the main variables has been carried out. Additionally, the results of a PART algorithm show the relationship between these companies and economic sustainability. Our findings corroborate that these firms are economically sustainable and, at the same time, socially sustainable. These results highlight the great work that such companies perform for society and the country’s economy.
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Yoeli, Heather. "The psychosocial implications of social distancing for people with COPD: some exploratory issues facing a uniquely marginalised group during the COVID-19 pandemic." Social Theory & Health 19, no. 3 (June 14, 2021): 298–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41285-021-00166-0.
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AbstractChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an illness associated with intersectional poverty and stigma in old age; people with COPD are susceptible to anxiety, loneliness and isolation. People with COPD who contract COVID-19 are at high risk of serious complications, intensive medical needs and death and are, therefore, required to socially distance particularly assiduously. This paper offers an embodied phenomenological analysis of the emerging theoretical literature exploring the impact of social distancing upon people with COPD. Firstly, people with COPD are aware of how respiratory illness feels, are anxious about COVID-19 and afraid of being denied care. Future research might consider how people with COPD may be susceptible to “coronaphobia” and mental health consequences of the pandemic. Secondly, COPD tends to affect older people within the most intersectionally marginalised socioeconomic groups. Future research should remain mindful that people with COPD may be among the most lonely and least able to access health and social care services online than others. Thirdly, pandemics are known to intensify pre-existing social stigmas. Researchers and practitioners alike should be conscious that people with COPD may become increasingly stigmatised, especially those from intersectionally disadvantaged minorities.
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Rudnick, Abraham. "Social, Psychological, and Philosophical Reflections on Pandemics and Beyond." Societies 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc10020042.
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This conceptual paper presents social, psychological and philosophical (ethical and epistemological) reflections regarding the current (COVID-19) pandemic and beyond, using an analytic and comparative approach. For example, Taiwan and Canada are compared, addressing Taiwan’s learning from SARS. Suggestions are made in relation to current and future relevant practice, policy, research and education. For example, highly exposed individuals and particularly vulnerable populations, such as health care providers and socially disadvantaged (homeless and other) people, respectively, are addressed as requiring special attention. In conclusion, more reflection on and study of social and psychological challenges as well as underlying philosophical issues related to the current pandemic and more generally to global crises is needed.
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Gallardo-Peralta, Lorena P., José Luis Gálvez-Nieto, Paula Fernández-Dávila, and Constanza Veloso-Besio. "Loneliness and Psychosocial Resources among Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Older People in Rural Areas of Chile." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 3 (January 24, 2023): 2138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032138.
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(1) Background: loneliness is a problem that becomes increasingly acute in old age, with greater repercussions among socially disadvantaged groups such as indigenous and Afro-descendant older adults. The aim of this research is to analyze the psychosocial variables related to loneliness in old age. (2) Methods: a multi-ethnic sample was involved, with the participation of eight indigenous peoples and Afro-descendant tribal people (n = 1.348). Various gerontological scales previously validated among the Chilean population (De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale, Brief Resilient Coping Scale, Health Problems Questionnaire, and Family APGAR questionnaire) and a model are contrasted, establishing the relationship between psychosocial variables and loneliness. (3) Results: Structural equation modeling (SEM) showed the existence of indirect relationships between health problems, via family functioning and resilience, and loneliness. Resilience and family functioning were directly related to loneliness (WLSMV-χ2 (df = 345) = 875.106, p < 0.001; CFI = 0.992; TLI = 0.991; RMSEA = 0.034 [C.I. 90% = 0.031–0.037]). (4) Conclusions: loneliness has cross-culturally affected older Chilean people living in rural areas and it appears that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative effect on well-being. This study proves that loneliness is related to several psychosocial variables that can be intervened.
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Beautrais, Annette L., Peter R. Joyce, and Roger T. Mulder. "Youth Suicide Attempts: A Social and Demographic Profile." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 32, no. 3 (June 1998): 349–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679809065527.
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Objective: The social and demographic characteristics of a New Zealand sample of young people making medically serious suicide attempts were examined and compared with those of a control sample of similar age. Method: Using a case control design, 129 young people making serious suicide attempts were contrasted with 153 randomly selected community controls on a series of social and demographic characteristics including educational achievement, socioeconomic status, income, occupation, religious affiliation and ethnicity. The age and gender distribution of the sample, and the methods of suicide attempt, were examined. Results: Almost equal numbers of young males (45.7%) and females (54.3%) made medically serious suicide attempts. The clear majority of serious suicide attempts were by overdose or poisoning (78.3%), with tricyclic antidepressants (38.6%) and paracetamol (37.6%) together accounting for three-quarters (76.2%) of all drug overdoses. Young people who were less well educated and who were from lower socio-economic backgrounds had elevated risk of serious suicide attempts. Conclusions: Young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds have elevated risk of serious suicide attempt.
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Vandermeerschen, Hanne, Jeroen Meganck, Jan Seghers, Steven Vos, and Jeroen Scheerder. "Sports, Poverty and the Role of the Voluntary Sector. Exploring and Explaining Nonprofit Sports Clubs’ Efforts to Facilitate Participation of Socially Disadvantaged People." VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 28, no. 1 (October 13, 2016): 307–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-016-9799-8.
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Poudel, Gehanath, and Binod Pokharel. "Women’s Empowerment Through Small Farmers’ Cooperatives: A Case Study from Eastern Nepal." Journal of Advanced Academic Research 4, no. 2 (April 1, 2018): 68–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jaar.v4i2.19536.
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Small farmers cooperative limited (SFCL) is one of the very effective microcredit programs. It supports the rural farmer especially poor, marginalized, disadvantage and women of society by providing the saving and credit facilities. It has aimed to improve the socio-economic status of people and reduce the poverty level. The study aims to identify the contribution of SFCL on socio-cultural and political empowerment of Nepalese women. The study was conducted in Ilam district among the 522 women beneficiaries of SFCL. The data were collected by applying the mixed method. Census method was used for this study. The analysis of data found that there was significant difference in socio-cultural and political empowerment of women after involving in SFCL program. Women have been empowered to maintain the social relationship, reduce the gender disparity, involve in social program, and participate in political program through SFCL activities. Women have expanded their network of relationship through saving and credit program. This study argues that women’s access to economic resources changes their social status at household and community level. The study shows the need of expansion of SFCL program in hard-to-reach areas also to empower the socially disadvantaged groups.
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Williams, David R. "Stress and the Mental Health of Populations of Color: Advancing Our Understanding of Race-related Stressors." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 59, no. 4 (November 28, 2018): 466–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022146518814251.
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This article provides an overview of research on race-related stressors that can affect the mental health of socially disadvantaged racial and ethnic populations. It begins by reviewing the research on self-reported discrimination and mental health. Although discrimination is the most studied aspect of racism, racism can also affect mental health through structural/institutional mechanisms and racism that is deeply embedded in the larger culture. Key priorities for research include more systematic attention to stress proliferation processes due to institutional racism, the assessment of stressful experiences linked to natural or manmade environmental crises, documenting and understanding the health effects of hostility against immigrants and people of color, cataloguing and quantifying protective resources, and enhancing our understanding of the complex association between physical and mental health.
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Turatto, Federica, Michele Sassano, Mauro Goletti, Santino Severoni, Adriano Grossi, and Paolo Parente. "Ensuring Equitable Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine: The Experience of A Local Health Unit in Rome, Italy." Healthcare 10, no. 11 (November 10, 2022): 2246. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112246.
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Growing evidence is emerging on the higher risk of infection and adverse outcomes for the most disadvantaged groups of the population, and COVID-19 vaccination campaigns worldwide are struggling to ensure equitable access to immunization for all. From 21 June 2021 to 15 October 2021, the Local Health Unit ASL Roma 1 adopted a tailored immunization strategy to reach socially vulnerable groups of the population with the primary vaccination course. This strategy was developed with a step-by-step, participatory approach. Through engagement with internal and external stakeholders, target groups were identified, potential barriers analyzed, solutions discussed, and tailored interventions designed. Over nine thousand individuals from among irregular migrants, homeless people and hard-to-reach communities were contacted and vaccinated.