AGEISM: PUBLIC PREJUDICE AND PRIVATE PRECONCEPTIONS*

Ageism: Prejudice Against Our Feared Future Self

For decades, researchers have discovered much about how humans automatically categorize others in social perception. Some categorizations—race, gender, and age—are so automatic that they are termed “primitive categories.” As we categorize, we often develop stereotypes about the categories. Researchers know much about racism and sexism, but comparatively little about prejudicing and stereotyping...

Funding follows public prejudice

cancer in this country because we know the primary cause is tobacco. The problem has almost moved from it being a research problem to being a public health problem.' One of the problems facing researchers is that lung cancer patients are more ill by the time they are diagnosed than many other patients. But there has been substantial progress in fighting the disease, at least in men from the hig...

Hormozgan public and private hospital managers’ knowledge regarding

Introduction: Hospital managers make decisions based on the statistics and information obtained from Statistic and Medical Records Department (SMRD). Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study which is to determine the knowledge and attitude of Hormozgan province hospital administrator regarding SMRD. 18 hospital administrators underwent study. Results: The among governmental hospital ad...

Beyond Public and Private

The nature of public-private partnership

To explaining the public-private partnership matter, we have to search about the answer of this questions: public-private partnership Is subject of what kind of legal contracts? private law? Administrate law? And what kind of Outstanding feature make it difference from other contracts.in order to finding the answer we Explained the concept of partnership, the definition of governmental contract...