Encouraging Global Justice: Integrating Local & Global Perspectives in Social Work

Beyond the Social Contract: Toward Global Justice

Global health and global justice

Most people are concerned about international health inequalities and find them unjust. At the same time, we lack global institutions that can effectively act to reduce these health inequalities, which have various sources. Accordingly, the concern about health inequalities does not by itself support some one of the competing theories of global justice. Yet, many people believe that specific pr...

Occupational injuries: Global and local perspectives

Occupational injuries are associated with lots of suffering and loss at individual, community, societal and organizational levels. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently estimated that 20-50% of the workers are exposed to various hazards at work worldwide, and this proportion is likely to be higher in the developing and newly industrialized counties [1]. It has been estimated that 960,000...

Social Justice in a Global Context: Education Queensland’s 2010 Strategy

Introduction The concerns of this paper are encapsulated in two events which took place in Australia in 2000: the protests in Melbourne at the World Economic Forum and the Olympic Games opening extravaganza. The World Economic Forum exemplified the tensions between the efficiency imperatives of economic globalisation and political imperatives for equity and social cohesion. The egalitarian repr...

Global and Local Attention Processing in Depressed Mood

Background: Attention impairments are the hallmark feature of subclinical depression. The present study used Navon task to compare the allocation of attention to the local and global stimuli in depressed and nondepressed participants. Method: The primary sample included 186 female high school students from Shiraz city who were selected using cluster sampl...