Within U.S. legal and policy circles, the discourse of informationpolicy reform has been organized principally around the themes of access to knowledge and network neutrality. Global discourses of information-policy reform are organized around parallel themes of access and connectivity. Each of those themes has contributed powerful insights to our understanding of the principles that should inf...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com of life and on the society [1]. According to Pain Proposal [2], a project developed to evaluate chronic pain’s impact on Europe, chronic pain affects approximately 36% of the Portuguese population with over 18 years old. It creates suffering in around 3 million individuals and has a negative influence on health, wellbeing, daily life activities and ...

OBJECTIVES To identify low-income working families' health challenges and understand their barriers and facilitators to navigating those challenges. METHODS We conducted a focused ethnographic study in a food bank in Montreal, Quebec. Using purposeful sampling, we recruited participants who had at least one employed family member and one live-in child. Sensitizing concepts included social det...

One dimension of inequality between social groups, as defined by socio-economic status, age, gender and increasingly ethnicity, is the experience of ill health and access to health services (Ahmad and Bradby, 2008). There is a burgeoning interest in the health inequalities that are prevalent among minority ethnic groups in both the UK and the USA (see Box 1) (Kelleher and Hillier, 1996; Nazroo,...

Emotional and behavioural difficulties of a sample of children and young people were identified at the point of entry to local authority care by analysis of social work case files. The files indicated high levels of need, including that in children aged under 5. Bedwetting was identified as an important issue related to the physical health and emotional well-being of looked-after children. Ther...

The numbers of Mexican Americans living in the United States, many of whom are first generation immigrants, are increasing. The process of immigration and acculturation can be accompanied by stress, as an individual attempts to reconcile two potentially competing sets of norms and values and to navigate a new social terrain. However, the outcomes of studies investigating the relationship betwee...

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