The key policy orientation underpinning these recommendations is that of SOCIAL SOLIDARITY. The fundamental concept for public policy aimed at addressing inequity and unfair access must be a public consensus about the degree of social solidarity required in financing health services; we believe this ought to mean social and political acceptance of the value that all citizens must receive equal ...

Through discourse and social memory, history is continually imported to the present to fulfill certain socio-political demands or perceived inadequacies that the present cannot address. In Germany following the First World War, National Socialism‘s virulent appropriation of German Romantic principles provides an example of the past‘s resurrection to serve the needs of the present. The significa...

The spread of smuggling needs to be understood in the context of globalisation and greatly increased migration. Prospects of a better life abroad, poverty, economic marginalisation, political and social unrest and conflict are all incentives to move. Global media and transportation networks make movement easier. As push and pull factors encourage increasing numbers of people to migrate, they in...

Nowadays, the globalisation complex and confused scenarios show that the industrialism cycle has arrived to an impasse; sustainable and long-lasting progress requests strong changeovers. The technology challenge needs solving the overpollution and over-consumption figures of the current industrialism: to that purpose the world ought to radically modify the political set-up moving to global vill...

Background From an equity perspective, a health system needs to address social, political and economic inequalities that prevent people to achieve higher standards of living and exert their right to health [1,2]. The 2008 Ecuadorian Constitution guarantees the right to health, an important contributing factor to good living or Sumak Kawsay [3]. The purpose of this study was to analyze socioecon...

policy GIS emissions LCI composition analysis EfW data costs environmental impacts CA sites public consultation BVPI political diversion green waste bring strategic MBT operational GIS participation attitudinal surveys composition financial kerbside behaviours hierarchy scenarios resources planning residual minimisation perceptions recovery strategy BPEO composting public waste environmental in...

This review explores the various research approaches taken attempting to solve the problem of SIDS. It would appear that major clues provided by pathological findings have been largely overlooked and as a consequence much effort, time, and money has been wasted on projects that satisfy only sub-specialty and political needs. Close examination of the pathological clues would provide better insig...

Unlike most European countries, the French experience with immigration predates the post-World War II period. France in the nineteenth century saw itself as a haven for persons in search of freedom or persecuted for political reasons in their own countries. With industrialisation and growing labour needs, France became a destination country for labour migrants, especially from Belgium and Italy...

This article documents the successful creation and promotion of a bill to fund a nurse home visitation program for high-risk mothers in Arkansas. It illustrates several key factors in successful advocacy by pediatricians working in an academic setting: a realistic time commitment; a community needs assessment, data assimilation, and review of existing resources; the identification and incorpora...

Does the European Union (EU) represent a new political order replacing the old nation-states? The assessment of the real character of political orders requires the identification of political key actors and of the specific structure of their interactions. Transgovernmental networks have been considered to be one of the most important features of EU integration. Unfortunately, the network struct...