BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Many countries are giving patients a more active role in health care, on both the individual and collective level. This study focuses on one aspect of the participation agenda on the individual level: self-management. The study explores self-management in practice, including the implications of the difficulties encountered. OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the complexity ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on the article “Political engagement in 2019 UK general election patients with autism and/or learning disability detained psychiatric hospital”. Design/methodology/approach This considers wider issue political participation by persons disabilities, especially those whose freedom restricted. Findings Access voting rights remains proble...

BACKGROUND: Genetic research has potential benefits for improving health, such as identifying molecular characteristics of a disease, understanding disease prevalence and treatment, and developing treatments tailored to patients based on individual genetic characteristics of their disease. Indigenous people are often targeted for genetic research because genes are easier to study in communities...

MyUniversity is a European project to foster the eParticipation in European higher education institutions and allow their members to influence the final decision making performed by the institutions’ authorities. A framework, composed of the two existing interactive tools Gov2Demoss and Pnyx.eVoting, and a methodology to manage eParticipation initiatives have been created for this purpose. This...

This study reports the impact of high sensitivity to early exchange in 11-grade, CSCL triads solving welland ill-structured problems in Newtonian Kinematics. Analysis of the evolution of participation inequity (PI) in group discussions suggested that participation levels tended to get locked-in relatively early on in the discussion. Similarly, high (low) quality member contributions made earlie...

Political traction for nature-based solutions is rapidly growing as governments recognize their role in addressing the simultaneous climate and biodiversity crises. While there has been recognition of Indigenous Peoples solutions, also limited academic review on relationship. This paper explores how Government Canada’s conceptualization either support or prevent sustainable self-determination. ...

BACKGROUND Research on Taiwanese indigenous cancer survivors' end-of-life (EOL) planning is still in its infancy, despite recent government and societal efforts to promote quality EOL care. Previous national studies in Taiwan have characterized indigenous peoples as a socioeconomically disadvantaged minority group. Compared with their mainstream cohorts, these remote residents are vulnerable to...

Increasingly the importance of Indigenous participation is acknowledged as central to effective biodiversity conservation. Traditional management emphasizes a holistic, integrated approach safeguard species and ecological communities cultural significance. This discordant with many instruments for Australians have consistently lobbied domestic laws be amended establish comanagement preferred ma...

Abstract The clinical relevance of immunology in the education setting can be demonstrated by drawing upon examples specific health conditions affecting populations, but these must contextualised appropriately. Cancer is a major cause morbidity and mortality worldwide, remains significant issue that continues to disproportionately impact affect Pacific peoples Aotearoa/New Zealand Region. model...

Acknowledgements Minority Rights Group International (MRG) gratefully acknowledges the support of all organizations and individuals who gave financial and other assistance for this report, including the Department for International Development (UK). Assistance, the US State Department and many other organizations. He has served as a consultant on issues of constitutional design for 16 countries...