In the Global South, Indigenous and Native people continue to live under colonial relations within formally independent nation-states. Sebastian Garbe offers a critical perspective on contemporary expressions of international solidarity transnational advocacy. He combines approaches from race decolonial studies with an activist ethnography networked spaces encounters created through activism by...

In the United States, city and county governments are often responsible for implementing health policies and programs on behalf of state and federal governments. However, local jurisdictions have generally not capitalized on their own expertise or on local knowledge to advocate rights-based health care reform. Working with local public health officials to develop a rights-based health care refo...

This article highlights the innovative experiential learning used by an online RN-to-BSN program through the use of simulation that takes place in an online classroom. Three experiential learning activities using a virtual community are described. These learning activities engage the students in thinking about social justice and health policy, as well as teaching concepts that include community...

INTRODUCTION A medical-legal partnership (MLP) incorporated as part of a comprehensive palliative care model addresses unmet social and material needs for patients. This study retrospectively reviews the experience of one MLP and quantifies the benefits of the program for both patients and the host health care institution. METHODS The Legal Services Program, an MLP, reviewed their program ref...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore the service needs and preferences of frequent emergency department users with mental health and addictions concerns who participated in a brief intensive case management intervention. METHODS We conducted semi-structured individual interviews with 20 frequent emergency department users with mental health and addictions challenges, 13 service providers in...

Text retrieval involves finding relevant information from a collection of documents given the user’s information need. Traditional information retrieval systems represent a document as a vector of words, where each component can be a simple word count or follows a more sophisticated weighting scheme. The composed matrix is usually sparse and some words are highly correlated with each other. Ano...