BACKGROUND There is now considerable evidence from around the world that racism is associated with both mental and physical ill-health. However, little is known about the mediating factors between racism and ill-health. This paper investigates relationships between racism and self-assessed mental and physical health among Indigenous Australians as well as potential mediators of these relationsh...

today, the women from the half of the civil society population and from the perspective of security in the urban society, they are vulnerable social groups that their security is threatened in different ways. this study seeks to examine the factors affecting social security of women living in two neighborhoods in vanak and sarasiab. research theoretical model is composed (inspired by the views ...

The purpose of this paper was to develop a better understanding the causes career plateau in public service, focusing on 67 people who we determined be plateaued. Our interviews identified examples incidents describing successes and interruptions careers developing an overall picture reasons for being We ten themes, which were grouped into three areas: deficiencies experience, skills education ...

"The refined feeling, intellectual discrimination, and artistic initiative of the mature musician will not, as a rale, be found even in the higher grades of mentally deficient instrumentalists. The music that they make has a mechanical, imitative quality and is of a superficial type. Its function in their lives is not that of a vocation, but a socializing recreation: thus its final evaluation s...

In the Tadoma method of speech reception used by some deaf-blind individuals, speech is understood by placing a hand on the face of the talker and feeling certain mechanical actions of the face associated with speech production. The synthetic Tadoma system is a computer-driven artificial face that simulates these mechanical actions. This paper reports some preliminary data on the discrimination...

BACKGROUND Reported ethnic discrimination is higher among indigenous and minority adult populations. There is a paucity of nationally representative prevalence studies of ethnic discrimination among adolescents. Experiencing ethnic discrimination has been associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. NZ has a diverse ethnic population. There are health inequalities among young people from...

This article discusses racial prejudices and discrimination in perceptions, attitudes and practices among health personnel in the municipality of Camaçari. The survey’s methodology included racist statements in questionnaires distributed to 634 health workers, as well as socio-determinants of health, family and work characteristics. Results indicate how masked racism is reproduced through ambig...