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Migrant Selection and the Health of U.S. Immigrants From the Former Soviet Union
Mehta, Neil; Elo, Irma - In: Demography 49 (2012) 2, pp. 425-447
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Emploi des personnes handicapees: quel avenir se prepare?
N, Acton - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1981
ILO pub. Article on employment of disabled workers - presents a definition of disability, identifies criteria for …
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Distal and variably proximal causes: Education, obesity, and health
Schafer, Markus H.; Ferraro, Kenneth F. - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 9, pp. 1340-1348
high body mass index on disability (unstandardized coefficients across education groups range from −.05 [ns] to .26 [p …
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Monetizing illness: The influence of disability assistance priming on how we evaluate the health symptoms of others
O'Brien, Rourke L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 128 (2015) C, pp. 31-35
For low-income families in the United States disability assistance has emerged as a critical income support program in …) in May 2013, I find that respondents who are primed to consider the existence of disability assistance are less likely to … this measure was found to partially mediate the effect of the disability assistance prime. These findings have important …
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`Doing things right', or `doing the right things'? Call centre migrations and dimensions of knowledge
Broek, Diane van den - In: Work, Employment & Society 22 (2008) 4, pp. 601-613
The nature of call centre `logics' and their predominance in routine commercial areas of the economy underscored much of the early research into call centre operations. Recent regulatory, structural and technological developments in advanced economies underscored subsequent migrations of call...
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Social Work and Spiritual Therapy in the Salvation of the Modern Man from Moral Collapse
Ciobanu (Niþã) Janeta - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIV (2014) 3, pp. 92-96
In a purely consumerist world, deeply rooted in the beauty of this planet, addicted to tangible and material things, talking about spirituality, God and moral aspects of everyday life is more than abstract. Even so, one cannot deny that there are still people concerned with the spiritual...
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Different Welfare System—Same Values? How Social Work Educators in Norway, Chile and Argentina Comprehend Core Social Work and Social Policy Issues
Lyngstad, Rolv - In: Social Sciences 4 (2015) 1, pp. 239-259
During 2013 and 2014, five focus-group interviews were conducted in Norway, Chile and Argentina in order to understand better how professors at social work programs understand professional issues and controversial social policy issues in their countries. In the focus groups, the participants...
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HOMELESS PEOPLE IN TURKEY AND SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTIONS
ISIKHAN, VEDAT - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
“Homelessness” has been a serious social problem in developed countries especially since the 1980s. It has been provoked by the increase in poverty, inadequate incomes, unemployment, lack of care for mentally retarded people, unemployment and the increase in the number of individuals and...
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Cuisiner ensemble : ethnographie de trois ateliers cuisine
Augor, Mélanie; Lhuissier, Anne - In: Cahiers d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales (CESR) 79 (2006)
This article is based on participant observation in three “ateliers cuisine” organised in community centres located in Paris (France). Participant involvement in culinary activities is expected, in a purpose of social integration. The study highlights two main characteristics of this...
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Leveraging the creative potential of fieldwork learning plans
Palmer, Marion - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
Multidisciplinary fieldwork in the professions can benefit from learning plans that leverage what a student needs to know and what placements can offer. Building on the research of the creative potential of learning plans in fieldwork by Leitmann and Palmer (Journal of Practice Teaching and...
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