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Health information seeking and use outside of the medical encounter: Is it associated with race and ethnicity?

Rooks, Ronica N.; Wiltshire, Jacqueline C.; Elder, Keith; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 2, pp. 176-184

between race/ethnicity and health information seeking. However, results were mixed for education as a moderator in the … relationship between race/ethnicity and health information use. Future research should focus on interventions to improve how …

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Food outlet availability, deprivation and obesity in a multi-ethnic sample of pregnant women in Bradford, UK

Fraser, L.K.; Edwards, K.L.; Tominitz, M.; Clarke, G.P.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 6, pp. 1048-1056

and ethnicity was analysed using individual level data on a sample of 1198 pregnant women in the UK Born in Bradford …

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Understanding high-risk behavior among non-dominant minorities: A social resistance framework

Factor, Roni; Kawachi, Ichiro; Williams, David R. - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 9, pp. 1292-1301

Across different societies, non-dominant minority groups, compared to the dominant group, often exhibit higher rates of involvement in high-risk behaviors, such as smoking, drug and alcohol use, sexual risk behaviors, overeating, and unsafe driving habits. In turn, these behaviors have a...

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Formation and persistence of oppositional identities

Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - In: European Economic Review 55 (2011) 8, pp. 1046-1071

We develop a dynamic model of identity formation that explains why ethnic minorities may choose to adopt oppositional identities (i.e. some individuals may reject or not the dominant culture) and why this behavior may persist over time. We first show that the prevalence of an oppositional...

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Ethnicity introspected: Researchers in search of their identity

Béji-Bécheur, Amina; Özçağlar-Toulouse, Nil; … - In: Journal of Business Research 65 (2012) 4, pp. 504-510

first describe the research design. The contributions of introspection in relation to the concept of ethnicity are then … clarified: (1) the feeling of belonging to an ethnic group (or ethnicity) is experienced only through social interaction; and (2 …) ethnicity is an ongoing process that is organized around self-protection tactics. Ethnicity emerges as an individual and …

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Household allocation and spatial distribution in a market under (“soft”) rent control

Enström Öst, Cecilia; Söderberg, Bo; Wilhelmsson, Mats - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 2, pp. 353-372

We analyse whether segregation exists in the rental housing market in Stockholm, Sweden, a market under persistent and all-embracing, yet “soft”, rent control. We use segregation measures for the uncontrolled cooperative housing segment as benchmarks for analysing whether rent control...

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Gender, Ethnicity, and Cumulative Disadvantage in Education Outcomes

Taş, Emcet O.; Reimão, Maira Emy; Orlando, Maria Beatriz - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 538-553

This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes in Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and …, and secondary school completion are larger for minority ethnic groups compared to others, or ethnicity-based differences … are larger for women compared to men. The findings suggest that the intersection of gender and ethnicity confers …

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Integration a few kilometres away from the motherland: Albanians' internal migration, settlement and voluntary return in Epirus and the Ionian Islands in Greece

Hetfleisch, Gerhard - In: Migration Letters 9 (2012) 3, pp. 225-236

public debate on ethnicity and cultural barriers to integration largely serves to camouflage social inequality and …

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Willingness to contribute to collective forest management: Evidence from Godere in the Gambela Region of Ethiopia

Girma, Wondimagegnehu; Beyene, Fekadu - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 1, pp. 79-86

This paper examines factors determining willingness to contribute to collective forest management at Godere Forest Priority Area in the Gambela Region of Ethiopia. Using data collected from 160 households, we tested a number of hypotheses. Results show that households that perceived destruction,...

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Power Sharing in the Asia-Pacific

Reilly, Benjamin - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2014

Executive power sharing has been practiced widely in the Asia-Pacific region, in both for-mal and informal ways. This paper examines the theory and practice of these various ap-proaches to the sharing or dividing of governing power across the region. I look first at the broad issues of executive...

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