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Adoption of e-government by disadvantaged groups in the United States and United Kingdom
... A number of American cities from around 2004 had plans to build municipal wireless broadband networks. Motivations in some cases included encouraging socially disadvantaged groups to get online (Jain, ...
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Does Employment Quota Explain Occupational Choice Among Disadvantaged Groups? A Natural Experiment from India
... This paper examines the effect of a federally-mandated public sector employment quota policy for minorities on their occupational choice. We utilize multiple logit models to esti- mate the effect of the policy on the ...
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Reaching the hard-to-reach: a systematic review of strategies for improving health and medical research with socially disadvantaged groups
... the disadvantaged group of interest in the ...various groups are represented in the overall study ...socially disadvantaged group are numerous and no one single solution to addressing the barriers ...
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Interventions to improve physical activity among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups: an umbrella review
... For preschool children, parent-focused family-based interventions in community settings were effective in improving physical activity, although these studies were of low quality and there was no indication of longer- ...
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The effectiveness of community engagement in public health interventions for disadvantaged groups: a meta analysis
... Community engagement has been advocated as a potentially useful strategy to reduce health inequalities (e.g., [6-8]). Health inequalities are evident where disadvantaged groups (e.g., people with low ...
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The Subsistence Logic of the Weak:A Study of Disadvantaged Groups in Urban China
... China‘s SOE restructuring involves not only the transformation of ownership and management but the re- shuffle of employees. Many employees were compelled to terminate their labor contracts (i.e., buy off their working ...
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Bayesian spatial modelling of environmental and health data with applications in Brazilian Amazonia:linking environment and health in disadvantaged groups
... Disadvantaged groups have also been found our studies of birthweight in Chapter 3 and food insecurity in Chapter ...from disadvantaged groups were between 163 and 271 grams lighter compared to ...
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Dehumanization of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Groups Decreases Support for Welfare Policies via Perceived Wastefulness
... low-SES groups, which has previously been iden- tified (Hayward & Yar, 2006; Jones, 2011) seems to be a key factor in support for welfare policies or policies based on government ...SES groups stems ...
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Barriers to learning for disadvantaged groups : report of qualitative findings
... Key insights from available evidence The 2017 Adult Participation in Learning Survey provides an up-to-date view on who is most or least likely to be learning, what their motivations are[r] ...
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Reconciling historically excluded and disadvantaged groups: Deliberative democracy, recognition and the politics of reconciliation
... these groups and their ...these groups and their members as essentially inferiors and deviants that need to be civilized, controlled, denied, administrated or ...these groups justify the exercise o f ...
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On the Risks of Belonging to Disadvantaged Groups: A Bayesian Analysis of Labour Market Outcomes
... Two final points may be made. First, a person may be discouraged from applying for a particular type of job if he feels that applications from members of his group are treated unfavourably compared to applications from ...
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Addressing health inequalities in disadvantaged groups using health psychology theory and evidence
... During this period, I also completed the learning and teaching assessment module of the MA Academic Practice offered by City, University of London. As a result, I developed greater ability to apply use of learning theory ...
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Access to tertiary education institutions in six nations, New Zealand, Australia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Japan : a comparative study of funding : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Policy at Massey University
... There have been varying responses to the tertiary participation of disadvantaged groups in different countries and insights can be gained b y analysing alternative settings: i in order t[r] ...
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Lived experiences of Black African Immigrant Entrepreneurs in South Yorkshire
... the disadvantaged groups’ social location within the British historical, socio- political and economic ...minority groups and denying or restricting their access to resources and opportunities akin ...
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Tackling Social Exclusion: Taking stock and looking to the future
... most disadvantaged groups but for a wider range of families where significant inequalities in life chances remain; inequalities in employment rates, health, low income and educational attainment persist ...
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Widening Participation, Social Mobility and Higher Education in Further Education Colleges
... Office for Fair Access (OFFA) states on their website that WP “refers to the participation of disadvantaged groups in higher education generally.”... Trends in English higher educatio[r] ...
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Universities and Entrepreneurship: An Overview of Albanian Public HEI-s on Entrepreneurial University Model Aspects
... The way HEI-s are responding to the needs of the society ( both social and economical needs),the way social mobility and access to disadvantaged groups in higher education is[r] ...
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Promoting physical activity among community groups of older women in socio economically disadvantaged areas: randomised feasibility study
... pre-existing groups for intervention recruitment and delivery may provide a more feasible and sustainable approach than establishing new groups for interventions ...socio-economically disadvantaged ...
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How does social accountability contribute to better maternal health outcomes? A qualitative study on perceived changes with government and civil society actors in Gujarat, India
... women’s groups, especially among disadvantaged groups, but two appeared to be particularly involved in social accountability in maternal health – Dai Sangathan, or group of traditional birth at- ...
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Group specific analysis of commuting in the most disadvantaged areas of Hungary
... the disadvantaged groups with limited mobility possibilities reduce the degree of mobility significantly; therefore, creating a foundation for work-related commuting in the disadvantaged area is ...
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