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The alcohol industry lobby and Hong Kong’s zero wine and beer tax policy
BackgroundWhereas taxation on alcohol is becoming an increasingly common practice in many countries as part of overall public health measures, the...
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Reducing the health disparities of Indigenous Australians: time to change focus
BackgroundIndigenous peoples have worse health than non-Indigenous, are over-represented amongst the poor and disadvantaged, have lower life...
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Žižek's Balkans: Geopolitical fractures in Žižek's universalism
This introduction to a special section on Slavoj Žižek suggests that to understand his philosophy, activism, and psychoanalysis we must consider his...
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Human resources for health and decentralization policy in the Brazilian health system
BackgroundThe Brazilian health reform process, following the establishment of the Unified Health System (SUS), has had a strong emphasis on...
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The psycho-discursive origins of moral panics: Attempting a new theoretical synthesis
This paper attempts a new theoretical synthesis for studying ‘moral panics’. Its proposed model ties together Bion's psychoanalytic theory of the...
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Intercultural Health Practices: Towards an Equal Recognition Between Indigenous Medicine and Biomedicine? A Case Study from Chile
Over the past few years, intercultural health has become an emerging issue in health policy. Intercultural health is an approach in health that aims...
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The social relations of health care and household resource allocation in neoliberal Nicaragua
BackgroundWith the transition to neoliberalism, Nicaragua's once-critically acclaimed health care services have substantially diminished. Local level...
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CPHA and the Social Determinants of Health: An Analysis of Policy Documents and Statements and Recommendations for Future Action
Recently published reports have raised the Social Determinants of Health (SDH) to a level of prominence that makes it difficult for governments and...
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Lived Experience of Economic and Political Trends Related to Globalization
ObjectiveA multi-method case study examined how the economic and political processes of globalization have influenced the determinants of health...
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Psychopolitik der Krise
The social and economic crisis is described as expression of the neoliberal development in society. This development has pervaded all social fields....
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Public Health in Europe: Power, Politics, and Where Next?
Health policy in Europe is at a crossroads. Longstanding challenges, such as persisting social and geographical inequalities, ageing populations, and...
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Psychoanalysis and the Argentine economic crisis of 2001: Interview with Nancy Hollander
Psychologist Janice Haaken interviews Latin American scholar and psychoanalyst Nancy Caro Hollander about the economic crisis in Argentina in 2001....
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The Ethics of Nonmedical Sex Selection
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that there are significant ethical problems with nonmedical sex selection, and that prohibitive legislation...
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Mothers’ Health, Responsibilization and Choice in Family Care Work after Separation/Divorce
Many Canadian social policies emphasize the obligation of individuals to care for their dependent family members, reflecting normative expectations...
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Environmental Change, Injustice and Sustainability
This paper argues that a combination of increasing inequality, hypocrisy, population growth and adverse global environmental change imperils our...
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Challenging the Neoliberal Trend
Throughout the 1990s, all Latin American countries but Cuba implemented to varying degrees health care sector reforms underpinned by a neoliberal...
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Physiological considerations about life cycles of universities
In Austria, a new federal law concerning university reorganization (UG 2002) has led to the former university medical faculties in Vienna, Innsbruck...
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In the Wake of Structural Adjustment Programs
Background : The implementation of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) in develo** countries has been followed by a marked reduction in their...