These new initiatives are part of a trend among the wealthy to undertake large projects, building enclaves or outposts through which they advance a radical agenda framed in terms of development and the greater good. Paseo Cayala in Guatemala is another example, and while it’s not new, the impulse to hive off public space for quasi-public — effectively private — utopian dreams are, alarmingly, becoming more prominent, marked by a hyperfocus on technology: sensors, artificial intelligence, algorithms, smart-this, and smart-that.
Archive for January 2024
Benchmarking leads to a dynamic of constant growth in university leaders’ pay
The Rich Want Their Own Cities
Suicidal Ideation in Undergraduate Students of Social Work: A Quantitative Study
Vietnamese LGBTQ Youth’s Transition to Adulthood: Expressions of Agency
Performance Autoethnography: EM Not Afraid to Utter Their Emotional Truth
Developing a framework to monitor rural development policy in Ireland: Opportunities and challenges
Japan’s village with the oldest population is wooing young residents to survive
Nanmoku, Japan, is about 70 miles northwest of the capital city, Tokyo. The village has the most aged population in Japan, with two-thirds of residents over age 65.
Preventive Education Outreach on Social Media: The Quest to Enroll Community Members in a Child Sexual Prevention Workshop
A systematic scoping review exploring how people with lived experience have been involved in prison and forensic mental health research
Applications for the 2024 Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) will be accepted from Feb 5 – March 11
No means no: A case study on respecting patient autonomy
Outreach strategies to promote HIV testing and linkage-to-care focusing on a young sexual and gender-diverse population in Bangkok, Thailand
‘A lot of people think it’s just a Mickey Mouse role’: Role ambiguity among dementia support workers within secondary care and community hospital settings
Knowledge of Adult Sexual Orientation Influences Perceptions of Adult-Child Interactions
When Research Learns From Practice: Synthesized Action Research on the BIKVA Model
HHS Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration Fact Sheet of Accomplishments
The Nonviolent Communication Behaviors Scale: Cross-Cultural Validity and Association with Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress
Caregiving and role conflict distress
Mapping the Lobbying Footprint of Harmful Industries: 23 Years of Data From OpenSecrets
Mapping lesbians’ everyday community-making in a small city: (In)visibility, belonging and safety
BASW_UK: Wayne Reid interviews Kim Johnson MP
Evaluation of an Individually Tailored Digital Service to Promote Healthy and Sustainable Behaviors and Well-being
Medicare turns 40: since 1984 our health needs have changed but the system hasn’t. 3 reforms to update it
The nation has changed since 1984, and so have our health needs. Medicare is now struggling to ensure the access to health care for millions of Australians we were once promised. Let’s look at how we got here – and three radical changes we need to keep the Medicare promise into the future: making it cheaper to see a GP; paying less for blood and imaging tests; and covering dental care.
Working Their Way to Young Adulthood: Labour Market Outcomes of Working in Adolescence
Self-guided Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based Digital Smartphone Application for Management of Fibromyalgia (SMART-FM-SP)
Examining the Smart City Generational Model: Conceptualizations, Implementations, and Infrastructure Canada’s Smart City Challenge
Transforming Population Health — ARPA-H’s New Program Targeting Broken Incentives
How a kid from an Arizona mining town went on to create a historic Latino archive ASU
Christine Marin is the Founder of the Chicano/a Research Collection at the Hayden Library at Arizona State University.
The nature of status: Navigating the varied approaches to conceptualizing and measuring status
South Africa’s ageing population comes with new challenges. How best to adapt to them
Family planning service disruptions in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from health facilities in seven low- and middle-income countries
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems
E83-4: Angry Brigade
Double podcast about the Angry Brigade, Britain’s first home-grown urban guerrilla group, in the 1960s and 70s, in conversation with John Barker, who was put on trial as part of the group.
No Whitewashing the Past: A Black Farmworker Family in Segregated California
High health care use prior to elective surgery for osteoarthritis is associated with poor postoperative outcomes: A Canadian population-based cohort study
Expanding food assistance for Californians with AB 311
Exploring the mechanisms between socio-economic status and health: Mediating roles of health-related behaviors before and during COVID-19
Prevention of Viral Hepatitis and HIV Infection among People Who Inject Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Learning from LA: How Hospitality Workers Built Power and Changed Politics
General further education colleges: the continuing dilemma of organisational culture
Feasibility Study of Taking Back Control Together, an Intervention to Support Parents of Children with Cancer
Palliative care training in medical undergraduate education: a survey among the faculty
Sex Differences in Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Adolescents with High Metabolic Risk
Q: What Are the Three Major Types of Community- or Resident-Controlled Housing and How Do They Work?
Helping Tenants with Mental Health Challenges Who Are at Risk of Eviction
Before the pandemic, Boston’s City Life/Vida Urbana deployed volunteers to housing court, where they assisted unaccompanied tenants, offering them guidance, information, and connections to legal aid or other supports.