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The Ethics of Pricing and Access to Health Care: A Social Justice Issue

problem of expansive pharmaceutical pricing and the social impacts for the nations poor. The Scope of the Problem One of the m...

The Politics and the Political Possibility of Global Social Movements

about feeding the hungry, like the ONE campaign, but they involve issues like debt forgiveness for small, poor countries. The worl...

My Social Groups (A Personal Essay)

United Methodist Church, the DMV, Habitat for Humanity and the Republican Party are secondary groups that define who I am, but the...

Social Theory: Recreation, Leisure And Play

Peer Group Affiliation And Differences According To Residential Status, Subsistence Patterns, And Use Of Services" provide empiric...

Global Solutions for Health Care from a Social Work Perspective

their infrastructures are concerned, but health care is something that has severe ramifications. That is, the lack of health care ...

Gender and “Social Welfare”

as that done in an office (Boris and Kleinberg, 2003). "But after decades of new feminism, we still wait for men to do housework a...

Social Change and the Family Structure

Factors that include social, political and economic elements are distinctly related to the structure of the American family and th...

Corporate Social Responsibility: How It Relates To The Bottom Line

old stereotype...They think the supporters are a bunch of tree-huggers and protesters, and that this is all philanthropy. Thats n...

The Case Study of a Homeless Man and the Social Forces Working Against Him

work two weeks before and buys a bottle of no-name vodka. He sits on the side of a busy road with two or three of the older guys ...

Civil War and Reconstruction Social Welfare Programs

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

Child and Teen Social Anxiety Disorder

is a distinct difference between relatively simple shyness and the disorder. According to a report from the Ascribe Higher Educati...

Social Workers and Attachment Theory

the attachment cycle, crying is the dominant signaling behavior. The cry of the infant signals the caregiver to provide relief fo...

Social Psychological Theory and Observation

12.30 p.m. and the stop is busy. Not only that, but a small crowd of perhaps 20 people has collected and remains long enough to li...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance

basis of short-term results, but rather to build for the long term. Germanys Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) and Japans Mitsubishi pro...

Australia's Income Inequality and Social Consequences

where income distribution between top and bottom has become wider and wider (1996). The widest gaps seem to exist in the least-reg...

Aborigines of Australia and Social Darwinism

held sacrosanct and that, in fact,: "all sections of the people are united in an...

Social Workers and Life Experiences

person, male or female, who works with a large range of patients, these could be children, young adults, adults or the elderly, do...

Canadian Social Development Periods

Upper and Lower Canada as the Province of Canada (Francis, Jones & Smith, 2000, Origins). In addition to uniting Upper and Lower C...

Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the Issue of Social Conformity

begins. In an almost philosophical way he compels the reader to examine the amount of control that is mindlessly given over to the...

U.S. Blacks and the Historic Effects of Social Stratification

the homelands of the Native Americans. Similar occurrences have occurred all over the world between what Marger (52) chooses to c...

Proverbs and Solomon's Social Background

would indicate that Solomons social background was one that was possessed of education as well as social observations involving go...

Classic Literature and Its Social Functions

all too suddenly succumbed to temptation and became the gatekeeper of Hell -- a place of consequence where one goes whose choices ...

Situational Prevention and Social Prevention

A four-year programme from 1989 to 1993 in five American cities -the Quantum Opportunities Programme- paid disadvantaged youths fo...

United Kingdom's Social Protection and the US New Deal

help "jobseekers aged 18-24, 25 plus, 50 plus and New Deal jobseekers with disabilities a real chance to develop their potential, ...

Animal Liberation and Social Construction of Nonhumans

orangutans development of tool use and their layman descriptions which compare their actions with those of humans, there are hints...

Chicago Heat Wave in Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

other words, events such as the many deaths as a result of the Chicago heat wave would not occur if society was more aware of the ...

Social Sciences and the Connection Between Causal Explanations and Empirical Regularities

cause with effect, regardless of the approach being employed (Causal Mechanisms, 2003). To this end, empirical regularities play ...

Social Fairness and 'Positive Discrimination'

be undertaken consciously. Many of the disadvantages are faced then become due to social constructs and the way that capital cultu...

Social Classes and Health Care

people who are uninsured, while many more are underinsured (Reports Say Millions Getting Second-Class Health Care Treatment, 2003)...

Summarizing Four Cultural and Social Sciences' Articles by Littlejohn, Lont, Curtis, and Bakhtari

McBer and Company in 1980 (coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pace-setting, and coaching) Bakhtari developed four h...