Intersecting Roles of Authority and Marginalization

Marginalization and health geomatics

Marginalized groups have been defined as groups that have been peripheralized from the center of society. Increasing nursing knowledge of marginalized groups and the dynamics of population diversity will enable nurses to better recognize shifting health patterns, plan for utilization of health services, and determine ethnic and cultural differences that exist in marginalized populations. The au...

Social Marginalization and Health

The 20 century was characterized by a special improvement in health. The aim of the World Health Organization policy of EQUITY IN HEALTH was to enable equal accessibility and high quality of health care for all citizens. However, some social groups remained more or less outside social systems including the healthcare system due to the social marginalization defined as an impact on health that w...

Marginalization and Urban Crisis in City of Ilam

Banberz, Banbor, and Sabziabad neighborhoods are three residential districts on the peripheryof Ilam city, and are facing a lot of problems namely social, economic, and physical, particularly in housing sectorincluding low quality, poor housing, limited-quantity housing. In order to assess the sustainability of housing, 75indicators and to rank districts, SPSS software (exploratory factor analy...

Transdisciplinarity: Between mainstreaming and marginalization

Conceptualizing Economic Marginalization

There are two basic pieces of ground clearing needed before we get specific. First, marginalization is a relational statement. A category X cannot be marginalized in and of itself. It always has to be marginalized in relation to some other category, Y. So conceptualization requires an explicit statement of both X and Y—although in many cases Y is thought of implicitly as “the rest of society”, ...