What are Eastern European Social Movements and How to Study Them?

Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway – Who, What, When, and How: A Response to Recent Commentaries

The Impact of Geographical Factors on the Prevalence of Pervasive Diseases in Guilan, Qajar Era in Perspective of European Tourists

European tourists in their reports from Guilan in the Qajar era, also have addressed the issue of health and deadly diseases affecting lives of people, such as rice fever, malaria, cholera, and plague in addition to pointing out the numerous social tragedies. From these tourists’s point of view, the weather conditions, geographical location, livelihood and some living and social habits and beha...

The Global Health Policies of the EU and its Member States: A Common Vision?

Background This article assesses the global health policies of the European Union (EU) and those of its individual member states. So far EU and public health scholars have paid little heed to this, despite the large budgets involved in this area. While the European Commission has attempted to define the ‘EU role in Global Health’ in 2010, member states are active in the domain of global health ...

How the Spectre of Societal Homogeneity Undermines Equitable Healthcare for Refugees; Comment on “Defining and Acting on Global Health: The Case of Japan and the Refugee Crisis”

Recourse to a purported ideal of societal homogeneity has become common in the context of the refugee reception crisis – not only in Japan, as Leppold et al report, but also throughout Europe. Calls for societal homogeneity in Europe originate from populist movements as well as from some governments. Often, they go along with reduced social support for refugees and asylum seekers, for example i...

بررسی جنبش‌های خاورمیانه به‌مثابه جنبش‌های اجتماعی جدید (فرصت‌ها، تهدیدها)

Today, development of  communication and growing globalization  has naturally undeniable effects on communities and  creation of new movements in line with these changes, so that transcend the boundaries of modernity and begin to shape postmodern world. Formation of new social movements and the development of them exemplifies this principle that led to new changes and activities in the social, ...