The commitment to social justice is an essential feature of professional nursing practice (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2008). Social justice involves critically evaluating major determinants of health, including an individual’s personal attributes, acquired health behaviors, health care accessibility, as well as social, economic, and cultural resources and environments (Reutter...

BACKGROUND Prior research on work-related factors in the aetiology of psychiatric disorders has been concentrated on job control, job demands and social support. To broaden the view to managerial procedures, we examined whether the extent to which employees are treated with equity in the workplace predicts their mental health. Organizational equity refers to decision-making procedures, which ar...

Restorative justice is an alternative paradigm for dealing with the effects of crime and wrongdoing that seeks to bring healing to victims, offenders, and the community. Although a key element of social work’s ethical code is the obligation to work toward social justice, this has been viewed primarily as efforts to ensure a fair distribution of resources and opportunities. Yet justice is also r...

background: foreign immigrants form the part of the population of each country. among the foreign immigrant population in iran, the share of immigrants and nationals from afghanistan is very noticeable. one of the factors that affect this people's physical and mental health is social support. this study aimed to investigate the status of social support and its effective factors on afghan immigr...

The American health system is deeply rooted in notions of individual freedom, capitalism, and western Judeo-Christian values. Since its founding, the United States has been a free society built on laws, customs, and culturally engrained beliefs that strongly support individual freedoms for its citizens. These freedoms have also extended to an individual’s health. Benjamin Franklin famously rema...