BACKGROUND Despite acclimatisation to hot weather, many individuals in Australia are adversely affected by extreme heat each summer, placing added pressure on the health sector. In terms of public health, it is therefore important to identify vulnerable groups, particularly in the face of a warming climate. International evidence points to a disparity in heat-susceptibility in certain minority ...

With reference to art. 9 of our Constitution “The Republic promotes development and scientific technical research. Protects the landscape historical artistic heritage nation “and 6 protects linguistic minorities with special rules”, project “Let’s increase reality qr-code” wanted enhance school as a community open territory in which it operates develop skills field active democratic citizenship...

This paper relates our venture to solve a real-world problem about official language minorities in Canada. The goal was to enable a form of linkage between health data (hosted at ICES – a provincial agency) and language data from the 2006 census (hosted at Statistics Canada – a federal agency) despite a seemingly impossible set of legal constraints. The long-term goal for health researchers is ...

Across 6 studies, Whites expressed more negative attitudes toward strongly identified racial minorities than toward weakly identified minorities. Whites who personally endorsed worldviews that legitimize the status hierarchy were particularly likely to express negative attitudes toward strongly identified minorities relative to weakly identified minorities, whereas Whites who personally rejecte...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To evaluate a social support intervention that was culturally tailored for Chinese Americans who face many challenges because of cultural and linguistic barriers. DESIGN Intervention with a one-group pre- or post-test design, mixed methods, and a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach. SETTING Southern California. SAMPLE 14 Chinese American breast cancer...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The diversifying US population of children necessitates assessing the diversity of the pediatric academic workforce and its level of cultural competency training. Such data are essential for workforce and educational policies. METHODS An 8-question survey was sent to 131 US pediatric chairs to assess plans for diversity, targeted groups, departmental diversity, divers...

The concept of majority rule and respect for minority rights is demonstrated in several constitutions the world. Oppression by barred articles these respective constitutions. Today, democracy mostly a method government people that ruled people. issue at center civic rights. Minority protection, thus, operates on hypothesis religious, cultural, linguistic affiliations are essential features very...

The transition from a centrally planned to a market-oriented economy under way in Vietnam over the last twenty years has led to a national aggregate rise in incomes, increased expenditures and a decrease in poverty levels (Haughton et al . 2001; Taylor 2004a). Yet Vietnam’s ethnic minorities, who officially comprise over fifty different linguistically distinct groups and account for around 15 p...

Language plays a role in the genocide of Rohingya people Myanmar and continues to shape their experiences displacement, yet linguistic rights are rarely discussed relation human humanitarian concerns. International standards offer important foundations for conceptualizing “right language” identifying how can be violated both situ displacement. The case highlights language policies weaponized op...