The digital health paradox: international policy perspectives to address the increased health inequalities for people living with disabilities (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin van Kessel ◽  
Rok Hrzic ◽  
Ella O'Nuallain ◽  
Elizabeth Weir ◽  
Brian Li Han Wong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Health Innovations ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Readiness To Adopt ◽  
Global Population

UNSTRUCTURED The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the uptake of digital health worldwide and highlighted many benefits of these innovations. However, it also stressed the magnitude of inequalities regarding accessing digital health. This article explores the potential benefits of digital technologies for the global population, with particular reference to people living with disabilities, taking the autism community as a case study. We ultimately explore policies in Sweden, Australia, Canada, Estonia, the United Kingdom, and the United States to learn how policies can lay an inclusive foundation for digital health systems. We conclude that digital health ecosystems should be designed with health equity at the forefront to avoid deepening existing health inequalities. We call for a more sophisticated understanding of digital health literacy to better assess the readiness to adopt digital health innovations. Finally, people living with disabilities should be positioned at the centre of digital health policy and innovations to ensure they are not left behind.

scholarly journals Tongan Women and Migratory Circuits of Wealth and Value(s)

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping-Ann Addo
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Population Migration ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Population

Wealth transfers are key to the “how” and “why” of contemporary global population migration. For example, remittances are much-analyzed and fiercely-debated transfers of wealth from migrant populations to their home countries. Yet wealth can be transferred in the opposite direction – from homeland to hostland – and in various different forms. Using an ethnographic approach to understanding the impact of migrant’s (micro) decisions on wider (macro) global practices, this paper records, compares and contextualizes the global movement of things carried, left behind, pined for, and (re-)created by transmigrants. It seeks to nuance our understandings of the “who” of contemporary migration by tracing the role and cross-cutting paths of traditional wealth from the Kingdom of Tonga between groups of Tongan migrants who live in, and move between New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Hawai‘i. The case study illuminates Tongan women’s choices about carrying and creating objects of value that reify homeland gender and labor practices, while also affording them a role in impacting global wealth transfers that both entwine and eschew cash remittances. <strong></strong>

Renewed Activism for the Labor Movement: The Urgency of Young Worker Engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maite Tapia ◽  
Lowell Turner
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Movements ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Movement Building

In this article, the authors consider the findings of a multi-year, case study-based research project on young workers and the labor movement in four countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The authors examine the conditions under which young workers actively engage in contemporary labor movements. Although the industrial relations context matters, the authors find the most persuasive explanations to be agency-based. Especially important are the relative openness and active encouragement of unions to the leadership development of young workers, and the persistence and creativity of groups of young workers in promoting their own engagement. Embodying labor’s potential for movement building and resistance to authoritarianism and right-wing populism, young workers offer hope for the future if unions can bring them aboard.

scholarly journals The United Nations: Implications of Soft Power

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
Sara Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Cold War

The United Nations is often looked to for guidance in conflict prevention and intervention, but its lack of hard power has proven to be extremely limiting. Although the United Nations has been a major improvement from the League of Nations, its ability to maintain world peace is restricted by the aspirations of its member states. The Security Council is especially significant, made up of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China and Russia. Each state in the Security Council has the ability to veto any initiative proposed by the United Nations. Additionally, the United Nations cannot take action without leadership from one or more of its states, and many states are hesitant to sacrifice their military resources even in the event of major human rights violations. This hesitancy to intervene is especially evident in the case study of the Rwandan genocide, but can also be seen in the Cold War and the Syrian Civil War, amongst other conflicts.

Academic independence, freedom and ‘enlightenment’: The case of accounting research

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Barnes
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
The United States ◽  
Building Society ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mutual Organization

This article examines the problem of academic freedom in a rather unlikely area: accounting and historical accounting research. It discusses some cases in the United States and the United Kingdom where accounting research led to controversy and tells the story of a PhD student (the author) sued for libel in 1986 for his research concerning a policy issue, the subject of public debate, and related to conflicts of interest for directors of a mutual organization (a building society) and their use of its funds. It shows how ‘managerial diversion’ was discovered, how the libel suit was successfully defended and how the law was changed. While academic independence issues have always existed and across disciplines, the case and discussion largely relate to the 1980s in the United Kingdom when universities suffered savage cutbacks in public funding and the imposition of ‘reforms’. The case study illustrates, and the article discusses these issues as they relate to the state of modern universities and the pressures on academics.

scholarly journals The Private Finance Initiative: An Innovative Procurement Tool for Today's Public Administrators

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Seth Gabriel ◽  
Jordan Head
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Private Finance Initiative ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Finance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Private Financing ◽  
Payment Mechanisms

The Private Finance Initiative is an innovative public-private partnership first pioneered in the United Kingdom. The initiative's goal is to obtain higher quality public services at a lower cost to the public by engaging the private sector. The program relies on private financing and expertise, output-based contract specifications, performance-based payment mechanisms, and negotiated risk transfers to achieve this goal. This article discusses the initiative's successes and failures using Her Majesty's Prison Service as a case study. The article finds that, while the program has limitations, the evidence of its successes suggests that American administrators should consider it as a procurement tool for public services in the United States.

scholarly journals Do Derivatives Hinder the Financial Contagion? A Case Study of Developed Countries’ Stock Markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Saeed Rasekhi ◽  
Nasim Nabavi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Contagion ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Derivative Instruments ◽  
Copula Method ◽  
Negative Effect

The main purpose of this study is to test the effect of the derivative instruments on financial contagion in developed countries including France, Germany, South Korea, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, considering the United States as the source of the crisis. Therefore, at first, existence of the contagion in the markets was investigated using the ARMA-GARCH-COPULA method, and then, the effect of the derivative instruments on the contagion for the selected countries was examined during the time period 01: 2007: to 08:2018. The results confirm the negative effect of the derivatives on the contagion.

scholarly journals A Teaching Case Study: Roxy Music Limited

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Yvonne P. Shanahan ◽  
Morris W. Shanahan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teaching Case ◽  
The United Kingdom

Roxy Music Limited is a wholesale supplier of Compact Discs (CDs), Music Cassettes, Videos and, more recently DVDs, in the New Zealand music and entertainment market. All products are imported from Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States of America or Holland. Product arrives in boxes of 1,000 units. For the purpose of this case, we are focusing on CD sales.

scholarly journals Next Up: A Proposal for Values-Based Law Reform on Unilateral Withholding and Withdrawal of Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Downie ◽  
Lindy Willmott ◽  
Ben P White
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Current State ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment ◽  
Fundamental Values

The unilateral withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment presents a complex issue of law and public policy. The authors examine the current state of this practice and conclude that it is occurring, being challenged in the courts, and is treated differently in different jurisdictions. The authors review the current state of the law in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Canada. The authors use Canada as a case study to outline a process for pursuing law reform. The authors propose a model for law and policy reform in this area that is both informed and shaped by the fundamental values of Canadian society.

This Is Not a Drill: Towards a Sonic and Sensorial Musicriminology

2021 ◽  
pp. 174165902110306
Author(s):  
Murray Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Criminology ◽  
Street Life ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Cultural Order

The first half of this article makes that case for, and develops, a preliminary conceptual framework for a ‘musicriminology’. A response to recent provocations for a more sensorially orientated criminology, and more general appeals for cultural criminology to engage rigorously with popular music and sound, a musicriminology could constitute significant contribution to the cultural criminological field. The article proposes two key conceptual themes, culture and co-production that underpin such a framework. Into these broad ( Double-C) themes are incorporated theories of the cultural, material, aesthetics, sonics, and the sensorial. The second half of the article uses drill music, a subset of rap or hip-hop music, as a case study. The focus is on the popular western Sydney drill group OneFour, who have recently been subject to police attempts to suppress them on the basis that their lyrics ‘incite violence’. With dark, nihilistic and sometimes violent lyrics typically narrating street life, drill is often characterised by performers’ relationship to place –groups are sometimes even named after their postcode. In the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia drill music has attracted the attention of police, politicians, and mainstream media for artists’ alleged relationship to street-based violence. The article suggests that OneFour’s music challenges an accepted aesthetic and cultural order. However, somewhat ironically the group has become more popular as a result of police attempts to criminalise them and to re-assert such an order.

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