Promoting equality for ethnic minority NHS staff—what works?
Author/editor: Priest, N, Esmail, A, Kline, R et al
Year published: 2015
For decades research has shown that discrimination, harassment, and exclusion are pervasive experiences for staff from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in the National Health Service. In recognition of limited progress in achieving the goals of the now decade old NHS Race Equality…
Protocol: The relationship between teacher qualification and the quality of the early childhood care and learning environment: A systematic review
Author/editor: Manning, M, Garvis, S, Fleming, C & Wong, G.
Year published: 2015
Not all children are born healthy, provided with adequate health care, have access to good nutrition, or live in acceptable housing conditions. Further, not all children are born free of disabilities, or are raised by parents who can comfort, nurture, and provide opportunities to develop children’s…
Racism as a determinant of health: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Author/editor: Paradies, Y, Ben, J, Denson N et al.
Year published: 2015
Despite a growing body of epidemiological evidence in recent years documenting the health impacts of racism, the cumulative evidence base has yet to be synthesized in a comprehensive meta-analysis focused specifically on racism as a determinant of health. This meta-analysis reviewed the literature…
Racismo e Saúde: um corpus crescente de evidência internacional
Author/editor: Williams, D & Priest, N
Year published: 2015
Este artigo resenha um crescente corpus de investigação empírica, o qual indica que o racismo, em suas variantes institucional e interpessoal, persiste nas sociedades contemporâneas racializadas de todo o mundo, e pode ter impactos adversos importantes sobre a saúde. Após um breve apanhado das…
Rationing access to protected natural areas: An Australian case study
Author/editor: Fleming, C, & Manning, M.
Year published: 2015
In Australia, as in many other parts of the world, open access is the default policy setting for most protected natural areas, including World Heritage Sites. This is despite considerable evidence that unrestrained levels of visitation can be unsustainable in terms of the impact on the environment…
Refiguring Indigenous economies: a 21st-century perspective
Author/editor: Altman, J & Biddle, N
Year published: 2015
In this chapter we explore the Indigenous economic contribution from a comprehensive historical perspective . First, utilising a new economic historiography, we re-imagine Indigenous economies in the period 1850–1970. A little like the new history of frontier violence, a story of diverse economic…
Single-variable threshold effects in ordered response models with an application to estimating the income-happiness gradient
Author/editor: Hodge, A & Shankar, S
Year published: 2015
This short article extends well-known threshold models to the ordered response setting. We consider the case where the sample is endogenously split to estimate regime-dependent coefficients for one variable of interest, while keeping the other coefficients and auxiliary parameters constant across…