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Dmytro Khutkyy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Social development or Social Crisis modernization theory versus world systems analysis
    Social Science Research Network, 2017
    Co-Authors: Dmytro Khutkyy
    Abstract:

    The study examines the contradictory claims of modernization theory and world-systems analysis regarding modern Social change. While modernization theory argues a human development, world-systems analysis states a global Crisis. The two theories are tested against empirical evidence from data of World Values Survey, World Bank, Freedom House, Transparency International, and GDELT Project. It was discovered that for the four analyzed waves during over fifteen years among all eight countries studied, statistically significant net Social development was demonstrated only by China and by Turkey. No core country indicated a statistically significant Social Crisis. However, there are more substantial changes in particular dimensions. In economic dimension, all countries, but China (due to a rise in inequality), have evidence of Social development. In cultural dimension, only two countries show a cumulative rise in emancipative values, while four other countries have a net rise of security values. In institutional dimension, United States have a relatively stable system, while for other countries it varies. Despite minor variations across the measured years, four countries enjoy a considerable cumulative increase in institutional freedoms and rights. Only two countries show a net inclination towards cooperative protests, as the majority of the countries gravitate towards conflict protest activities. Overall, it is evident that the studied countries are becoming more economically well-off, more free, but are increasingly inclined to protest more violently. Therefore, it is concluded that neither theory is universally sound, though both theories are right about cyclic change, and each theory is partially correct in the specified aspects.

Denise Stuntzner-gibson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Women and HIV Disease: An Emerging Social Crisis
    Social work, 1991
    Co-Authors: Denise Stuntzner-gibson
    Abstract:

    Women are the fastest growing category of people with AIDS in the United States, yet this fact has been consistently ignored in the Social work literature. Social workers' expertise is needed to curtail the escalating Social Crisis of women with HIV disease. This article addresses the major Social issues faced by women with HIV disease and explores gender differences in HIV transmission, disease progression, and diagnosis. The author discusses the ways in which women's sexuality and reproductive rights are affected. Specific issues are examined regarding HIV-infected women who use intravenous drugs, women of color, prostitutes, and lesbian and bisexual women. The implications for the Social work profession are discussed, and Social workers in the AIDS arena and all concerned about HIV-infected women are urged to address this problem on an individual as well as a community level.

Annegret Haase - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Covid-19 as a Social Crisis and Justice Challenge for Cities
    Frontiers in Sociology, 2020
    Co-Authors: Annegret Haase
    Abstract:

    The perspective deals with Covid-19 as a Social Crisis and justice challenge for cities. It describes how Covid-19 puts the spotlight on the uneven distribution of goods and burdens, chances and resources that we find in most of the world’s cities today; inequality and justice challenges arise from both the Crisis itself and some policy reactions to it as the stay-home policy and economic lockdown. It shows how exposure and vulnerability towards Covid-19 emerges mainly at the intersection of different dimensions of disadvantage and marginalization. The example of housing and green space provision is being used as an example to discuss the general argument in more detail. The perspective concludes, among others, that, in order to overcome the identified Social Crisis and justice challenge through Covid-19, we have to tackle underlying structures/mechanisms leading to inequitable outcomes in today’s cities and to re-think the Social and justice yardsticks of current urban sustainability and resilience debates and strategies.

Mohamad Ahmad - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Liver Resection in a Tertiary University Hospital in Damascus- trends Related to the Political Strife and Social Crisis
    Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Care, 2020
    Co-Authors: Basel Ahmad, Mohamad Essam Marwa, Khaled Turkmani, Tareq Ahmad, Ramez Baghdadi, Shaimaa Aboudamaah, Khetam Alkhatib, Mohamad Ahmad
    Abstract:

    Background: Liver resection is a major operation requires technical training and experience and is expensive for the health care system. Aim: Our aim was to review trends in liver resection in Syria to help our country and others like Syria to understand the hardships for the country’s health care policy. Methods: We analyzed retrospectively the results of 95 patients who underwent a liver resection from January 2009 through December 2015 at our tertiary university hospital in Damascus. Results: The number of annual liver resections increased over this 6 year period, but there were several years during which the numbers were dramatically less, related to the Social Crisis. Of them, 63 underwent resection for malignant neoplasms (66%) and 30 for non-malignant disorders (32%). Conclusion: Dedication of our surgeons to hepatic surgery is increasing in Syria with mortality rates close to international standards despite the ongoing Social unrest and political strife.

Pablo Rafael Ottolino Lavarte - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Different Crises, Different Patterns of Trauma. The Impact of a Social Crisis and the COVID-19 Health Pandemic on a High Violence Area.
    World journal of surgery, 2020
    Co-Authors: Juan Pablo Ramos Perkis, Pablo Achurra Tirado, Nakul Raykar, Analía Zinco Acosta, Carolina Andrea Muñoz Alarcon, Juan Carlos Puyana, Pablo Rafael Ottolino Lavarte
    Abstract:

    Backgound Santiago, Chile underwent two separate periods of Crisis over the past year. The first period, the 'Social Crisis,' extended over thirteen weeks in late 2019 into early 2020 due to protests over income inequality and the government response to Social unrest. The second period, the 'health Crisis,' began in March 2020 with Chile's first case of COVID-19 and escalated rapidly to include 'stay at home orders,' traffic restrictions, and the shuttering of most businesses. We wished to evaluate the impact of these Crisis periods on trauma epidemiology. Methods We performed a retrospective review of the South-East Metropolitan Health Service Trauma Registry. Trauma admissions, operative volume, and in-hospital mortality were evaluated during the Crisis period and the year prior. Results The Social Crisis saw increased levels of trauma, both blunt and penetrating, relative to the time period immediately preceding. The health Crisis saw an increase in penetrating trauma with a concomitant decline in blunt trauma. Both Crisis periods had decreased levels of trauma, overall, compared to the year prior. There were no statistically significant differences in in-hospital trauma mortality. Conclusion Different crises may have different patterns of trauma. Crisis periods that include extended periods of lockdown and curfew may lead to increasing penetrating trauma volume. Governments and health officials should anticipate the aggregate impact of these measures on public health and develop strategies to actively mitigate them. Level of evidence III.