Raj S. Bhopal
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780198568179
- eISBN:
- 9780191724091
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568179.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
Most of the industrialized world now comprises of multi-ethnic societies, with people from widely varying ancestry, cultures, languages, and beliefs. With globalization of trade, increasing ...
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Most of the industrialized world now comprises of multi-ethnic societies, with people from widely varying ancestry, cultures, languages, and beliefs. With globalization of trade, increasing international travel, and migration, the whole world is destined to become multi-ethnic within the next twenty or thirty years. This poses huge challenges for doctors, nurses, public health practitioners, health care managers, and policy makers who have to meet legal and policy obligations to deliver health outcomes, and provide health care of equal quality and effectiveness. To achieve this, they need a solid understanding of the underlying concepts of race and ethnicity, and how these are applied to achieve better health for ethnic minority populations. They also need to have an awareness of the misuses of these concepts, particularly taking into account the history of racism that permeates many societies to this day. This book provides an introduction to these complex issues. The key concepts of race and ethnicity are explained in this book, including their uses and misuses. The strengths and weaknesses of these concepts in terms of epidemiology, policy making, health service planning, research, health care, and health promotion are illustrated. The book emphasises theory, ideas, and principles, and its aims are to help counteract the unethical and atheoretical methods often used to study ethnicity. Practical application of the theory is demonstrated through the use of examples. The conceptual frameworks of ethnicity and race required by practitioners and researchers are slightly different, including the nature of research questions, the relative value of various methods of classification, and the approach to data analysis, presentation, and interpretation, and these differences are made explicit.Less
Most of the industrialized world now comprises of multi-ethnic societies, with people from widely varying ancestry, cultures, languages, and beliefs. With globalization of trade, increasing international travel, and migration, the whole world is destined to become multi-ethnic within the next twenty or thirty years. This poses huge challenges for doctors, nurses, public health practitioners, health care managers, and policy makers who have to meet legal and policy obligations to deliver health outcomes, and provide health care of equal quality and effectiveness. To achieve this, they need a solid understanding of the underlying concepts of race and ethnicity, and how these are applied to achieve better health for ethnic minority populations. They also need to have an awareness of the misuses of these concepts, particularly taking into account the history of racism that permeates many societies to this day. This book provides an introduction to these complex issues. The key concepts of race and ethnicity are explained in this book, including their uses and misuses. The strengths and weaknesses of these concepts in terms of epidemiology, policy making, health service planning, research, health care, and health promotion are illustrated. The book emphasises theory, ideas, and principles, and its aims are to help counteract the unethical and atheoretical methods often used to study ethnicity. Practical application of the theory is demonstrated through the use of examples. The conceptual frameworks of ethnicity and race required by practitioners and researchers are slightly different, including the nature of research questions, the relative value of various methods of classification, and the approach to data analysis, presentation, and interpretation, and these differences are made explicit.
Luigino Bruni
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198758730
- eISBN:
- 9780191818653
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198758730.003.0013
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Behavioural Economics, Public and Welfare
This chapter argues that the relational dimension is increasingly becoming a key issue in our multi-ethnic societies, and most of the future political debate on urban cohabitation, job satisfaction, ...
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This chapter argues that the relational dimension is increasingly becoming a key issue in our multi-ethnic societies, and most of the future political debate on urban cohabitation, job satisfaction, the governance of global commons, caring, elderly people will be centered on relationships and not only on individual variables and status such as income and consumption. Economics, among the social sciences, is the less well equipped in terms of capacity of understanding relationships, being since its neoclassical foundations at the end of the nineteenth century focused on individual choices or aggregate variables. But relationships are neither individual choices nor aggregate variables, being a sort of third way among the two, and so most difficult to analyze with either purely individualistic or purely holistic paradigms.Less
This chapter argues that the relational dimension is increasingly becoming a key issue in our multi-ethnic societies, and most of the future political debate on urban cohabitation, job satisfaction, the governance of global commons, caring, elderly people will be centered on relationships and not only on individual variables and status such as income and consumption. Economics, among the social sciences, is the less well equipped in terms of capacity of understanding relationships, being since its neoclassical foundations at the end of the nineteenth century focused on individual choices or aggregate variables. But relationships are neither individual choices nor aggregate variables, being a sort of third way among the two, and so most difficult to analyze with either purely individualistic or purely holistic paradigms.
Paul Rusnock and Jan Šebestík
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198823681
- eISBN:
- 9780191862298
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198823681.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Bolzano’s major work on political philosophy is a treatise called On the Best State, which was first drafted around 1830. Despite its title, it is not a merely utopian work. The best state is ...
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Bolzano’s major work on political philosophy is a treatise called On the Best State, which was first drafted around 1830. Despite its title, it is not a merely utopian work. The best state is considered not in order to avoid practical attempts at reform, but to give them a theoretical underpinning and clearer direction. Chapter 3 presents the main points of the political philosophy set out in On the Best State, followed by a consideration of the program for reform that Bolzano had presented in the sermons (Erbauungsreden) he read at San Salvator church and further developed in his lectures on the “science of religion” at the Charles University and in some later essays. In particular, discussion centers on his views on civil disobedience, revolt, enlightenment, and the rights of women, religious minorities, and the Czech-speaking citizens of Bohemia.Less
Bolzano’s major work on political philosophy is a treatise called On the Best State, which was first drafted around 1830. Despite its title, it is not a merely utopian work. The best state is considered not in order to avoid practical attempts at reform, but to give them a theoretical underpinning and clearer direction. Chapter 3 presents the main points of the political philosophy set out in On the Best State, followed by a consideration of the program for reform that Bolzano had presented in the sermons (Erbauungsreden) he read at San Salvator church and further developed in his lectures on the “science of religion” at the Charles University and in some later essays. In particular, discussion centers on his views on civil disobedience, revolt, enlightenment, and the rights of women, religious minorities, and the Czech-speaking citizens of Bohemia.
