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Equity Action Framework
(2017)
Th e Equity Action Framework1 is designed to support individuals and groups that want to advance racial equity in early childhood systems. Th e goal of a racial equity approach is to develop policies, practices, and programs that provide opportunities, promote fairness and access, and remediate racial inequities. Whether working at national, state, county, or municipal levels of government, in private-public partnerships, community organizations, foundations or other entities, the Equity Action Framework provides an intentional process for ... -
Equity and Inclusive Growth from a Development Perspective
(The Rockefeller Foundation)
Dr. A.K. Shiva Kumar wrote Equity and Inclusive Growth from a Development Perspective to supplement a series of workshops with Rockefeller Foundation staff in 2012 and 2013. The paper has since become the “go-to” source for knowledge about development concepts that are important to designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the work of the Foundation. The paper establishes why growth is important and surveys the history of growth theories from the 1950s to the present. This includes approaches to growth such as equitable growth, ... -
Equity of Social Health Insurance Coverage for Migrants in Thailand: A Concentration Index Analysis
(2021-12-22)
Thailand is attempting to implement an effective health insurance scheme to cover all migrant workers in the country. One of the remarkable policies is the Social Security Scheme (SSS). This study aims to assess the equity of SSS coverage among migrant workers in Thailand, sorted by types of businesses (agriculture, services and industrial sectors) and Gross Provincial Product (GPP) per capita. A secondary data analysis on time series cross-sectional data was employed. The dataset comprised: (1) the number of migrant insurees under the SSS; (2) ... -
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: A resource guide for Leaders in Collegiate Recreation
(NIRSA Commission on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, 2019-02)
The publication, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: A resource guide for Leaders in Collegiate Recreation, compiles foundational concepts, research-driven best practices, and case studies to help campus recreation professionals develop competencies around EDI – for their own personal and professional growth, as well as for their departments. The publication includes the following: Introduction to equity, diversity, and inclusion and the NIRSA EDI Identity Wheel. Definitions for a broad range of terminology associated with the nine identities focused ... -
Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity in a Changing Asia-Pacific
(United Nations, 2017-03-01)
This report is produced under a renewed partnership between United Nations (ESCAP), ADB, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to support national and regional efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It explores five megatrends that will determine whether everyone will be able to thrive and fulfill their expectations for a better life in the future: regional economic cooperation and integration; rural–urban transitions; demographic changes; ICT access and connectivity; and demand for natural resources. It ... -
Ethnic Minority Development
(2013)
This paper was presented in the sixth China-ASEAN Forum on Social Development and Poverty Reduction, which was held on 26-27 September 2012 in Liuzhou, China. The forum was supported under the UNDP-IPRCC project. Southeast Asia and China together constitute nearly half of the total global ethnic minority population. This chapter will address the challenge of the development of ethnic minority groups in the ASEAN region, and China -
Evaluating a prototype digital mental health literacy intervention for children and young people aged 11–15 in Java, Indonesia: a mixed methods, multi-site case study evaluation
(2023-06-26)
Background: The Improving Mental Health Literacy Among Children and Young People in Indonesia (IMPeTUs) intervention is a co-produced, evidence-based digital intervention designed to improve anxiety and depression focused mental health literacy and self-management among people aged 11–15 in Java, Indonesia. This study aimed to evaluate the usability, feasibility and preliminary impact of our intervention. Methods: Mixed methods, multi-site case studies based on a theory of change. Pre-and post-assessments of a range of outcomes and qualitative ... -
Evaluating the acceptability of a co-produced and co-delivered mental health public engagement festival: Mental Health Matters, Jakarta, Indonesia
(2019-09-06)
Background: Public engagement events are an important early strategy in developing a meaningful research agenda, which is more impactful and beneficial to the population. Evidence indicates the potential of such activities to promote mental health literacy. However, this has not yet been explored in Indonesia. Aim: This paper describes a mental health public engagement festival carried out in Indonesia in November 2018 and uses evaluation data to consider the acceptability and use of such activities in Indonesia in the future. Method: Evaluation ... -
Everyone a changemaker
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Evidence on Child Nutrition Recommendations and Challenges in Crisis Settings: A Scoping Review
(2021-06-20)
Adequate child nutrition is critical to child development, yet child malnutrition is prevalent in crisis settings. However, the intersection of malnutrition and disasters is sparse. This study reviews existing evidence on nutrition responses and outcomes for infants and young children during times of crisis. The scoping review was conducted via two approaches: a systematic search and a purposive search. For the systematic search, two key online databases, PubMed and Science Direct, were utilized. In total, data from 32 studies were extracted and ... -
Experiences of family caregivers of children with cancer while receiving home-based pediatric palliative care in Indonesia: a qualitative study
(2022-06-07)
Background: Caring for children living with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses can be challenging. Parents’ roles as the main caregivers can be complex with extensive responsibilities. The experiences of family caregivers can provide key insights into the provision of home-based Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC) for seriously ill children. This study is aimed at exploring the experiences of family caregivers of children diagnosed with cancer while receiving home-based PPC. Methods: This was a qualitative study. This study used ... -
Fostering Health Equity: Clinical and Research Training Strategies from Nursing Education
(The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2009)
Racism, ethnocentrism, segregation, stereotyping, and classism are tightly linked to health equity and social determinants of health. They lead to lack of power, money, resources, and education which may result in poor health care access and outcomes. Health profession faculties must address the complex relationships that exist between individual, interpersonal, institutional, social and political factors that influence health outcomes in both clinical and research training. Thus, the purposes of this paper are to provide examples of training ... -
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From income inequality to economic inequality.
(Southern Economic Journal, 1997)
Focus must be shifted from income inequality to economic inequality because of the presence of causal influences on individual well-being and freedom that are economic in nature but cannot be expounded by simple statistics of incomes and commodity holdings. Attention must be given to heterogeneous magnitudes. Moreover, there is a need for the derivation of partial orderings based on explicit or implicit public acceptance. -
General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019-12)
How large economic stimuli generate individual and aggregate responses is a central question in economics, but has not been studied experimentally. We provided one-time cash transfers of about USD 1000 to over 10,500 poor households across 653 randomized villages in rural Kenya. The implied fiscal shock was over 15 percent of local GDP. We find large impacts on consumption and assets for recipients. Importantly, we document large positive spillovers on non-recipient households and firms, and minimal price inflation. We estimate a local fiscal multiplier ... -
Global warming has increased global economic inequality
(2019-05-14)
Significance We find that global warming has very likely exacerbated global economic inequality, including ∼25% increase in population-weighted between-country inequality over the past half century. This increase results from the impact of warming on annual economic growth, which over the course of decades has accumulated robust and substantial declines in economic output in hotter, poorer countries—and increases in many cooler, wealthier countries—relative to a world without anthropogenic warming. Thus, the global warming caused by ... -
Global warming has increased global economic inequality
(The Journalist's Resource, Shorenstein center on media, politics and public policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 2019-05-14)
Significance We find that global warming has very likely exacerbated global economic inequality, including ∼25% increase in population-weighted between-country inequality over the past half century. This increase results from the impact of warming on annual economic growth, which over the course of decades has accumulated robust and substantial declines in economic output in hotter, poorer countries—and increases in many cooler, wealthier countries—relative to a world without anthropogenic warming. Thus, the global warming caused by ... -
Governance of Assisted Living in Singapore: Lessons for Aging Countries
(2022-06-14)
A global trend toward aging populations means that the challenge of providing adequate long-term care to older people looms large in many countries. In Singapore, a public discourse revolving around the expansion of assisted living to create age-friendly environments in long-term care has emerged. This study examines Singapore's experience in developing regulations for assisted living by documenting the different levels of regulation in place and by identifying the regulatory gaps remaining to govern assisted living. Anchoring in a conceptual ... -
Group inequality and intersectionality
(E-Bulletin of the Human Development & Capability Association, 2014-07) -
Growing gap between richest and poorest Thais
(the ASEAN Post, 2019-10-25)