Primary health care is globally recognised as a key component of health systems. Its commitment to achieving social justice and addressing the social determinants of health is seen as a way to reduce social and health inequalities. As members of primary health care teams, social work professionals place the principle of social justice at the core o...
Schools’ sex composition and gender role attitudes are often overlooked in teachers’ self-efficacy studies, while research suggests that gender role attitudes may color teachers’ perceptions of students. This study investigates the association of schools’ sex composition and teachers’ gender role attitudes with teachers’ self-efficacy in instructio...
Teacher educators play a crucial part in preparing student teachers for teaching in diversity. Because of their modelling role, they automatically convey messages about approaching diversity via their practices. In this study, we look into these-often hidden-messages of teacher educators to uncover the discourses that inform and are being reproduce...
status: published
Published in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Several studies have shown socioeconomic inequalities in psychotropic medication use, but most of these studies are inspired by Andersen's behavioural model of health care use, which strongly focusses on individuals' needs. Andersen's model pays little attention to health care use that is not based on need and insubstantially recognises the context...
BackgroundOne of the major goals of health systems is providing a financing strategy without inequality; this has a significant impact on people's access to healthcare. The present study aimed to investigate the inequality in households' financial contribution (HFC) to health expenditure both before and after the implementation of the Iranian Healt...
PurposeFemale representation at scientific conferences is crucial for encouraging women pursuing an academic career. Nevertheless, gender inequity at urological conferences is common place and women are often stereotyped choosing functional urology. However, there is no evidence whether female representation is higher in functional urology. This in...
status: published
Sports contexts are increasingly used in management research to test and develop theory and explore managerially relevant phenomena. This growth in publications is likely driven by a series of advantages that sports data confers to management researchers. However, such positive features are not a panacea, as several drawbacks are also associated wi...
There is a contradiction of intensive national policy efforts and the slow pace of change in widening participation in England. This paper focuses on the use of contextual data in STEM subjects, where there has been less progress in widening access and a more rigid entry pathway through A-level study. Interviews with admissions tutors suggest a nar...
