Social risks

Endometrial cancer is one of the most common types of cancer that affects women’s reproductive system. The risk of endometrial cancer is associated with biologic, behavioral and social determinants of health (SDOH).

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LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or intersex) communities are increasingly recognized as a vulnerable and high-risk population in oncology. LGBTQI cancer carers, including carers who are LGBTQI and other carers of LGBTQI people, experience many of the same stressors as LGBTQI patients but their support needs are often overlooked in the cancer literature.

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The relationship between work and health is complex and bidirectional, where work can have both health-harming and health-enhancing effects. Though employment is recognized as a social determinants of health, and clinical healthcare delivery systems are increasingly using screening tools to ask patients about social needs, little research has explored the extent to which employment-related social risk is captured in these screening tools.

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Veterans who need post-acute home health care (HHC) are at risk for adverse outcomes and unmet social needs. Veterans’ social needs could be identified and met by community-based HHC clinicians due to their unique perspective from the home environment, acuity of Veterans they serve, and access to Veterans receiving community care.

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Along with the social and economic challenges posed by an aging society, creating work conditions that allow persons to stay healthy and work into old age has become a major task of Western societies. Retaining employment after returning to work is particularly difficult for individuals with a disability, as evidenced by the high rate of premature labor market dropout.

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Enrolment of informal sector workers in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is critical to achieving increased risk-pooling and attainment of Universal Health Coverage. However, the NHIS has struggled over the years to improve enrolment of this subpopulation. This study analysed effects of social capital on enrolment of informal sector workers in the NHIS.

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Part 1 of ebook "Factors driving social network site usage" provides readers with contents including: introduction; hedonic and utilitarian motivations of social network site usage; the influence of perceived belonging on social network site usage; risk hurts fun, the influence of perceived privacy risk on social network site usage;...

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Vietnam has proactively implemented many solutions to manage the State budget reasonably and effectively, contributing to curbing inflation and promoting the country’s economic growth and development. However, the implementation process is also facing some challenges and risks. The article offers a number of recommendations to improve management of the State budget balancing in order to contribute to stimulating growth, curbing inflation, and achieving equality and social progress.

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This new edition of John Hannigan's well-known and respected text has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent conceptual and empirical advances in environmental sociology. The book offers a distinctive and even-handed treatment of environmental issues and debates, integrating European theoretical contributions such as risk society and ecological modernization with North American empirical insights and findings.

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Ebook "Handbook of climate change adaptation" addresses the scientific, social, political and cultural aspects of climate change in an integrated and coherent way. The multi-volume reference focuses on one of the key aspects of climate change: adaptation and how to handle its impacts on physical, biotic and human systems, analyzing the social and normative scientific concerns and presenting the tools, approaches and methods aimed at management of climate change impacts.

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Due to international migration, a large number of workplaces are becoming linguistically diverse. This creates challenges for the workplace integration of immigrants and increases the risk of their social exclusion. A systematic review was conducted to determine the effects of linguistic diversity on social integration of immigrants within the workplace.

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This paper adopts an analytical approach to examine residents’ tolerance of the effects of mining in Ijero Local Government in Ekiti State, southwestern Nigeria. Quantitative responses from a systematic sampling of 506 residents are presented with an emphasis on risk perception and management measures.

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The current study aims to assess the role of control mechanism in supply chain management and quality performance of the firms. For this purpose, the current study examines the impact of two control mechanisms named as “formal control” and “social control” on the internal supply chain management (SCM) of the firm. Furthermore, the current study investigates the influence caused by internal SCM on quality performance of the firm. To accomplish the objectives of the current study. The data was collected from 294 manufacturers of Thailand through questionnaire based survey study.

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Today’s globalised world is well aware that the logistics in fossil fuel industry enables it to be the main contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that cause global warming and climate change. Negative public opinion about the oil and gas industry is rising globally. A growing number of societies are proficient at varying public opinion about oil and gas industry emissions. In this context, oil and gas companies have begun to substantially invest in renewable energy sources in a bid to diversify their oil and gas product portfolios to mitigate climate change risks.

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By moving from the "integrated" to the "dynamic" supply chain model, businesses may see their supply chains as flexible ecosystems of people, processes, capital assets, technology, and data. In the rapidly evolving corporate world, effective supply chain management (SCM) is a critical issue. Dynamic SCM necessitates good decision information synchronization and integrated decision-making among autonomous chain partners.

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The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for pursuing global entrepreneurship where supply chain management can often serve as a platform for resource acquisition, market development, and risk mitigation. In this research the organizational and economic features of the development and implementation of integrated supply chain and social entrepreneurship projects studied.

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Clinical use of polygenic risk scores (PRS) will look very different to the more familiar monogenic testing. Here we argue that despite these differences, most of the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) raised in the monogenic setting, such as the relevance of results to family members, the approach to secondary and incidental findings, and the role of expert mediators, continue to be relevant in the polygenic context, albeit in modified form.

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This study aims to examine the impact of the supply chain strategies on company risk in the emerging market, Indonesia. The samples of this study are companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2018. According to the sampling procedure, there were 458 companies that employed corporate social responsibility during this period.

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This paper investigates the effect of the board quality on risk reporting in specific social and cultural context of Saudi Arabia for a sample of 423 company-year observations over the period 2015-2018. The paper utilizes a comprehensive risk reporting index and self-constructed index of board quality to measure the main variables. Using pooled OLS regression models, our results suggest that there is a positive and significant relationship between the quality of the board of directors and risk reporting in Saudi non-financial firms.

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Over the decade, the level of risk management has always been lingering in every construction industry sectors. Therefore, this research deeply investigated the level of risk management among Kuantan Malaysian construction industries to better promote effectiveness on risk management implementation within the industry. To address this issues, this study makes use of statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) approach to validate construction risk management (CRM) as a construct from registered Grade-7 contractors operating in Malaysia point of view.

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