A project exploring the recruitment experiences of people with disability led to a trial that significantly increased disability awareness training. Here are the lessons that might help other organisations seeking to enhance diversity and inclusion initiatives.
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This social science project identified what stops people from voluntarily signing up to free rehabilitation programs. These results may help other community programs to improve their services.
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A new study finds that there are wide discrepancies in the mental health outcomes of young people living in rural and urban areas.
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A study of 22,600 Americans finds that women are more likely to experience mental health issues within workplaces that pay women less than their male counterparts. The study is published in Social Science and Medicine. Continue reading Pay Gap Increases Mental Health Issues for Women
This week’s social science quote comes from Gabor Mate who is a physician, but he specialises in mind-body wellbeing.
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How can you better address the experience of stress and work? Research shows that stress comes from many sources, but the cumulative effect can lead to chronic illness.
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Your Social Science Snack for the week is about using social science to become more aware about mental wellbeing.
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Child psychologist, Tim Murphy, tells USA Today:
Continue reading ““Mental Health is a Separate but Unequal System””“The federal government has set so many barriers to getting care, which they have done with no other type of illness, and it is wrong. There is no other area of medicine where the government is the source of the stigma.”
Workplace Stigma of Mental Illness
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Western societies have dramatically changed the way we see ageing. Getting older once meant prestige: a special status and social influence within a community. This has declined in modern times, as societies became increasingly obsessed with youth. As advanced societies face an increasingly older age structure, we have started to look for social policy solutions to improve “positive ageing.”
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