Communities in Action

Communities in Action

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 0309452961

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.


The Roma: a Minority in Europe

The Roma: a Minority in Europe

Author: Roni Stauber

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9789637326868

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The situation of the Roma in Europe, especially in the former communist states, is one of the more important human rights issues on the agenda of the international community, especially in the Euro-Atlantic bodies of integration. Within European states that have Roma populations there is a growing awareness that the matter must be confronted, and that there is a need for a concentrated effort to solve social problems and ease tensions between the Roma and the European nations among which they dwell. This volume is the result of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University in December 2002. The conference, one of the largest held among the academic community in the last decade, served as a unique forum for a multidisciplinary discussion on the past and present of the Roma in which both Roma and non-Roma scholars from various countries engaged.


Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the European Union

Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the European Union

Author: Tove H. Malloy

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-11-25

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 180037593X

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This timely Research Handbook provides a multidisciplinary overview of research on ethno-cultural minority issues at the supranational level of the EU. It delivers a state-of-the-art review of the EU’s approaches to development and institutional implementation of minority policies from the Treaty of Rome until today.


A Continent Moving West?

A Continent Moving West?

Author: Richard Black

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9089641564

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Dit boek beschrijft de toename van migratie uit Oost-europese landen in de periode van 2004-2007, na toetreding tot de EU. Het bevat nieuwe empirische 'casestudies' van migratiepatronen, zowel gebaseerd op veldwerk als op de analyse van bestaande statistieken.


Law and Governance in an Enlarged European Union

Law and Governance in an Enlarged European Union

Author: George A. Bermann

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2004-11-10

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1847310176

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This book's principal aim is to critically address the institutional and substantive legal issues resulting from European enlargement, chiefly those relating to the legal foundations on which the enlarged Union is being built. The accession of new Member States creates the potential for a stronger and more powerful Europe. Realising this potential, however, will depend on the ability of the EU to develop functional and effective governance structures, both at the European level and at the level of the individual Member States. While the acquis communautaire will ensure that formal laws in the new Member States will be aligned with those of existing members, the question remains as to how effective institutions will be in implementing changes, and what effects the imposed changes will have on the legitimacy of the new legal framework. This book, containing the work of leading scholars in law and social sciences, examines the current and future legal framework for EU governance, and the role that new members will - or will not - play in the creation of that framework, paying particular attention to the specific challenges membership in the EU poses to the acceding states of Central and Eastern Europe. It is a book which will contribute to and influence debates over constitutionalism and legal harmonisation in the EU.


Differing Diversities

Differing Diversities

Author: Andrea Ellmeier

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9287160244

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Cultural diversity, in all its forms, is posing a profound challenge to traditional cultural policy, and this shift from homogeneity to diversity requires a rethinking of the processes, mechanisms and relationships necessary for democratic policy development in culturally diverse societies. This report follows on from an earlier publication (2001, ISBN 9287146497) on the first phase of a transversal study on cultural diversity, focusing on the countries of East Central, South East and Eastern Europe, with national reports from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro.


Europe Unbound

Europe Unbound

Author: Jan Zielonka

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1134458460

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Europe Unbound provides an analysis of the enlargement of the European Union and examines from both a theoretical and a political approach issues such as: * Where does Europe end? * Should Europe's borders be open or closed? * How does the evolution of territorial politics impact on the course of European integration? This book draws upon such diverse fields as History, Sociology, Political Science and International Relations and contains contributions from an international range of respected academics.


European Constitutionalism Beyond the State

European Constitutionalism Beyond the State

Author: J. H. H. Weiler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780521796712

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Leading scholars of European constitutionalism highlight different facets of the constitutional discussion.