Investigating Health Selection Within Mexico and Across the US Border

Despite acquiring lower levels of attainment and earnings, Mexican immigrants exhibit favorable health outcomes relative to their native-born counterparts. And while scholars attempt to reconcile this so-called paradoxical relationship with a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches, patterns of selective migration continue to receive considerable attention. The present study contributes to the literature on health selection by extending the healthy migrant hypothesis in a number of ways. First, we rely on a unique combination of datasets to assess whether the healthy are disproportionately more likely to migrate. We use the latest wave of the Mexican Family Life Survey and the 2013 Migrante Study, a survey that is representative of Mexican-born persons who are actively migrating through Tijuana. Pooling these data also allow us to differentiate between internal and US-bound migrants to shed light on their respective health profiles. Results provide modest support for the healthy migrant hypothesis. Although those who report better overall health are more likely to migrate, we find that the presence of certain chronic conditions increases migration risk. Our findings also suggest that internal migrants are healthier than those traveling to the US, though this is largely because those moving within Mexico reflect a younger and more educated population. This study takes an important step in uncovering variation across migrant flows and highlights the importance of the timing at which health is measured in the migration process.     

Barriers children face complaining about social work practice: A study in one English local authority

Despite the introduction of guidelines and procedures aimed at encouraging and supporting children and young people to complain about the services they receive, children in care still face barriers to doing so in practice. This paper explores what happens when children in care are dissatisfied with the services they receive. Specifically, this study examines the complaints procedure for children in care. The findings are based on semistructured interviews with children in care, social workers, senior managers, and independent reviewing officers from one English local authority. Thematic analysis of these data identified five emergent themes: (a) complaints by children in care are managed at the lowest possible level, (b) senior managers have an overly optimistic view about children in care being informed of complaint procedures and being encouraged to do so, (c) children in care are worried about complaining, which is recognized by professionals, (d) children's voices are often not heard, and (e) when issues are clearly defined, independent reviewing officers have some degree of success in resolving complaints from children in care.     

What Prompts Policy Change? Comparative Analyses of Efforts to Create Age-Friendly Cities in 14 Cities in Indonesia

Four years after an age-friendly city (AFC) assessment across Indonesia, this article presents a comparative analysis of policy changes that have taken place across different AFC dimensions and factors associated with more and less change. Nine of fourteen cities initiated changes, ranging from public declarations, regulations, and creation or expansion of services. Our findings suggest that the AFC assessment can offer a means to engage policy makers, which in turn may facilitate city-level change, particularly for larger cities with more substantive budgets and more consolidated rather than dispersed leadership; however, no single factor represented a sufficient or necessary condition for change.     

Widening the gap: White ignorance,race relations and the consequences for Aboriginal people in Australia

White ignorance has a critical impact on race relations and is implicated in the maintenance of Aboriginal disadvantage. Addressing this ignorance is a largely overlooked capacity-building opportunity within Australia's non-Aboriginal population. It warrants consideration as a key component of strategies targeting Aboriginal disadvantage. Despite the established links between race relations and Aboriginal well-being, Aboriginal perspectives on non-Aboriginal people rarely feature in public discourse on “Aboriginal problems.” This paper draws on data from 180 in-depth interviews with 44 Aboriginal people in Darwin on the topic of White Australian people, culture and race relations. It reports Aboriginal perceptions of White Australian ignorance across areas of great symbolic and practical significance to Aboriginal people's lives. Their experience is that most White Australians are ignorant of the history of colonisation and the complexities of its aftermath. They are ignorant of Aboriginal law, cultures and languages, and of the extent of their own ignorance. The call to address White ignorance subverts assumptions about whose ignorance and capacity must be dealt with in order to progress national goals of reconciliation, address Aboriginal disadvantage and achieve justice and equality for Aboriginal people.     

近几年我国宏观经济调控实践的回顾与总结

十六大以来,党中央、国务院非常重视宏观调控的作用。从2003年开始,党中央、国务院见微知著,针对经济生活中一些苗头性、倾向性问题,陆续采取了一系列调控措施。在探索与创新过程中,党和政府积累了丰富的宏观调控的经验,宏观调控能力日益增强。在科学发展观的引领下,我们一定能够战胜各种风险和挑战,使我国宏观经济在良性发展轨道上运行。     

共同富裕:基于唯物史观的考察

实现共同富裕是全面建设小康社会的重要目标和社会主义本质的内在要求。人类社会历史与逻辑的演进历程表明:一定意义上,按劳动能力分配是人类社会内在分配原则;当前业已突显的贫富差距是社会发展阶段性的必然产物;共同富裕的实现是以劳动能力同等为基点的,而劳动能力同等和共同富裕二者的实现统一于社会主义市场经济发展过程中。     

二元经济社会结构与中国农村发展

中华人民和国成立以后,国家选择了重工业超前发展战略。为保证这一战略实施,国家采取了农产品统购统销、城乡分割的户籍制度和人民公社制度等政策和体制手段,人为地促成了城乡经济社会二元化的格局。二元经济社会结构阻碍了农业的发展,影响了农业劳动生产率的提高,使农民收入长期在低水平徘徊,妨碍了农民整体素质的提高。二元经济社会结构下农民承担了巨额的工农业产品价格剪刀差负担、不公正的税费负担和公共物品负担。这一切都导致了中国农村发展的滞后。中共十六届五中全会提出了建设社会主义新农村的重大历史任务,十七大进一步强调推进社会主义新农村建设。在社会主义新农村建设过程中,消除二元结构,统筹城乡发展,是科学发展共建和谐之必然。     

材料科学与工程专业应用型人才培养的思考

论述了应用型材料科学与工程专业建设的指导思想,分析说明了应用型材料专业人才培养规格的基本要求和培养体系的构建模式。指出应用型材料专业建设首先应该是应用型工程教育,并要注重通识教育、创业创新教育、材料工程伦理教育和产学研合作教育等。     

商业信用原则在我国商法中的缺失及补正

商业信用原则是商法的核心原则之一。目前我国商法中把商业信用原则与普通法中的诚实信用原则混为一谈,这不仅是错位,而且还"串味"。在现代市场经济条件下的信用制度主要是商业信用和银行信用。它们都是制度性的安排,不单是道德伦理性的软约束。     

试论甘肃旅游产业组织的发展

甘肃省旅游产业正经历由量的发展到质的跨越的重要时期。文章就甘肃省旅游产业组织的发展进行了探讨,分析了甘肃旅游产业组织发展的现状、所面临的问题及问题成因,并就此提出了相应的发展措施。