Active transportation is associated with lower obesity risk: generalized structural equations model applied to physical activity by Fabian Leonardo Muñoz, Sonia Alejandra Pou, Humberto Llinas Solano, María del Pilar Diaz

“…This suggests that active transportation may be a crucial factor in the designing preventive interventions. Moreover, social inequalities may be contributing to the obesity epidemic and physical activity behaviors in Colombia, requiring equitable and multisectoral responses.…”
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The Social Well-Being Issues of the European Urbanisation Stages and the Possibilities of their Management by the Creation of Spatial Configurations by Viktória Szirmai

“…A variety of social problems, the traditional and new structures of local social inequalities, the historical and present day poverty, traditional and modern crime, environmental problems are all present. …”
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Multi-objective optimization of water resources allocation in rift valley lakes basin (Ethiopia): tradeoffs between efficiency and equity by Mulugeta Mohammed, Belete Birhanu, Fentaw Abegaz

“…Current water allocation practices often prioritize short-term economic gains, leading to over-extraction and inefficient water use, exacerbating social inequities and environmental degradation. This study introduces a multi-objective optimization framework using the Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) to balance economic efficiency, equity, and environmental sustainability in water allocation. …”
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Making Hidden Sustainable Urban Planning and Landscape Knowledge Visual and Multisensorial by Carlos J. L. Balsas

“…This paper analyzes how four educational and research programs implemented at the University at Albany built upon visual and multisensorial research methods to augment educational outcomes, bolster scholarly significance, and provide up-to-date knowledge to empower concerned stakeholders to help change unsustainable urbanization practices, social inequities and injustices in cities, car dependence and sedentary lifestyles, protect natural resources and livelihoods, while reducing environmental and social harm. …”
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GLOBALISATION AND THE PERPETUITY OF POVERTY IN THE CONTEMPORARY SECURITY ENVIRONMENT by Rodica LISEANU

“…The phenomenon of poverty is multifaceted, continuous and very complex, incorporating vulnerabilities, risks and social inequalities, ranging from lack of income to provide food, adequate housing for individual needs, decent or good living conditions, to limited access to basic services or needs to fulfil potential. …”
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among marginalized populations in the U.S. and Canada: Protocol for a scoping review. by Peter A Newman, Luke Reid, Suchon Tepjan, Sophia Fantus, Kate Allan, Thabani Nyoni, Adrian Guta, Charmaine C Williams

“…Notably, marginalization produces structural and social inequalities that render certain populations disproportionately vulnerable to COVID-19 incidence, morbidity, and mortality, and less likely to be vaccinated. …”
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Assessing urban quality of life using remote sensing and GIS (Case study: Urmia Urban Region) by ali khedmatzadeh, Bakhtaran Feizizadeh

“…The existence of spatial and spatial inequalities in the city has caused many problems, including the weakness of resources, inappropriate housing, the problems and damage caused by social inequalities, and undermined the quality of life. …”
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Acceptability of the social uses of the COVID-19 screening test among women in southern Benin by Mingnimon A. Affo

“…Conclusion: Insufficient consideration of local contexts around health emergencies, infodemia and social inequalities in health have contributed to aversion to the COVID-19 screening test. …”
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Reconstructing the professional identity of compulsory secondary education teachers in curricular sustainability by María Rosario Mendoza Carretero, Belén Sáenz Rico de Santiago

“…The results of a descriptive and inferential analysis showed that the participating teachers try to respond to the challenges of the 21st century (such as social inequalities, pollution and degradation of ecosystems, depletion and destruction of vital resources, etc.), but do not approach them from the necessary interdisciplinary and complex perspective, instead largely covering the environmental dimension. …”
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பாரதியாரின் பார்வையில் கல்வி / Education in the Viewpoint of Bharathiyar by முனைவர் பா. விக்னேஷ்குமார் / Dr. P. Vignesh Kumar

“…Ultimately, teaching methods and educational approaches have evolved, yet the need for quality education remains essential in addressing social inequalities. Many scholars have emphasized the significance of education. …”
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Clinical Sociology and Community Interventions by Sara Cumming, DiSanto Julianne, Leah Burton-Saliba, Chloe Shackelton, Joel McLeod

“…Adopting a clinical sociological and community-engaged research approach, our findings emphasize the importance of recognizing that essential life skills are diverse and shaped by the larger social, political, and economic context, such as social inequities. Notably, social justice is identified as a crucial life skill, uncovering the intersectionalities that shape individuals' lives and that must be integrated into life skills programming. …”
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Characterizing the medical and social complexity experienced by Inuit children and their families from Nunavut who access care at an urban Canadian tertiary level paediatric hospit... by Yipeng Ge, Amanda Mills, Victoria McCann, Sara Trincao-Batra, Deepti Reddy, Dennis Newhook, Richard J. Webster, Stephanie Sutherland, Melissa Weber, Radha Jetty

“…A dedicated interdisciplinary team approach focused on integrative care could be an effective method to improve communication and collaboration between service providers and with Inuit children and their families to reduce systemic health and social inequities.…”
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Welfare state, social policy and social sustainability, within the context of the permacrisis by Nikos Papadakis, Stylianos Ioannis Tzagkarakis

“…In Europe as well as globally, addressing these issues is of major importance in order to ensure social sustainability, given that the permacrisis (multiple crises), along with the Mega-Trends have a clear impact on the structure of economy and labor market, industrial relations systems, and business models.MethodsThe present paper analyses the state of play of social sustainability in Europe and aims to identify specific policy responses that could offer viable solutions to old and emerging challenges in terms of social inclusion through the examination of secondary quantitative data.ResultsThe permacrisis era, along with the Mega-Trends that are taking place and seem to gradually have a clear impact on the structure of economy and labor market, substantially affecting every aspect of society, since social inequalities have the tendency to interrelate and getting reproduced.DiscussionThere is a need for knowledge-based and evidence-informed policy making, both in terms of policy design and implementation, for a true and actual sustainable (as well as inclusive) development, within momentous times.…”
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A Critical Review of Social Exclusion and Inclusion among Immigrant and Refugee Women by J. Crawford, N. Kapisavanhu, J. Moore, C. Crawford, T. Lundy

“…Social exclusion as a determinant of health reflects the social inequalities of some groups in a population over others. …”
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COVID-19 and the Black Death: Nutrition, frailty, inequity, and mortality by Katherine D. VAN SCHAIK, Sharon N. DeWITTE

“…Introduction: COVID-19 has challenged governments, healthcare systems, and individuals, drawing at- tention to the limits of modern technology and the extent of social inequity. Such challenges have directed attention to historical epidemics as repositories of data that could contribute to effective public health stra- tegies and prognostic modeling. …”
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Nutrition and diet in the general U.S. Asian American population: A scoping review protocol. by Sze Wan Chan, Gregory Laynor, Shahmir H Ali, Stella S Yi

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Asian American populations face unique structural/social inequities contributing to poor diet quality and health disparities. …”
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Endogenous economic growth from the perspective of Islamic economic doctrine by Qasemi Abdulkhaliq, Tavakkoli Mohammad Javad

“…This paradigm has imposed many crises and challenges, such as poverty, economic and social inequalities, political and social tensions, and environmental crises on the peripheral countries. …”
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A espacialização da violência criminal na cidade de Santa Maria, RS by Eliane Melara

“…Thus, in this study, there was a need to question: the data sources researched, the reason for the differentiated occurrence of crimes in the neighborhoods, possible victims and aggressors, why some crimes had bigger visibility than others, what is the relationship with the social inequalities, what is the analysis about white-collar crimes, etc. …”
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Neural mechanisms of fairness decision-making: An EEG comparative study on opportunity equity and outcome equity by Qi Li, Ya Zheng, Jing Xiao, Kesong Hu, Zhong Yang

“…These results not only validate and expand the theory of inequality aversion but also empirically support the targeted resolution of social inequalities in various contexts.…”
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“I think people have been in survival mode”: a qualitative study of community connectivity in a neighbourhood of North East England before and during COVID-19 by Mandy Cheetham, Alice Wiseman, Stephen Ward, Sarah Gorman, Fiona Pollard

“…Relational, values-informed work with communities provided a platform to mobilise recovery assets.Conclusions Whole-system approaches, codesigned with communities most affected, can help address the long-term consequences of COVID-19 and its negative effects on health and social inequalities. Further comparative implementation research is needed to examine the partnerships, values and principles that drive success and inclusion.…”
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