Qualitative focus group study investigating experiences of accessing and engaging with social care services: perspectives of carers from diverse ethnic groups caring for stroke sur... by Geoffrey Cloud, Nan Greenwood, Jess Holley, Theresa Ellmers, Gill Mein

“…Data were analysed thematically focusing on similarities and differences between ethnic groups.Setting Carers were recruited from voluntary sector organisations supporting carers, stroke survivors and black and minority ethnic groups in the UK.Participants 41 carers from 5 ethnic groups (Asian Indian, Asian Pakistani, black African, black Caribbean, white British) participated in the focus groups.Results Several interconnected themes were identified including: the service gap between hospital discharge and home; carers as the best person to care and cultural aspects of caring and using services. …”
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A comparison of development methods used to define portion sizes in food-based dietary guidelines around the world by Fanny Salesse, Fanny Salesse, Alison L. Eldridge, Tsz Ning Mak, Eileen R. Gibney, Eileen R. Gibney

“…Despite existing guidelines on developing and implementing FBDGs, there is still no consensus on best practices for their formulation. This paper compares the methodologies used by public health organizations to create FBDGs and examines how both methodology and geographical location may influence recommended portion sizes.MethodsDocuments on FBDG development were obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization online repository of FBDGs, either directly from consumer-facing FBDG or from corresponding scientific reports. …”
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Paper versus Practice : Occupational Health and Safety Protections and Realities for Temporary Foreign Agricultural Workers in Ontario by Janet McLaughlin, Jenna Hennebry, Ted Haines

“…Over 20,000 temporary foreign agricultural workers come to Ontario each year, primarily from Mexico and the Caribbean. Agricultural workers are exposed to a number of occupational health and safety (OHS) risks. …”
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L’écart entre la théorie et la pratique : les protections en santé et en sécurité au travail et la réalité de la main-d’œuvre étrangère temporaire du domaine agricole en Ontario... by Janet McLaughlin, Jenna Hennebry, Ted Haines

“…Over 20,000 temporary foreign agricultural workers come to Ontario each year, primarily from Mexico and the Caribbean. Agricultural workers are exposed to a number of occupational health and safety (OHS) risks. …”
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De la conservation conflictuelle à l'aménagement durable : le paysage et la biodiversité saisis par le droit by Jean-Marie Breton

“…French law has belatedly interested in nature protection and conservation of the environment, through a legal process that has only gradually distinguished from the traditional legal disciplines, to endly differ significantly, while remaining largely in relation with them.The impact of the law upon the environmental issues and the formulation of normative responses to it answered the need for building and implementation of instruments fitting the objectives of protection both understood and interpreted by reference to a social vision of natural heritage, and adequate to the socio-cultural (with a wide identity dimension in the Caribbeans and Guyanas) of his apprehension by people as by developers and managers.Diachronic construction of relevant legal protection, particularly in terms of sustainability, exceeded the only normative approach in favor of the recognition of a real right to the environment, through its legislative and constitutional components. …”
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