Introduction to Anthropology and The Public Good: Environment, Health Care and Diversity

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Jayne Howell ◽  
Ronald Loewe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
State University ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Western Washington ◽  
Good Environment ◽  
Washington University

In this, the penultimate issue of the Howell/Loewe editorship, we pause to welcome Professor Anita Puckett of Virginia Tech as the incoming editor of Practicing Anthropology. Dr. Puckett will assist us in the production of our final issue and will assume the helm of Practicing Anthropology for the Spring 2012 issue. Our next and final issue will be a themed issue focusing on Mayas living in the Diaspora. It will be guest edited by James Loucky, a professor of anthropology at Western Washington University at Bellingham, and Alan LeBaron, a professor of Latin American History at Kennesaw State University.

scholarly journals Protecting the Public's Health Following the Virginia Tech Tragedy: Issues of Law and Policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. S43-S46
Author(s):  
James G. Hodge
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Tech ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
State University ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Legal Responses ◽  
Gun Laws ◽  
Virginia Tech Tragedy

ABSTRACTAssessing legal responsibility in the aftermath of the April 2007 tragedy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) is inevitable. Beyond assigning blame, law- and policymakers should examine ways to protect the public from future incidences of gun violence on campuses and other settings. Although no combination of legal responses may fully deter individuals who are intent on causing significant harm, select legal reforms have the potential to prevent future acts of gun violence. These reforms include considering more restrictive gun laws nationally, reporting individuals with known mental impairments that may endanger themselves or others to federal or state databases, and refining laws that limit institutions from acting in advance to address prospectively dangerous people. Each of these reforms has the potential to reduce acts of gun violence to improve the public's health, but also implicates individual rights and interests. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2007;1(Suppl 1):S43–S46)

scholarly journals Unpaid Health Care Work: A Gender Equality Perspective

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Unpaid Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Care Work ◽  
Care Models

A debate on public goods is urgently needed in health care. Care must be recognized as a social function, as an occupation and, at the same time, as a human right—which imposes binding obligations to comply with precise standards of quality, quantity, suitability, adaptability, and accessibility, among others. It is a complex and invisible task, that may be done as part of a medical treatment, post-surgical recovery process, or permanent support in cases of chronic illness, disability, or mental health conditions. And it tends to be provided mainly in the home, by women, without remuneration. In Latin America, care has not been included in a coordinated and specific public health policy agenda but has been advanced through isolated actions—in many cases highly fragmented and heterogeneous—without a clear awareness of the public nature of care and the associated responsibility of the State. Accordingly, this document takes a gender and rights-based approach. It starts with an analysis of the main definitions of unpaid work in the health sector, and then focuses on initiatives in three Latin American countries (Colombia, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) with regard to measurement, valuation, integration, and recognition in national health systems or policies, in care models, and in time-use surveys. The conclusions propose recommendations aimed at addressing unpaid care as an essential element of social policies in general, and health policies in particular, from a gender and rights-based perspective.

A comparative analysis of banking institutions: examining quiet life

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 726-743
Author(s):  
Mine Aysen Doyran ◽  
Zachary Roman Santamaria
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Bank Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Banking Institutions

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the performance of banking institutions in Costa Rica over the period 2004–2014. Design/methodology/approach This paper employs system GMM, dynamic panel data and traditional financial hypothesis framework to analyze bank performance and assess marketplace sustainability for a sample of commercial and cooperative banks from Costa Rica. In the assessment, the authors visit the relative market power, structure conduct performance (SCP) and efficient structure literature. Findings Market share (MS) is positively related to performance whereas the authors find a negative effect of market concentration (Herfindahl–Hirschman index) on bank profits, thereby refuting the SCP hypothesis. The authors accept the “quiet life” hypothesis within Costa Rican banks since a moderate level of profit persistence is detected. Commercial banks are less profitable. Yet when crisis is introduced to the models, it has a significant and negative impact on overall bank performance. Research limitations/implications The authors selected years and banks based on available data plus default information in the relevant database. More insights can be gained from post-2014 developments. Practical implications The current results and conclusions have implications for developing economies (and economic development, in general) by showing that the traditional understanding of cooperative bank model as better for the public good may not be necessarily true. They offer insight into the understanding of how different bank-type institutions affect the public good. Furthermore, expanding the research to Latin America in order to directly compare commercial and cooperative enterprises via a meta-frontier technique would help buttress this evidence. Originality/value This is the most recent study to provide such an investigation for a Latin American country with a sizable MS for cooperative and public sector banks. The paper offers analysis that has been limited in Latin American banking markets thus far.

Digital Resources: Housing and Urban Development in Latin American History

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Yee
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rich History

Beginning in the 1880s, the modern foundations for architecture as a profession and academic discipline were established in Latin America’s major cities. Soon thereafter, urban planning (urbanismo) began to emerge as a distinct discipline in a period of scientific and technological innovation. This rich history has been compiled, digitized, and made available to the public by two key institutions: the Facultad de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (FA-UNAM) in Mexico and the Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo of the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina (FADU). Collectively, these two digital projects contain a wealth of information for scholars to research the cultural and intellectual histories of cities in both Argentina and Mexico. The primary resources available on both platforms provide valuable insights into how Latin America’s leading architects and planners analyzed, debated, and envisioned urban life in the 20th century.

The Mad Cow Crisis: Health Care and the Public Good

1998 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Eliot A. Cohen ◽  
Scott C. Ratzan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Good ◽  
The Public
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