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New York, NY—Nate Link, M.D. just received the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in the Political category for his ground-breaking and controversial book, The Ailing Nation: Lessons from the Bedside for America’s Leaders. Chief Medical Officer at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, Dr. Link has picked up three awards, in
Often intervention strategies in SA schools rely on psychological interventions - but violence is rooted in both individual and broader social and economic conditions in which children are located, researchers found.
Few things in our society ever get questioned. We get caught in its cogwheels in such a way that we don’t realize that our expectations, attitudes, and ideas about how things should be get distorted. And when it comes to women, unwanted things and unpleasant experiences they have to go through are often so normalized, nobody makes a big deal out of it. You stop for a sec and wonder ‘how on earth did this happen?’ This exact discussion was sparked when one redditor asked women on Ask Reddit “What is something that women experience and is seen as 'normal' but is actually very wrong, and...
More than half of Estonian citizens are unhappy with the way Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has handled the coronavirus crisis, compared with 38 percent who are satisfied, a new study has found. The survey was carried out by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and pollster Norstat and involved 500 people. The coronavirus infection rate has been growing rapidly in Estonia since February and on March 8 the government agreed to establish restrictions similar to those enforced in spring 2020 during the emergency situation. After the rules came into effect, the Institute for the Study of So...
0"> Ülemiste Keskus shopping mall in Tallinn, on Monday morning, following the lifting of restrictions which had kept most businesses closed since late March. Source: Anna Aurelia Minev/ERR Sixty percent of Estonian citizens find the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic below par, while 73 percent believe stricter restrictions are needed, according to a recent survey. The survey, conducted earlier this week by pollsters Norstat on behalf of conservative think-tank the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (MTÜ Ühiskonnauuringute Instituut), came aft...