This module advances SDG3 Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG 10 Reducing Inequalities by providing an overview of the issues in assessment of achievement and specific learning disability.
Deforestation in Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land increased 654% between 2018 and 2019. 94% of Ituna/Itatá has been claimed in the Brazilian Rural Environmental Registry. Belo Monte dam and Belo Sun mining project cause land speculation in Ituna/Itatá. Brazilian government policies threaten forest protection and indigenous peoples. Unilateral land tenure regulation would obstruct Indigenous Lands demarcation.
Elsevier,

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 98, September 2021

Explores how using Australian First Nations methodology in road safety education could reduce the very high rate of road traffic injuries and deaths among First Nations people.
The paper examines the prevalence and patterns of honour-based violence and oppression by documenting and analysing self-reported experiences among youth in contemporary metropolitan Sweden.
Within many countries, the policies of disability and old age have been developing on distinct paths.
Children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) often have language difficulties.
Elsevier, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Volume 84, September 2021
An important aspect of the transnational lives of Polish migrants in the Netherlands is their frequent use of healthcare services in Poland.
Elsevier,

The Neurobiology of Aging and Alzheimer Disease in Down Syndrome, 2022, Pages 251-272

The neurological contributions to the consensus diagnosis for the presence of dementia in DS rest on characterization of the nature, magnitude, and the course of cognitive decline. The goal of SDG target 3.8 is to achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
Elsevier,

Trends in Molecular Medicine, Volume 27, September 2021

Race-based assumptions in biomedical journal articles.
Elsevier,

The Lancet Public Health, Volume 6, September 2021

This Comment supports SDGs 3 and 10 by discussing the UK's reliance on digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although a digital-first policy aims to reduce health inequalities, challenges such as low usage of the internet and low uptake of digital COVID-19 technologies among older, minority ethnic groups, could mean that the strategy instead reinforces the unequal effects of COVID-19.

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