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About 6% of American adults have a serious mental health condition. Dmitrii Marchenko/Moment Collection via Getty Images

Philadelphians with mental illness want to work, pray, date and socialize just like everyone else – here’s how creating more inclusive communities is good for public health

Creating inclusive communities means not just offering services to people with serious mental illness, but changing negative beliefs and behaviors toward them.
A project in Lenore, Pakistan aimed to break barriers that excluded children with disabilities from participating in sports and addressed the lack of sporting opportunities for them. (Shutterstock)

The success of an adaptive sport program in Pakistan has lessons for inclusivity in Canada

By adopting the lessons from this initiative, Canadian sports programs can enhance their inclusivity and provide better opportunities for children with autism to participate and thrive in sports.
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The downside of digital transformation: why organisations must allow for those who can’t or won’t move online

Research shows a significant number of people still struggle with the digital transformation of government and business. But throwing more technology at the problem is not necessarily the answer.
Improving death-friendliness offers further opportunity to improve social inclusion. A death-friendly approach could lay the groundwork for people to stop fearing getting old or alienating those who have. (Shutterstock)

Death‑friendly communities ease fear of aging and dying

Death-friendly communities that welcome mortality might help us live better lives and provide better care for people at the end of their lives.
Argentina’s president-elect, Alberto Fernández (right), with his running mate, former president and first lady Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Reuters/Agustin Marcarian

Argentina elects new president on promises to fix economy and unify a struggling nation

Argentina has voted for change. Alberto Fernández, a 60-year-old lawyer, defeated President Mauricio Macri with a campaign emphasizing economic recovery, social inclusion and national unity.

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