https://www.pioneerpublisher.com/jrssh/issue/feed 2025-10-29T09:49:31+00:00 pioneerpublisher office@pioneerpublisher.com Open Journal Systems https://www.pioneerpublisher.com/jrssh/article/view/1463 2025-10-29T09:39:03+00:00 Goran Miladinov mnm@yeah.net

<p>Health inequalities persist among all countries in the world. These health inequalities are usually explained by health behaviors and social conditions in which people work and live. This paper aims to investigate the relative contribution of the social determinants to health inequalities in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries. Data from these three groups of countries was obtained from the UN and World Bank platforms. The VARSEL combinatorial technique was used to measure health inequalities through its proxy variable life expectancy at birth and the contribution of social determinants across the three groups of countries. The magnitude of the impact of social determinants on health inequalities varied considerably between countries. While poverty issues and unemployment were found to contribute to the explanation of life expectancy inequalities in low-income countries, educational and unemployment determinants emerged as the leading causes of life expectancy inequalities across middle-income countries and immigration together with the working conditions were mostly contributing determinants for high-income countries. The observed effects of different social determinants on health inequalities across the world point out that tackling health inequality should be a task that goes beyond focusing on a single social determinant.</p>

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<p>This paper takes Weng Ziguang’s work <em>Port of Call</em> as the research object, and comprehensively uses narrative and film sociology methods to systematically investigate the aesthetic and ideological connotations of the film in the aspects of “anti-suspense” and plate-based narrative, urban space representation and “loneliness” emotional generation, identity and social reflection, and genre film innovation. The article first defines the film’s chapter-like structure and subjective viewpoint system based on “looking for plums, lonely people, stepping on blood, and a room with a view of the scenery”, and points out that it shifts the audience’s attention from “the case” to “human feelings” through the anti-suspense strategy of “removing the mystery” at the beginning. Then, from the perspective of film sociology, it reveals the survival dilemma, viewing system and power relationship of urban marginalized people, and discusses the shaping mechanism of “identity loneliness”. In the genre research part, it is argued that <em>Port of Call </em>(《踏血寻梅》), <em>Night and Fog</em> (《天水围的雾与夜》) and <em>The Sparring Partner</em> (《正义回廊》) jointly promote the “New Hong Kong Strange Case Film” to complete the paradigm shift from sensory spectacle to humanistic reflection. Research shows that <em>Port of Call</em> connects individual ethics and social structure with cold realist brushstrokes, and achieves multiple breakthroughs in narrative, image and value in genre renewal.</p>

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