Zvika Orr

Bio: Zvika Orr is an academic researcher from Jerusalem College of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nurse education & Human rights. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 13 publications receiving 46 citations.

Beyond control: the criminalization of African asylum seekers in Israel

Abstract: This article analyzes the discursive process of criminalization of African asylum seekers in Israel. The Israeli case illuminates the way that marginalized social groups are constructed as a crimin...

The TOLERance Model for Promoting Structural Competency in Nursing

Abstract: Background Structural competency is the trained ability to recognize how social, political, economic, and legal structures shape diseases and symptoms. Although structural competency has become an increasingly accepted framework for training and teaching, it usually has not addressed nursing students and has not included marginalized patients as trainers. Method This article analyzes a structural competency training model for nursing students that includes five components: Theory, Observations, Learning from patients, Engagement, and Research (the TOLERance model). Results The TOLERance model increases the understanding of the interrelation between the individual clinical level and the sociopolitical structural level. It encourages nursing students to actively engage in social, political, and policy issues that affect their patients' health and to advocate for policy change. Conclusion The moral and professional commitment of nurses to their patients demands that they do not ignore the structural forces that are detrimental to their patients' health. The TOLERance model provides nursing students with skills and competencies that help them to fulfill this commitment. [J Nurs Educ. 2020;59(8):425-432.].

Structural Competency in Conflict Zones: Challenging Depoliticization in Israel:

Abstract: Structural competency is the trained ability to discern and acknowledge how health care outcomes are shaped by larger political, social, economic, policy, and legal forces and structures. Although ...

The challenges and dilemmas of local translators of human rights: The case of disability rights among Jewish ultra-Orthodox communities

Abstract: Translators of global liberal human rights ideas into religious conservative communities are intermediaries who occupy a liminal position. They are located at a complex crossroad of incompatible va...

Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice:

Abstract: ity between and within each country, the former allows the rich in both poor and rich countries to “intermingle” in the calculation of global inequality, which is then fully decomposable into the between and within country components. What the survey data show is that global inequality first increased between 1988 and 1993 and then decreased from 1993 to 1998, reflecting the stagnation of poor rural areas of China and India in the first period, and the slight catching up of poor rural areas in the second period. Furthermore, Milanovic shows that previous attempts at capturing this type of inequality reach conflicting conclusions regarding the trend, which in turn reflect different assumptions and data sources, most of which bias the calculated results downward. The final section discusses the future of global inequality, and what can be done to redress it. Where previous studies express confidence in a declining global inequality trend, Milanovic is less confident, suggesting that we can be certain only that inequality is high. Furthermore, since the trend depends heavily on the performance of one country— China, predictions about future trends are speculative at best. Milanovic is certain about two things. First, global inequality is immoral. Second, redistribution is possible and would be both moral and efficient to the development of humanity as a whole.