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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century, especially in sexual mores.
Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih
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Decentralization and Regionalization of Surgical Care: A Review of Evidence for the Optimal Distribution of Surgical Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019 Background While recommendations for the optimal distribution of surgical services in high-income countries (HICs) exist, it is unclear how these translate to resource-limited settings.
Katherine R. Iverson +8 more
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BMC Proceedings, 2023 Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, social listening programs across digital channels have become an integral part of health preparedness and response planning, allowing to capture and address questions, information needs, and misinformation shared ...
Silvia Sommariva +6 more
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BMC Proceedings, 2023 Background In 2021, twenty out of twenty-one countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region introduced COVID-19 vaccines. With variable willingness to uptake vaccines across countries, the aim of the present study was to better understand ...
Helena Ballester Bon +6 more
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The Etiology of Social Change [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2009 AbstractA fundamental aspect of human beings is that they learn. The process of learning and what is learned are impacted by a number of factors, both cognitive and social; that is, humans are boundedly rational. Cognitive and social limitations interact, making it difficult to reason about how to provide information to impact what humans know, believe,
Kathleen M, Carley +2 more
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Reproductive Health, 2022 Plain language summary This article highlights the status of ANC services during the nationwide lockdown imposed in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Data was collected through 12
Shweta Bankar, Deepika Ghosh
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Social Change: Conflict and Competition
, 2022 Conflict and competition arise when involved parties’ preferences and goals collide. This chapter highlights theoretical and empirical perspectives on the emergence and manifestations of conflicts. We outline how conflicts can occur from three perspectives: considering conflicts between individual actors, considering conflicts between individuals in ...
Rahal, Rima-Maria, van Beest, Ilja
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Changing social relationships [PDF]
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2006 In his review of our paper on pro-anorexia internet communities,1 Dr Smith introduced one inaccuracy into an otherwise concise summary. He mistakenly attributed a quotation from a participant in the internet forum to our researcher. Angela (a pseudonym) …
N J, Fox, K, Ward, A, O'Rourke
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Financing surgical, obstetric, anaesthesia, and trauma care in the Asia–Pacific region: proceedings
BMC Proceedings, 2023 Surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care saves lives, prevents disability, promotes economic prosperity, and is a fundamental human right. Session two of the three-part virtual meeting series on Strategic Planning to Improve Surgical, Obstetric ...
Rennie X. Qin +7 more
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A research tool for measuring non-participation of older people in research on digital health
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Healthcare services are being increasingly digitalised in European countries. However, in studies evaluating digital health technology, some people are less likely to participate than others, e.g.
Arianna Poli +2 more
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