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The social science contribution to pharmacoepidemiology
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1991An understanding of the inappropriate use of pharmaceuticals (the prescribing of unnecessary or ineffective medications, and non-compliance by consumers) can be furthered by considering the psychological, social and cultural contexts in which medicines are used.
N, Higginbotham, D L, Streiner
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Social Medicine and Its Contribution to Social Policy.
Lancet, The, 1977F M Martin
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Biomedical and social contributions to sustainability
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2011Over the past two or three centuries, biomedical advances have provided methods to prevent and treat infectious diseases. These changes have greatly reduced human suffering and enhanced sustainability by allowing people to live longer and healthier lives.
Ian, Wilmut +3 more
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The contribution of the social sciences
Omega, 1977Abstract The contribution which Social Science has made and may make to policy formulation in modern Europe is described and evaluated. The rapid economic growth of the post war period was accompanied by the growing impact of government economic policy but the contribution made by Social Science in most countries was limited.
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2003
Abstract All available evidence suggests that the great majority of individuals avoid taking unnecessary risks. This is apparent from the fact that most individuals are willing to pay insurance premiums the amount of which exceeds the expected pay-out: the amount of potential damage times the chance that such damage will happen ...
Ken Messere +2 more
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Abstract All available evidence suggests that the great majority of individuals avoid taking unnecessary risks. This is apparent from the fact that most individuals are willing to pay insurance premiums the amount of which exceeds the expected pay-out: the amount of potential damage times the chance that such damage will happen ...
Ken Messere +2 more
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The contributions of nursing science to social support
International Journal of Nursing Studies, 1995Nurse scientists have contributed to the theoretical development of social support through concept refinement, creation of measures, and intervention research. Nevertheless, deficiencies persist pertaining to the conceptualization of the construct and the design of intervention studies.
M J, Stewart, V P, Tilden
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The contributions of the social agencies and the social worker
1978Concern for the rights of children based on humanitarian principles is chiefly a twentieth century development. It is true that in the past, children have been cherished and esteemed by their parents, yet they have also in other circumstances been exploited and misused to serve the need and greed of the adult world, whether it might be child marriages ...
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Does the Social Environment Contribute to Asthma?
Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, 2008The impact of the social environment on asthma has recently begun to receive increasing attention. This article reviews the current literature to investigate the impact of the social environment at three levels-the neighborhood level, the peer level, and the family level-and to explore pathways through which the social environment "gets under the skin"
Edith, Chen, Hannah M C, Schreier
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Linking socially contributed media with events
Multimedia Systems, 2014Recent years have witnessed the blooming of Web 2.0 content such as Flickr and YouTube, etc. How we can benefit from such rich media resources is still an open and challenging question. In this paper, we present a method combining semantic inferencing and visual analysis for automatically finding media (photos and videos) illustrating events. We report
Xueliang Liu, Benoit Huet
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Family and Social Capital: European Contributions
International Review of Sociology, 2007The essays presented in this special section of the Review concern the subject of the family as a social relation being able to generate different forms of social capital (SC): primary SC (linking ...
PRANDINI, RICCARDO, DONATI, PIERPAOLO
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