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Social Workers’ Interest in Building Individuals’ Financial Capabilities

open access: yesJournal of Financial Therapy, 2010
Social workers have many opportunities to integrate a focus on personal finance into their practice with mostly lower-income and vulnerable client populations. However, little is known about social workers’ interest in personal finance.
Gina A. N. Chowa, Mathieu R. Despard
doaj   +1 more source

Formal and Informal Social Care in People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Cross‐Sectional Multicenter Survey

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living. This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disparate regions of England: Salford (urban) and Norfolk (rural).
Mehreen Somro   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer behaviour in a social context : implications for environmental policy

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper we summarise some of our recent work on consumer behaviour, drawing on recent developments in behavioural economics, in which consumers are embedded in a social context, so their behaviour is shaped by their interactions with other ...
Dasgupta, Partha   +3 more
core  

Potential Implementation of Economic Waqf in the State of Kelantan: A Preliminary Survey

open access: yesRabbanica: Journal of Revealed Knowledge
The Islamic social finance sector, including waqf, is growing rapidly but is still too small compared to its true potential and has yet to be fully explored.
Mujiburrahman Muhammad Saleh   +3 more
doaj  

Over-Indebtedness of Rural Micro-credit Financing in Bahawalpur: An Impediment to their Social & Financial Mobility

open access: yesJournal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 2020
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of micro-credit finance on over-indebtedness and social & financial mobility of micro-credit finance participants.
Owais Shafique, Maria Habib
doaj  

Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby   +448 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic finance versus conventional finance

open access: yes, 2016
Transactions in Islamic Finance (IF) are guided by ethical, moral, and social considerations. Moreover, according to IF money should be used to create social value. With regard to these point of views, IF aligns with Socially Responsible Investing (SRI),
Arslan-Ayaydin, Özgür   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Corporate governance practices and sustainability reporting quality: evidence from the Nigerian listed financial institution

open access: yesCogent Business & Management
This study ascertains whether a composite corporate governance (CCG) index is related to the sustainability reporting quality of listed banks in Nigeria.
Ezekiel Oluwagbemiga Oyerogba   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biopsychosocial Determinants of Hand Function and Its Trajectories Over Five Years in Patients With Hand Osteoarthritis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aimed to investigate hand function trajectories over five years in primary hand osteoarthritis (OA). Additionally, determinants of baseline and longitudinal hand function were assessed. Methods A total of 538 patients with both baseline and five‐year study visits were analyzed.
Annemiek V. E. M. Olde Meule   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain Use Case in Islamic Social Finance

open access: yes
Purpose: This research explains and reviews two innovative solutions based on blockchain that were used for Islamic social finance projects by two separate companies namely Finterra and Blossom Finance.
Kiran , Gopal   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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