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Social Capital and Social Trust in Britain [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Sociological Review, 2005
Most quantitative research in social capital focuses on civic engagement in formal organisations. Data on social capital in informal social networks are harder to obtain and there has also been insufficient means for investigating this. In this paper, we use the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to conceptualise and measure three types of social ...
Li, Y J, Pickles, A, Savage, M
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From “Anglophone Problem” to “Anglophone Conflict” in Cameroon: Assessing Prospects for Peace

open access: yesAfrica Spectrum, 2023
Since 2017, an armed conflict has been raging in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon between separatist forces and the Cameroonian military. This review analyses the historical origins and root causes of the conflict; the trigger mechanism of rising
Maurice Beseng   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social and Political Trust in a Low Trust Society [PDF]

open access: yesPolitical Behavior, 2022
We study the causal relationship between social and political trust in a low trust society, a setting where this topic has received very little attention. We focus on contemporary Chile, a relatively consolidated new democracy lacking many of the conditions that fosters trust such as high socioeconomic equality, weak social divisions, or universal ...
Matías Bargsted   +3 more
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Prevalence of self-reported mental disorders in pregnancy and associations with adverse neonatal outcomes: a population-based cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019
Background Mental disorders in pregnancy are common causes of morbidity and mortality with associated risks of adverse neonatal outcomes. Our aims were to evaluate the prevalence of self-reported mental disorders in women presenting to maternity services
David Mongan   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

A project designed to examine, for the first time, the health records of adult prisoners in Northern Ireland and their linkage to other available health data: the test case of prisoner post-release mortality risk.

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
A project designed to examine, for the first time, the health records of adult prisoners in Northern Ireland and their linkage to other available health data: the test case of prisoner post-release mortality risk Objectives The linkage of routinely ...
Janine Cooper   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development and testing of a primary health and social care integrated team model in the comunity

open access: yesInternational Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Northern Ireland has a long history across more than three decades of delivering integrated health and social care services in the community. Despite this, demand on hospital services continues to rise and there is limited evidence that hospital teams ...
Bob Brown, Anne Kilgallen, Ciaran Mullan
doaj   +1 more source

Staff’s perspectives on physical activity in acute mental health general adult wards: a follow up survey

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction Physical activity (PA) has multiple health benefits for people with severe mental illness (SMI). People with SMI engage in less exercise and more sedentary behaviour than the general population; this can be further exacerbated by inpatient ...
N. Lekka, J. Wrazen, S. Nunns
doaj   +1 more source

Trust, Risk, and the Social Contract [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2006
The problem of trust is discussed in terms of David Hume’s meadow-draining example. This is analyzed in terms of rational choice, evolutionary game theory and a dynamic model of social network formation. The kind of explanation that postulates an innate predisposition to trust is seen to be unnecessary when social network dynamics is taken into account.
openaire   +1 more source

The Economic Dimension of Social Trust [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The statistical analyses performed demonstrated a statistically significant correlation between the examined phenomena and proved that the highest developmental level is a characteristic feature of the districts with a high level of social trust.
Kamil Brzeziński   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Social Trust

open access: yes, 2018
Social trust – confidence in the moral orientation or trustworthiness of our fellow citizens – plays an important role in how secure individuals feel and how well society functions. This chapter explores levels of social trust in Britain over the last few decades and examines how social trust is related to a range of socio-economic characteristics ...
Li, Yaojun   +2 more
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