Maternal Health, Social Conservatism and Hypocrisy: Canadian Edition

Canadian Tuberculosis Standards 7th Edition

The Social Maintenance of Cooperation through Hypocrisy

Cooperation is widespread in human societies, but its maintenance at the group level remains puzzling if individuals benefit from not cooperating. Explanations of the maintenance of cooperation generally assume that cooperative and non-cooperative behavior in others can be assessed and copied accurately. However, humans have a well known capacity to deceive and thus to manipulate how others ass...

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Relation between Social Determinants of Maternal Health and Child Development: A Path Analysis

Background: Since several factors, rather than a single cause, contribute to developmental delay in children, identification of the condition's risk factors and their pathway of effects are critical to the design and implementation of appropriate intervention .This study aimed to determine the relation between social determinants of maternal health and child development in Iranian mothers and t...

A 1Zitem scale of social conservatism

As argued elsewhere (Henningham, 1995), conservatism scales are unlike other measures of attitudes in that they need a “use by” date. The community’s evolving values, as well as changes in fashion and in acceptable behaviour, render scales measuring conservatism-liberalism products of their day and age. This is obvious by considering some of the items in the original “catchphrase” scale of Wils...