War and war-related concepts constitute a considerable portion of key words in political literature and strategic-security studies. Apart from its theoretical significance, war is a palpable term for the individuals and political players. It is a serious threat to humanity that has been paid due attention in the course of history by the political philosophers, strategists and even ordinary peop...

Despite significant interest in the welfare of military service members and their families, there has been little scientific research on their household financial situations. More specifically, to the author’s knowledge, there have been very few comparative analyses between military members and their civilian counterparts, between members of the different military services or between different ...

to offer proper services for military personnel with psychiatric disturbances, calls for the application of known fundamental principles of socio-military psychiatry. in this respect, military and public mobilization, active participation of vast majority of people concerning sacred defense and by its very nature, the social vulnerability necessiate a harmonious multidimensional programming cen...

in many countries around the world, including iran, obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. doctors have recently taken, or expressed support for, an extreme ‘personal responsibility for health’ policy against obesity: refusing services to obese patients. this policy may initially seem to improve patients’ incentives to fight obesity. but turning access to medical services into a benefit depe...

Offshore outsourcing of services accelerated at the end of 1990s in developed countries. In recent years, developing countries have also offshored services, not only to developed countries but also to other developing countries. Yet, to date little attention has been paid to the emergence of this reverse offshoring. The focus of this research is on the determinants of reverse offshoring of serv...

In the 1990s, Latvia aimed at introducing Social Health Insurance (SHI) but later changed to a National Health Service (NHS) type system. The NHS is financed from general taxation, provides coverage to the entire population, and pays for a basic service package purchased from independent public and private providers. In November 2013, the Cabinet of Ministers passed a draft Healthcare Financing...

A survey of a series of genetic centers in Europe [1] showed that today a substantial number of samples from patients are being sent abroad for DNA analysis to laboratories in Europe, the US or elsewhere in the world. 66% of the 233 laboratories, which replied to the questionnaire, received samples from other countries and 47% sent samples to other countries. In absolute numbers this would mean...