Background & Aims of the Study:  One of the most important harmful factors in big cities is noise, and traffic is regarded as the most important source of noise pollution. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice of people in Kermanshah, Iran, regarding the potential effects of noise pollution on their health. Materials and Methods: A researc...

Differentiation in political trust attitudes occurs when citizens distinguish between different institutions terms of their trustworthiness. This article explores patterns citizens’ (non-)differentiation the local, national and European Union governance levels with regard to trust. With unique Dutch data, we find that evaluations each pair governments (local–national/national–European Union/loc...

Citizens’ willingness to participate serves as the endogenous driver of shared governance. During governance modernization in China, was extensively promoted through various policy agendas. However, few studies have revealed citizens’ attitude toward which leads a question: Who is willing local governance? Based on large-scale survey this study high proportion respondents with certain regional ...

I-Saraan is the government retirement scheme to help Malaysian citizens have comfortable times. Evidence pertinent participation marginal and inconclusive. Therefore, this work proposes a conceptual framework understand factors that influence voluntary contribution of among citizens. The main motivation study increase self-contribution savings self-employed. From synthesis review literature, id...

Public administration, governed by bureaucratic structures built on rationale principles, that dominated the twentieth century, has failed to respond to the changing requirements of the present times. E-governance, which is a paradigm shift over the traditional approaches in public administration, means rendering of government services and information to the public using electronic means. This ...

Many studies stated that the adoption of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) inside public organisations can be beneficial to citizens. The introduction inside an organisation is not trivial, and comprises many technological, organisational, individual and environmental aspects. In this paper, we analyse the current state of adoption of FLOSS by means of an exploratory case study methodolog...

The health of citizens is usually a priority in any society. In order to prevent/cure disease, people make use of various forms of care, ranging from lay care to professional health care (PRHC). Professional health care, however, is not equally accessible to all members of a society. This article attempts to indicate how factors such as costs, distance, consultation hours, attitude of medical p...

Cross-cultural studies are particularly relevant in the context of climate change, given its pervasive character and the growing demand for climate change mitigation at both global and local levels. This paper reports on findings from comparative cross-cultural mixed-methods research eliciting perceptions of the future among citizens in Norwich (UK) and Rome (Italy). The paper explores how indi...

The paper aims to analyze and comment on a booklet written and published at the end of the eighteenth century by Joseph Frank , son of the even more famous Johann Peter Frank. In this work the author takes on the task of educating the public to weigh carefully the medical professional to choose the most suitable and capable to safeguard the health of citizens. The figure of the doctor is consid...