BACKGROUND Social capital has lately received much attention in health research. The present study investigated whether two measures of subjective social capital were related to psychosomatic symptoms, musculoskeletal pain, and depression in a large population of Swedish adolescents. METHODS A total of 7757 13-18 year old students anonymously completed the Survey of Adolescent Life in Vestman...

The principal aim of environmental impact assessment (EIA) is to foster sustainable development. Sustainability can be conceived along a ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ continuum, in which the latter holds that substitution natural capital severely limited, evidence suggests weak sustainability prevails decision-making supported by EIA. Therefore, based on assumption strong required goal protect biodiversi...

The paper on 'The diversity of associations between community social capital and health' raises two issues that I should like to address briefly. 1 The first has to do with the definition of social capital used by the authors. With the exception of one question—'to what extent are you involved in the livability of your neighborhood?'—none gets at the phenomenon of civic participation that is ce...

Background: Occupational burnout has numerous psychological consequences affecting social capital. Similarly, social capital is one of the most important factors affecting occupational burnout. Thus, the present study is conducted to investigate the relationship between social capital with occupational stress and burnout among the staff of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences. Materials an...

extended abstract 1. introduction one of the important aspects of sustainable social development is the use of the concept of social capital in its social term. in fact, social capital is a key to the establishment of civil society and civic life. disruption of social relations in the city, urbanization, increase in the migration from rural to urban areas and cultural, social and economic diver...

In a collaborative knowledge creation environment knowledge is socially constructed and the nature of knowledge being shared, integrated and converted is dominantly tacit. Achieving the required level of exchange, proliferation and extraction of tacit knowledge in a social network context is intimately tied to social capital and the socialization and externalization modes of knowledge conversio...

the importance of zagros forests and interdependence of local communities to forest resources have led to complexity of its management. the role of local communities and investigating their relations toward implementation of natural resources co-management are undeniable. social network analysis (sna) approach is a new method which illustrates relations among local beneficiaries and has importa...

Intellectual capital reporting becomes critical at universities, mainly due to the fact that knowledge is the main output as well as input in these institutions. In addition, universities have continuous external demands for greater information and transparency about the use of public funds, and are increasingly provided with greater autonomy regarding their organization, management, and budget...