This study builds on the change management literature and identifies variables associated with perceptions of organizational readiness for change in the specific context of health information systems. A questionnaire was distributed to the future users of a telehomecare project in 11 home care organizations. A total of 138 questionnaires were returned, for a response rate of 90%. Our findings r...

It is widely recognized that many African economies are being transformed by rapid economic growth driven largely by rising demand for the abundant natural resources scattered across the African continent. I critically review the mainstream gamechanging dynamics driving this process, with special reference to a set of influential policy-oriented documents. This is followed by an analysis of les...

In a context of global change, the inland navigation transport has gained interest with economic and 1 environmental benefits. The development of this means of conveyance requires the improvement of its 2 management rules to deal with the increase of navigation (schedules and frequency) and the potential 3 impact of global change. To achieve this aim, it is firstly necessary to have a better kn...

The challenge of creating human socio-economic systems that are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable is highlighted by problems of local and global environmental impacts, including climate change and socially inequitable distribution of resources between rich and poor countries and individuals. Socio-economic systems are complex systems involving multiple actors interacting at...

Global change presents humanity with unprecedented challenges. Climate change, altered natural cycles, and pollution of air, water, and biota threaten the very conditions on which human civilization has depended for the last 12 000 years. While human health is better now than ever before in human history, climate change is undermining many public health advances of the last century and ultimate...

Assessment of climate change policies requires aggregation of costs and benefits over time and across generations, a process ordinarily done through discounting. Choosing the correct discount rate has proved to be controversial and highly consequential. To clarify past analysis and guide future work, we decompose discounting along two dimensions. First, we distinguish discounting by individuals...

Social media has played an important role in shaping political discourse over the last decade. At the same time, it is often perceived to have increased political polarization, thanks to the scale of discussions and their public nature. In this paper, we try to answer the question of whether political polarization in the US on Twitter has increased over the last eight years. We analyze a large ...

Social determinants of health (SDH) are an important public health policy discourse and the concept and scope of SDH is debated within and outside of the public health field. This article concerns itself with the visibility of people with disabilities in existing SDH discourses. It employed a frequency analysis of Google and Google Scholar search hits obtained with the phrase "social determinan...

Although scientists have warned of possible social perils resulting from climate change, the impacts of long-term climate change on social unrest and population collapse have not been quantitatively investigated. In this study, high-resolution paleo-climatic data have been used to explore at a macroscale the effects of climate change on the outbreak of war and population decline in the preindus...

This article analyses employment and wage change patterns in India for a period spanning almost three decades, 1983 to 2011. Using data from the National Sample Survey Organisation, this study finds evidence of job polarisation (employment growth in lowand high-skill jobs, and reduction in the middle) in urban India during the 1990s and 2000s. However, the 1980s experienced an employment upgrad...