Values can be useful for identifying what is important to individuals and communities, yet there is currently not a coherent way to conceptualize, identify, and organize the breadth of values that can be affected by a natural disaster. This research proposes a conceptual framework for how to conceptualize, identify, and organize values, and proposes a concrete, tangible value called the valued ...

E-commerce in community is a major application area of the EIS in community management industry. In this paper, by comparing three information integration structures of E-commerce in community, we arrive at a conclusion that application of E-commerce in community in China is still in its infancy of integration in single direction. In order to make workable integration in two-direction, then a w...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the course and identify determinants of community integration for up to 3 years following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. PATIENTS A total of 119 moderate to severe traumatic brain injury patients aged 16-67 years. METHODS The Community Integration Questionnaire was completed at 3, 6, 12, 18, 24 and 36 months post-injury. R...

Community integration is a construct that an increasing body of research has shown to have a significant impact on the wellbeing and recovery of people with psychiatric problems. However, there are few studies that explore which factors can be associated and predict community integration. Moreover, community integration has been mostly studied in minority groups, and current literature on the d...

Background and Objective: Because COVID-19 has become a pandemic, public health measures to cut off human-to-human transmission may include quarantine and social isolation. This study aims to demonstrate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on demographic variables and their relationship to the level of social participation during the pandemic. Methods: In June 2020, the community integration ...

This paper examines the extent to which hospitals and physicians use new organizational structures designed to facilitate contracting with managed care firms and the extent to which this use is associated with managed care revenue. The data come from a nationally representative sample of 1,495 U.S. community hospitals responding to a 1993 survey about different organizational structures. The re...