Social Indicators Research covers many topics, which each have their own history. Happiness research is one of these included topics. Longstanding interest in happiness revived since the 1960s together with the emergence of the social indicator movement. Happiness became a prominent issue in the movement and the movement has fostered the development of happiness research in several ways.

Since the beginning of 2008 economic crisis, growth and development have been in forefront research. In a global context, highest levels poverty as well malnutrition problems are found sub-Saharan African countries. Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) useful tools to describe situation these countries, interactions among agents support policymakers implementing their policies. The paper shows mac...

It has been more than 40 years since Blalock (1964) noted the distinction between what he called “cause” (formative) and “effect” (reflective) indicators of latent variables, and three decades since the academic literature recognized that some SEM measurement models don’t fit classical test theory’s assumptions about the direction of causality of the relationships between constructs and their i...

BACKGROUND Poverty is multi dimensional. Beyond the quantitative and tangible issues related to inadequate income it also has equally important social, more intangible and difficult if not impossible to quantify dimensions. In 2009, we explored these social and relativist dimension of poverty in five communities in the South of Ghana with differing socio economic characteristics to inform the d...

today one of the ecological crisis is the phenomenon of desertification that affecting the world. desertification is more related to social and anthropogenic issues than natural causes and it becomes more important over the time. monitoringis the systematic collection and analysis of information as a project progresses. in this study, using ahp method and gis techniques has been to assess deser...

background: in this regard, in iran a plan was developed and accordingly 52 indicators to measure equity inhealth were developed and announced by the ministry of health in collaboration with other sectors.this study aims to obtain a deeper understanding of the development of health equity indicators andidentify their implementation challenges and proposed solutions from the perspective of polic...

This article covers key aspects of quality medical care for patients. The basis of modern approach to improve the care quality is clinical guidelines, clinical audit and registers of diseases. The development of evidence-based medicine ensures that the personal experience of physicians ceases to be a leader in the treatment of patients. Evidences of emerging studies of interventions that are ef...

in this study the relation between cultural development and social development in i an is studied with secondary analysis method. statistical data of this study is based on previous experimental researches, especially national survey of iranians cultural behaviors in 1378 and national surveys of iranians values and attitudes in 1379 and 1382. for measuring the cultural development, some element...