Social Media Aggregator (SMA) applications present a platform enabling users to manage multiple Social Networking Sites (SNS) in one convenient application, which results in a unique concentration of data from several SNS accounts in addition to the user’s mobile phone data available to them. We describe a three-step methodology to assess how privacy is considered in these applications: 1) We i...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the cumulative effect of smoke-free policies and social support for smoking cessation in the home, at church, and at work on smoking levels and quit attempts in the context of a community-based study of rural African Americans and whites in the Southeast. METHODS We conducted a baseline survey to assess sociodemographics, smoking behavior, ...

'Welfare' is a vague term, the meaning of which depends on ideology, values and judgements. Material resources are just means to enhance people's well-being, but growth of Gross Domestic Product is still the standard measure of a society's success. Fortunately, recent advances in measuring social performance include health, education and other social outcomes. Because 'what we measure affects w...

Background The importance of evaluating policy processes to achieve health equity is well recognised but such evaluation encounters methodological, theoretical and political challenges. This paper describes how a program theorybased evaluation framework can be developed and tested, using the example of an evaluation of the South Australian Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiative.   Methods A f...

In a context where 46 countries now consider their fertility rate to be too low, attention is turning to the need for policy actions to increase fertility rates. This article discusses the reasons why action is required and why countries have been slow to take policy action. It then considers a wide range of possible policies and assesses them against a set of eleven social policy principles. T...

This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries. Greater Danish income mobility is largely a consequence of redistributional tax, transfer, and wage c...

Decades of underinvestment in public sectors and in teachers and health workers have adversely affected the health and educational outcomes of women. This is partly explained by a general lack of resources. However, the amount a country can spend on social sectors, including teachers and health workers, is also determined by its macroeconomic framework, which is set in agreement with the Intern...

the state of post revolutionary iran adopted economic policies over 1980-1988 which we can phrase redistributive economic policies. according to a part of revolutionary literature, adoption of these policies by the post revolutionary state is, partly, one of the structural features of that state. but it is not a main debate of this article. rather, basic concern of the article, as some of the p...