a recent international journal of health policy and management (ijhpm) article by fadi el-jardali and colleagues makes an important contribution to the literature on health system strengthening by reporting on a survey of healthcare stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries (lmics) about systems thinking (st). the study’s main contributions are its confirmation that healthcare stakeholde...

Domestic violence affects all members in a family and children are considered the main victims. This qualitative study aimed to grasp the perception of mothers whose daughters were sexually abused. Data were collected between February and March 2007 in a governmental facility in Fortaleza-CE, Brazil through semi-structured interviews with ten mothers of sexually abused children. Data were submi...

Technology affected human life in many ways in different eras of mankind history. Today, the information and telecommunication technology has revolutionized basic structures of human life. Changes are from the whole to the parts and vice versa, which include family and society too. Family lost its former structure in the information age and differentiated from patriarchy family. Societies have ...

Historical and social study that aimed at obtaining the social representations about associative practice present at the collective memory of the members from ABEn-PI. Its primary source were 94 minutes of ABEn-PI created from 1959 to 1970 and from 1995 to 2005 and analyzed according to a thematic analysis of categorical content. The social representations obtained were about knowledge, positio...

This study examined the effects of expressive narrative writing in 607 participants. Compared with a control group, the participants randomly assigned to write about their feelings and thoughts after the Madrid train attack on M11 report less negative emotions related to the recall of the collective trauma at a 2-month follow-up after the attacks. However, no effects were found on positive affe...

Social choice theory is concerned with problems of getting from information on individual reports over alternative states of the world to an acceptable means for making a collective decision over these alternatives. These problems were originally studied in the combinatorical framework provided by Arrow type impossibility theorems. More recently Chichilnisky and others have studied the problem ...