STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine associations between social capital and individual risk for alcohol abuse and harms and identify protective effect mechanisms. DESIGN Multilevel multivariate analysis with individual level data from a national panel survey of drinking and a contextual measure of social capital reflecting college mean aggregate reports of student volunteerism. Outcomes include heavy ...

BACKGROUND The economic, social and health costs associated with alcohol-related harms are important measures with which to inform alcohol management policies and laws. This analysis builds on previous cost estimates for South Africa. METHODS We reviewed existing international best-practice costing frameworks to provide the costing definitions and dimensions. We sourced data from South Africa...

This commentary traces discussions of psychological differences and deficits from the mid-1950s to the current day, positioning the disciplinary discussions in the social-historical context in which they took place. The challenges of assessing diagnoses of deficit and the potential harms that result when misdiagnosis is implemented as social policy pervade the discussion over time.

most research on the effect of rural industry has measured two main features: a) an oriented. b) economic impacts (jobs and income. the research method has been qualitative which has studied the effects of the large gas refinery industry on the economy of rural areas and in other dimensions (social and environmental) follow villagers from their perspective is. results show that industrial devel...

Drawing upon work in evolutionary game theory and experimental philosophy, I argue that one of the roles the concept of knowledge plays in our social cognitive ecology is that of enabling us to make adaptively important distinctions between different kinds of blameworthy and blameless behaviors. In particular, I argue that knowledge enables us to distinguish which agents are most worthy of blam...

Childhood obesity may have severe long-term consequences for health-indeed, for the overall course of a person's life. Do these harms amount to a problem of social justice? And if so, what should be done about it? Parents are usually granted considerable leeway to make decisions that affect their children's health. Social and moral theory has often overlooked the family, however, leaving us wit...

The victim impact statement (VIS) is a written account of harms experienced as a result of crime. This study investigates VIS use by sexually assaulted women through interviews with Canadian victims, victim services workers, and feminist advocates (N = 35). Findings suggest that victims use the VIS to express relational caring. Relational caring is an ethic of care that prioritizes others throu...

Cannabis use and misuse are serious public health concerns worldwide.1 Estimated at 4% of the global population aged from 15 years1 with much higher rates (up to 70%)2 among adolescents aged 1218 years, cannabis use is now widely regarded as ‘normative’ youth behaviour.2,3 Several concurrent developments signal an upsurge in cannabis use disorders (CUD) and the whole spectrum of associated heal...