Environments for Safety Regulations A common factor in whether regulation is used is the seriousness of the outcome being addressed in terms of human health. For this reason regulation is more common in transportation and the workplace, where the potential for fatal injury is perceived to be relatively great, and less common in the home and in sports environments, where the potential for fatal ...

BACKGROUND Governments use law to constrain aspects of private activities for purposes of protecting health and social wellbeing. Policymakers have a range of perceptions and beliefs about what is public or private. An understanding of the possible drivers of policymaker decisions about where government can or should intervene for health is important, as one way to better guide appropriate poli...

There are a number of reasons why this book is important. Firstly, it offers what is largely missing from the current literature on eugenics, public health and social medicine in EastCentral Europe: the social and medical management and, ultimately, the control of the female body and female sexuality. Certainly, Nancy M. Wingfield, Maria Bucur, Zsuzsa Bokor and Magda Gawin, among others, have d...

In many areas of the world, recreational fisheries are not managed sustainably. This might be related to the omission or oversimplification of angler behaviour and angler heterogeneity in fisheries-management models. We present an integrated bioeconomic modelling approach to examine how differing assumptions about angler behaviour, angler preferences, and composition of the angler population al...

Despite decades of research on social capital, studies that explore the relationship between political institutions and generalized trust-a key element of social capital-across time are sparse. To address this issue, we use various cross-national public-opinion data sets including the World Values Survey and employ pooled time-series OLS regression and fixed- and random-effects estimation techn...

Section 304(g) of P.L.96-265, the “Social Security Disability Amendments of 1980,” requires that the Social Security Administration (SSA) institute a program of ongoing review of administrative law judge (ALJ) decisions on claims for Social Security disability benefits. This section-commonly referred to as the Bellmon amendment-is intended to ensure that hearings decisions by ALJs conform to st...

The increasing prominence of new Internet and social media technologies and their growing importance as a source of health information are pushing the pharmaceutical industry towards digital channels. This paper explores the potential impacts of the pharmaceutical industry’s increasing interest in online marketing and considers how the existing regulatory framework in Canada translates into the...

A central feature of collective decision-making in many social groups, such as political coalitions, international unions, or private clubs, is that the rules that govern regulations, procedures for future decision-making, and inclusion and exclusion of members are made by the current members and under the current regulations. This feature implies that dynamic collective decisions must recogniz...