Despite having been around for a decade now, Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) – payment by result contracts funding social programmes are still niche instrument. Constituting but fraction of the ov...

It is well appreciated that demographic trends threaten the integrity of continental European systems of social security. For France, these trends imply a long term funding crisis as well as a crisis of confidence in national economic and social institutions. The funding of social security is a recurrent largely unresolved political issue; proposals for comprehensive reform are heavily conteste...

Background: Social capital is an important interpersonal organizational resource that may affect health behaviors and seems to be an important factor in chronic diseases. Considering the lack of evidence on this topic, in the present study, we aimed at investigating the association between components of social capital, socioeconomic condition, and controlling Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Iran. ...