Abstract Purpose Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) has been developed for almost two decades assessing the social impacts of product cycles. Only a limited amount research, however, considers full range sustainability that is impacted by cause-effect relationships in impact pathway (IP) approach S-LCA. The aim this study to provide guidance on ultimate purpose S-LCA presenting an up-to-date ...

One of the most interesting challenges in the area of social computing and social media analysis is the so-called community analysis. A well known barrier in cross-community (multiple website) analysis is the disconnectedness of these websites. In this paper, our aim is to provide evidence on the existence of a mapping among identities across multiple communities, providing a method for connect...

The analysis of social media content for the extraction of geospatial information and event-related knowledge has recently received substantial attention. In this article we present an approach that leverages the complementary nature of social multimedia content by utilizing heterogeneous sources of social media feeds to assess the impact area of a natural disaster. More specifically, we introd...

urbanisation is still one of the social themes in developing countries. in china, the rapid process of urbanisation and economic growth bring to people not only more opportunities for creating new life and pursuing happiness, but also the challenge to face various and complex social, economical and environmental problems. among them some are outstanding, like the shrinking plowland devoured by ...

health systems research aims to understand the governance of health systems (i.e. how health systems function and perform and how their actors interact with each other). this can be achieved by applying innovative methodologies and concepts that are going to capture the complexity and dynamics of health systems when they are affected by shocks. the capacity of health systems to adapt to shocks ...

aim and background: this meta-analysis evaluated the relationship between mental health and social support in iran. methods and materials: in order to assess the relationship between mental health and social support, eight eligible studies with acceptable methodology were selected. findings: the effect size of the relationship between mental health and social support in iran was 0.369. conclusi...

conclusions: the core variable of our research is acceptance of the reality of the conditions caused by the disease. the research finalized our knowledge about patient problems regarding social support and revealed many problems of supporting patients by health team members, family members and organizations. the findings suggest that individual aspects of patient experiences must be considered ...

background: the aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of social capital questionnaire (scq) developed by onyx and bullen (2000) among a sample of medical science students in tehran university of medical sciences, iran and to compare the factor analysis with findings from two previous studies in australia and the united states. methods: multistage cluster sampling was ...