Abstract The 2014 procurement and concessions directives have clarified the possibilities that exist for referring to social considerations in public (and socially responsible procurement). Still, these rules fall, main, well short of being mandatory instead leave wide margins Member States their contracting authorities which do not wish consider human rights concerns when buying. Furthermore, ...

The acknowledgment of the ongoing economic and financial crisis involving real estate, creates the need to formulate proposals and scenarios (in real estate) with the characteristics of socially responsible investments. These kind of investments aim towards “sustainable” development both environmentally (safeguarding the shortage of resources such as land, energy, and natural elements), and soc...

BACKGROUND Race and ethnicity, typically defined as how individuals self-identify, are complex social constructs. Self-identified racial/ethnic minorities are less likely to receive preventive care and more likely to report healthcare discrimination than self-identified non-Hispanic whites. However, beyond self-identification, these outcomes may vary depending on whether racial/ethnic minoritie...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among academic self-efficacy, socially-prescribed perfectionism, and academic burnout in medical school students and to determine whether academic self-efficacy had a mediating role in the relationship between perfectionism and academic burnout. METHODS A total of 244 first-year and second-year premed medical students and first...

BACKGROUND Self-report is the most commonly used measure of adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy, but typically shows weaker associations with virological treatment outcome than more objective adherence assessment methods. Socially desirable responding might hamper the validity of self-reported adherence. We investigated whether stratifying patients according to their socially desi...

In this section, we allow consumers’ base valuations for the product to be uniformly distributed on the interval [vl, vh], independent of consumer type (socially conscious or non-socially conscious), where V = vh vl is defined as the width of the consumer valuation distribution. Socially conscious consumers are assumed to have homogenous, additive willingness-to-pay for responsibility equal to ...

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries’ heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital choice such as travel distances influence the competitiveness of hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed-care organizations to affect the key determinants of social welfare—e...

Mobile phones currently represent the most pervasive technology for enabling social networking. They collect a wide range of socially meaningful data, such as address book contacts, pictures, call logs and exchanged messages. This data, however, is highly underutilized as it is managed by separate applications which are typically unaware of the user’s social setting. This “unawareness” makes th...

Recovery colleges offer an educational approach which is believed to develop people's strengths rather than focusing attention on their problems. We have reviewed the literature on this subject, with the aim of determining whether this approach to the management of mental health disorders is socially acceptable. We found preliminary evidence that they are indeed acceptable to families and servi...