Corruption is a phenomenon that has received global attention from academics, policy makers and international donors. may be defined as the abuse of power for private gain. Activities include bribery, extortion, rent-seeking behaviour, cronyism, patronage, nepotism, embezzlement, graft engagement with criminal enterprises. However, nepotism gift giving are frequently viewed in many Asian Africa...

introduction: patient education is influenced by cultural factors. this study aims to find out the role of culture in patient education. methods: a qualitative study was conducted on 23 iranian nurses. inclusion criteria were minimum 5 years of working experience in clinical nursing. semistructured face to face interviews were used to collect the data. interviews were taped, transcribed and ana...

This article advances an alternative paradigm for making judgments about China's compliance with its international obligations in the realm of health and human rights, grounded on the reality that non-local rule regimes are interpreted and applied according to the extent of commonality between the norms underlying these international rule regimes and local cultural norms. This paradigm, "select...

Biological explanations of cooperation are based on kin altruism, reciprocal altruism, and mutualism, all of which apply to human and nonhuman species alike. But human cooperation is based in part on capacities that are unique to, or at least much more highly developed in, Homo sapiens. We seek an explanation of cooperation that works for humans, but does not work for other species, or works su...

The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is a highly influential framework for studying human action. Research applying the TPB often follows assumption that – originally developed in U.S. universal and can be effectively applied across geographical cultural boundaries. With power meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM), we test above Hofstede's GLOBE's individualism-collectivism dimensi...