This article addresses the challenges solidarity poses for development of Precision Medicine (PM). Solidarity is invoked in calls a new ‘social contract’ PM, seeking to promote particip...

This research is on social –capital and the sense of social security among the women in northern and southern Tehran. It tries to explain the social capital and the sense of social security in the given society. This research is done on a survey method with interview and questionnaire. The reliability and the validity of the research method was applied through Alpha Coronbach coefficient.  Th...

This article derives from a critical discourse analysis study that reports the characteristics of elementary school students’ power and solidarity relations in English as a foreign language classroom in Bogotá, Colombia, while we were doing our teaching English as a foreign language practicum. The study was based on theories of power and solidarity. The findings suggest that there are different...

The present article sheds light on the implementation of ‘Social Solidarity Income’ (SSI) in Greece, an example a guaranteed minimum income (GMI). Drawing findings 40 semi-structured interviews carried out five selected municipalities, focuses ‘social impact’ SSI. More specifically, it investigates two inter-related themes: a) social situation beneficiaries and survival strategies they used bef...

Welfare as a set of social rights, although with different intensity, is rooted in the constitutions of almost all modern European democracies, and social partners have significantly contributed to its definition. The principle is that sustainable economy can develop only when social well-being of all citizens is realised. Social policies represent in fact drivers for inclusive economic develop...

Continued low rates of enrolment in community-based health insurance (CBHI) suggest that strategies proposed for scaling up are unsuccessfully implemented or inadequately address underlying limitations of CBHI. One reason may be a lack of incorporation of social and political context into CBHI policy. In this study, the hypothesis is proposed that values and power relations inherent in social n...

Introduction: The size and age-structure of Europe’s population is undergoing dramatic changes due to low fertility rates, continuous increases in life expectancy and the retirement of the baby-boom generation. ‘The Strategy for care for the elderly till 2010—Solidarity, good intergenerational relations and quality ageing of the population’, prepared by Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Aff...

Marginanism and egalitarianism are two main standpoints in economics. The Shapley value has been characterized in many ways from the view of marginalism. In this paper, we characterize the Solidarity value with respect to the egalitarianism by three approaches applied to the Shapley value. We introduce a revised potential function and deduce the recursive formula of the Solidarity value. It is ...

The Portuguese National Network for Long-term Integrated Care (Rede Nacional de Cuidados Continuados, RNCCI) was created in 2006 as a partnership between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity. The formal provision of care within the RNCCI is made up of non-profit and non-public institutions called Private Institutions of Social Solidarity, public institutions b...