Current thinking in major international development agencies construes community-based health insurance (CBHI) as a transitional mechanism to achieving universal coverage for health care in lowincome countries. The policy link between CBHI and universal coverage is implicitly determined by the historical experience of mutual health insurance in countries such as Germany and Japan in the 19 cent...

Current thinking in major international development agencies construes community-based health insurance (CBHI) as a transitional mechanism to achieving universal coverage for health care in lowincome countries. The policy link between CBHI and universal coverage is implicitly determined by the historical experience of mutual health insurance in countries such as Germany and Japan in the 19 cent...

social capital is the one the most multidiscipline concept that have special effects to facility human relations in the society. these effects showing themselves as consequences in thought of social sciences scientist and philosopher in various arena. according to theories considered different consequences for social capital that we examine some of them in this study. the method was survey. we ...

the purpose of this paper was to measure the social capital of the medical students of mashhad medical sciences university in the place they lived (their neighborhood), and the factors affecting it. the statistical universe was the university with a total of 5383 students. the sample was 244. the sampling was done using the systematic classification method, the classes being the faculty and sex...

This article contributes to an ongoing theoretical effort to extend the insights of relational and network sociology into adjacent domains. We integrate Simmel’s late theory of the relational self into the formal analysis of social relations, generating a framework for theorizing forms of association among self-relating individuals. On this model, every “node” in an interaction has relations no...

changes emerged in recent decades dramatically affect the formation and intensification of social problems among iranian youth. among the social problems we can mention the social anomy among the social members that reflects the chaos and anomy in the society. this article is allocated to social anomy among tabriz azad university students and effect of social capital on it. the research method ...

This paper presents a set of theoretical propositions regarding knowledge sharing in China and Russia. We argue that there are important national cultural similarities and differences between the two countries that result in certain similarities and differences in individual knowledge-sharing behaviour in Chinese and Russian organizations. We claim that vertical collectivism and particularistic...

according to the logic of 'weak ties' partnership organized through links with a wider range of people causes of social capital among a group of citizens will increase. so it seems, increasing participation among people, ultimately leading to increased cooperative activities among them. while the impact of social networks on political relations, much attention has been. there is very ...

Map generalisation seeks to maintain important map objects, patterns, and relationships, while suppressing unimportant ones. Hence, the spatial and semantic characteristics of map objects as well as the relations existing between them have to be detected, preserved and exploited for generalisation. Two main groups of relations can be differentiated: Horizontal relations exist on the same level ...

In this paper, a closedloop strategy in the vertical plane is derived in order to determine the thrust direction of a launch vehicle in terms of velocitiestobe gained The two velocities-to-be-gained are utilized, here, for a given altitude and zero vertical speed in a specied nal time The formulation is obtained for constant gravity assumption, but it works when the velocitiesto-be-gained are o...