political trust addresses the relation between people and state. researches say political trust has had a declining trend in iran since the victory of the revolution. religion is among the factors which affect political trust, and has been emphasized in the theories of the classical and contemporary sociologists and social capital theorists. this fact is more considerable in iran where a religi...

he purpose of this paper is to study the social and cultural factors that influence on youth's social trust in Mazandaran province. The theoreticalframework is based on social system theory in the form of action(T.Parsons) and the structure-agency of Anthony Giddens. The population is20 to 29 years old of Sari and Babol. 280 people were selected as the sample size. Sampling method is multi-stag...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess relations of laws prohibiting over-the-counter syringe sales (anti-OTC laws) to population prevalence of injection drug users and HIV prevalence or incidence among 96 US metropolitan areas. METHODS A cross-sectional analysis was used. RESULTS Metropolitan areas with anti-OTC laws had a higher mean HIV prevalence (13.8% vs 6.7%) than other metropolitan ...

The authors find evidence of income convergence across all substate labor markets in the lower forty-eight U.S. states during the 1969 to 1999 period. However, convergence is not expressed in a uniform way across metropolitan/nonmetropolitan regions, across time periods, or across census regions. The authors show that catching up within the distribution is more common for nonmetropolitan region...

This paper examines the relationship between job sprawl and the spatial mismatch between blacks and jobs. Using data from a variety of sources including the U.S. Census and the ZIP Code Business Patterns of the U.S. Department of Commerce, I control extensively for metropolitan area characteristics and other factors. In addition, I use metropolitan area physical geography characteristics as ins...

This paper focuses on the relationship between metropolitan and regional health planning based on the processes of regionalization and the Pact for Health in the Baixada Santista Metropolitan Area, São Paulo State, Brazil. The method used was a case study in two stages, namely during initial implementation of the Pact for Health (2007) and the Regional Administration Committees (CGR) and in 201...

Although invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) accounts for only a minority of the infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae (such as pneumonia and otitis media), it is associated with the most severe disease and is readily measured, as it is by definition associated with a sterile site isolate. The Metropolitan NSW Pneumococcal Study Group was formed in 1997 to generate data describing the a...