Solidarity websites, such as The Hunger Site, where people can donate food at no financial cost and minimal effort, have become immensely popular and effective since 1999. These new forms of philanthropy are characterized by wide participation and direct assistance and feedback. The present longitudinal, quasi-experimental study aimed to examine whether online solidarity can be predicted by off...

By Dr. A.A. MacDonald, Director Coady International Institute In August 1982, the Coady International Institute sponsored a consultation on the development of workers' co-operatives. Workers' co-operatives were selected primarily because of their potential as instruments of human and institutional development. Moreover, during the past decade, there has been a significant resurgence of workers'...

OBJECTIVES Although community-based health insurance (CBHI) seemed promising to improve access to health care, its implementation has been slow and laborious. We hypothesize that the existing tension between the competing objectives of solidarity and financial sustainability that are pursued by CBHI may partly account for this. This paper aims to evaluate if there is a gap between CBHI subscrib...

cooperatives can be considered as suitable means to achieve social and economic development, employment and participation. undoubtedly, rural women's membership in cooperatives can be really useful in the process of rural development. social capital is one of the key determinants of women's participation in different social activities. social capital may act directly through physical ...

The subjective well-being concerns peoples' self-reported assessment of their own wellbeing, namely both health and quality of life (1, 2). It is an issue of concern for university students (3, 4). The aim of the current study was to examine the level of subjective wellbeing among students in maritime business administration departments followed in university. We have performed this descriptive...

The ethical aspects of biobanks and forensic DNA databases are often treated as separate issues. As a reflection of this, public participation, or the involvement of citizens in genetic databases, has been approached differently in the fields of forensics and medicine. This paper aims to cross the boundaries between medicine and forensics by exploring the flows between the ethical issues presen...

profiles that are being published by different organisations (such as “health in transition”). The recent votes in France and the Netherlands against the European Constitution showed that the “democratic deficit” is not just the concern of the new member states. A democratic revolution should become an integral part of the ongoing healthcare reforms. WHO supports this process, since “participat...

This research studies organizational and structural barriers in women's participation in the administrative structure of Iran emphasizing on women working in private sector in district 6 of Tehran and hypotheses have been propounded among structural, organizational and cultural factors and women's participation and research method in this research is based on survey method and in this order qua...