Background and Aim: The human mental health is a multidimensional and complex issue affected by a wide range of biological, psychological, sociological, economic and cultural factors. Considering the social nature of human life, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between some social variables, e.g., social support, social bond, social trust and social status, and teac...

This Paper aims to measure social health of the youth. The theoretical framework of this research is based on the standard indicators of Keynesian and methodology of the survey is cross-correlation too. The population included 18-30 years old youth in South Khorasan in Ghaen. The sample size of 400 cases was selected based on f Cochran Formula through random cluster sampling and standardized qu...

Declining response rates to surveys is a widespread and troubling problem. Unit non-response (when a household is not interviewed at all) has been rising in most surveys. For example, unit non-response rates rose by 3-12 percentage points over the 1990s for six U.S. Census Bureau surveys (Atrostic et al. 2001). Many recent papers have raised the concern that this increased non-response has led ...

Background and Aim: Social capital is a social component affecting health outcomes considered to be one of the important factors influencing health inequity in the communities; it is one of the main concerns of health system in the suburbs. This study aimed to determine social capital and its relationships with demographic factors and perceived health status in the suburbs of Mashhad, Iran in 2...

Mental health plays an important role in ensuring the dynamism and efficiency of every community. Since human resources have crucial role in the cultural, social and economical developments of communities, students also are the brilliant segments of society and creators of future of each country therefore, assessing of their mental health is of utmost importance. The aim of the present study is...

the purpose of research was identifying the relationship between social capital and performance of agricultural extension experts, khouzestan province, iran. the method of research was a descriptive-correlative. the sample size was agricultural extension experts (n=98). a five-point likert-type scale was used as instrument to gather data in order to measure the social capital. data were analyze...

OBJECTIVES Racial differences in self-rated health at older ages are well documented. African Americans consistently report poorer health, even when education, income, and other health status indicators are controlled. The extent to which neighborhood-level characteristics mediate this association remains largely unexplored. We ask whether neighborhood social and economic resources help to expl...

objective: the aim of this paper is to investigate whether the combination of paid employment promotes or challenges the quality of life of married employed and unemployed women in iran. method: the samples consisted of 250 married employed women (175 professionals and 75 non-professionals) and 250 married unemployed. stratified convenience sampling technique was used for the selection of the s...

This article analyses the role played by childhood circumstances, especially social and family background in explaining health status among older adults. We explore the hypothesis of an intergenerational transmission of health inequalities using the French part of SHARE. As the impact of both social background and parents' health on health status in adulthood represents circumstances independen...