The primary goals of the law are to develop the field of mental health, to standardize mental health services and to protect the legal rights and interests of persons with mental disorders. Despite having a common goal of addressing the complicated problem of mental disorders, drafting the law was a long and tortuous process because of the competing interests of the various stakeholders: patien...

Prior research investigating online communities has revealed several different types of communities, including those that are formed to support members with shared professional interests. One characteristic of these online communities is the creation and stewardship of collective goods. One particularly interesting example of such a collective good is the archive that is created out of the onli...

Social development undoubtedly requires people participation in different domains. It seems without participation, we cannot achieve a people-centered, inclusive and sustainable social development. In the social development process, all citizens with various ethnic and religious interests are able to affect on all the social phenomena and variables, based on their competencies and mental capaci...

Devolution or authority for health care is evaluated in the context of 3 objectives of provincial governments--community empowerment to garner new allies for health care restructuring, service integration to create a true "system" and conflict containment as spending is cut. Devolved authorities cannot pursue each of these objectives with equal vigour because they must balance the competing pre...

Understanding user communities and identifying change within them is important for a range of organisations, including those concerned with cultural heritage. In this paper we present an exploratory study which uses dynamic social network analysis of posts from the Tumblr blogging site relating to the Tate galleries to observe user community change. In addition, we apply two versions of topic m...

This paper presents the results of a participatory research project conducted by the Tokyo Citizens' Council for Health Promotion (Citizens' Council) to enhance vision sharing, thereby aiding the implementation of Healthy Town initiatives. The Citizens' Council conducted a survey to elucidate citizen interests and expectations regarding Healthy Towns. The project had three stages: (i) a survey;...