This article investigates the contexts, or "listening niches", in which people hear popular music. The study spanned a century of popular music, divided into 10 decades, with participants born between 1940 and 1999. It asks about whether they know and like the music in each decade, and their emotional reactions. It also asks whether the music is associated with personal memories and, if so, wit...

The article by Homedes and Ugalde in this week’s issue of PLoS Medicine is an important addition to the global discussion about Mexico’s 2003 health reform, the Seguro Popular (SP) [1]. While this reform has been controversial in Mexico [2], it has been highly praised in international circles. The Lancet ran a special series on the reform in 2006, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton lauded S...

research on popular music in iran has a short history. perhaps the article “sociology of the music of the masses in iran”, published in 1980, can be considered as the first methodological and systematic study on the popular music in iran.  in that article, the researcher, using marxist and neo-marxist approaches to study popular music, provides a general view on the music of the masses of the p...

Background. Music has been seen as a motivator to help individuals who are not persistent enough to do a full set of exercises. However, the effect of long-term using music has not been determined, especially for amateur students who participated in Physical Education courses. Objectives: The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of popular music on female physical fitness students w...

popular music has various functions in social intreactions. this study tries to answer the questions, “what are the roles of popular music in creating and developing social capital?” and through what mechanisms it leads to the generation of social capital?” the research method used in this study was qualitative including grounded theory strategy. the research data were collected through in-dept...

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the consequences of the introduction of Seguro Popular, a program designed to provide affordable health services to almost 50 million people uninsured by Social Security in Mexico. The evidence so far shows that Seguro Popular has been a very effective tool in reducing catastrophic health expenditures for Mexican families. However, the literature has...

OBJECTIVE In the context of aiming to achieve universal health coverage in Mexico, this study compares access to prescribed medicines (ATPM) between Seguro Popular (SP) and non-SP affiliated outpatient health service users. MATERIALS AND METHODS ATPM by 6,123 users of outpatient services was analyzed using the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012. Adjusted bi-probit models were performed...