BACKGROUND Extremely high rates of mortality and morbidity have been reported among people with intellectual disabilities. Virtually no research has addressed the potential social determinants of health status within this very vulnerable population. METHOD Cross-sectional survey of self-reported health status and indicators of socioeconomic disadvantage and social connectedness in 1273 Englis...

The form of cities does affect the way people use cities. The way people use cities does affect the urban quality of life, the richness of local economy, the level of social cohesion, the level of safety and equity, the amount and the kind of human activities in public spaces. The above are all components of the urban sustainability issue. Making a reflection on urban form relevant to urban (so...

Albert D. Biderman, Ph.D., Washington, D.C., is Senior Research Associate, Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc., Washington, D.C. He explored uses of crime statistics as social indicators in a recent monograph on Social Indicators and Goals (1966). His broader interest in the regulation of behavior by social codes is reflected in the books March to Calumny: American Prisoners in the Korean W...

This paper discusses the importance of Science Technology and Innovation (ST&I) for the development of countries, as well the indicators used in the several activities that is involved in this system, with the presentation of the indicators employed nowadays to measure the scientific and technological effort in Brazil’s social and economical development. In addition to that, it also takes into ...

This chapter examines recent social policy research on social exclusion, exploring the way in which the term has been conceptualized and defi ned. It discusses research on the multidimensional measurement of social exclusion, on the process of social exclusion, and on the use of social indicators to monitor trends in social exclusion across countries over time. The empirical research that has c...

This essay examines some outcomes of two decades of market oriented reforms in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). In general, economic performance, measured by growth of per capita incomes, has not been encouraging, despite far reaching reforms, including privatization, liberalization, and deep regional integration. Social indicators suggest that poverty reduction has not bee...

Sustainable design-centered manufacturing (SDM) will create competitive advantages for future new product development. However, selecting and balancing the indicators for economic, environmental, and social sustainability is difficult. In this research, we define the major indicators of social sustainability for development of SDM and propose a Balanced Scorecard method to evaluate the weightin...

A majority of social network research deals with explicitly formed social networks. Although only rarely acknowledged for its existence, we believe that implicit social networks play a significant role in the overall dynamics of social networks. We propose a framework to evaluate the dynamics and characteristics of a set of explicit and associated implicit social networks. Specifically, we prop...

It is important to enable social service agency practitioners to identify cases in which seniors are abused by their caregivers. The Indicators of Abuse (IOA) screening measure provides an abuse screening tool, based on abuse indicators, for use by practitioners. The study (N = 341) supports the validity of the 29-item set of indicators of the IOA, which discriminates abuse cases (84.4% of the ...