today, women`s social health has become an important and critical issue. social health is the reflection of society`s conditions and it is derived from multiple social factors. intervention in these factors is beyond the medical profession and sociologists are required in this field. on the other hand, trust has become a vital topic in human communities in the present era. considering the effec...

the main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational trust and organizational justice components and their role on job involvement. the method of this research is descriptive and co-relational, and the statistical sample contains 350 employees and managers of education in meybod and ardakan (yazd). data collected by moorman's (1999) organizational justice qu...

OBJECTIVES We estimated adult binge drinking prevalence in US metropolitan areas. METHODS We analyzed 1997 and 1999 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data for 120 metropolitan areas in 48 states and the District of Columbia. RESULTS The prevalence of binge drinking varied substantially across metropolitan areas, from 4.1% in Chattanooga, Tenn, to 23.9% in San Antonio, Tex, (median ...

Questions of metropolitan governance were not on the agenda in Switzerland for decades. Swiss metropolitan areas are highly fragmented and the political entities rather compete than cooperate. Scholars therefore argued that Switzerland followed the idea of the public choice approach in metropolitan governance. However, recent changes indicate a move towards the ideas of the new regionalism appr...

BACKGROUND It remains unclear why living outside of an urban environment affects aspects of health, particularly whether these differences can be explained by other factors such as socioeconomic position (SEP). The aim of this study was to compare health risk factors between metropolitan and non-metropolitan young Australian adults and examine whether socioeconomic position (SEP) mediates any d...

mega city-regions or metropolitan regions- that was introduced for the first time in a cabinet article in 1995- are becoming a dominant form of human settlements both in developed and developing countries. despite of all contentious discussion on economic and demographic significance of metropolitan regions and so rationality of establishing a distinct structure for their effective management a...