Social risk indicators

In this paper, all possible flood-causative factors of road flooding have been investigated. Representative indicators have been chosen to reduce the mutual influence and its derivative, including road characteristics, climatic factors, hydrological characteristics, geology environmental factors (topographical characteristics) and social factors (human activities).

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The results indicate that the highest level of double energy vulnerability is among households that face a combination of multiple socio-demographic disadvantages alongside relative spatial peripheralisation. We signal future research directions and policy implications arising from these findings.

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Integrated social care may help to mitigate social risk factors in order to achieve more equitable health outcomes. In cancer centers certified according to the criteria set out by the German Cancer Society, every patient must be given low-threshold access to qualified social workers at the center for in-house social service counseling (SSC).

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The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that are affecting startup performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Mekong Delta Region, in which this paper also analysis the important role of corporate social responsibility affecting firm’s startup performance. The study results indicate the suitability of the research model with data’s research as well as the acceptance of the hypothesis in corporate social responsibility (CSR).

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Considering sustainability disclosure become one important issue, while still there no universal agreement for the guidance, this study aims to examine Indonesia’s Sustainability Disclosure trend using GRI as quantity dimension, KLD for the quality, and readability and PROPER to measure how well they communicate. This study uses a sample of 224 firm-year observation from 2013 to 2017 based on GRI database. Descriptive analytic employed to figure disclosure trend in general, year to year, and industry base, and Pearson to explain correlation between measurements.

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The study investigates the relationship between entrepreneurial attitude, self-efficacy, social capital, country norms and entrepreneurial intention. The result of this research indicates that a large proportion of students only study and only a small percentage of them study and run their own business. In terms of willingness to take the risks, the highest figure belongs to the neutral level. In addition, the correlation coefficient and multiple regressions analysis indicate that all four factors were positively associated with entrepreneurial intention.

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The medical literature reports differential decision-making for children with suspected physical abuse based on race and socioeconomic status. Differential evaluation may be related to differences of risk indicators in these populations or differences in physicians’ perceptions of abuse risk.

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Infant mental health is a significant public health issue as early adversity and exposure to early childhood stress are significant risk factors that may have detrimental long-term developmental consequences for the affected children. Negative outcomes are seen on a range of areas such as physical and mental health, educational and labor market success, social network and establishing of family.

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Promoting equity and active citizenship: IPTS research results indicate that social media approaches to learning can mitigate existing inequalities and can be employed to successfully re-engage individuals who are at risk of exclusion from the knowledge society. Learning 2.0 strategies can effectively increase the accessibility and availability of learning opportunities for the hard to reach, and can significantly improve motivation and engagement in learning.

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The license fee itself is defended by many as a guarantee of autonomy and the means to provide a direct link between broadcasters and the public. As Papathanassopoulos (2007: 156) argues, in contrast to the license fee, “Direct public or government funding may, in one way or another, seriously affect public broadcasters’ independence, or in the best case, the public perception of their independence.

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Standardised, regularly available indicators to explain market developments for microfinance in Europe do not yet exist, or refer to Eastern Europe. Thus, we will focus in this section on the framework conditions for microfinance which are covered by the regularly updated Eurostat indicators for poverty and social inclusion, and by data on micro-enterprises. Specific aspects of the current crisis will be discussed later in this paper.

54p khanhchilam 29-03-2013 61 9   Download

In 2007, a UNICEF report on the well-being of children around the world, ranked the UK at the bottom of the world’s 21 richest countries. For all six parameters: material well-being, health and safety, educational well-being, family and peer relationships, behaviour and risks and subjective well-being, the UK was amongst the bottom five countries (UNICEF 2007). Since then, there has been considerable debate in the UK about ways to measure and enhance children’s well-being.

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The changing presence of the Internet from a medium for elites to one in common use in our everyday lives raises important questions about its impact on access to resources, social interaction, and commitment to local community. This book brings together studies that cover the impact of “the Internet” in everyday life in the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, India, Japan and globally. These studies show the Internet as a complex landscape of applications, purposes and users.

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Our first preface in 1993 emphasized that this book was A, not, The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness. Today, more than ever, it is quite a risk to write ‘The Sociology’ of anything. Moreover, as the wide-ranging references listed at the end of the book indicate, we continue to draw our material from sociology but also many other sources, including psychology and psychiatry. Sociological analyses of our topic are not offered only by sociologists.

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Similar patterns are seen when the US, Canada, and Sweden are compared on numerous social de- velopment and population health indicators [14,15]. Sweden fares the best, the US the worse, and Canada comes up the middle. These findings indicate that political and economic forces play a strong role in population health. Population health theory and re- search in Canada and elsewhere however, focus on a number of mid-level “social determinants of health” with little recognition of the role political and eco- nomic forces play in the quality of these health deter- minants [16–19].

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Develop initiatives to increase understanding of early social and emotional development. Developing initiatives to increase public understanding of the important developmental needs and milestones for children, as well as information on supporting those milestones, is a critical way to promote social, emotional and behavioral health. Information about early childhood mental health, early indicators of risk and mental health disorders and ways that parents can best support their child’s early social and emotional development can be shared through a variety of means.

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A summary of the different styles of hedge funds and the proportion of the market they occupy is shown in Table 4, based on Hedge Fund Industry Research data. An indication of the broad activity involved in the style is shown on the right hand side. Most of these strategies are long-short in nature: all of the equity hedge (e.g. long a stock and long a put to hedge its fall); most of event driven (e.g. buy the target M&A company and sell the buyer); all of relative value arbitrage (e.g. buy the London listing and sell the...

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Although the evidence base on social inequalities and environmental risk is fragmented and data are often available for few countries only, it indicates that inequalities are a major challenge for environmental health policies. The review confirms that people living in adverse socioeconomic conditions in Europe can suffer twice as much from multiple and cumulative environmental exposures as their wealthier neighbours, or even more.

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