Child welfare services (CWS) rely on referrals from professionals and civilians to address maltreatment and behavioural problems. To our knowledge, no prior study explored to what extent children who self-reported severe exposure to maltreatment or behavioural problems are referred to the CWS. This ...
Has Sweden always flown the flag for equality and welfare? No, that is a misleading, romanticized picture, according to Erik Bengtsson from the School of Economics and Management at Lund University in Sweden. "Sweden is romanticised internationally as the small country in the north that took th...
How Does the Constitution Reflect the Principle of Limited Government? In the United States, the Constitution divides the government into three separate branches, with separate powers and constraints. All three must work together to enact new policies and laws. At the time the Constitution was writt...
Does local governance matter? The relationship between village government and social welfare in Indian states. Does the decentralization of political power to village governments impact social wellbeing? If so, what types of village governments are more effective at managing and implementing social progra...
In Sweden, the national diabetes guidelines are developed by the National Board of Health and Welfare [5]. The provision of healthcare is, however, the responsibility of the 21 semi-autonomous regions, and each region decides whether and when a clinical decision support system (CDSS) should be...
Although the negative direct effect does not reach significant, it can offset the positive indirect effect. In short, these variables have no significant direct influence but significant indirect influence on use behaviour, the total effect is not significant. This study finds that habit shows more ...
Why has Denmark pulled away from Sweden and Norway? For that matter, why are its returns only a hair’s breadth behind superpower USA – winner of the 20th Century? It’s not like Denmark qualified as an Anglophone, New World, emerging market in 1900. ...
Additionally, the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare have identified that there is a need of more material, education, and working methods to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors within primary CHC [6]. They have also stated that the CHC system needs to develop and adjust their way of...
government level. Both social security satisfaction and life satisfaction partially mediated the relationship between social security fairness and overall trust in government. Social security fairness indirectly positively predicted trust in local government at the county and township levels through social ...
C: However, it is recognized that this definition is limited as it does not take into account such variables as age, gender and ethnic origin, the latter being important as different ethnic groups have very different fat distributions. Another shortcoming is that it is not applicable to certain...