• Different levels of authoritarian politics in different phases of the last 8 years - the recent phase intertwined with the Covid-19 crisis - are analysed in terms of their impact on civil society frameworks. (degruyter.com)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Corinne Graffunder is Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (who.int)
  • Jane Henley is an epidemiologist in the Cancer Surveillance Branch in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (who.int)
  • Traditionally, CSOs and civil society have been a vital part of Austria's society and welfare state. (degruyter.com)
  • We are particularly interested in proposals that explore new dimensions of social policy and social policy in under-researched welfare systems, such as those in low- or medium-income countries. (social-policy.org.uk)
  • Historical sources in British social welfare. (lse.ac.uk)
  • In Industry 4.0, enterprises have economic, social, and environmentally sustainable policies, and the implementation of these policies may lead to raising the national economy and society welfare. (igi-global.com)
  • In doing so, political parties contribute significantly to bridging gaps between different segments of society while striving towards achieving consensus on important matters such as economic policies, national security strategies, or social welfare programs. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Francis Lim is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Deputy Director, NTU University Scholars Programme. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • Joseph Chin Yong Liow is Tan Kah Kee Chair and Professor of Comparative and International Politics, School of Social Sciences, and Dean, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • K.K. Luke is President's Chair Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • A response to the National Science Foundation's dear colleague letter for SBE 2020: future research in the social, behavioral & economic sciences. (cdc.gov)
  • The social, behavioral and economic (SBE) sciences have played a role in reducing those costs over the years by developing management practices, workers' compensation insurance systems, and government policies that seek to eliminate dangerous workplaces. (cdc.gov)
  • She is Master of Social Sciences and currently conducting her PhD studies at the University Helsinki. (who.int)
  • While recognising the importance of rigorous research, we pay special attention to policy implications of our research and foreground the efforts to connect researchers and policy stakeholders, such as governments, NGOs, and communities. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • What are the social policy implications for a less-cash society and how might it impact different population groups? (mcgill.ca)
  • This article will focus on the tobacco control implications of tobacco litigation in Finland. (bmj.com)
  • and the many implications of design choices made by information professionals including social control and privacy, computer crime, electronic communities, and risks of safety critical systems to people. (edu.au)
  • The adjustments "were made after comprehensively considering the harm of the behaviors to the society, and aim to adapt to the new situations of the epidemic prevention and control," the official China Daily newspaper website said in a report on the notice. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Many policy measures to control the obesity epidemic assume that people consciously and rationally choose what and how much they eat and therefore focus on providing information and more access to healthier foods. (cdc.gov)
  • Many restrictive food-related policy-level interventions to address the obesity epidemic have been proposed but have yet to be adopted broadly, including taxes on low-nutrient foods and beverages, advertising restrictions, and restrictions on fast-food outlets. (cdc.gov)
  • Given the magnitude and cost of the growing obesity epidemic, society must go beyond current thinking in addressing the problem. (cdc.gov)
  • Street-Level Bordering Practices and Deservingness in Access to Social Services', 'Qualitative Longitudinal Research for Social Policy - Where are we now? (social-policy.org.uk)
  • The municipality of Paris shared its practices about the 'Solidarity Night' ("Nuit de la solidariété") and a national representative from Finland presented the key findings of the Housing First model in Helsinki (FI), alongside national policy commitments. (urbact.eu)
  • OBJECTIVES: The text proposes an analysis of medicalization in the problematization of social health policies, in some prevention practices in social control of bodies. (bvsalud.org)
  • INTRODUCTION: This article aims to think, in a thematic essay, the practices of risk management, specifically with regard to bodies of social groups disaffiliated by exclusion processes and even inclusion by the place of stigma as a position of subject. (bvsalud.org)
  • Many scholars and experts acknowledge that it is now a suitable time to discuss and develop appropriate mental health policies and practices across Europe, including specific political measures within the framework of European integration. (lu.se)
  • Its meaning varies depending on cultures, local beliefs, and practices.2 As a result, policymakers need to plan and implement relevant policies and measures based on the mental health representations of various populations, within different countries. (lu.se)
  • The research question is how early stage authoritarian governments influence the space for civil society in well-developed democracies and how this process develops when conditions for society change. (degruyter.com)
  • The aim of this paper is to explore how Knowledge Management (KM) and learning can be instrumental for governments' policy making and implementation, and to analyse how KM with the consideration of local culture and a bottom-up approach can increase its effectiveness. (researchgate.net)
  • His research interests encompass Muslim politics and social movements in Southeast Asia and the geopolitics and geoeconomics of the Asia Pacific region. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • On November 15, the CAC issued a notice that further restricted what opinions could be posted online and said the CAC would start to require detailed logs on users from internet and media firms as part of its new policy targeting dissenting opinion and social movements online. (state.gov)
  • These factions may include interest groups, social movements, or even marginalized communities seeking greater visibility and advocacy within the political realm. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Poverty was often thought to be a result of personal problems or imperfections, but during the 1960s, when the relationship between poverty, racism, sexism, and ageism became apparent, social movements occurred to do something about economic inequality. (majortests.com)
  • The number of homeless people have increased, and social movements have also emerged to assist them. (majortests.com)
  • The Policy & Society research cluster promotes interdisciplinary research on social, economic and policy issues, with a focus on Southeast Asia and other parts of Asia. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • Research will explore interactive dynamics between local, national, regional, and global actors, and unveil the forces and mechanisms behind social change, economic development, and governance transformation. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • His research interests revolve around religion and culture in various Asian cultures and societies. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • This paper shall contribute to fill these gaps by presenting a 3-stage research on the situation of the Austrian civil society. (degruyter.com)
  • Further research is required to explore efforts to influence tax structures, excise policies beyond the USA and recent policies. (bmj.com)
  • Much has been learnt about industry efforts to influence tobacco control policies, particularly through research on internal corporate documents released via litigation in the USA. (bmj.com)
  • Joy does research in Social Policy, International Security and Arms Control and International Relations. (researchgate.net)
  • Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 59 (2/3), 228-249. (springer.com)
  • You are introduced to the historical and contemporary development of social science disciplines, exploring examples of theoretical challenges and ways in which research is practically applied in society. (tees.ac.uk)
  • Research is needed at the social systems level to understand the social networks of small businesses and how those systems can be coordinated to better-deliver safety and health assistance. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Jeff Drope is Scientific Vice President of Economic and Health Policy Research at the American Cancer Society and Professor in Residence of Global Public Health at Marquette University. (who.int)
  • Despite legal loss, the litigation contributed to subsequent tobacco control legislation in Finland. (bmj.com)
  • In particular, we focus on the policy, political and social circumstances in which parent trigger legislation emerged in California, the efficacy of the school improvement levers on which it draws, and the underlying assumptions about democratic engagement that inform the approach. (tcrecord.org)
  • The interventions seek to promote healthy behaviours and empower individuals, families, households and communities to take necessary action and to reinforce the desired structural changes through policies, legislation and regulations. (who.int)
  • Health promotion involves information dissemination using multiple channels of communication to increase health knowledge and social mobilization, and requires policies, legislation and regulations to create an enabling environment for health promotion. (who.int)
  • Learn more about China's one-child policy. (britannica.com)
  • China's control over the country's artistic output was mentioned throughout the conversation, with the strict national policies having directly oriented Bing's first steps into filmmaking. (yahoo.com)
  • Through extensive literature review and stakeholder consultations, it has become evident that higher levels of financial exclusion for vulnerable cash-dependent demographics is the primary social policy implication of a less-cash society. (mcgill.ca)
  • To examine tobacco control implication of the first European product liability suit in Finland. (bmj.com)
  • Instead of assuming that the Syrian state will return to a centralized Leviathan holding a monopoly of force, deliberately employing proxies to establish segmented control and effectively administer territory within the structure of a cooperative wartime political order may create a system of violence management that paves the way to stability and positions the US to better exert regional influence. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The difference is made up in the social policies of Western Europe, which effectively reduce post-tax levels of economic inequality, paving way for less social inequality. (counterpunch.org)
  • this absence would render it nearly impossible for citizens to effectively voice their concerns and preferences regarding public policy decisions, ultimately diminishing their ability to hold elected officials accountable. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Therefore, structuring of the activities of enterprises, especially SMEs and health sector organizations within the framework of sustainability and establishing standards by establishing control mechanisms, plays an important role in the development of the country. (igi-global.com)
  • Without specific and to safeguard the sustainability of sustained policy action, this will not public expenditure on long-term change. (who.int)
  • In the following, we will analyse developments of conditions for the Austrian civil society with a focus on changing civic spaces and give insight into the impact of state-civil society relations under changing context conditions. (degruyter.com)
  • The intended effects of a policy vary widely according to the organization and the context in which they are made. (wikipedia.org)
  • All the people involved in my movies live in the same society, so we cannot simply unhook ourselves from the context. (yahoo.com)
  • In this context, self-determination and intrinsic motivation are linked to feeling in control of one's choices and behavior and are considered necessary for psychological well-being. (wikipedia.org)
  • The consumption of both food and alcohol is related to the social context in which the substance is consumed. (cdc.gov)
  • Both the community engagement approach and the social ecological model recognize the complex role played by context in the development of health problems as well as in the success or failure of attempts to address these problems. (cdc.gov)
  • Health promotion is defined in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986) as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.1 The fact that the ultimate outcome of effective health promotion interventions is a healthy and productive generation makes it a socially justifiable investment that leads to improved social and economic development. (who.int)
  • Effective implementation of health promotion interventions also requires sound planning, good management, systematic monitoring and evaluation, and partnership building among multiple development sectors including health, civil society, the private sector, households and communities. (who.int)
  • Effective policy interventions to control consumption of alcohol, another substance that, if consumed in excess, can lead to serious health consequences, focus on limiting access to alcoholic beverages by restricting where, when, and by whom they can be purchased and consumed. (cdc.gov)
  • CSOs are particularly active in social services, health care and education. (degruyter.com)
  • constitutes=social control }} '''Stress''' is generally considered an un[[health]]y and disabling influence. (wikispooks.com)
  • Tobacco litigation might not stand alone as a tool for public health policymaking but it may well stimulate national debate over the role of smoking in society and influence the policy agenda. (bmj.com)
  • Within a socialist society, we would thus expect a radical redistribution of income and wealth, more power and enfranchisement of the working class, and public ownership and control of many important services and industries (education, transportation, and health care, among others). (counterpunch.org)
  • From public health care systems to public schooling initiatives, unemployment insurance, and social security programs, the U.S. lags behind its Western European counterparts in many areas. (counterpunch.org)
  • We adopt housing is therefore relevant for a common vision that is not all citizens and has a tremendous stigmatising older age when influence on our health and we discuss how housing should look wellbeing, our social interactions like in the future. (who.int)
  • Factors such as stable economies, strong health systems and supportive social environments are associated everywhere with well-being and security. (who.int)
  • Health promotion is defined in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986) as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. (who.int)
  • In contrast, many regulations that do not assume people make rational choices have been successfully applied to control alcohol, a substance - like food - of which immoderate consumption leads to serious health problems. (cdc.gov)
  • INTRODUCTION: This article presents some considerations about medicalization, society and politics, especially from some analyses of Brazilian contexts in relations with health and society. (bvsalud.org)
  • The social ecological model conceptualizes health broadly and focuses on multiple factors that might affect health. (cdc.gov)
  • This broad approach to thinking of health, advanced in the 1947 Constitution of the World Health Organization, includes physical, mental, and social well-being (World Health Organization, 1947). (cdc.gov)
  • The social ecological model understands health to be affected by the interaction between the individual, the group/community, and the physical, social, and political environments (Israel et al. (cdc.gov)
  • This approach focuses on integrating approaches to change the physical and social environments rather than modifying only individual health behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • Health status, emotional well-being, and social cohesion are influenced by the physical, social, and cultural dimensions of the individual's or community's environment and personal attributes (e.g., behavior patterns, psychology, genetics). (cdc.gov)
  • The same environment may have different effects on an individual's health depending on a variety of factors, including perceptions of ability to control the environment and financial resources. (cdc.gov)
  • There are personal and environmental "leverage points," such as the physical environment, available resources, and social norms, that exert vital influences on health and well-being. (cdc.gov)
  • To inform its health promotion programs, CDC (2007) created a four-level model of the factors affecting health that is grounded in social ecological theory, as illustrated in Figure 1.2. (cdc.gov)
  • The third level, community, explores the settings in which people have social relationships, such as schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods, and seeks to identify the characteristics of these settings that affect health. (cdc.gov)
  • His work seeks to integrate the two different policy areas in proactive ways that engender both improved public health outcomes and economic prosperity. (who.int)
  • She has subject matter expertise in prevention strategies, population health and health system transformation, focusing on a wide range of fields including tobacco use prevention and control, the prevention of violence and the prevention of non-communicable diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer. (who.int)
  • Prior to joining the Office on Smoking and Health, she held the position of Deputy Associate Director for Policy in CDC's Office of the Director. (who.int)
  • She received her doctorate from the University of North Carolina, Department of Health Policy and Management. (who.int)
  • Through interviews with 25 stakeholders, this policy brief reflects on an understanding of a less-cash society through the lenses of advocacy groups, researchers, and policymakers that possess knowledge on the financial habits of vulnerable populations. (mcgill.ca)
  • 3. All stakeholders need incentives want to keep living for as long as appropriate to their needs and Imagine a society where such houses we possibly can. (who.int)
  • For academics, Marx is particularly notable for the central focus he placed on social class, defined by one's relationship to the means of production. (counterpunch.org)
  • OBJETIVOS: O texto propõe uma analítica da medicalização na problematização das políticas sociais de saúde, em algumas práticas de prevenção em controle social dos corpos. (bvsalud.org)
  • OBJETIVOS: O texto aborda a construção de uma segurança racista que se difunde em nome da defesa social e da proteção como controle regular, na articulação das leis com as normas no chamado Estado Democrático de Direito. (bvsalud.org)
  • Studies were included if they focused on industry efforts to influence tobacco tax policies, drew on empirical evidence, were in English and concerned the period 1985-2010. (bmj.com)
  • Activists continue to evoke his name in their struggles, academics continue to engage with his work in ways that are multidisciplinary and multivalent, and social scientists continue to test his empirical claims. (counterpunch.org)
  • She is responsible for providing broad leadership and direction for all scientific, policy, communication and programmatic issues related to tobacco prevention and control. (who.int)
  • Further, they show both the vulnerability of civil society regarding framework conditions - e.g. posed by the pandemic - and politics but also its strategies of resilience. (degruyter.com)
  • Further, scholars are just beginning to analyse consequences of other framework conditions such as the Covid-19 crises on civil society. (degruyter.com)
  • Kling R, Rosenbaum H and Sawyer S 2005, Understanding and communicating social informatics: A framework for studying and teaching the human contexts of Information and communication technologies, Medford, NJ: Information Today. (edu.au)
  • In the framework of the United Nations, fundamental rights like self-determination are mainly defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. (wikipedia.org)
  • Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Broadly, policies are typically instituted to avoid some negative effect that has been noticed in the organization, or to seek some positive benefit. (wikipedia.org)
  • Policies can be understood as political, managerial , financial, and administrative mechanisms arranged to reach explicit goals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Law does not operate in a social vacuum, and it is only one of the institutional mechanisms which society can utilize to implement its policies. (druglibrary.org)
  • This difference is sometimes caused by political compromise over policy, while in other situations it is caused by lack of policy implementation and enforcement. (wikipedia.org)
  • Choice of this social control policy does not automatically dictate any particular legal implementation. (druglibrary.org)
  • We note that parent trigger policies advance a market-based understanding of democracy that contributes to the shift toward the privatization of public schooling. (tcrecord.org)
  • Noteworthy with this change was the accompanying promise from the government that it would also be enacting supportive policy changes in areas such as employment, finance, childcare, and education to address the social and economic reasons why couples had thus far hesitated to have more children. (britannica.com)
  • Suffice to say, though, that since the turn of the 20th century, many countries have implemented social programs aimed at tackling social and economic inequalities. (counterpunch.org)
  • I will use this article to explain the inequalities of poverty issues that has been ignored and taken away from many people who are considered underclass within our society. (majortests.com)
  • Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an organization. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unless policy makers promote a more deliberative model of community engagement, empowerment, and school governance, it is likely that parent trigger could contribute to continual corruption of democratic institutions and avenues for school governance. (tcrecord.org)
  • Even still, with social programs including Medicare and Medicaid, U.S. life expectancy (used here as a rough measure of quality of life) has risen across socioeconomic strata. (counterpunch.org)
  • Higher levels of positive development in emerging adulthood were associated with stronger family and peer relationships, better adjustment to the school setting, higher family socioeconomic status, and better emotional control. (springer.com)
  • written by Max Bell School Master of Public Policy students Aftab Ahmed, Sokhema Sreang, Hayley Krieger, and Megan Warsame as part of the 2023 Policy Lab. (mcgill.ca)
  • The initial examination of the emergence of parent trigger considers public policy positions, media statements, and press accounts to trace the nuances of this policy landscape. (tcrecord.org)
  • Age- environments makes it very clear friendly housing helps individuals that adapting our housing has requiring care and support to incredible potential to promote continue to live in their own homes, The most important reason to push age-friendly independent and healthy lives by facilitating access to home care housing as a public policy is that people at all ages1. (who.int)
  • In the UK, a public policy approach. (who.int)
  • Objective To systematically review studies of tobacco industry efforts to influence tobacco tax policies. (bmj.com)
  • Policies can assist in both subjective and objective decision making . (wikipedia.org)
  • In contrast, policies to assist in objective decision-making are usually operational in nature and can be objectively tested, e.g. password policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • This policy brief presents findings on cash usage, patterns of cash access, and the interactions of vulnerable groups with cash. (mcgill.ca)
  • While the law can compel or prohibit behaviors (e.g. a law requiring the payment of taxes on income), policy merely guides actions toward those that are most likely to achieve the desired outcome. (wikipedia.org)
  • Themed section proposals are welcome on any topic that has a strong social policy focus and has the potential to contribute to contemporary social policy debates. (social-policy.org.uk)
  • Formulating policy recommendations that can shape the organizational philosophy, culture, and focus areas of the BoC, the financial system committees BoC engages with, and other pertinent federal agencies. (mcgill.ca)
  • Elderly populations with lower education levels and subgroups susceptible to respiratory infections and sepsis should be the focus of preventive policies. (cdc.gov)
  • Some significant gender differences were observed, with emotional control, family relationships, and community orientation all being stronger predictors of males' than of females' positive development. (springer.com)
  • Finally, relatedness refers to the need to experience warm and caring social relationships and feel connected to others. (wikipedia.org)
  • In contrast, schools are quickly adopting policies to control the nutritional quality of school meals and snacks. (cdc.gov)
  • Taking a multidisciplinary approach, explore crime through history, politics, English and creative writing, criminology, sociology, psychology and education to investigate the problems within society and culture. (tees.ac.uk)
  • Her training is in the field of social psychology. (who.int)
  • For three years, the cities of Braga (PT), Glasgow (UK), Liège (BE), Odense (DK), Pozńan (PL), Thessaloniki (EL), Toulouse Métropole (FR) and Timisoara (RO) have tested new ways of working and changing people's mindset to change local and national policy-making, thus, putting the Housing First model in action. (urbact.eu)
  • The inclusion of a state-of-the-art article and a short guide to useful sources help to make these themed sections an invaluable resource for academics, policy-makers and students. (social-policy.org.uk)
  • With its more recent developments, Austria offers a good illustration of the interplay between civil society and politics because the country has experienced disruptive changes in the political landscape. (degruyter.com)
  • After decades of relatively good cooperation of politics with many CSOs, from 2017 to 2019, a right-wing populist government brought about massive changes in the social climate, in civil society's political participation, and in the economic situation of critical organizations critical of the government. (degruyter.com)
  • Political parties play a crucial role in shaping the political landscape of societies worldwide. (fsmm2008.org)
  • In addition to facilitating citizen engagement, political parties serve as vital mediators between the government and society at large. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Through embracing transparency in political financing, societies can take important steps toward building fairer electoral systems. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Transitioning from the previous section, where transparency in political financing was emphasized as essential, it becomes evident that ensuring fair and equal representation in elections is another crucial aspect of a functioning democratic society. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Further, we conclude that political and philosophical considerations should also be considered when examining the potential of parent trigger policies. (tcrecord.org)
  • Here, self-determination denotes that a people, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity, have the right to freely choose their sovereignty, international political status, economic, social, and cultural development with no interference. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aim of this essay is to think about events in a historical-social and political perspective, explaining medicalizing processes of public policies. (bvsalud.org)
  • Thus, social mobility is far more likely in Western Europe than in the U.S. (counterpunch.org)
  • These are of central importance to tobacco companies because they are one of the most effective policy levers for tobacco control, 6-8 and because tax levels and structures impact on profits. (bmj.com)
  • Policy or policy study may also refer to the process of making important organizational decisions, including the identification of different alternatives such as programs or spending priorities, and choosing among them on the basis of the impact they will have. (wikipedia.org)
  • In public corporate finance, a critical accounting policy is a policy for a firm/company or an industry that is considered to have a notably high subjective element, and that has a material impact on the financial statements . (wikipedia.org)
  • As we noted in Chapter 1, there is a disturbing tendency among participants in the marihuana debate to assume that a given statement of the drug's effects, its number of users or its social impact compels a particular statutory scheme. (druglibrary.org)
  • This unit explores the impact of informatics on society in areas such as e-government, e-leaning and e-law. (edu.au)
  • Digital self-determination is a multidisciplinary concept derived from the legal concept of self-determination and applied to the digital sphere, to address the unique challenges to individual and collective agency and autonomy arising with increasing digitalization of many aspects of society and daily life. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1 Systematic reviews of particular policy areas within this literature can provide succinct overviews, 2-4 enabling common industry tactics and arguments, as well as any important gaps in the evidence base, to be identified. (bmj.com)
  • Bing was steadfast in denying having set out to portray poverty in itself, but instead reflected on how the situation in the film acts as a starting point to reflect on social issues, such as birth control policies and the separation between parents and children once providers need to leave rural areas to put food on the table. (yahoo.com)
  • Pediculosis capitis results in significant psychological stress in children and adults and missed schooldays in children, particularly in areas with a no-nit policy. (medscape.com)
  • They suggest the tobacco industry works hard to prevent significant increases and particularly dislikes taxes 'earmarked' for tobacco control. (bmj.com)
  • 2 , 5 This systematic review examines studies investigating tobacco industry efforts to influence tobacco tax policies. (bmj.com)
  • Karin Bäckstrand is a professor of environmental social science at Stockholm University. (sns.se)
  • The actions the organization actually takes may often vary significantly from stated policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Implementing policy may have unexpected results, stemming from a policy whose reach extends further than the problem it was originally crafted to address. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another consequence of the policy was a growing proportion of elderly people, the result of the concurrent drop in children born and rise in longevity since 1980. (britannica.com)
  • President Johnson waged a war on poverty that resulted in the creation of programs that constituted a social safety net that were designed to keep people out of poverty. (majortests.com)
  • Criminology is the study of crime within society, but, what is crime, why do people offend and what should we do with criminals? (tees.ac.uk)
  • Other community-wide policies more readily adopted include increasing access to fruits and vegetables and menu labeling, both of which assume that people will make better choices with more access and relevant information. (cdc.gov)
  • Conduct education programs to help people make wise choices to improve nutritional intake, increase their physical activity, and control their weight. (cdc.gov)
  • A comparison of temperament and social skills in predicting academic performance in first graders. (springer.com)
  • The term may apply to government, public sector organizations and groups, as well as individuals, Presidential executive orders , corporate privacy policies , and parliamentary rules of order are all examples of policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Authorities continued tight control of all print, broadcast, electronic, and social media and regularly used them to propagate government views and CCP ideology. (state.gov)
  • Civilian authorities maintained control of security forces. (state.gov)
  • Second, the specific policy is supported by this evidence according to at least one of the individual's or organization's preferences in the given policy area. (wikipedia.org)
  • Further, they provide social services and receive large shares of their funding from public sources. (degruyter.com)
  • The Islamic State's ability to control territory and provide services will frustrate attempts that rely strictly on kinetic means such as armed guerrilla forces or air strikes to defeat it. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • As Canada's central bank, the BoC's core functions include anchoring monetary policy, issuing currency, providing fund management services, and supervising retail payments. (mcgill.ca)
  • The government tightened ideological control over media and public discourse by restructuring its regulatory system. (state.gov)
  • The results shed light on the complex interplay between civil society and the government. (degruyter.com)
  • Traditionally tobacco excise taxes have been implemented as a means of accruing government revenue but they are increasingly also being used for tobacco control. (bmj.com)
  • Right-wing ideology states that the poor should be helped solely by private charity and that poverty is largely a personal problem, whereas the more egalitarian liberals are largely of the opinion that it is the moral obligation of our government to provide for the less fortunate and that poverty is a social ill. (majortests.com)
  • ŚCSI, “Strategy for information society development – Silesian province 2020+. (crossref.org)
  • Before joining Oxfam, she worked at the Partnerships and Resource Development Department, at the secretariat of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. (researchgate.net)
  • Development of an Australian index of social class. (springer.com)
  • Dr. Graffunder's expertise is in policy development, program management, strategic planning, and public and partner communication. (who.int)