Social Values
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Impact of individual values on adherence to emergency contraception practice guidelines among pediatric residents: implications for training.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of individual, system, and interpersonal factors on emergency contraception practices. We hypothesized that abortion attitudes and attitudes toward teen sex would be significant individual factors influencing ... Read more...

Neural basis of individualistic and collectivistic views of self.

30 Aug 2009 Individualism and collectivism refer to cultural values that influence how people construe themselves and their relation to the world. Individualists perceive themselves as stable entities, autonomous from other people and their environment, while ... Read more...

Bioethics & human rights: access to health-related goods.

30 Aug 2009 There are many good reasons for a merger between bioethics and human rights. First, though, significant philosophical groundwork must be done to clarify what a human right to health would be and--if we accept that it exists--exactly how it might ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Social Values'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Academic titles: are they meaningful and what purpose do they serve? 30 Oct 2009
• Sex ratio imbalance worsens in Vietnam. 22 Oct 2009
• Impact of individual values on adherence to emergency contraception practice guidelines among pediatric residents: implications for training. 29 Sep 2009
• No country for sick men. To judge the content of a nation's character, look no further than its health-care system. 19 Sep 2009
• Neural basis of individualistic and collectivistic views of self. 30 Aug 2009
• Bioethics & human rights: access to health-related goods. 30 Aug 2009
• Government-scripted consent: when medical ethics and law collide. 30 Aug 2009
• Misgivings. 30 Aug 2009
• Biased decision-making: developing an understanding of how positive and negative relationships may skew judgments. 30 Aug 2009
• Counting the dead and regulating the living: early modern statistics and the formation of the sociological imagination (1662-1897). 30 Aug 2009
• The Japanese value of harmony and nursing ethics. 30 Aug 2009
• The resilience of Native American elders. 30 Aug 2009
• Alcohol abuse and dependence symptoms: a multidimensional model of common and specific etiology. 30 Aug 2009
• The servant leader: a higher calling for dental professionals. 30 Aug 2009
• Work preferences, life values, and personal views of top math/science graduate students and the profoundly gifted: Developmental changes and gender differences during emerging adulthood and parenthood. 30 Aug 2009
• Low-status compensation: A theory for understanding the role of status in cultures of honor. 30 Aug 2009
• Inequality, discrimination, and the power of the status quo: Direct evidence for a motivation to see the way things are as the way they should be. 30 Aug 2009
• How did we lose it--and can we ever get it back? 30 Aug 2009
• Violence and injuries in South Africa: prioritising an agenda for prevention. 22 Aug 2009
• Coming 'down here': young people's reflections on becoming entrenched in a local drug scene. 19 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Social Values'

Definition: Abstract standards or empirical variables in social life which are believed to be important and/or desirable.

Descriptor UI: D012945

Alternative terms: Social Values; Values, Social; Value Orientation; Value Orientations;

Related Mesh Headings: Value of Life; Virtues;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology;

Tree Number: F01.829.873;

History Note: 69