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Last update:
15.03.2007

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The Advocate's Forum
A social work journal managed  by the School of Social Service Administration students at the University of Chicago. Two issues per year. Full text articles since December 1994.
"It is our hope that this publication will serve to inform social workers in all areas of practice and will improve the educational experience by fostering a valuable exchange among social work students and professionals in the field." "It is our hope that this publication will serve to inform social workers in all areas of practice and will improve the educational experience by fostering a valuable exchange among social work students and professionals in the field."
Disability World
A bimonthly web-zine of international disability news and views .
DWis a new web-zine dedicated to advancing an exchange of information and research about the international independent living movement of people with disabilities.  The web-zine is the heart of a larger project, IDEAS for the New Millennium, funded in 1999 by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (part of the U. S. Department of Education)  as a five-year project.
The Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality
A Publication of the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, Cal. Founded in 1998. One volume per year.
"To disseminate knowledge about all aspects of human sexuality to the widest possible international community at moderate cost." "To disseminate knowledge about all aspects of human sexuality to the widest possible international community at moderate cost."
FORUM Sexualaufklärung und Familienplanung
hrsg. von der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung
Der vierteljährlich erscheinende Informationsdienst bietet einen regelmäßigen bundesweiten Überblick über neue Medien, Projekte und Maßnahmen zur Sexualaufklärung und Familienplanung und stellt Ergebnisse aktueller wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen und Evaluationen vor.
The Future of Children
The journal appears three times a year. Papers are downloadable in PDF format. the executive summaries are also available directly in HTML format.
This publication's aim is to disseminate information on issues related to children's well-being. The target of the journal is "a multidisciplinary audience of national leaders, including policymakers, practitioners, legislators, executives, and professionals in the public and private sectors." Each issue has a focal theme. Topics covered have included the protection of children, children and poverty, welfare to work, and special education for children with disabilities. Each issue also contains an executive summary with  recommendations and a summary of articles.
Das gepfefferte Ferkel
Ein Angebot des Instituts für Beratung und Supervision Aachen
Online-Journal für systemisches Denken und Handeln
Globalization and Health
Globalization and Health is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal that provides a platform for research, knowledge sharing and debate on the topic of globalization and its effects on health, both positive and negative.
'Globalization'
essentially refers to anything 'supra-territorial', anything that transcends the geopolitical boundaries of the nation-state. As a process it is being driven by liberalisation of markets and technological advancements. In essence, it is about human proximity - people are now living in each other's metaphorical pockets.
Health Affairs
Health Affairs is the leading journal of health policy thought and research. Health Affairs is nonpartisan and presents a wide range of timely research and commentary on health issues of current concern in both domestic and international spheres.
  International Family Planning Perspectives
edited by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (NY / Washington)
Six Issues per year. Online since 1996-
International Family Planning Perspectives provides the latest peer-reviewed research on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia. This quarterly emphasizes contraception, fertility, adolescent pregnancy, abortion, family planning policies and programs, sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, and reproductive, maternal and child health. Staff-written summaries help you keep up with new developments in the field, while special reports and viewpoint pieces inspire new approaches to shared problems. All articles include summaries in Spanish and French.
The Internet Journal of Law, Healthcare and Ethics
This is a peer reviewed journal. Every published article has been reviewed by members of the editorial board and the editor-in-chief. All articles are archived by Internet Scientific Publications LLC and recognized by The Library of Congress Catalog of Publications.
Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
The Journals of Gerontology Series B are published bimonthly; the first issue of the year is published in January. 
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES Publishes articles on applied, clinical and counseling, developmental, experimental, and social psychology of aging. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to, attitudes, cognition, educational gerontology, emotion, health psychology, industrial gerontology, interpersonal relations, neuropsychology, perception, personality, physiological psychology, psychometric tests, and sensation.  SOCIAL SCIENCES
Publishes articles dealing with aging issues from the fields of anthropology, demography, economics, epidemiology, geography, political science, public health, social history, social work, and sociology.  PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES Publishes articles on applied, clinical and counseling, developmental, experimental, and social psychology of aging. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to, attitudes, cognition, educational gerontology, emotion, health psychology, industrial gerontology, interpersonal relations, neuropsychology, perception, personality, physiological psychology, psychometric tests, and sensation.  SOCIAL SCIENCES
Publishes articles dealing with aging issues from the fields of anthropology, demography, economics, epidemiology, geography, political science, public health, social history, social work, and sociology. 
The Journal of Family Welfare
The Journal of Family Welfare founded in 1954 is published biannually by the Family Planning Association of Indai.
The Journal of Family Welfare is devoted to discussing views and providing information on all aspects of sexual and reproductive health including family planning and related issues, methods of fertility control, and questions pertaining to education for marriage and family living.
Journal of Health and Population in Developing Countries
A semi-annual publication of the Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
The Journal of Health and Population in Developing Countries is an interdisciplinary semi-annual journal devoted to policy and management issues in health and population fields in developing countries. This Journal is committed to maintaining a high international standard of scholarship through peer review and editorial actions. It accepts articles based on empirical research, advocacy, personal experiences, analysis, as well as thought-provoking ideas. The Journal of Health and Population in Developing Countries is an interdisciplinary semi-annual journal devoted to policy and management issues in health and population fields in developing countries. This Journal is committed to maintaining a high international standard of scholarship through peer review and editorial actions. It accepts articles based on empirical research, advocacy, personal experiences, analysis, as well as thought-provoking ideas.
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance
British journal, Published not regularly sinceJune 1995. Online since July 1997, the archive contains documents from September 1996 until June 1997. 
"The Journal aims to provide a means for policy debate, the sharing of lessons learned, and the fostering of cooperation within and between the different professions concerned with the many aspect sof this work. The Journal encompasses all aspects of humanitarian assistance, from early warning and emergency provision to post-conflict peace-building and the transition to development. This is inclusive of law, politics, the military, logistics, and the work of national and international organisations."
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health (2002-)
Family Planning Perspectives (1994-2001)

edited by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (NY / Washington)
Six Issues per year. Online since 1994.
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health (formerly, Family Planning Perspectives) provides the latest peer-reviewed, policy-relevant research and analysis on sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and other industrialized countries. For over three decades, Perspectives has offered unique insights into how reproductive health issues relate to one another and their implications for policy, programs and people's lives. In addition to articles and special reports and forums, each issue brings you staff-written summaries of recent findings and developments in reproductive health and rights
Social Policy 
"The Social Policy is a quarterly magazine about politics, culture and movements." Published since 25 years by The Union Institute. Not active since 1998
"The social policy focus is multi-issue, they regularly cover movements in environment, feminism, jobs, the budget, community service, racial politics, health and education ."
 

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Prof. Hans Geser

Soziologisches Institut
der Universität Zürich
Andreasstr. 15  8050 Zürich

hg@socio.ch

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der Universität Zürich
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