With a view to better assessment of the roles played by social security and social policy in determining well-being, this presentation introduces the 'decommodified security ratio' (DSR), an instrument for evaluating an important duty of the social State, namely to maintain and improve people's...

[eng] Adult Health-Care Demand And Risk Management Methods by Georges Menahem . The paper shows how allowance for individual attitudes to risk can improve the "health-care demand" model. The assumption that individuals differ according to the level of overall risk that they are prepared to...

Menahem Georges. ? Three modes of domestic organization x two family norms = six family types. Behaviour and strategy of families can be distinguished by the type of relationships between men and women members. That is the principal conclusion drawn from the analysis of a representative sample...

Levels of morbidity and healthcare utilization related to respiratory pathologies are correlated, first, with an indicator of the level of risk that individuals are prepared to take, namely their 'individual target level of risk', and then secondly with smoking behaviour. The results based on a...