Both of these perspectives attempted to go beyond a naive technological determinism and argued instead that technologies such as ICTs should be understood as socially shaped and comprised of dynamic interrelationships between people, artefacts, practices and structures.
However, this outreach mobile programme attracted a non-socially marginalized population, mainly comprised by young people, with high educational level, regular employment and with high levels of sexual risk exposures to HIV.
In addition, the heaviest drinkers are often socially marginalised and comprise a hard to reach population who are difficult to recruit and follow-up [ 15].
The British Regional Heart Study is a prospective study of cardiovascular disease comprising a socially and geographically representative sample of 7735 men initially examined in 1978 80 when aged 40 59 years, drawn from one general practice in each of 24 towns representing all major British regions [19].
Our study comprises a socially and geographically representative cohort of men from across Britain.
Study participants were members of the British Regional Heart Study (BRHS), a study comprising a socially and geographically representative sample of 7735 men aged 40 59 between 1978 and 1980 [ 25].
The three other studies reported prescription refill rates as estimates of compliance rates; however, they used either commercial database (Hershman et al, 2010) or databases comprising mostly socially disadvantaged women (Partridge et al, 2003; Barron et al, 2007).
The British Regional Heart Study is a prospective study comprising a socially and geographically representative sample of 7735 men initially examined in 1978 80 when aged 40 59 years, drawn from one general practice in each of 24 towns representing all major British regions [ 19].
The British Regional Heart Study is a prospective study of CVD comprising a socially and geographically representative sample of 7735 men aged 40 59 years from one general practice in each of 24 towns representing all major British regions and who were initially examined in 1978 1980.
Active and passive non-participants comprised two distinct groups with different socio-demographic characteristics, with passive non-participants being more socially deprived compared with active non-participants.
