Our research team included social scientists from sociological, psychological and health services research backgrounds and we sought a robust theoretical framework for our analysis which could be practically and appropriately applied to the comparative study of the CDSS in the chosen settings.
The theoretical framework of the PCC substudy is based on Andersen's model of healthcare utilisation (a model that evaluates the utilisation of healthcare services from a sociological perspective).
The M-Pesa service has carried interesting sociological consequences; one university study has explored the role the service plays in granting women greater financial freedom, as well as allowing their husbands to keep mistresses paid in secret.
The results of theoretical and experimental studies evaluating the state automotive-road service system using sociological methods, the analytic hierarchy process, and the fuzzy set theory to meet the challenges of its efficient organization.
Without extensive economic and sociological research into each of these services individually, it is not possible to accurately identify the correct beneficiary sphere.
A sanctuary which was once packed with thousands each Sunday now only shows a few hundred at each of its two Sunday morning services, but there are sociological reasons for this decline.
Sociological factors, such as improved health services [39], increasing access to health interventions and better housing, as well as meteorological parameters (e.g. mean annual rainfall has dropped from 600 mm pa to 500 mm pa in the last 15 years) are all likely to have an effect on transmission.
Economic sociology, the application of sociological concepts and methods to analysis of the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services.
And recorded advertisements for a gay-sex telephone service seemed more of sociological than erotic interest.
This is the first known study to apply sociological theories to understand public trust in services provided by community pharmacists relative to those provided by GPs.
