Search results for "Social conditions"
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Environment, wealth, inequality and the burden of disease in the Accra metropolitan area, Ghana
2005
The study examines environmental problems and adverse impacts on the health of urban households in the Accra metropolitan area, Ghana. Accra is faced with severe inadequacy of urban infrastructure in the face of rapid population growth in the metropolis. More than half of the city's population do not have access to solid waste collection services. Only 39.8% of households have indoor pipe and over 35.0% of households depend on unsanitary public latrines whilst 2.5% do not have access to toilet facilities. Human excrement, garbage and wastewater are usually deposited in surface drains, open spaces and streams in poor neighbourhoods. The resultant poor sanitation has serious health impacts as…
Características sociodemográficas y condiciones de vida y estudio de los estudiantes de Educación de origen indígena. La aproximación del proyecto TO…
2019
Uno de los objetivos principales del proyecto From tradition to innovation in Teacher Training Institutions (TO-INN), ha consistido en conocer a los estudiantes de educación a través del análisis de la dimensión social de las instituciones de educación superior. El presente trabajo pretende establecer un debate sobre la presencia de estudiantes indígenas en las universidades, y más concretamente, en los estudios de educación. El proyecto TO-INN parte de una visión sistémica del compromiso social de la Educación Superior con los colectivos tradicionalmente excluidos y especialmente vulnerables, como los pueblos indígenas, que a pesar de haber aumentado el porcentaje de acceso a la universida…
PICAREQUE NOVEL AND ITS ELEMENTS IN LATVIAN NOVEL HISTORY
2013
Anotācija Blēžu jeb pikareskais romāns sākotnēji radies Spānijā 16. gadsimtā un to pārstāvēja daži literāri darbi. Taču laika gaitā, izplatoties tālāk Vācijā, Anglijā, Francijā u.c., tas kļuva par literāru modeli, kura iezīmes raksturīgas arī latviešu literatūrai- jau sākot no brāļu Kaudzīšu romāna „Mērnieku laiki”(1879) līdz pat mūsdienām. Latviešu romānistika blēžu romāna aspektā līdz šim padziļināti nav pētīta. Visplašāk pikareskais romāns attīstījās tieši 20.gs 20.-30.gadu literatūrā, kā spilgtākos piemērus var minēt K. Zariņa romānu „Spīganas purvā”, J. V. Gregri „Latvijas karalis jeb Cilvēks, kam visi parādā”, P. Rozīša „Ceplis”, Anšl. Eglīša „Līgavu mednieki”. Atslēgas vārdi: sociāli…
Moral transgression, disease and holistic health in the Livingstonia Mission in late nineteenth and early twenttieth-century Malawi
2009
This article examines ideas of morality and health, and connections between moral transgression and disease in both Scottish missionary and Central African thought in the context of the Livingstonia Mission of the Presbyterian Free Church of Scotland in Malawi during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.2 By concentrating on debates, conflicts and co-operation between missionaries and Africans over the key issues of beer drinking and sexual morality, this article explores the emergence of a new ‘moral hygiene’ among African Christian communities in Northern Malawi.<br><br>Este artículo analiza las ideas sobre moralidad y salud, así como las relaciones entre transgre…
Health situation and related social conditions among 66-year-old Finnish men.
1976
Health situation and related social conditions among 66-year-old Finnish men. Heikkinen, E., Käyhty-Seppänen, B. and Pohjolainen, P. (Dept. of Public Health, University of jyväskylä, Finland). The aims of the study were to reveal the extent of physical activity, nutritional habits, smoking and alcohol consumption and the relation of these to previous occupation among recently retired men. The number of men belonging to various health risk groups was estimated on the basis of the results. About 10% had inadequate nutritional habits as judged from their food expenses and number of daily hot meals and about 20% practised physical exercise in the way which is considered necessary for the impro…
El impacto de la gran recesión en la Comunidad Valenciana
2013
La gran recesión ha tenido un impacto importante sobre la estructura de la pobreza y la privación en la población de la Comunidad Valenciana. Exceptuando el grupo de las personas de más edad, todos los demás se han visto afectados por esta crisis en mayor o menor medida. No solo ha crecido el porcentaje de familias que está por debajo del umbral de la pobreza o que están privadas de algunos bienes o servicios básicos, sino que también ha aumentado la intensidad de estos fenómenos pudiendo afirmarse que las personas pobres y privadas de bienes lo son ahora con mayor intensidad que antes de la crisis. El presente artículo expone de una manera resumida los principales datos del estudio realiza…
Transgresión moral y enfermedad en los países nórdicos en la temprana Edad Moderna
2009
This article seeks to understand how people in the early modern age interpreted the nature of illness and the role that morality played in these interpretations. From this point of view illnesses were not only psycho-physical states or subjects for medical diagnosis but they were also subjects for narratives or stories through which people tried to understand what had caused their illness, and why it was happening to them. Illnesses were understood as strictly connected with the patient's character and were regarded as possible consequences of his personality. On the other hand, the interpretations also emphasised the ambivalence of a healer. Personal experiences and an understanding of one…
Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe. National Profile of Latvia. Eurostudent IV, 2008-2011
2011
In Latvia the Eurostudent survey was carried out according to the requirements of the Ministry of Education and Science and was carried out by the Marketing and public opinion research centre SKDS. In Latvia the sample size was 2000 including students from public and private universities in full time study programs. The quota sampling method was applied and only one private higher education institution declined to participate. The survey included 11.9% of respondents from ISCED 5B level and 2.6% from ISCED 6 level students. These groups of respondents were excluded from the international report, thus the sample for the international analysis is 1709 respondents. The sample is representative…
Syphilis 2001 a palaeopathological reappraisal
2002
The origin and subsequent spread of the treponematoses, especially that of venereal syphilis, has been the subject of considerable scientific attention. Various theories were put forth and palaeopathological specimens were used for their validation in recent times. One influential contribution was the paper by Baker & Armelagos in 1988. Numerous new findings and results on both sides of the Atlantic call for a new evaluation of the available osseous material. A review of the recent literature leads to the suggestion of a worldwide distribution of non-venereal treponemal disease since the emergence of Homo and to a first epidemic outbreak of venereal syphilis in Europe of the late 15th and t…
Determinantes internos y externos en el proceso de aprendizaje. Una aproximación al caso español a partir de la ECV-05
2009
El principal objetivo del trabajo es determinar el grado de influencia de los diferentes factores individuales y del entorno, familiar y social, en la capacidad de los individuos para alcanzar o no ciertos objetivos educativos, teniendo en cuenta los efectos posteriores de aquellos en relación con su inserción en el mercado de trabajo, su nivel salarial y su productividad (Card, 1999).Para ello, se ha aplicado un método de estimación de máxima verosimilitud, mediante la utilización de un logit ordenado, empleando el modulo especial de 2007 de la Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida de EUROSTAT dedicado a la transmisión intergeneracional de la pobreza. Esta base de datos cuenta con valiosa inform…