Overcoming Barriers in Unhealthy Settings

Overcoming Barriers in Unhealthy Settings

We investigated the phenomenon of sustained health-supportive behaviors among long-haul commercial truck drivers, who belong to an occupational segment with extreme health disparities. With a focus on setting-level factors, this study sought to discover ways in which individuals exhibit resiliency while immersed in endemically obesogenic environments, as well as understand setting-level barrier...

Overcoming Barriers to Effective Energy Management in Industrial Settings

Energy management for industry is many times an unspoken objective in organizations because it is desirable to reduce operating costs but often not important enough to justify a financial investment in managing. Unfortunately without a comprehensively planned and adequately funded management program, energy management efforts degrade into unsustainable or ineffective programs that are discarded...

Overcoming Access Barriers for Facility-based Delivery in Low-income Settings: Insights from Bangladesh and Uganda

Women in both Bangladesh and Uganda face a number of barriers to delivery in professional health facilities, including costs, transportation problems, and sociocultural norms to deliver at home. Some women in both the countries manage to overcome these barriers. This paper reports on a comparative qualitative study investigating how some women and their families were able to use professional de...

OvercOming barriers with prOducer OrganizatiOns

rising incomes are likely to continue to put pressure on food demand. International prices for most agricultural commodities are set to remain at 2010 levels or higher, at least for the next decade (OECD-FAO 2010). Small scale producers in many developing countries were not able to reap the benefits of high food prices during the 2007-2008 food price crises. And yet, this upward food price tren...

Overcoming Barriers and Unlocking Potentials