BACKGROUND Limited research is available that examines the nutritional behaviour and health of hotel staff working alternating and regular shifts. AIMS To analyse the nutritional behaviour and health of employees working in alternating and regular shifts. METHODS The study used an ex post facto cross-sectional analysis to compare the nutritional behaviour and health parameters of workers wi...

television is being seen and heard increasingly in many homes. its effects on health of youth and pollution of the mind are of considerable interest, research and concern. the review of the two most popular daily newspapers of iran revealed alarming examples of violence in children imitating the aggressive acts of the television scene. since children are more vulnerable than adults, parents sho...

BACKGROUND It is of significance to look into the intergenerational transmission of risk behaviour to explain the disparity of health. Our paper contributes to the literature by providing evidence in the context of China, focusing on smoking behaviour. METHODS This paper studies the intergenerational transmission of smoking in the context of China using a nationally representative dataset - t...

BACKGROUND Health risk behaviours often co-occur in adolescence. This may be partially explained by a set of common risk and protective factors. The current study examines the association between risk behaviours throughout adolescence and identifies common risk factors for multiple risk behaviour in late adolescence. METHODS We use data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England. ...

A social epidemiologic perspective considers factors at multiple levels of influence (e.g., social networks, neighbourhoods, states) that may individually or jointly affect health and health behaviour. This provides a useful lens through which to understand the production of health behaviours in general, and drug use in particular. However, the analytic models that are commonly applied in popul...

It is not enough to solve health problems through medicine and science disciplines alone; the role of another discipline, particularly sociology health, an important contribution solving problems, in changing people's behaviors. This study aims discover new information about status behavior communities living on outskirts forest. The descriptive qualitative approach used this study. Semi-struct...

The purpose of this position paper is to introduce the prototype of a design product knowledge representing system which is theoretically guided by our recent work on extending Function-Behaviour-Structure ontology. The basic constructions and data-storing strategies are presented in the paper along with its major interface, thus to give an outline of the working pattern of this system.