Worldwide more food than ever is produced these days. It would be enough to feed everybody by far. However, only a limited group of the global population enjoys an adequate food supply. About 854 million people are undernourished worldwide. The global situation shows that hunger cannot be fought by just producing enough food. The socio-cultural complex of nutrition and food habits cannot be red...

Physical, psychological and social changes that occur during adolescence can markedly affect dietary habits and nutritional health. Physical changes including rapid growth place extra nutritional requirements on adolescents, while culture and society require adjustments in all of the aspects of daily living, including psychosocial well-being. Adolescents become focused on the physical appearanc...

AIM To estimate the prevalence of hazardous drinking and its socio-economic distribution among Russian men. DESIGN Participants were an age-stratified, population-based random sample of men aged 25-54 years living in Izhevsk, a city in the Urals, Russia. Interviewers administered questionnaires to cohabiting proxy respondents about behavioural indicators of hazardous drinking derived from fre...

in iran, entrepreneurship is a new phenomena and the research in this subject especially on women entrepreneurship is very limited. in spite of the fact that most of the iranian women cooperate in economic, social aspects and especially in higher education, the society is not rewarding their contribution and efforts in economic affairs. in this national and broad research, all the factors effec...

Modeling has emerged as a key technology in analysis of socio-ecological systems. However, the tendency for modeling to focus on the mechanistic materiality of biophysical systems obscures the diversity of performative social behaviors and normative cultural positions of actors within the modeled system. The fact that changes in the biophysical system can be culturally constructed in different ...

Vinod Sasidharan and Brijesh Thapa the purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model to examine the socio-structural and socio-psychological construct of wildlife concern within ethnic populations, by employing environmental concern paradigms. In this paper, wildlife concern will be operationalized as wildlife relevant behavior influenced by environmental (including wildlife) attitude ...

INTRODUCTION It is estimated that any progress made towards improving maternal and child health in Mauritania has likely stalled. A lack of reliable and up-to-date data regarding maternal and child health indicators makes it difficult to identify current gaps and adapt international programmes to meet local needs. METHODS Using secondary data collected as part of a baseline assessment for a m...

BACKGROUND Inequality in life expectancy (ILE) is defined as inequality in the distribution of expected span of life-based on data from survival tables estimated using the Atkinson inequality index. ILE can be influenced by socio-ecological indicators including the Gini coefficient, secondary education, output per worker, and old age pension. This study examined the effects on ILE from a social...