The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), international targets set in September 2000 by 189 nations, commit to working towards a measurable reduction in poverty and achieving basic needs and rights for all, by 2015. The UN Declaration (UN General Assembly Resolution 55/2, United Nations Millennium Declaration) on which the MDGs were based upholds the principles of human dignity, equality and eq...

In order to analyze the practice of the social security medical examination starting from the introduction of the worker's health paradigms, data was gathered on the granting of social security disability benefits to assess worker illness based on notification of work-related accidents in the cement industries of Rio de Janeiro. From 2007 to 2009 there was only one notification, which involved ...

Urban resilience refers to the capacity of an urban system fully recover from unforeseen calamities. This study aims assess physical indicators used measure in Tehran, political and economic capital Iran, pinpoint most significant direct indirect influences on resilience. The research process divided into two parts. environmental scanning approach (reviewing papers published sources, interviewi...

By using the household data on food consumption, income and other social indicators including activity status, age, literacy, place of residence employment, and marital status, this paper aims to investigate the transitory impact of temporary and permanent income shocks on food consumption in Iran over the period 2009-2014. To study the deterministic effects of the household on food consumption...

The violation of a classical Cauchy-Schwarz (CS) inequality is identified as an unequivocal signature of spontaneous Hawking radiation in sonic black holes. This violation can be particularly large near the peaks in the radiation spectrum emitted from a resonant boson structure forming a sonic horizon. As a function of the frequency-dependent Hawking radiation intensity, we analyze the degree o...

250 in se rm -0 07 08 18 9, v er si on 1 14 J un 2 01 2 Author manuscript, published in "European Journal of Public Health 2012;:epub ahead of print" DOI : 10.1093/eurpub/cks065 Running head: Lifecourse socioeconomic position and substance use 2 Background: Social inequalities in substance use have been well-documented; however the impact of changes in socioeconomic position from childhood to a...