OBJECTIVES A population survey was conducted in an urban shantytown in Bangladesh, as a baseline study of future epidemiological studies. This paper aims to describe the findings of the study, including the population profile and residential environment of the urban poor. METHODS We conducted a complete count household survey in an urban poor community in Dhaka. Using a brief structured quest...

farmers' attitudes play an important role in their towards sustainable agriculture behavior. factors affecting men and women cotton producers’ attitude towards sustainable agriculture were investigated in the course of this worke. the research was a survey one using stratified random sampling, conducted in esfahan province. the subjects were selected from 179 cotton producing families (357...

This paper proposes a multivariate ordered response system framework to model the interactions in non-work activity episode decisions across household and non-household members at the level of activity generation. Such interactions in activity decisions across household and nonhousehold members are important to consider for accurate activity-travel pattern modeling and policy evaluation. The ec...

Yogyakarta is listed among the cities with worst congestion in Indonesia. Besides, development of has now expanded to surrounding area and agglomerated into Urban Area (KPY). Private vehicle ownership closely correlated characteristics households. This study aims analyze correlation level private households towards responses transportation policies that will be implemented future. fully used se...

Animal protein one of which is obtained by consuming meat. This study aims to determine the social and economic characteristic household analyze factors that influence beef consumtion in Batang Toru District. The analytical method used descriptive analysis directly observing conditions household, then using a questionnaire obtain data on socio-economic household. results indicate consumers dist...

A recent Ontario arbitral award is reshaping the way employers and employees must approach the legal duty to accommodate employees with disabilities in the workplace. Entrenched in both federal and provincial human rights legislation, the duty to accommodate imposes a legal obligation on employers to accommodate employees with disabilities unless such accommodation would cause undue hardship on...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The relationship between food intake and nutritional status has been clearly established. Yet, there are only limited studies on food intake among family members and their nutritional status. The study examined the relationship between intra-household food distribution and coexistence of dual forms of malnutrition (DFM) in the same household. SUBJECTS/METHODS Households ...

broached is through identifying respondents who have separated recently and then collecting information about their past retrospectively. This is problematic because of recall problems and because of the likely contamination of response as a result of the separation. Objective analyses of the impact of marital separation require data collected preand post-separation, which in turn require longi...

Diverse strain types of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) cause infections in community settings worldwide. To examine heterogeneity of spread within households and to identify common risk factors for household transmission across settings, primary data from studies conducted in New York (USA), Breda (The Netherlands), and Melbourne (Australia) were pooled. Following MRSA infec...