There is an intense debate in society regarding the implementation of actions, programs and projects aimed at maintaining environmental ecosystem services. In this debate, different metrics, dimensions objectives are presented. Among these services creation stingless bees, which a way including small farmers concrete enabling them to obtain additional income production unit. The productive incl...

The dramatic rise in the US social security and public health expenditure is only partially explained by the demographic trend, and may be due to the political complementarity between these two programs. We suggest that public health care increases the political constituency in favor of social security, and viceversa. Speci...cally, public health decreases the longevity di¤erential between low ...

OBJECTIVE To explore primary care physicians' experiences with domestic violence victims to determine the barriers to problem recognition and intervention in the primary care setting. DESIGN Ethnography, a qualitative research method involving the use of open-ended, semistructured interviews. SETTING An urban health maintenance organization serving a predominantly white, middle-income popul...

National income-maintenance programs provide cash benefits when workers become unemployed, retire, are injured on the job, have a long-term disability, or die. For short-term sickness, however, only five States, one other jurisdiction, and a single industry require wage-replacement protection. Voluntary plans cover a substantial number of additional workers, including many whose protection was ...

PURPOSE To investigate factors of low-income neighborhoods and households on physical activity with a sample of adolescents from low-income neighborhoods. METHODS Middle-school-aged youth (n = 74) from a low-income neighborhood completed self-report surveys. Measures include vigorous exercise frequency, neighborhood hazards, after-school time demands, availability of facilities, quality of fa...

Introduction This paper evaluates three critiques of the 30% of income criteria typically used to define housing affordability. It is important to evaluate them because this standard criterion is commonly used to assess need and establish eligibility for most federal, state, and local housing programs (Miles et al. 2007). Evidence is presented that supports several concerns, suggesting that aff...

This is a challenging and an important time for low-income families. The United States is mired in a recession while Congress faces the reauthorization of assistance and support programs involving low-income families.To date, policy dis cussions have been fueled by analyses of individual aspects of the changes set forth by PRWORA and other legislation. This article synthesizes research findings...

OBJECTIVE To assess the representativeness of older adults recruited to a physical activity maintenance RCT by conducting sequential comparisons to characterize study sample composition changes occurring between sampling frame construction and study enrollment. METHOD Study subjects (N = 1049) were 50 to 70 year old men and women who had increased physical activity within the past year recrui...

President Obama’s “Preschool for All” initiative calls for dramatic increases in the number of 4-year-olds enrolled in public preschool programs and in the quality of these programs nationwide. The preschools proposed by the initiative share many characteristics with the universal preschools that have been offered in Georgia and Oklahoma since the 1990s. This study draws together data from mult...