A human rights paradigm for environmental health research makes explicit the relationship between poor health and poverty, inequality, and social and political marginalization, and it aims at civic problem solving. In so doing, it incorporates support for community-based, participatory research and takes seriously the social responsibilities of researchers. For these reasons, a human rights app...

Where most fractal artists conclude their process, Rod Seeley begins. In his procedure, equations, coeffi cients, and fractal software are the source materials. From there, the vibrant pixel poetry commences via a series of unrepeatable transformations. To create what he calls “stylized fractal art,” Seeley says he uses at least half a dozen freeware fractal programs that function, for him, lik...

ing from these five main categories, we found that “mothering is overwhelming” is the core experience of PPD symptoms for low-income women. The demands of parenting small children, along with mothers’ ambivalence, isolation, juggling, and real-life worries, converged to produce an understanding of PPD as feeling overwhelmed by both the material and emotional demands of mothering in the context ...

In a third-world acute jobless society like Bangladesh, working-aged youth are continuously seeking for every possible source of employment through which the economic as well social lives and realities see at least stable going on. This analytical paper aims to examine freelancing device sustain socioeconomic actualities people in Bangladesh. Along with demographic data, different determinants-...

BACKGROUND Women refugees have endured major discrimination and poverty in their countries of origin or countries of displacement. This has had a major impact on their physical and psychological health. The experience of resettlement places a further burden on their health. OBJECTIVE This article aims to provide a simple approach to the health assessment and management of women refugees, taki...

he disease or injury poverty trap refers to a relationship between ill-health and poverty in which poverty is a result of ill-health. At the household level, non-poor people may be pushed into poverty by their ill-health as a result of paying for health care in combination with productivity and income losses. Poor people with ill-health may be pushed into deeper or persisting poverty from which...

This paper combines household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the accuracy of geographically targeted anti-poverty programs. First, the paper estimates per capita expenditure as a function of selected household and geographic characteristics using the 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey. Next, these results are combined with data on the same...