BACKGROUND Understanding changes in the host-parasite relationship due to habitat fragmentation is necessary for better management and conservation of endangered species in fragmented landscapes. Pathogens and parasites can pose severe threat to species in restricted environments such as forest fragments where there is increased contact of wildlife with human and livestock populations. Environm...

OBJECTIVES A large share of the urban population in developing countries lives in informal settlements or "slums" today. This study investigates the association between slum residence and health among adult Ghanaian women residing in the Accra Metropolitan Area. METHODS Health data collected as part of the Women's Health Study of Accra round II (WHSA-II) was combined with data from the Househ...

Third party liability insurance settlements are by their nature the result of negotiations between the claimant, or his/her representative, and a representative of the insurer, acting on behalf of the policyholder (Ross, 1980). When substantial non-economic or general damages are expected in any settlement, such as in auto bodily injury liability claims, the nature of the settlement process mus...

BACKGROUND Several models have been proposed to explain the association between ethnicity and health. It was investigated whether the association between Roma ethnicity and health is fully mediated by socioeconomic status in Hungary. METHODS Comparative health interview surveys were performed in 2003-04 on representative samples of the Hungarian population and inhabitants of Roma settlements....

Colonia settlements, commonly described as rural unincorporated clusters of generally substandard houses, are scattered widely along the southern border of the United States. These settlements, which have proliferated without constraint largely because of the absence of effective controls on rural county land use, often lack access to essential services, such as public water, gas, electricity, ...

INTRODUCTION Very few data are available to assess the exposure of the population within the 30 km exclusion zone around the NPP Chernobyl. While gamma dose rate measurements were performed at regular intervals in most villages within the exclusion zone, virtually no measurements of the total activity concentration in air or the concentration of individual radionuclides relevant to the inhalati...

Living in Roma settlements is associated with worse health in comparison with the majority population; this might be partially explained by socioeconomic disadvantages as well as cultural differences, including lifestyle. Eating habits represent an important part of lifestyle closely related to primary causes of morbidity and mortality, such as cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases or can...

BACKGROUND Relatively little research on the issue of child marriage has been conducted in European countries where the overall prevalence of child marriage is relatively low, but relatively high among marginalized ethnic sub-groups. The purpose of this study is to assess the risk factors associated with the practice of child marriage among females living in Roma settlements in Serbia and among...

based on existing literature social capital is defined as a set of norms and rules and informal networks that provide association, trust and collective action to obtain the public good. the empowerment projects of world bank that has been implemented in many third world countries in the late 1980s followed by a non-reductionist non- physical approach integration of cultural and socio- economic ...

variety of iran’s ecological structures has created many cultural landscapes. cultural landscapes, illustrate a combination of man’s persistent life and the art of land modification by means of natural environment and in the form of human settlements in past ages. currently, the human society’s development beside the scientific growth, man’s increasing use of natural resources and negative cons...