Purpose: There is lack of evidence on the effects of health-promoting programmes among adolescents. Health behaviour models and studies seldom compare the underlying factors of unhealthy behaviours between different adolescent age groups. The main objective of this study was to investigate factors including sociodemographic parameters that were associated with vulnerability to health-damaging b...

The article discusses the features of phenomenon conformism from point view social psychology and philosophy. definition conformity is given, its signs are analyzed. Using dialectical method research, author makes an attempt to analyze determine role in formation individual society. situation forced submission influence on a person's critical thinking considered. It concluded that unde...

The vulnerability paradigm accounts for women’s susceptibility to HIV infection being a consequence of socio-economic and cultural factors, and there is a strong need for socio-epidemiological analysis to understand and address vulnerability of Nepalese women to HIV infection. Therefore, to assess the risk factors and vulnerability of the wives of Nepalese labor migrants to HIV infection, we co...

This paper attempts to contribute to international discourse on the responsibility of macro structures (economic and political) and private agencies for the production and distribution of vulnerability. It does so by focusing on an individual economic entity, small manufacturing firms (SMFs), in a specific location, western Athens, Greece. By evaluating the losses that SMFs sustained in the ear...

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy is the first-line treatment for the prevention of sudden cardiac death. Despite the demonstrated survival benefits of the ICD, predicting which patients will die from a ventricular tachyarrhythmia remains a major challenge. So far, psychological factors have not been considered as potential risk markers that might enhance the prediction of su...

The article is about the socio-psychological aspect of folk games, which stood at origins formation centuries-old culture Kazakh people, although, they are still poorly studied. main object study intellectual game «Uyshik-uyshik», that an integral part national and contributes to personality in first years person’s life. Anattempt has been made nature games. Collected materials, works shcolars ...